Detroit -- Police officers and city officials expressed shock to learn that Mayor Dave Bing had fired James Barren as police chief after less than a year on the job. Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans will replace Barren effective Monday, Assistant ...Read More
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A former substitute teacher at a juvenile probation camp was arrested Tuesday for investigation of supervising a series of fights between students in rival gangs, authorities said. The five fights were overseen by Stephen Wesley, 43, who ...Read More
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Faced with a brazen challenge from drug cartels, U.S. FBI agents have joined a Mexican probe into attacks on U.S. consular staff and their families that left three dead in this border city, officials said Monday.
Mexican ...Read More
The Ford Crown Victoria police car, which for nearly three decades has been the star of high-speed chases and an unwelcome sight in rearview mirrors, is being phased out.
Ford unveiled its new patrol car, the Police Interceptor, at an event ...Read More
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- A fraud bust, indeed: Spokane County sheriff's deputies said a woman was hiding nearly $26,000 in her bra when she was booked into jail for investigation of theft. Lukeisha A. Harris was one of three Seattle-area ...Read More
The 11,000 rescue and recovery workers sickened from their days toiling in the debris of the World Trade Center must be heard before a $657 million proposed settlement is put to a vote, the federal judge overseeing the case said ...Read More
MALIBU, Calif.-Authorities say a man tried to sexually assault a Southern California jogger who escaped by jumping off a cliff and sliding about 100 feet down a steep hillside. Los Angeles County sheriff's Sgt. Derek Sabatini says the woman was ...Read More
Mary Altaffer, Associated Press file Jimmy Nolan, of Yonkers, N.Y., who worked at at Ground Zero after the attack on the World Trade Center, displays the rash on his hands during a news conference at Ground Zero in New York.David ...Read More
DALLAS -- At least four incendiary devices have been found recently in mailboxes or postal processing facilities in eastern Texas, although none posed a danger to the public, authorities said. U.S. Postal Inspector Amanda McMurrey said Friday that one of the ...Read More
NEW YORK (AP) - Lawyers and city officials expressed confidence Friday that they can get ground zero responders to sign on to a settlement that would pay up to $657 million to workers who developed health problems after toiling in ...Read More
HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- An Indiana man whose cross-country crime spree with his girlfriend a decade ago ended in a gun battle with police in San Francisco was executed Thursday in Texas for killing a sheriff's officer.
Joshua Maxwell's voice broke as ...Read More
A settlement of up to $657.5 million has been reached in the cases of thousands of rescue and cleanup workers at ground zero who sued the city over damage to their health, according to city officials and lawyers for the ...Read More
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - An engineering firm hired to oversee the reconstruction of city buildings and infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 has been overcharging the city, including billing for theater tickets and a flight to Las Vegas, an ...Read More
The animal rights group PETA is offering to help the cash-strapped city of Colorado Springs by paying to put trash cans back in parks - on one condition. The cans have to carry an anti-meat slogan and a picture of ...Read More
NORWALK, Calif.-A 7-year-old boy who called 911 from a locked bathroom while armed robbers threatened his parents hugged and high-fived on Wednesday the sheriff's dispatcher who took his call. The boy, identified only as Carlos, told reporters at a news ...Read More
NORWALK, Calif. (AP) - A 7-year-old boy who called 911 while armed robbers threatened his parents hugged and delivered a high five to the dispatcher who took his call. The boy, identified only as Carlos, told reporters Wednesday he remained calm ...Read More
NORWALK, Calif. – Authorities said Wednesday that they are "astounded" by the heroic actions of a 7-year-old boy who hid with his younger sister in a bathroom and called 911 while armed robbers broke into his home and threatened his ...Read More
Authorities were hailing a 7-year-old Norwalk boy as a hero Tuesday after he hid in a bathroom and called 911 as three armed attackers burst into his home and threatened his parents. During the harrowing emergency call, the child pleaded with ...Read More
WASHINGTON - In the 2001 special election that sent US Representative Stephen F. Lynch to Washington, the South Boston politician was accused of being hostile to gay rights. A decade later, the low-key lawmaker is winning praise from gay-marriage advocates ...Read More
The Ben Roethlisberger sexual assault accuser is a 20-year-old college student who claims that the NFL star assaulted her in a bathroom of a Georgia nightclub.
Police are withholding her identity, as is customary with sexually based offenses (or allegations thereof). ...Read More
At least five homes and a barn owned by the county government were destroyed and other structures were damaged Monday by a large tornado in the western Oklahoma town of Hammon. No injuries were reported with the storm, Oklahoma Department of ...Read More
