EDMONTON, Ky. -- Police who had issued an Amber Alert for a 15-year-old, fearing he might be in danger after his guardians were found dead in their home, instead charged him with murder in their killings Wednesday. State police say they found the teen driving his guardians' car in south-central Kentucky on Tuesday night. With him was a 12-year-old girl who ...

MIDDLESEX COUNTY, MA - Three Middlesex County Sheriff’s Department employees have been fined for violating state ethics laws when they planned a fund-raiser for ex-Sheriff James DiPaola on state time, using state computers and asking their subordinates for campaign donations, authorities said. The state Ethics Commission fined Middlesex County Sheriff Capt. Eril Ligonde, and correction officers Richard McKinnon and Heidi Ricci ...

Hours after a strangled Bronx mom was laid to rest Tuesday, her abusive ex-cop husband was hauled out of his crash pad in handcuffs. Detectives arrested Eddy Coello at a relative's apartment in the Bronx and drove him to a police station after the heart-wrenching funeral of his wife, Tina Adovasio. "It was just a matter of time," a law enforcement ...

ATHENS, GA - The incident that led to the shooting death of an Athens police officer Tuesday started with a man locked in a car trunk, his hands and feet bound with plastic Zip Ties. The 31-year-old man would later escape and tell police that he'd been ambushed by Jamie Hood, 33. Hood had asked Judon Antron Brooks to come to ...

DETROIT - A package found by a security guard at a U.S. federal office building sat for three weeks before being screened - when it was found to be a bomb. A private contract guard found the suspicious package outside the Detroit skyscraper in late February, but put it straight into 'lost and found' without having it screened, according to union ...

SPARKS, Nev. — Police in Nevada say a 26-year-old mother dumped her 3-month-old daughter in a rural field, then torched the body to hide the evidence. Suceli Margarita Ardon was held Wednesday on at $100,000 bail pending a court appearance on arson and destroying evidence charges, Washoe County Jail records show. It was not immediately clear how the baby died. An ...

PHILADELPHIA - City officials revealed Wednesday that improperly calibrated Breathalyzer machines at the Police Department have compromised evidence in 1,147 instances, raising the possibility that many of those drunken-driving cases could be dismissed. "We screwed up, folks," Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey said. "We screwed up, plain and simple. And now we're paying for it." Those convicted in the cases in ...