Real-time crime news, structured for developers. NewsMesh surfaces crime coverage from outlets across 35 countries and serves it as clean JSON, each story tagged with its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body. Pull it with full-text search (GET /v1/search?q=) and layer category, country, or date filters on top, no scraping required.
An employee of Harmony Tree, which was robbed in the night after five people were injured by a car ploughing through its shopfront on Friday, says there's "nearly nothing left" ...
The Australian man accused of murdering a Thai teenager has pleaded guilty to hiding her body, but maintains he is innocent of murder.
The Australian man accused of murdering a Thai teenager has pleaded guilty to hiding her body, but maintains he is innocent of murder.
A jury convicted Bryce Stamper, 24, of assault and strangulation in Campbell County, Kentucky, recommending 12 years for the 2024 attack.
Julia Wilson survived the 2009 Fort Hood massacre and wants Nidal Hasan executed, but she has reservations about livestreaming his death penalty.
Victoria Police say a 31-year-old Carlton man handed himself in in relation to the death of the 21-year-old woman in a block of flats.
A woman was shot in the shoulder on I-495's outer loop near Branch Avenue in Prince George's County in a suspected road-rage attack, police say.
Drew Jay Cherner, 79, died days after being hit by an SUV in Asheville. Police are weighing charges beyond the driver's traffic citation.
Donaldson (55) was shot dead at remote cottage near Glentie, Co Donegal after being exposed as MI5 agent
Elizabeth City police seek Jermell Donte Grubbs Jr., 20, on felony warrants after shots were fired into an occupied home on Laurel Avenue.
San Jose police fatally shot an armed suspect near Andrew P. Hill High School after he allegedly brandished a firearm at officers.
The crazed brawl started when one of the suspects threw items at the officer, prompting him to approach her.
A 32-year-old man was shot in the head near 14th and B streets in Lincoln; police detained a suspect and recovered a gun within minutes.
Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office says undercover buys from March to June led to six arrests on racketeering and trafficking charges.
Video circulating on TikTok shows the bot, painted red and gold to resemble Marvel's Iron Man, assaulting the girl outside a restaurant in Germany on Sunday.
A man died Monday after stabbing himself during a confrontation with Fort Worth police on NE 36th Street, officers say. His identity remains unreleased.
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Matthew Stone, 45, was identified as the suspected gunman in an Erie, Pennsylvania, shooting that his family and two women who came to check on them.
NewsMesh surfaces crime coverage from sources across 35 countries, normalised into one structured feed you can query by keyword, category, country, and date.
Authenticate with your apiKey and call one endpoint (GET api.newsmesh.co/v1/search?q=crime). The examples below are ready to copy.
curl "https://api.newsmesh.co/v1/search?apiKey=nm_xxx&q=crime&limit=20"GET /v1/latest: Most-recent articles, filterable by category, country, and date range.GET /v1/search: Full-text search across the archive with boolean operators and source filters.GET /v1/trending: Cached trending headlines, the fastest endpoint for homepage feeds.GET /v1/article/{id}: Fetch a single article and its full metadata by ID.Call GET /v1/search?q=crime with your apiKey to return recent crime stories as structured JSON. Add &category= or &country= to narrow the results.
Every crime article carries its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body, so you can route and filter without your own NLP layer.
Yes. Add &category=technology (or business, politics, and more) and &country=us (or any ISO country code) to the search query to focus the feed.
Yes. NewsMesh is a real-time news API: crime stories are served through the live /v1/latest and /v1/trending endpoints alongside a searchable archive, each tagged with its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body, so you can build a live feed without scraping HTML.
Create a NewsMesh account, generate an API key, and call the endpoint above with your apiKey parameter. See the pricing page for current plans and rate limits.
Access the full dataset programmatically with the NewsMesh API.