NEW YORK, NY - A machine pistol used by a street hustler and aspiring rapper shot dead in a Times Square gunfight was purchased from a Virginia gun shop by a woman who reported it stolen 10 days after she bought it, authorities said. Raymond Martinez, who wrote songs about staring down cops in Times Square and hawked CDs to ...

[photo:559101] It is with great sadness and regret that the Shelton Police Department announces the death of Police Sergeant Orville Smith due to complications from internal injuries that Smith sustained late Saturday night while on duty. Smith and his police cruiser were struck by a Nissan Frontier pickup truck on Route 110 at the intersection of Indian Well Road in Shelton ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - An attorney for Jackson County Sheriff Charles Cornell says he is confident a state investigation will clear the sheriff of any misconduct. Chris Joseph, an attorney for Cornell, says a former inmate at the Jackson County Jail in Holton has made an allegation of misconduct against the sheriff. Joseph would not reveal other details of the allegation. ...

Police responding to a call of a suspicious vehicle on the Southwest Side on Friday uncovered nearly $5 million worth of heroin and cocaine in the car, police Supt. Jody Weis announced on Sunday. [photo:578953] On Friday afternoon, officers were notified of a suspicious vehicle near 33rd Street and Pulaski Road. They found the car and in it uncovered 21 kilograms ...