SPAIN - Spanish police have raided a huge drug-production lab near Madrid, seizing 300kg of cocaine and 2m euros in cash. The police arrested 25 people and said the facility was the "largest and most sophisticated" cocaine lab in Europe. They said the suspects included Spaniards and Colombians, and they had imported the drug by hiding it in shipping containers of ...

KANSAS CITY, MO - A Kansas City man was arrested Tuesday after a high-speed police chase through Kansas City and Leawood. James E. Horne Jr., 22, faces felony charges in Jackson County of second-degree robbery and resisting arrest by fleeing. The car he allegedly drove during Tuesday morning’s 45-minute chase was reported stolen Monday. The victim said that a man yanked ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - More than $10 million in phone-related equipment was taken during a heist at an Orlando business. Police say thieves climbed through the roof of an empty warehouse over the weekend, then broke through walls to enter Quality One Wireless Inc., sometime after it closed for the weekend Friday. They disabled several security cameras, but were filmed by ...

CALIFORNIA - A teenage girl is fighting for life after a gun in a classmate's backpack went off seemingly by mistake. The 15-year-old victim's head was grazed by a bullet, fracturing her skull, when the weapon discharged in a classroom. It is believed it happened when the handgun's owner dumped his bag on a desk. Another student, a boy of 15, ...

BALTIMORE - UPDATE: The police commissioner told reporters outside Maryland Shock Trauma Center that the officer was getting something out of his car when the man approached with a small caliber revolver. He said the incident did not appear to be a robbery and called it a "random, chance encounter," Jessica Anderson reports. Police are reporting that a homicide detective was ...

CHICAGO - Fallen Chicago police Officer Thor Soderberg is remembered by his students as a committed teacher, by friends and family as a generous public servant, and by fellow officers as a leader. Soderberg's star was retired Tuesday in a ceremony at police headquarters. Soderberg, an 11-year police veteran, was killed July 7 as he left a police station at 61st ...

A federal jury has acquitted two former police officers of charges that they violated the civil rights of a man whose roadside beating after a lengthy chase was captured on videotape. Jurors on Tuesday acquitted David Doran, 37, and Barrett Dewitt, 40, in the beating of Anthony Warren, who was captured on Jan. 23, 2008, after a police chase through Birmingham. ...

CAMDEN — If you get into a car accident in Camden, the city’s chief of police has this advice: Don’t bother calling the cops unless there are injuries or blocked traffic. Likewise, don’t call about vandalism. Or minor thefts. With the city’s police force cut almost in half by layoffs, Chief Scott Thomson said his department no longer has the manpower ...

NEW YORK - Nearly 700 city cops will be assigned to a new command dedicated to policing the Freedom Tower and surrounding area, NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Tuesday. The World Trade Center Command will not be fully staffed until Ground Zero is completely rebuilt. But the 673 officers that will eventually work out of the new command will give it ...