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Family of slain Border Patrol agent sues officials
The family of a slain Border Patrol agent has sued federal officials over the botched "Fast and Furious" gun operation, claiming they should have ...
Feds: 4 Texas officers guarded cocaine shipments
Three South Texas lawmen including the son of a prominent county sheriff will likely spend the weekend in custody on charges accusing them and another ...
4 Texas officers accused of helping move cocaine
Federal prosecutors announced charges Thursday against four officers from a South Texas anti-drug task force who they say took thousands of dollars ...
APNewsBreak: Border Patrol to stop interpreting
U.S. Border Patrol agents will no longer serve as interpreters when local law enforcement agencies request language help, according to a new decree ...
Drivers: Kenyan traffic laws increase bribe size
Traffic bribes are a way of life for many Kenyan drivers. One dollar here, $5 there. But the drivers of the rowdy minibuses known as matatus say that ...
Mexico: Rivera's plane hit with 'terrible' impact
The plane carrying Mexican-American music superstar Jenni Rivera plunged almost vertically from more than 28,000 feet and hit the ground in a ...
Mexico tests DNA from Jenni Rivera plane crash
Mexican authorities were performing DNA tests Tuesday on remains believed to belong to Mexican-American music superstar Jenni Rivera and six other ...
Ex-policeman faces trial in Politkovskaya's murder
The son of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya on Tuesday criticized the authorities' deal with a former police officer accused of involvement in ...
Tribe prepares to bury 5 slain members in Calif.
Gravediggers work the old-fashioned way on the Tule River Indian Reservation, chipping away at the hard pan by hand with pickaxes and shoveling the ...
FBI: Hate crimes down slightly in 2011
The FBI says the number of hate crimes reported to police in 2011 declined slightly compared to the previous year. Nearly half of the reported hate ...
Attacks kill Afghan police chief, official
A Taliban bombing killed an Afghan provincial police chief and gunmen fatally shot an official in charge of women's affairs on Monday — the latest ...
End may be sight for FBI's unloved Hoover building
Just six blocks from the White House, the FBI's hulking headquarters overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue has long been the government building everyone ...
FBI says Alaska man killed people for fun
Confessed serial killer Israel Keyes admitted he enjoyed killing people, but couldn't or wouldn't give investigators a more meaningful answer when ...
AP NewsBreak: FBI says Alaska man killed for fun
Investigators who spent hours interviewing an Alaska serial killer say he may have murdered close to a dozen people, and that he killed for pleasure ...
Legal pot complicates drug-free work policies
Pot may be legal, but workers may want to check with their boss first before they grab the pipe or joint during off hours. Businesses in Washington ...
For Washington state, legal pot _ and now what?
People openly lit joints under the Space Needle and on Seattle's sidewalks — then blew the smoke at TV news cameras. To those looking to "get baked," ...
Riots hint at potential chaos in Tunisia's future
Five days of riots last week in a town in Tunisia's impoverished interior wounded hundreds of people and deepened the rift between the two most ...
FBI: Alaska barista assaulted, dismembered
A man who died in an apparent suicide this week in an Alaska jail after confessing to a string of killings across the country had sexually assaulted ...
Police: Indiana men had sex before fatal fight
Indiana authorities investigating the death of a homeless man whose decomposing body was found in a freezer say he had been drinking, taking drugs and ...
Dog theft case ripples through New Mexico town
The cases were often heartbreaking: Families coming home to find their dogs had vanished from inside houses, behind locked fences and outdoor kennels ...
Sudanese police kill 2 militants in remote region
A Sudanese official says police have killed two Islamic militants and arrested about 20 in a raid on a militant training camp in the country's south.
Iran fires cyber police chief over blogger death
Iran's police have fired the head of the Tehran cybercrimes unit over the case of a blogger who died while in police custody. The semi-official Fars ...
UK judge issues damning press verdict
Britain's unruly newspapers should be regulated by an independent body dominated by non-journalists with the power to levy steep fines, a judge said ...
Greater email privacy won't hinder law enforcement
Over objections from law enforcement officials, the Senate Judiciary Committee has approved legislation that would require police to obtain a search ...
Tips led to arrest of NH couple in burned boy case
Tips from acquaintances and others helped authorities track a fugitive New Hampshire couple to Florida, where they were arrested at the Universal ...