NEW YORK - NYPD cops shot and wounded a teenager after he wheeled and fired at them during a foot chase on an East Harlem street early Sunday, police said. Matthew Melendez, 18, was hit three times in the upper torso and arm, police said. He was in stable condition at Harlem Hospital early Sunday night. Four plainclothes officers from the ...

San Francisco, CA (AP) -- In the wake of at least three recent officer-related shootings — including the video-recorded wounding of a knife-wielding man in a wheelchair — the San Francisco Police Department is reviving efforts to equip officers with less-lethal electric stun guns. It comes nearly a year after the Police Commission narrowly rejected the department's proposal to even explore ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Police searched yesterday for as many as three men who were involved in the late-night shooting of an antigang detective who was wounded as he drove in a squad car with another officer, authorities said. Some 60 to 70 officers spread out in the MacArthur Park area and looked for two or three men who fled in ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Sheriff's deputies in Tennessee say they found two pipe bombs and bomb-making material after being called to an accidental injury scene in a Memphis suburb. Shelby County Sheriff's Office spokesman Chip Washington says officers went to a home in Lakeland at 7:30 a.m. CDT Saturday and found a man suffering from a serious foot injury. Washington told ...