High-ranking Oakland police officers are not being held accountable for crimes committed in the areas they oversee, a report by a former Los Angeles police chief found. A consulting group led by the ... Read more
CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico — With her leg snapped and folded excruciatingly over her shoulder, Elvira López Hernández lay flat on a railroad bed as the freight train hurtled above her, clinging ... Read more
Saying it was frustrated with some of the worst criminal violence in the world, the Honduran congress suspended the attorney general and his assistant and replaced them with a temporary oversight ... Read more
HOUSTON — As school districts across the country consider placing more police officers in schools, youth advocates and judges are raising alarm about what they have seen in the schools where officers are ... Read more
The new judge in the trial of James (Whitey) Bulger, the Boston gangster, held her first hearing with lawyers for Mr. Bulger and government prosecutors on Tuesday, and said that the trial would begin on ... Read more
PHILADELPHIA — In opening statements in court on Monday, prosecutors charged that a doctor who operated a women’s health clinic here killed seven viable fetuses by plunging scissors into their necks ... Read more
A University of Central Florida dropout planned an attack on the campus but committed suicide in a dorm before carrying it out, the authorities said Monday. The man, James Oliver Seevakumaran, 30, pulled ... Read more
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As the annual press corps political roast unfolded here on Tuesday evening, Gov. Rick Scott stared stone-faced, holding a secret, while he watched a reporter spoof his strained ... Read more
LOS ANGELES — In the days after the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., Tony Beliz and his staff at the county’s mental health department here made a series of calls. They ... Read more
OAKLAND, Calif. – Over the next several months, this city just across the bay from San Francisco will be partitioned into five police districts from its current two. The smaller districts, according to a ... Read more