Teen Murder Suspect Escapes, Kidnaps Elderly Woman: Cops
A teenage murder suspect who escaped from police custody at a western Ohio hospital kidnapped a 70-year-old woman and forced her to give him a ride before he was caught,…
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Man Kicks Chihuahua During Argument With Girlfriend, Killing Pet
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A 32-year-old Tacoma man is facing animal cruelty charges after police say he kicked his small dog so hard that it died. Nicholas Tresness was booked…
Muslim Woman Sues Police For Forcing Her To Remove Hijab
A Muslim woman who was forced to remove her hijab by police in Michigan claims her religious rights were violated, and she’s hoping a civil rights lawsuit will ensure other…
Planes At Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport Searched After Bomb Threats
Police were searching two planes at Atlanta’s main airport after authorities received what they described as credible bomb threats. – Atlanta police officials declined to comment, referring calls to the…
12-Year-Old Queens Girl Shot In Head Calls 911 After Father Murders Family
NEW YORK (AP) — In the quiet of a pre-dawn Saturday on a dead-end street, a father came home and shot his family in their heads, leaving women in three…
Ferrets Attack Baby In Philadelphia Home
By Daniel Kelley PHILADELPHIA, Jan 23 (Reuters) – As many as three ferrets kept as household pets attacked a one-month-old infant girl in her suburban Philadelphia home, and the child…
Sam Gene Harris Arrested After 34 Years On The Lam
Police in Utah say they’ve arrested a man who escaped from a Mississippi jail 34 years ago. – No attorney was immediately listed for Harris in court records, and his…
Oklahoma police officer’s body-cam captures fatal shooting
The graphic video shows McMillin pulling his pistol, taking aim and unloading five shots. Walker appears to turn around and start running. He was struck three times, police said. In…
Chicago-Area Teen Fatally Stabs Brother, Cops Say
SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) — Police say a 14-year-old boy stabbed his 16-year-old brother to death in the Chicago suburb of South Chicago Heights. South Chicago Heights Police Chief…
Campaigners Call For State Investigation Into Fatal New Jersey Police Shooting
National police reform advocates have called for a state investigation into the fatal police shooting of Jerame Reid, a 36 year-old black man who was confronted by two officers –…
Many Errors by Cleveland Police, Then a Fatal One
CLEVELAND — It began with a swap: one boy’s cellphone for another’s replica of a Colt pistol. One of the boys went to play in a nearby park, striking poses…
Police Launch Investigation After Video Appears To Show Cop Shoving Man In Wheelchair Into Street
The San Francisco Police Department said Wednesday that it is launching an internal investigation after videos emerged appearing to show an officer pushing a man in a wheelchair into the…
Lawsuit Alleges Officers In Birmingham Schools Sprayed Hundreds Of Students With Chemicals
Every day in Birmingham, Alabama, students run the risk of being sprayed with a dangerous chemical weapon just by attending school, according to attorneys in a federal trial that began…
Talk Stays Light at Men’s Runway Shows, but Signs of Paris’s Sorrow Linger
PARIS — “The show must go on!” is a cliché as a rallying cry, but it was unusually apt this month as the fall 2015 men’s runway shows bore their…
Dozens dead, 7,000 arrested as political violence rocks Bangladesh
The dead were mainly killed by arson attacks on buses and cars, police said. The two most recent victims, who died of their injuries in hospital Thursday, were victims of…
3 reasons Ferguson decision not a surprise; 3 options left to Brown family
But on Wednesday, officials told CNN that federal investigators didn’t find enough evidence and that Justice Department prosecutors won’t recommend civil rights charges against Wilson. Attorney General Eric Holder, who…
Police: Korean teen may have fled to Syria to join ISIS
That teenager, called “Kim,” disappeared in a southern Turkish border city earlier this month, leading authorities to suspect that he may have slipped away to Syria to join ISIS. While…
Madonna: Police arrested hacker who stole my songs
An undercover Israeli police investigation in collaboration with the FBI led to the suspect, Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said. “The Tel Aviv resident, born in 1976, was believed to…
Will Darren Wilson face federal charges for Michael Brown’s death?
Citing anonymous law enforcement officials, the newspaper reported Wednesday that the Justice Department has started work on a legal memo recommending no civil rights charges for Wilson, who killed Brown…
Fake IRS phone calls tops list of tax scams
They often demand that payments be made by prepaid debit card. Once they make their threats, the scammers have been known to call back and again disguise their caller ID…
St. Louis County Police Release Footage Of Looting In Ferguson Grand Jury Aftermath
Police are asking for help identifying more than 180 people who were caught on surveillance video looting a Missouri convenience store after a Ferguson grand jury failed to indict a…
Justice Dept. to Recommend No Civil Rights Charges in Ferguson Shooting
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has begun work on a legal memo recommending no civil rights charges against a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., who killed an unarmed black…
Belgium Identifies Pair Suspected of Terrorist Plot and Killed in Police Raid
BRUSSELS — The Belgian authorities on Wednesday partially identified two men believed to be Islamic militants who died last week in a police raid, releasing the first names and nationalities…
Nas Explains How Police Misconduct Exposes America’s Weakness To The World
The reactions following last year’s non-indictments of police Officers Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri and Daniel Pantaleo in Staten Island, New York prompted a wave of protests condemning police violence…
Louie Gohmert Wishes Obama Led Like His Black High School Basketball Coach
WASHINGTON — In his State of the Union address Tuesday, President Barack Obama touched on the turmoil in many cities where African-Americans have been protesting unjust treatment by the police….
Police seek hundreds in Ferguson-area looting
Surveillance video released by the St. Louis County Police Department on Wednesday shows looters at the Dellwood Market just outside Ferguson, Missouri, following the November 24 grand jury decision not…
Video Shows Jerame Reid Raising His Hands As He’s Gunned Down By New Jersey Police
Another police killing is stirring anger in another town, this time in New Jersey, where a tense traffic stop captured on video ended with a passenger shot to death as…
Palestinian Stabs Up To 10 People On Tel Aviv Bus, Police Say
JERUSALEM, Jan 21 (Reuters) – A Palestinian man stabbed up to 10 people on a commuter bus in central Tel Aviv on Wednesday before he was shot in the leg…
Man stabs 9 in Israeli bus attack; suspect shot and arrested
The 23-year-old Palestinian from Tulkarem was later shot in the leg by police when he got off the bus. He is under arrest. One of the victims was seriously wounded,…
Life of doctor shot at Boston hospital hangs in balance; suspect dead
Police got a call at around 11 a.m. ET that a doctor had been shot twice on Tuesday, according to Police Commissioner William Evans. “His colleagues got to him as…