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A Los Angeles-based Lyft driver pleaded not guilty in court on Friday after he was charged with raping and kidnapping a woman.

“The people of San Francisco are fed up, and the people of Los Angeles are fed up,” Trump said.

A new report by Wired dives deep into the case of a 90-year-old alleged murderer from California that was captured based on data from his victim’s Fitbit fitness tracking device. Tony Aiello died last week still awaiting his murder trial.

An Alabama cop from Tuscaloosa was killed while in the middle of a gunfight with a wanted felon, police said.

A Florida couple allegedly started having sex in the back of a police car after being arrested for driving drunk on their bicycles near Fernandina Beach.

The New York City Department of Education is calling for a ban on chocolate milk in all of its public schools, according to a report.

A brave mom scared away two masked men who kicked in her front door on Wednesday morning in Pleasanton, California.

A powerful propane explosion leveled a recently opened nonprofit center after crews arrived to investigate the smell of gas Monday morning, killing one firefighter and injuring six other people, including fellow firefighters, officials said.

Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams is helping launch a “Majority Rules” initiative that aims to equip and mobilize more than two million women for political activism, reports said.

A Missouri woman is fighting a city law that would bar her from keeping her pet monkeys as “emotional support animals.”

A Tennessee man is accused of murdering his four-month-old son and his mother by allegedly stabbing them and setting their house on fire.

Teachers at Maspeth High School in Queens, New York, say there is an unwritten “no-fail policy” at the high school prohibiting them from flunking their students — even if they don’t show up to class. As a result, the high school has enjoyed a 98 percent graduation rate, and was even awarded a National Blue Ribbon in 2018, an honor that one teacher described as laughable.

Twenty-two people were injured when several decks on a three-story building collapsed during a firefighters’ event on Saturday in Wildwood, New Jersey. 

A U.S. Marine tackled two teenage boys to the ground as they fought each other on Wednesday in Stockton, California. 

A suspended Long Island, New York, judge pleaded guilty on Friday to stealing multiple pairs of panties from his neighbor’s home, authorities said.

A California woman was arrested after she threw menstrual blood on state senators during a Senate hearing in Sacramento on Friday, reports said. 

Sheriff’s deputies in Georgia have arrested 24 people— 23 men and one woman— on child sex charges after a four-day sting operation targeting child predators, police said.

A Florida woman claiming to be a psychic fortune teller has been sentenced to three years in prison for scamming a Texas woman out of $1.6 million by promising to lift a family curse.

A Republican councilman has proposed a $1 million plan to bus homeless people out of the Seattle, Washington, area reports said.

One of the last four survivors of the attack on the USS Arizona by the Japanese on December 7, 1941, died on Tuesday in California.

A man believed to be the oldest living American World War II veteran celebrated his 110th birthday on Thursday, reports said.

Five New York Police Department (NYPD) officers were injured as they tried to break up a fight in Hell’s Kitchen in New York on Thursday.

More than one hundred suspects were arrested during a human trafficking and child sex sting in central Ohio this week. 

Two men were caught on camera pushing a shopping cart with a dead body inside along a sidewalk in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City on Thursday morning.

East Cleveland City Council Vice President Ernest Smith was arrested on Tuesday for unlawfully selling alcohol at a “back-to-school” fundraiser that sources say featured underage exotic dancers.

Lower taxes and a warmer climate are the two reasons why billionaire Carl Icahn is moving his business from New York to Miami, Florida, according to reports. 

A brawl broke out among several adults at the Tennessee Valley Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee, just feet away from terrified children, according to a video posted Thursday.

The University of Tennessee has offered a scholarship to the Florida student bullied for wearing a homemade Vols t-shirt during his school’s College Colors Day.

A police officer in Detroit, Michigan, is being praised for his act of kindness outside Comerica Park on Wednesday. 

Five people have filed a lawsuit against the city of San Antonio, Texas, for banning Chick-fil-A from its airport.