
FBI focusing on recovery in '90 Mass. art heist
The FBI says it has solved the decades-old mystery of who stole $500 million in artwork from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, but it is ...
Calif. sheriff's captain: Race car kills 2
A speeding race car careened off a track and into pit row during warm-up laps at a California raceway Saturday night, killing a 14-year-old boy and ...
Judge rules secret FBI letters unconstitutional
They're called national security letters and the FBI issues thousands of them a year to banks, phone companies and other businesses demanding customer ...
Embattled Albuquerque, NM, police chief to retire
The head of Albuquerque's embattled police department says he's retiring after an eight-year tenure marred by a spike in fatal police shootings and ...
Man sentenced for NYC synagogue bomb plot
An Algerian New Yorker was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday for plotting an attack on New York City synagogues, even as his lawyers continued ...

AP Exclusive: FBI says fed agent killing justified
An immigration agent was justified in fatally shooting a colleague who opened fire on their boss in a federal office building last year, the FBI has ...

Mom of NYC teen shot by police: Why was he killed?
Carol Gray, her head wrapped in a black scarf and her tearful eyes concealed by sunglasses, held up a photograph of her 16-year-old son, who was shot ...

Dems push assault weapons ban through Senate panel
Democrats pushed an assault weapons ban through a Senate committee on Thursday and toward its likely doom on the Senate floor, after an emotion-laden ...
FBI adds fugitive to 10 Most Wanted list
On the 63rd anniversary of the creation of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, the bureau is adding a fugitive gang member wanted for the murder ...

AP EXCLUSIVE: Police blamed in Egypt revolt deaths
The highest-level inquiry into the deaths of nearly 900 protesters in Egypt's uprising has concluded that police were behind nearly all the killings ...

Police scrutinized over of adversary's death
Mary Han was a successful civil rights attorney who for decades battled over the rights of abused women, accused prostitutes and the homeless. In the ...

Man sought in 2 deaths captured in Ore. motel
Police stormed a motel room in a seaside town Tuesday evening and captured a Washington state man suspected of killing his grandparents, ending a ...

Insider attack kills 2 US troops, 2 Afghans
A police officer opened fire on U.S. and Afghan forces at a police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, sparking a firefight that killed two ...

South Africa holds bail hearing for charged police
A Mozambican taxi driver who was dragged from a South African police vehicle died from lack of oxygen and also suffered extensive head lacerations, ...
Iran says it will help learn fate of ex-FBI agent
Iran's foreign minister says his country is ready to help learn the fate of a retired FBI agent who went missing six years ago. Iranian media on ...

Egyptian Soccer fans rampage over court verdicts
Egyptian soccer fans rampaged through the heart of Cairo on Saturday, furious about the acquittal of seven police officers while death sentences ...
Court limits border searches of electronic devices
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Border Patrol agents must have reasonable suspicion of criminal activity before conducting comprehensive ...

Police strikes in Egypt accelerate, adding turmoil
After months of battling with angry young protesters, many in Egypt's police forces say they have had enough. Strikes and protests spread around the ...

Police chief's polygraph targets racist applicants
A police chief hired to rebuild a tiny Tennessee department dismantled by scandal is using a lie-detector test to keep racists off his force.
Ga. backs relaxing gun laws for mentally ill
While some states push to tighten gun control laws after the Connecticut school massacre, lawmakers in gun-friendly Georgia want to ease rules ...
SAfrica: former Pistorius detective quits force
The former lead detective in South Africa's investigation of the murder case against Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has resigned from the police ...

At Arizona's border morgue, bodies keep coming
The body of Ildefonso Martinez arrived on a Friday night last April as John Doe, Case No. 12-01000. He wore black Nike shoes, a Perry Ellis belt, ...

Fact and fantasy collide in NYC cannibalism trial
A teenager posts a Twitter message saying he's going to blow up a school. A husband grumbles that he's looking for a hit man to kill his wife.

Ex-DEA heads, UN panel urge US to nullify pot laws
Eight former U.S. drug chiefs warned the federal government Tuesday that time is running out to nullify Colorado and Washington's new laws legalizing ...
Mass. police dog digging in snowbank fires gun
Police say a dog searching for a gun in a snowbank accidentally pulled the trigger with its paw, firing the weapon. No humans —or dogs — were hurt.