DETROIT - Good news, sci-fi fans: RoboCop is headed to Detroit. Just six days after raising donations on the Internet, a group of local artists and fans of the 1987 cult classic exceeded the fund-raising goal of $50,000 this morning to build a larger-than-life sculpture of the crime-fighting cyborg. With 1,500 donations and hundreds pouring in every day at www.detroitneedsrobocop.com, the ...

MORO, Ore. (AP) - An Oregon sheriff's deputy didn't need a drug dog to point out a stash during a recent traffic stop. The driver's dog did it for him. KGW-TV reports Sherman County sheriff's Sgt. John Terrel was pulling over a pickup truck Feb. 9 when he saw a sock fly out the window. It turned out to be stuffed ...

NORTHWEST INDIANA - Using your cell phone to try to play cop? Evidently there’s an app for that. That’s what Northwest Indiana police discovered after a woman reported a suspicious car trying to pull her over Saturday night. She told police a black Pontiac GTO with flashing blue and red lights at the top of its windshield tailgated her and seemed ...

WOODBRIDGE, Va. - Prince William County is expected next week to sue the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Prince William County Board Chairman Corey Stewart says the suit comes after Homeland Security turned down the county's request for records related to an illegal immigrant charged with murdering a nun. "They outright refused to provide us the Carlos Montano report, this after ...

CHESTER TOWNSHIP, PA - A Pennsylvania woman is facing criminal charges Wednesday after a photo of the woman's 2-year-old daughter surfaced, showing the toddler restrained by duct tape. The picture first surfaced on the internet, which led authorities to file charges after searching the woman's home near Philadelphia. Police described the picture - which showed the girl's face, hands and feet ...

CHARLESTON, W. Va - A deputy U.S. marshal was fatally shot and two others were wounded on Wednesday as they were trying to arrest a West Virginia man who also was killed in the exchange, the U.S. Marshals Service said. Charles Smith, 50, opened fire with a shotgun as several marshals and state police entered his home at about 8:30 a.m. ...

PARAMUS, NJ - Are you ready for this? From her hospital bed, Paramus Police Officer Rachel Morgan sent a message to everyone praying for her recovery -- and thanked her backup, Officer Ryan Hayo: “I may not have survived had u not gotten there so fast,” she wrote. “Not much time to [c]hat,” Morgan posted on the “Thoughts & Prayers for ...