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After more than three decades with the Dallas Police Department, Chief of Police David O. Brown announced his retirement Thursday, ending a six-year tenure.

Here is a look at a timeline of events on the investigation into Jennifer Dulos’s disappearance.

The reward for information leading to a 5-year-old New Jersey girl climbed to $35,000 Friday as a search that involved more than one hundred local and federal officers failed to turn up the missing child.

Officials escalated the search Tuesday for Dulce Maria Alavez, who was last seen Monday around 4 p.m. playing at Bridgeton City Park with her brother. An Amber Alert was issued Tuesday night for the missing girl.

The grandmother of a 5-year-old girl now missing for the last 72 hours from a park in Bridgeton, New Jersey, pleaded for the public’s help Thursday.

An Amber Alert has been issued for a young girl who was taken while visiting a South Jersey park.

Three suspects are in custody in Braintree, Massachusetts, after they fled a vehicle and led police on a chase Tuesday afternoon. Massachusetts State Police said they had been searching for a man wanted for a shooting in Plymouth last month.

A man accused of murdering a 19-year-old University of Illinois-Chicago student in a campus parking garage allegedly killed her because she ignored his catcalls.

Maine police say a city employee was struck and killed by the bucket truck he had been driving while he and another worker were hanging Christmas wreaths. The Portland Press Herald reports the two workers were hanging wreaths on light poles Monday afternoon outside Springvale District Court on Main Street in Sanford.

A man is facing first degree murder charges in connection with the death of 19-year-old University of Illinois-Chicago student Ruth George, university police say.

After bloody race riots rocked China’s far west a decade ago, the ruling Communist Party turned to a rare figure in their ranks to restore order: a Han Chinese official fluent in Uighur, the language of the local Turkic Muslim minority. Now, newly revealed, confidential documents show that the official, Zhu Hailun, played a key role in planning and executing...

A police officer was fatally shot and another was wounded while responding to a home invasion on Detroit’s West Side, authorities announced late Wednesday. The officers were searching the home for a suspect when they were shot, Police Chief James Craig said. An 18-year veteran of Detroit Police was shot in the neck with a high-powered rifle, Craig said. The...

A 13-year-old Peabody, Massachusetts, boy has died after he was hit by a car while crossing the street on a bicycle on Tuesday night. The accident occurred around 8:45 p.m. on Route 114 near the Walgreens plaza, according to Peabody police. The boy was taken to Salem Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. The boy’s name has not been...

A chemical incident caused a Red Robin restaurant in Woburn, Massachusetts, to be evacuated Tuesday afternoon. Police in Woburn confirm they responded shortly after 4:30 p.m. after an incident was reported at the Washington Street eatery.

A Bay Area prosecutor used his 13-year-old daughter to lure a man back to the spot where she said he had molested her, so the man’s incriminating actions could be recorded on video, according to a newspaper report Sunday.

Investigators are sifting through the scene of a police-involved shooting that left a person dead in Westborough.

The former president of a private tennis club in Texas has pleaded guilty in the college admissions scandal. Martin Fox entered the plea in Boston’s federal court Friday. The 62-year-old from Houston had previously agreed to plead guilty to a racketeering conspiracy charge in a deal with prosecutors.

Police in D.C. and Montgomery County say they have arrested the Potomac River Rapist who killed a D.C. intern and raped nine women over the course of seven years in the 1990s.

Authorities in New Jersey say a pizza delivery driver killed his mother then stuffed her body in a chest and left it in his car while he used her car to work.

Police have arrested the suspect in a fatal stabbing at a Popeyes restaurant in Oxon Hill, Maryland.