Thick fog forced authorities to suspend the air search Wednesday for seven Marines and four Army aircrew, feared dead after their Black Hawk helicopter crashed into waters off the Florida Panhandle.
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A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on kidnapping charges in Washington state stemming from an attempted abduction of a toddler that was caught on video and thwarted by the baby’s older siblings and other witnesses.
Armed robbers targeted security vans carrying jewels in a late-night raid staged at a tollbooth near Auxerre, the French national police force said Wednesday.
Authorities in central Ohio are investigating the death of a 29-year-old man who was tased twice by police in a struggle outside a halfway house where he had been staying.
The police chief of Ferguson, Missouri, resigned on Wednesday, following a scathing U.S. Justice Department report that found widespread racially biased abuses in the city’s police department and municipal court.
California has a 7 percent chance of experiencing an earthquake of magnitude 8 or larger over the next three decades, U.S. government scientists said on Tuesday, higher than thought before.
ISIS’ recent video showing a child shooting a man whom the extremist group claimed was an Israeli spy is the latest example of how the militants exploit children in their propaganda.
A 16-year veteran police officer has been fired for using “egregiously disproportionate” force to subdue a woman who had been taken into custody for resisting arrest in the latest incident involving alleged police brutality in Denver.
A suburban Atlanta police chief who faces possible indictment for shooting his wife in bed on New Year’s Day, partially paralyzing her, resigned on Wednesday.
The jury hearing the Boston Marathon bombing trial on Wednesday saw pieces of one of the pressure-cooker bombs that ripped through the crowd at the race’s finish line in 2013, killing three people and injuring 264.
A former New York City corrections officer fatally shot a man in a busy Brooklyn subway station on Tuesday night, according to police and the New York Times.
A fugitive who authorities say shot and killed a deputy U.S. marshal during a gun battle at a Louisiana motel died of his wounds early on Wednesday, the local coroner’s office said.
Lawmakers in Utah voted on Tuesday to bring back the use of executions by firing squad if lethal injections are unavailable, becoming the only state in the nation to permit the practice.
A Southern Poverty Law Center annual report says the number of hate groups in the United States remains on the decline for the second year in a row.
Islamic State militants said on Tuesday they had killed two men in northern Iraq for homosexuality and another for blasphemy.
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