PFORZHEIM, GERMANY - Apparently public intoxication is a reason for police to intervene with animals as well as humans. German police recently found a drunk owl out in public and took in the animal, saying it would be released once it has sobered up. A spokesman for the Pforzheim police reported to Spiegel Online that "a woman walking her dog alerted ...

[photo:589003] PHILADELPHIA -- The transient charged with raping and killing three women in Philadelphia is being held without bail on three counts of murder. Twenty-two-year-old Antonio Rodriguez wore a white sweat shirt and covered his face for part of his brief arraignment Thursday afternoon. Police say DNA evidence links Rodriguez with three strangling deaths that gripped the city's Kensington neighborhood since ...

BALTIMORE - A Baltimore jury has awarded an aspiring boxer more than $113,000 in damages and medical expenses after a hit-and-run by an unmarked police vehicle in 2009, according to his attorney. Deon Johnson, 19, said he was sitting on a dirt bike at Pennsylvania Avenue and Mosher Street when an unmarked city police car hit him and knocked him to ...

WASHINGTON, DC - The union representing more than 80 percent of Metro Transit Police officers passed a resolution of "no confidence" in Chief Michael Taborn last week and asked that Metro remove him. Union attorney Justin Keating said that about 100 to 120 members attended the union meeting Jan 12 and that all but one person - who abstained - voted ...

SALT LAKE CITY - When most people imagine police buildings, they don’t picture public plazas, solar panels, lush landscaping or a green roof. But all that and more are planned for Salt Lake City’s $125 million public safety headquarters, designed to transform the block just east of Library Square. The airy, angular and inviting blueprint marks a startling contrast from the ...