ELYRIA, Ohio (WJW) – In a heartbreaking turn of events, a Christmas Eve fire in Elyria has left a community in mourning. The blaze, which erupted on Brandston Avenue, has been confirmed as accidental, but it resulted in the tragic loss of 29-year-old Watu Brown from Columbia Station.

Tributes have been left at the property where a man was shot dead after a Christmas Eve standoff with armed officers. West Mercia Police has referred itself to the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) over the man's death,

A call for an unknown trouble on Wednesday morning led officers to a man who had been fatally shot, according to the Phoenix Police Department.

A teen was arrested Christmas Eve after allegedly shooting another teen in the back during a fight in the street, police said. Officers were called at 5:05 p.m. Dec. 24, to the 600 block of Seymour Avenue for a report of the shooting,

Police have charged a 22-year-old man over a stabbing on Christmas Eve in Gloucester. The attack happened at an address on Cromwell Street at about 01:40 GMT on Tuesday, Gloucestershire Police said. Police said Daniel Mann,

Two men were injured in a crash in Shelby County early Christmas morning, according to the sheriff’s office. The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office responded to the single-vehicle accident in the 12000 block of Macon Road in Fisherville where a car struck a tree around 2:30 a.