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Authorities have charged four people with aiding the man accused of killing four Washington state police officers and plan on indicting two more in what investigators call a network of friends and relatives that helped Maurice Clemmons avoid capture.
A Canadian woman posing as a hairdresser was charged on Thursday with human trafficking, for trying to sell two Chinese women to undercover policemen for 4,000 dollars each.
Law enforcement officials — not tailgaters — were getting stoked Thursday outside Land Shark Stadium, rolling out an impressive display of equipment to protect Miami's postseason football trifecta: the Orange Bowl, Pro Bowl and Super Bowl No. 44.
American Amanda Knox asked a jury not to put the "killer's mask" on her as she and her boyfriend made emotional final appeals Thursday denying the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson was cited for speeding over the weekend after police clocked him driving 109 mph on a highway in suburban Minneapolis.
Minnesota Vikings star running back Adrian Peterson said Thursday that he'll be more careful after police clocked him driving 109 mph on a suburban Minneapolis highway over the weekend and cited him for speeding.
Sonia Tauanuu, 25, was pronounced dead by witnesses at the scene, the LAPD says. The driver, Nancy Lekon, 43, was arrested on suspicion of homicide. The driver of a Cadillac limousine intentionally ran over a woman and dragged her body nearly a mile through skid row in downtown Los Angeles early Thursday, authorities said.
The department's 56th leader was officially sworn in a few weeks ago. Thursday's event was for pomp and pageantry. It was all pomp and pageantry at the LAPD's downtown headquarters Thursday as newly appointed Chief Charlie Beck was sworn in to office -- for a second time.
A Wauconda police officer at the scene of a traffic accident suffered severe leg injuries tonight when a vehicle skidded out of control into him, authorities said. Officer Jim McClain was at a crash scene on an overpass at Rand Road and Liberty Street at about 5:12 p.m., when a second collision occurred a short distance away, Wauconda police said in a news release. As McClain walked to the ...
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales , who nationalized the energy industry and rewrote the constitution, heads for re-election Dec. 6 bolstered by an economy projected to grow faster than any other in the hemisphere this year.
The driver of a Cadillac limousine allegedly ran over a woman on purpose and dragged her body nearly a mile through skid row in downtown Los Angeles early today, authorities said.
A woman driving an old limousine ran over another woman after an argument and dragged her for nearly a mile through Skid Row early Thursday before pursuing police finally stopped the car, authorities said. The victim died at the scene.
Chicago police officials were investigating a police-involved shooting that left one male dead and a second injured in the Lawndale neighborhood Thursday evening after officers responded to a vehicular hijacking report. The incident also left a police officer hospitalized with what appeared to be non-life threatening injuries after being struck by the stolen car, Chicago police said in a ...
A shootout erupted on Thursday at a separatist rally in southern Yemen, killing one civilian, while a senior police officer was injured in clashes in a neighbouring province, witnesses and police said.
Two New York men pleaded not guilty to a break-in and one of them also pleaded not guilty to wounding two responding police officers.
Egypt has become a police state where citizens receive no protection from torture, human rights groups said in a report published on Thursday.
