Nome, Alaska sued by woman who says rape wasn’t investigated
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A former police dispatcher in a small Alaska town filed a lawsuit Thursday, alleging her collea...
Lawmakers target slavery clause in Minnesota Constitution
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Spurred by a police chief, Minnesota lawmakers launched a drive Thursday to remove from the state...
Ex-NYC police commish Kerik says he cried at being pardoned
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s police commissioner during the Sept. 11 attacks said Wednesday he started crying when Pr...
Smollett case revives questions on Laquan McDonald, justice
CHICAGO — When a grand jury revived the criminal case against Jussie Smollett, the indictment for many people called to mind two nights on two differe...
Details still murky in police shooting of unarmed Texas man
Details that have emerged more than two months after a Texas police officer killed an unarmed man during a traffic stop still leave the unanswered que...
London police deploy face scan tech, stirring privacy fears
LONDON — London police started using facial recognition cameras on Tuesday to automatically scan for wanted people, as authorities adopt the controver...
State reviews LA police use of California gang database
LOS ANGELES — The California Department of Justice is reviewing the Los Angeles Police Department's records and policies regarding use of the state's ...
New Philadelphia police chief starts amid surge in homicides
PHILADELPHIA — The new commissioner of the nation's fourth-largest city police force will start work Monday amid a surge in homicides and calls for ac...
NYPD: Officer shot, wounded in ‘assassination attempt’
NEW YORK — Two New York City police officers narrowly escaped with their lives when a gunman fired into their patrol van Saturday night, wounding one ...
China’s Communist Party faces recriminations over virus
BEIJING — China's ruling Communist Party faced public anger and recrimination Friday over the death of a doctor who was threatened by police after try...
Chicago’s former top cop consulting local cannabis company
CHICAGO — A former head of the Chicago Police Department is advising a local cannabis company on security after more than $200,000 was stolen from it ...
Key witness could be in doubt in landmark church retrial
PHILADELPHIA — An aging monsignor who was the first U.S. church official ever tried and sent to prison over his handling of priest-abuse complaints co...
Mom of 2 missing kids found in Hawaii with new husband
BOISE, Idaho — Police say the mother of two missing kids has been found in Hawaii along with her new husband, but there's still no sign of the childre...
Portugal police: Banker in Angola scandal hangs himself
LISBON, Portugal — A Portuguese banker named in a major Angolan money-laundering and corruption scandal has died in an apparent suicide at his home, p...
Suspected serial killer stayed under the radar, but how?
CHICAGO — When a police detective said last week that a man suspected of strangling a suburban Chicago teen in 1976 may have killed as many as a dozen...
Catalan ex-police chief on trial for role in secession bid
MADRID — The former head of Catalonia's regional police and three others are standing trial on charges of rebellion and sedition for their alleged rol...
Buttigieg decision on police chief shadows presidential run
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Karen DePaepe had been waiting all day for a call back from Pete Buttigieg.
Leader of St. Louis black police union says racial bias real
ST. LOUIS — The president of a predominantly black St. Louis police union said Wednesday that the city prosecutor’s lawsuit is correct in pointing out...
Black prosecutors back Gardner, say they’ve faced resistance
ST. LOUIS — One day after St. Louis’ top prosecutor filed a federal lawsuit alleging a concerted and racist conspiracy to push her out of office, othe...
St. Louis prosecutor: Racist interests try to force her out
ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner on Monday filed what she called an unprecedented federal civil rights lawsuit, accusing the city, t...
NYPD’s new leader: Helping people is at heart of police work
NEW YORK — On the Bronx streets where New York City’s new police commissioner started as a patrolman in the crime-ravaged early 1990s, gunfire and bur...
Pakistan mosque blast kills senior police officer, 13 others
QUETTA, Pakistan — A powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in southwest Pakistan during Friday evening prayers, killing a senior police officer a...
Police, victims warn against firing guns on New Year’s Eve
Kaitlyn Kong thought she had been punched hard in the abdomen as she stood among thousands of people in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, as the new ...
Police: Parishioners kill man who fatally shoots 2 at church
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas — A man pulled out a shotgun at a Texas church service and fired on worshippers Sunday, killing two people before he was shot ...
California takes lead on laws affecting gig economy, privacy
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s long tradition of advancing nation-leading legislation continues into the new year, with laws reining in the gig eco...
India clamps down on marches, internet after deadly protests
NEW DELHI — A group of protesters in New Delhi was beaten and shoved into buses by police on Friday as they attempted to demonstrate against a new cit...
Police release teen suspect in Barnard student’s killing
NEW YORK — A 14-year-old boy suspected of fatally stabbing a Barnard College freshman was released from police custody on Thursday, mere hours after N...
Los Angeles prosecutors reviewing 8 cases against Weinstein
LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors in Los Angeles are reviewing eight cases accusing disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, an official said ...
New Mexico police investigate killing of 4 on Christmas Day
RIO RANCHO, N.M. — Police in New Mexico on Thursday were investigating the shooting of four people found dead on Christmas Day in a home in a suburb o...
Chief: City employee targeted co-worker in deadly shooting
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A deadly shooting at a city building in Winston-Salem, North Carolina was an act of “workplace violence" by one city employee wh...