LOS ANGELES (AP) — The daughter of a journalist killed 41 years ago by a tear gas missile fired by sheriff's deputies said Sunday that a new report from a civilian watchdog agency "asks more questions than it answers" about Ruben Salazar's death. In death, Salazar's name became a rallying point for Mexican-American civil rights activists protesting law enforcement's treatment of ...

HIALEAH, FL - An unlikely hero helped catch two would-be burglars Monday afternoon. Cynthia Valdes, 12, quickly alerted authorities to the intruders when they broke into her Hialeah home. Cynthia was home alone on Monday. School was out for the Presidents’ Day holiday, her mom was working and her dad had stepped out to get food. Just before 1 p.m., someone ...

SANTA CRUZ - Police arrested two Santa Cruz men last week in connection with child pornography videos with victims as young as three years old, Santa Cruz police reported Monday. The cases were separate and the men did not know each other, police said. Police seized a computer and other materials from the home of 28-year-old Jonathan Tolentino on the 300 ...

NEW YORK — The New York Police Department will recognize the officers involved in the rescue of two West Point cadets stranded on a 500-foot-high cliff. Steve Browning said after the rescue early Sunday that it was "the most dangerous thing" he's ever done as a police officer. Browning credited the rest of his crew with heroics in plucking the 20-year-old ...

SUNDERLAND, Mass.—Two brothers from Sunderland are facing attempted murder charges for allegedly attacking the town's police chief with a knife during an attempt to break a third brother out of the station lockup. Police say 22-year-old Stephen Jean-Babets was being held at the station on a traffic warrant in lieu of $270 bail. Police allege his two older brothers, 26-year-old Kenneth ...

WARREN, Mich. — A 45-year-old Warren police commander has been fired because his written report about a traffic stop and a drug-related arrest didn't match separate videos of the incident. Deputy Commissioner Louis Galasso tells The Macomb Daily of Mount Clemens that Sgt. Tim Maniere was fired Friday following an internal affairs investigation. Galasso said a TV Warren cameraman was traveling ...

ST. PETERSBURG - A 25-year police veteran of the St. Petersburg Police Department was fatally shot by a man at Second Avenue South and Eighth Street South on Monday night, officials said. A search for the shooter is ongoing this morning in the Campbell Park area, near Tropicana Field, police said. Schools in the vicinity have been closed and students are ...