Author: N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY

Bee Love Slater was found badly burned in a car in Florida earlier this month. Advocates believe she is the 18th transgender person killed this year.

A California family of three was rescued from the top of a waterfall after sending a message in a bottle downstream.

A dozen leaders of a California-based church lured homeless people into group homes and forced them to panhandle, according to an indictment.

Georgia police have been searching for a serial rapist since 2015. They arrested a man Tuesday who was hired as a police recruit more than a year ago.

Officials in St. Louis offered a $100,000 reward for information in a recent string of child murders. Then two more kids were killed.

Six teens were attempting to burglarize a vehicle in Illinois. The homeowner shot one of them and now the remaining 5 are being charged with murder.

Beloved activist Sadie Roberts-Joseph, 75, was found dead in the trunk of a car Friday about three miles from her Baton-Rouge home.

Police in Pennsylvania say rising floodwaters killed a pregnant mother and her son Thursday.

Video of police in New Orleans arresting a black brass band musician after a call from a white store owner is going viral on social media.