Greenville police investigators are reviewing Bi-Lo Center surveillance video in hopes it will lead to the person who left a newborn boy in the cold water of a ladies’ room toilet about the time a circus performance was winding down, authorities said. “There were certainly a large number of people at the Bi-Lo Center that night, so it’s going to be ...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The fiancee of a Lakewood police officer killed in the line of duty last month says the thought of fewer police on the streets makes her sick. Kelly Walsifer's fiance, Patrolman Christopher Matlosz, was shot in the head as he sat in his police cruiser on Jan. 14. A Lakewood man has been charged with murder in ...

TAMPA - Police say the Tampa mom accused of killing her teenage son and daughter wrote a note before the shootings in which she referred to her plan as a "massacre." Authorities say Julie Powers Schenecker bought a .38-caliber revolver the weekend before the shootings. Tampa Police spokeswoman Laura McElroy told the St. Petersburg Times the mother also noted that the ...

BOSTON - Even before her flight touched down Saturday in Boston, Luisa Y. Gil had drawn the attention of authorities because of her same-day flight reservation and her point of origin, the Dominican Republic. When the 21-year-old arrived at Logan International Airport at 8 p.m., State Police questioned her. During the interview, she allegedly admitted that before her flight she had ...

PHILADELPHIA — Two former Philadelphia police officers face five years or more of prison after pleading guilty Monday in a plot to steal heroin from a suspected drug dealer and sell it. The pleas were entered by Robert Snyder, 30, and James Venziale, 32, although only Venziale agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in the case against several co-defendants, including a third ...

In the 2½ years since the U.S. Supreme Court ended the District's handgun ban, hundreds of residents in Washington's safest, most well-to-do neighborhoods have armed themselves, registering far more guns than people in poorer, crime-plagued areas of the city, according to D.C. police data. Since the landmark court ruling in June 2008, records show, more than 1,400 firearms have been registered ...

PARAMUS, N.J. –A Paramus police officer remained in critical condition at Hackensack University Medical Center Tuesday more than a day after being shot. Officer Rachel Morgan was shot during a wild gunfight with 23-year-old Michael Carmody Sunday night near the Garden State Parkway. She managed to get several shots off at the suspect, along with a backup police officer who also ...