CHICAGO - A nine-year Chicago police officer, shot in the leg after a Halloween police chase on the West Side, appears to have been struck by gunfire from his partner, Superintendent Jody Weis said Monday. The five-mile chase that began about 5:30 p.m. Sunday at Polk Street and Francisco Avenue was triggered when officers spotted what turned out to be a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two more criminal cases have been dropped and two other officers named in a widening investigation involving a plainclothes Police Department unit accused of conducting illegal drug raids and falsifying police reports. Members of the unit at Southern Station have been accused by defense attorneys of entering residential hotel rooms without warrants or consent and then lying about ...

HOUSTON - Houston police asked for the public's help Monday as they investigate if the slayings of three women in or around downtown Houston since mid-June are related. The woman were strangled, and two were found within a few blocks of each other. Authorities are offering rewards totaling $15,000 for information. The body of Raquel Mundy, 24, was found June 18 ...