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Federal trial provides window into NYPD practices
The right people at the right time in the right location. That phrase — repeated over and over in a secret recording of a police supervisor — is at ...
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Judge: Manson disciple can't keep tapes from LAPD
A federal judge in Texas has ruled that the Los Angeles Police Department should be able to obtain the decades-old taped conversations between a ...
S. Calif. girl who survived crash describes ordeal
A 9-year-old girl who survived a rollover crash is out of a Southern California hospital and has described on video how she hiked more than a mile to ...
Court: Drug dog sniff is unconstitutional search
The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police cannot bring drug-sniffing police dogs onto a suspect's property to look for evidence without first ...
USDA expanding program to fight rural poverty
A federal program intended to reduce poverty and improve life in rural areas through better access to federal funding is expanding to six states, ...
Ohio prosecutor drops charge against Pa. groundhog
Phil is off the hook. A winter-weary Ohio prosecutor who filed a tongue-in-cheek criminal indictment against the famous Pennsylvania groundhog over ...
Earthquake shakes Mexico City
Earthquakes shook a broad swath of southern Mexico on Tuesday, causing buildings to sway in the capital and sending thousands fleeing into the streets ...
NJ professor's quixotic quest to be Iran president
The man who wants to be the next president of Iran sits in a hotel lobby, steps from his office and thousands of miles away from the country he wants ...
Judge denies bail in defense secrets case
A federal judge denied bail Monday to a civilian defense contractor accused of giving military secrets to a Chinese girlfriend half his age, saying ...
Pa. groundhog's handler taking blame for forecast
An Ohio prosecutor who light-heartedly filed a criminal indictment against the famous Pennsylvania groundhog who fraudulently "predicted" an early ...
Relative, lawyer defend Ga teen shooting suspects
The lawyer for one of the Georgia teenagers charged with murder in a baby's shooting said Monday his client is "absolutely" not guilty and the ...
Gun link, but many questions in corrections death
Colorado corrections chief Tom Clements and his wife were watching television when the doorbell rang last Tuesday night. Clements opened the door and ...
APNewsBreak: No pups born to Isle Royale wolves
The gray wolves in Isle Royale National Park in northern Michigan are increasingly threatened, scientists said Monday, with no pups spotted during the ...
Woman gets prison time in 'total identity theft'
For almost 12 years, a Houston elementary school teacher and an illegal immigrant living in Topeka have engaged in a tug of war to claim the identity ...
Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Lewis dies at 85
Two-time Pulitzer winner Anthony Lewis, whose New York Times column championed liberal causes for three decades, died Monday. He was 85. Lewis worked ...
US military says Guantanamo hunger strike edges up
More prisoners have joined a hunger strike at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, officials said Monday, as defense lawyers expressed alarm ...
Child tells US court in Detroit he was slave labor
Some of the children were only in middle school when a former tennis pro from Africa faked immigration papers and brought them to Michigan, where he ...
Fla. authorities to review skydiver's helmet video
Authorities on Monday were reviewing footage from a helmet camera worn by a skydiving instructor who, along with a student, died in a jump at a ...
Man gets 18 years in Seattle terror plot
A man who plotted to attack a Seattle military complex with machine guns and grenades was sentenced on Monday to 18 years in prison. Abu Khalid ...
APNewsBreak: Historic ship short on funds and time
The SS United States is sending out what may be its final distress call. The 990-foot-long ship could be sold for scrap within two months unless the ...
AG: Pa. sheriff said he would chop worker's hands
A county sheriff threatened to cut off the hands of a political campaign worker, pulled a gun on a newspaper reporter and then intimidated underlings ...
Newtown residents upset about NRA robocalls
Some residents of the Connecticut community devastated by December's school shooting said they're outraged over robocalls they've received from the ...
US hands prison over to Afghans
The U.S. military gave control of its last detention facility in Afghanistan to Kabul on Monday, a year after the two sides initially agreed on the ...
'Desperate' workers to testify in abortion trial
A 2011 grand jury report on a busy West Philadelphia abortion clinic described patients being overmedicated, maimed and even killed during lax, ...
Marine base shooting victim was goofy, churchgoing
A Marine who was shot to death at a Virginia base was described as a warm-hearted country boy from the South who grew up in the Pentecostal church and ...