WAUWATOSA, WI - A 79-year-old man had his tongue bitten off by his wife after he tried to give her a goodnight kiss. Victim Willard Lueders was able to mumble to emergency dispatchers that he needed an ambulance at his home in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. When police arrived at the house his wife Karen, 57, threw coffee at the officers. They were ...

NEWARK, NJ - When a skeletal staff in the city clerk’s office can’t get to a ringing phone, citizens can leave a message and wait for a return call. But when a phone goes unanswered in a police or fire station, people could die. The ultimate bottom line in the massive budget cuts rolling violently throughout the state might not be ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco police rescued a toddler Wednesday who fell into a lobby fountain at the Hyatt Regency hotel while his mother frantically searched for him, authorities said. The mother called 911 at 1:22 p.m. to say her son was missing, and within minutes responding police officers found the 1 1/2-year-old boy in the fountain, police Officer Albie Esparza ...

WEST HARTFORD, Conn. - (AP) — A West Hartford town councilor has been arrested after he allegedly followed police responding to reports of a domestic disturbance and offered legal help to residents of the home. Police say they arrested Rob Durbin and charged him with interfering with an officer and first-degree criminal trespass just before 2 p.m. on Tuesday. Police say ...

COEUR D'ALENE, ID-- A mother and grandmother face serious felony charges for the reprehensible conditions in which they forced twin toddlers to live. Elisabeth Crossley and her mother Ruth Cassidy are accused of abuse and neglect at the worst level Coeur d’Alene police say they have ever seen. Officers arrested Crossley Sunday when her daughters were found living in squalor. Their ...