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Raft of office-buying fuels disgust from Chinese
In a small town in northern China's Inner Mongolia where sheep and cattle easily outnumber humans, Fan Chen paid a Communist Party boss three times ...
Alleged Colombian trafficker caught in Argentina
Colombia's most-wanted reputed drug trafficker was arrested outside a restaurant in suburban Buenos Aires after Colombian police spent months chasing ...
Mother: Execution brings relief, not closure
Tina Curl was so eager to see her 9-year-old daughter's killer executed Tuesday night that she couldn't even take her seat in the witness room. "I was ...
SD executes man for rape, death of 9-year-old girl
A South Dakota inmate was executed Tuesday night for the 1990 rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl who disappeared after leaving her home to buy sugar ...
FBI: Crime reported to police fell last year
The number of violent crimes reported to police decreased 3.8 percent last year to 1.2 million, the fifth straight year of declines, the FBI announced ...
Gunmen kill 2 policemen in southeastern Iran
An Iranian semi-official news agency reports attackers opened fire on a checkpoint in southeastern Iran, killing two policemen. The report by Fars ...
Honduras police in internal dispute over cleanup
The head of Honduras' National Police says he is facing an internal uprising over the suspension of high-ranking officers in his campaign to clean up ...
300 potential abuse victims emerge in BBC scandal
The scale of the child sex abuse scandal engulfing the BBC expanded on Thursday as authorities announced that 300 potential victims had come forward ...
NY cop killing suspect transferred from hospital
An ex-convict suspected of gunning down a police officer near the Belmont Park racetrack and then shooting to death a carjacking victim was ...
SC sheriffs offering amnesty for explosives
Sheriffs in five South Carolina counties are offering people a chance to turn in explosives, no questions asked. Officials in Abbeville, Anderson, ...
Conn. city agrees to settle US discrimination case
A suburban Connecticut city roiled by a police bias scandal has reached a proposed settlement of U.S. claims that officers engaged in a pattern of ...
Families of South Africa mine victims break down
In a hail of gunfire, a line of South African police shot at a crowd of striking miners, many of whom fell to the ground, lifeless. The shooting ...
Chicago police culture on trial in beating case
Allegations of a culture in which Chicago police jump to protect fellow officers accused of wrongdoing are at the heart of a federal civil trial that ...
South Africa police: Blast kills 3 prisoners
A blast outside a prison in central Johannesburg Monday killed three prisoners and seriously wounded four others, a police official said.
Afghan police say man killed wife for wanting job
A man in a western Afghan city has confessed to stabbing his wife to death to prevent her from taking a job outside the home, police said Monday.
2 off-duty Fla. officers fatally shoot naked woman
Two off-duty Florida law-enforcement officers fatally shot an armed, naked woman who confronted them at a social gathering Saturday, authorities said.
6 Afghan police killed in insider attack
An Afghan police officer and cook poisoned their colleagues at a checkpoint in an assault coordinated with insurgent fighters that left six dead in ...
Bangladesh probing background of NY terror suspect
Police in Bangladesh on Saturday interviewed former teachers and classmates of a Bangladeshi man charged with trying to blow up the Federal Reserve ...
Suit: Sheriff denied bail to inmates on ICE holds
Arrestees who say they were denied bail because immigration agents wanted them held sued the Los Angeles County sheriff Friday claiming they were ...
Retired deputy has 2nd career probing dog attacks
Two Rottweilers killed an 83-year-old man in Alabama. A two-day old infant was mauled to death in Pennsylvania. A two-year-old girl died after she was ...
Afghan police school tries to fix struggling force
At the gate to the National Police Academy, on the western edge of the Afghan capital, the guard's rifle bolts into firing position. "Stop!" he shouts
Judge stops LAPD warrant for Manson follower tapes
A federal judge in Texas has blocked an attempt by the Los Angeles Police Department to use a search warrant to obtain decades-old tapes of ...
Border Patrol use of force policy scrutinized
Government investigators are reviewing U.S. Border Patrol policies on use of lethal force amid a spate of deadly shootings along the border in recent ...
Head of FBI's DC office announces retirement
The head of the FBI's Washington field office is retiring after two years in that job and 25 years with the bureau. James McJunkin told colleagues ...
Armed posse patrols timber land in sheriff's place
There's no room in the county jail for burglars and thieves. And the sheriff's department in a vast, rural corner of southwest Oregon has been reduced ...