An armed robber burst into a Northeast Washington market, scuffled with the cashier, and then shot him and the clerk’s father, who also owned the store. The killer sped off in a silver Pontiac, but a witness was able to write down the license plate number. Police figured out the name of the suspect very quickly. But locating and arresting him took a little-known investigative tool: a vast system track of the comings and goings of anyone driving around the District. Read full article > >

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License plate readers: A useful tool for police comes with privacy concerns

A woman has been brought to Washington from 5,000 miles away to face charges in a fatal stabbing that occurred more than four years ago, D.C. police said last week. The process by which the suspect was identified, taken into custody and brought to the District appeared to give new meaning to the old phrase about “the long arm of the law.” Read full article > >

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Homicide suspect arrives in D.C. from Argentina

Jurors will hear more forensic evidence in the Casey Anthony trial Wednesday, a day after experts testified that a trained dog alerted them to the smell of human remains in the suspect’s car.

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Anthony trial: Cadaver dogs

The murder trial of Casey Anthony resumes Friday, a day after recordings of jail visits three years ago showed the suspect alternatively giggling, crying and saying her sole focus is finding her missing 2-year-old daughter.

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Emotional videos shown at Anthony trial

A federal judge on Monday ordered the suspect in the January shooting rampage in Tucson to undergo a mental evaluation at a specialized facility in Missouri as soon as possible.

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Judge Orders Loughner to Have Mental Exam in Missouri

Aaron Thomas, the suspect in 17 rapes over the span of 13 years in four different states, tried to hang himself in his New Haven, Connecticut, jail cell. Thomas was arrested Friday after police matched a DNA sample from a cigarette put to a profile of…

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‘East Coast Rapist’ Suspect Tries to Hang Self

North Carolina police on Thursday fatally shot a bank robbery suspect who had held seven people hostage for three hours. Police said the suspect, who they have not identified, attempted to rob a Wachovia bank in Cary at around 3 p.m. When cops arrived…

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Police Kill Bank Robbery Suspect

Mexican media say a Facebook post helped lead police to the suspect in the shooting of Paraguayan footballer Salvador Cabanas.

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Facebook ‘led to Mexico suspect’

Jared L. Loughner, the suspect in the Arizona shootings, was so calm when he arrived at the Safeway supermarket on Saturday morning that his taxi driver thought nothing of walking into the store with him to get change.

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Shooting Suspect Was Calm During Cab Ride to Supermarket, His Driver Reports

• Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shot in head • Federal Judge John Roll killed • Five others dead, including girl, 9 • 11 others wounded, 4 critical • Suspect Jared Lee Loughner not talking

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Congresswoman shot, judge among 6 killed in Arizona

The FBI successfully thwarted a terrorist bombing in Portland, Oregon after following the suspect for over a year. The would-be terrorist, 19-year-old Somali immigrant Mohamed Mohamud, parked a van loaded with an explosive device near a tree-lighting…

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FBI Sting Foils Bomb Plot

• Two UPS planes searched in Philadelphia • One UPS plane checked in Newark • Suspect device found in UPS truck in NYC • “Manipulated” toner cartridge on London plane • Suspicious package at UK’s East Midlands airport

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Planes, truck searched for suspicious items

A court hearing Thursday for Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab will be the first one since the suspect, accused of a Christmas attempted terror attack, decided to fire his lawyers and represent himself.

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‘Underwear bomber’ to be own lawyer

A US judge orders a man arrested over a series of 18 attacks held without bond after the suspect was extradited to Michigan.

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Stab suspect held without bond‎

Lonnie Franklin Jr., the suspect in the “Grim Sleeper” serial killings, is scheduled to be arraigned Monday morning in a Los Angeles courtroom on 10 counts of murder.

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Arraignment for ‘Grim Sleeper’ suspect