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Algerian police kill 6 militants in ambush
An Algerian security official says police, acting on a tip, ambushed a van carrying Islamist extremists, killing six east of the capital.
NJ sheriff's office creates 'Facecrook' site
A New Jersey sheriff's office has a new website that's looking for arrests instead of friends. "Facecrook" features the names, photos and last ...
Drones at home raise fear of surveillance society
Thousands of drones patrolling U.S. skies? Predictions that multitudes of unmanned aircraft could be flying here within a decade are raising the ...
2 Alaska militia members convicted of conspiracy
The leader of an Alaska militia who gave speeches claiming Fairbanks was on the verge of having blood in its streets was convicted Monday of nine ...
Rodney King, whose beating led to LA riots, dies
Just a few months ago, Rodney King was once again the center of attention as the world checked back in on the man whose videotaped beating by police ...
Rodney King seen as catalyst for policing change
Rodney King, who died Sunday after a troubled life, never meant to change the Los Angeles Police Department — but that's what he ended up doing.
Paraguay: 17 killed in violent land dispute
Paraguay deployed its army Friday to resolve a violent land dispute in a remote northern forest reserve after 17 people were killed in gunbattles ...
Colombia's legendary police chief heads to Mexico
A signature trophy that Gen. Oscar Naranjo has carefully displayed in glass at Police Intelligence headquarters is odd by any measure: the neatly ...
Kidnapping by Mexican police caught on video
There it was on video: Five heavily armed policemen barge into a hotel in western Mexico before dawn and march out with three handcuffed men in ...
Calif. FBI agent missing, possibly armed, suicidal
Law enforcement officers in Southern California searched in rugged mountain terrain for a second day on Sunday for a missing FBI agent who was said ...