EDINBURG — A suspended South Texas police officer is free on his own recognizance after being charged with filing bogus time sheets and having sex with a jailed robbery suspect. Former Edinburg gang investigator Robert Alvarez was arraigned Wednesday. A judge granted him a $20,000 personal recognizance bond on each of the eight counts. Alvarez is charged with misuse of official ...

STATEN ISLAND, NY - A 12-year-old Staten Island boy was charged with felony assault as a hate crime for attempting to rip a religious head scarf off the head of a classmate on Wednesday, sources said. Osman Daramy attacked the female student outside the Berta Dreyfus Intermediate School in Stapleton about 1 p.m., the sources said. Osman allegedly punched and kicked ...

[photo:597502] DALLAS - Police in the Dallas suburb of Garland issued an arrest warrant for Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback Aqib Talib, accusing him of firing a gun at his sister’s boyfriend. Garland police said Tuesday that they believe Talib and his mother, Okolo Talib, shot at the man March 21. The man wasn’t injured. Earlier that day, the man had been ...

MIAMI, FL - Police chiefs in Florida have defended an officer who was filmed slamming a woman into the sand during an arrest. Video footage of Sara Greenback's arrest became an internet sensation after it was posted on YouTube. The 25-year-old was slammed to the ground in a wrestling-style move by Lt Douglas Simon after she was thrown out of a ...

KEARNS, UT - Three caregivers have been arrested after a disabled woman police believe was bound in a crucifix formation in a small closet was found dead. The suspects were accused of putting a pepper seed in the eyelid of 22-year-old Christina Harms and covering her hands with bandages to stop her getting it out. The mother-of-one was discovered at her ...

KINGSTON, N.H. — A New Hampshire police chief says he did what anybody would do when he waded into the icy Great Pond in Kingston to rescue a dog that had fallen through the ice. Kingston Police Chief Donald Briggs says he saved a little boy’s dog. Jennifer Jenkins says her dog named Chloe, the constant companion of her 3-year-old son ...