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Navy: Conn. sub boss faked death to end affair
A Navy officer who was dismissed last month as commander of a Connecticut-based nuclear submarine faked his own death to end an affair he was carrying ...
UN ambassador says Libya attack was spontaneous
A deadly assault on a U.S. consulate in Libya was a spontaneous reaction to an anti-Muslim video, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said ...
UK police arrest journalist in bribery probe
British police arrested a journalist Saturday on suspicion of bribery, acting on information supplied by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. The 43-year-old ...
Feds investigate Ford police car steering problem
Government safety regulators are investigating Ford's Crown Victoria police cars due to complaints about defective steering columns. The probe affects ...
US scrambles to rush spies, drones to Libya
The U.S. is sending more spies, Marines and drones to Libya, trying to speed the search for those who killed the U.S. ambassador and three other ...
Girl injured in fatal France attack returning home
A 7-year-old girl who survived the grisly shooting in the French Alps that killed her parents and grandmother left a French hospital Friday to return ...
AP Interview: Japan nuke probe head defends report
The head of a major investigation into Japan's nuclear disaster is defending his report against criticism that his panel avoided blaming individuals ...
Girls who survived Alps killing are sole witnesses
One sister is a "key witness" still under guard in a French hospital, her health too fragile for questioning. The other escaped the gunman who killed ...
After Pakistan fire, police probe factory owners
Pakistani police registered a murder case against the owners and managers of a garment factory in the southern city of Karachi after a fire swept ...
US investigates: Attacks coordinated to mark 9/11?
The Obama administration, roiled by the first killing of a U.S. ambassador in more than 30 years, is investigating whether the assault on the U.S.
UK police charge man in phone hacking inquiry
A former News International security guard has been charged with conspiring to hide evidence of phone hacking, British authorities said Wednesday.
UK police arrest 2 in press misconduct inquiries
Two people were arrested Tuesday in the sprawling police inquiries probing alleged misconduct by the media, public officials and others in the wake ...
Police search UK home of couple slain in France
French and British police searched the U.K. home of a British-Iraqi couple slain while vacationing in the French Alps, as it emerged Saturday that all ...
Family feud eyed in grisly killings in French Alps
The brother of an Iraqi-born British man shot dead in the French Alps with his wife and two other people came forward to British police on Friday and ...
Correction: Arizona Sheriff Probe story
In a story Sept. 1 about federal prosecutors closing an abuse-of-power probe into Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, The Associated Press reported ...
Neb. school heads accused of sex abuse cover-up
Authorities have accused a Nebraska school superintendent, principal and coach of failing to report the alleged sexual assault of a young high school ...
Peterson case shifts to appeal, missing 4th wife
She loomed over Drew Peterson's murder trial, though her disappearance and the suspicion that the former Illinois police officer killed her was never ...
Girl hid under bodies after French Alps slayings
For at least eight hours, the 4-year-old girl lay motionless, frightened and alone, hiding under her dead mother's skirt on the floor of a BMW after ...
US feds investigate reported fatal border shooting
The FBI and Border Patrol are investigating after the Mexican government said a Mexican citizen was killed when a U.S. agent patrolling the Rio Grande ...
French Alps slayings: Child found 8 hours later
French authorities struggled Thursday to explain why no one found a 4-year-old girl for eight hours at a blood-strewn crime scene as she huddled in ...
French judges to exhume Arafat body in West Bank
The widow of Yasser Arafat said Wednesday that French investigators will soon visit the West Bank to dig up the remains of her husband in hopes of ...
Mexico: Attack on US embassy car was an accident
High-ranking Mexican security officials are portraying the shooting of two CIA agents by Mexican federal police as a well-intentioned mishap rather ...
Red Bull heir arrested in deadly Thai hit-and-run
A grandson of the creator of the Red Bull energy drink has been arrested for driving a Ferrari that struck a police officer and dragged his dead body ...
NY pol's reliance on rabbi comes back to haunt him
When he announced his run for congress in the fall of 2009, future U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, then a political novice, sorely needed a rainmaker who ...
Forceful arrests could harm LAPD goodwill efforts
A spate of incidents in which Los Angeles police officers are under investigation for use of excessive force is threatening to erode the Police ...