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An 82-year-old man was arrested in Taiwan for allegedly conning people out of thousands of dollars by posing as a relative of the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, police said Wednesday.
Taher al-Mazlum is desperate to join the Hamas-run police in the Gaza Strip, not because he agrees with the Islamist group's hardline ideology, but because he needs money to get married.
Investigators searching for a missing 8-month-old boy began an intensive excavation and search effort Tuesday at a Texas landfill.
A suspected member of late terror leader Noordin Mohammad Top's network went on trial in Indonesia Wednesday charged over twin suicide attacks on luxury hotels in Jakarta last year.
Police fired tear gas and water cannons Wednesday to disperse thousands of opposition protesters demanding the release of retired general and former presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka.
Police have arrested more than 1,000 right-wing Hindu activists in the Indian city of Mumbai as part of increased security to stop violence over the release of a new Bollywood film.
Just a few weeks ago, the two officers were lauded as part of a new breed of honest cop, elevated to become key players in a drive to overhaul one of Mexico's most notorious police forces.
St. Louis Rams running back Steven Jackson won't face criminal charges over allegations that he beat a girlfriend who was nine months pregnant with the couple's child at his Las Vegas home last year, a police spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Crime 'has become defiant,' president says, as police and politicians are forced to face 'the bribe or the bullet'
Recent accidents raise the question of what drivers should do when their vehicles break down or have accidents on busy interstates.
Forensic and medical experts say that neither the hole in Michael Mineo’s boxer shorts nor his injuries showed evidence he had been sodomized with a baton.
Gambling regulators say Nevada casinos won almost $6.9 million on this year's Super Bowl as bettors wagered $82.7 million on the NFL title game.
The family of Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan insisted Tuesday that they do "not blame anyone" for her father's death and criticized a medical examiner's finding that Daniel Kerrigan died of a heart rhythm problem after a fight with his son.
When Ronald "Loony" Barron urged a young graffiti tagger to put away his paint cans, he was doing what he viewed as his mission — steering kids away from crime — but he paid for it with his life.
The All-Pro running back was facing a complaint from a girlfriend who was nine months pregnant with the couple’s child.
An 11-year-old boy faces assault and weapon charges for trying to stab a classmate with a pencil over a math problem. Police in New Hartford, 80 miles west of Albany, said the boy was mad because a classmate kept trying to help him in math class on Monday. When the would-be helper wouldn't back off, police said the boy lashed out with a sharp pencil and inflicted a scratch treated by the school ...
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