CHICAGO - Drew Peterson, a former Illinois police sergeant suspected in the disappearance of his fourth wife, on Thursday was indicted on a murder charge in the death of his third wife. Peterson, 55, was taken into custody Thursday evening by ...Read More
A statewide police association will check its financial books after learning one of its board members -- a Chicago Police sergeant -- was charged with skimming $600,000 from the Chicago Police Sergeants' Association.
Sgt. John Pallohusky, a detective and president of ...Read More
The head of the Chicago police sergeants' union was charged with looting union dues to pay for steak dinners, gambling trips to Las Vegas and a second residence in the city's Sauganash neighborhood. Sgt. John Pallohusky, a 21-year veteran assigned to ...Read More
LONDON - British actor Edward Woodward, best known for his lead role in the 1973 cult classic "The Wicker Man" and a veteran of the stage, died on Monday aged 79, his agent said. Janet Glass said he had been ill ...Read More
(CNN) -- A suspect was in custody and no one was hurt after a gunman held a principal hostage Tuesday at a school in Pine Plains, New York, a spokeswoman for the Dutchess County sheriff's office said.
Earlier, police had contained ...Read More
MINNEAPOLIS - As a little-known Minneapolis police sergeant, Sharon Lubinski made headlines when she declared she was a lesbian on the front pages of the city's largest newspaper , a bold move that other gay officers say inspired them to ...Read More
A baby has survived after his pushchair rolled onto the tracks as a train pulled into a station in Melbourne, Australia. The train had slowed right down as it pulled into the station and the six-month-old baby suffered only a bump ...Read More
JOLIET, Ill. — An Illinois judge has ruled that prosecutors can introduce statements made by former police officer's Drew Peterson's now-deceased ex-wife at his trial. Will County Judge Stephen White ruled against Peterson's attorneys Friday in their attempt to get the ...Read More
JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - An Illinois judge has ruled that prosecutors can introduce statements made by former police officer's Drew Peterson's now-deceased ex-wife at his trial. Will County Judge Stephen White ruled against Peterson's attorneys Friday in their attempt to get ...Read More
OKLAHOMA CITY - A woman was arrested after her 14-year-son told authorities he escaped from a home where he'd been kept for 4 1/2 years, spending most of his time locked in a bedroom closet, police said yesterday. A security guard ...Read More
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—A police official says a Rhode Island state trooper punched a police sergeant at a fundraiser honoring a deceased officer. Providence Deputy police Chief Paul Kennedy says Edward Stenovitch punched Sgt. Bernard Gannon in the head early Saturday at a ...Read More
A man has been charged with the murder of a woman whose body was found in a field in Buckinghamshire. The victim, whom police believe may be 67-year-old Sally Hingston, was found near Gawcott. She had suffered multiple head injuries. Mrs Hingston ...Read More
(NECN: Alysha Palumbo, Worcester, Mass.) - Within 48 hours of the discovery of 23-year-old Darlene Haynes' dead body in her Worcester, Massachusetts apartment, the baby girl that had been cut from her womb has been found alive in New Hampshire. 35-year-old ...Read More
WORCESTER - The baby that had been ripped from her slain mother's womb was found alive and well in New Hampshire last night, and a woman was arrested in the grisly killing and kidnapping. Julie A. Corey, an acquaintance of 23-year-old ...Read More
(NECN: Alysha Palumbo, Worcester, Mass.) - It was a gruesome discovery Monday afternoon at 94 Southgate Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. The landlord went in to apartment 2R to investigate complaints from other residents of a foul odor coming from the second ...Read More
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The police sergeant who arrested Harvard University's Henry Louis Gates Jr. called the professor uncooperative and asked for backup officers and a police wagon, according to a recording of police radio transmissions. Cambridge Sgt. James Crowley can be ...Read More
President Obama this afternoon telephoned the Cambridge police sergeant accused of racial profiling and expressed regret for his choice of words at a recent press conference, saying he inadvertently ratcheted up the media frenzy when he said police "acted stupidly" ...Read More
A white police sergeant who arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. said he's disappointed President Barack Obama said police "acted stupidly" without knowing all the facts. Sgt. James Crowley responded to Gates' home near Harvard University last week to ...Read More
BOSTON — A white police sergeant who arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he's disappointed President Barack Obama said police acted "stupidly" without knowing all the facts. Sgt. James Crowley responded to Gates' home near Harvard University last ...Read More
NATICK, Mass. — A white police sergeant accused of racism after he arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home insisted Wednesday he won't apologize for his treatment of the Harvard professor, but President Barack Obama said ...Read More
