BALITMORE - A Circuit Court judge upheld Monday the Baltimore police commissioner's firing of a city officer who was caught on video berating and pushing a 14-year-old skateboarder at the Inner Harbor three years ago and failed to document it in a report. The ruling by Judge Sylvester B. Cox sets the stage for an appeal, which lawyers said is likely, ...

CHARLES TOWN, W. VA - A chapter of American History has officially closed. Frank Buckles, the last surviving American veteran of World War I, died of natural causes Sunday at the age of 110 in his Charles Town, W. Va., home, a family spokesman said in a statement. Eager to serve his country and escape the tedium of farm life in ...

ARGUSVILLE, ND - Fire destroyed the home of a longtime North Dakota sheriff's deputy who recently had a pistol stolen from the home. Authorities say Sgt. DuWayne Nitschke's house was engulfed in flames Saturday by the time firefighters arrived at his rural Argusville home. Nitschke works for the Cass County Sheriff's Department. Nobody was home at the time of the blaze, ...

NORTH JUDSON — A raid that would eventually involve 76 arrests related to cockfighting, and resulting in almost 200 cockfighting roosters being euthanized, began with an anonymous telephone call at about 10 a.m. Saturday. The caller, who Starke Sheriff’s Department Chief Deputy Bill Dulin called a “passer-by,” related that there was “a large amount of unusual traffic in the area of ...

LONG ISLAND, NY - A cabbie deliberately drove into two off-duty Long Island cops Sunday after being shot by one of them, officials said. The two off-duty cops had pulled to the side of a Huntington Station road after becoming lost, police said. Thomas Moroughan, 26, of Huntington Station, pulled his taxi over behind them about 1:15 a.m. and got into ...

SAN JOSE - In the face of massive budget cuts and officer layoffs, San Jose police have mothballed the use of a helicopter they have flown for years to find fleeing criminals and missing people. The San Jose Police Department says it will suspend its flights for at least three months to evaluate cost savings and public safety impact. The chopper, ...

CHICAGO - Two men caught and one killed by police fleeing the scene of a double-homicide are suspected in more than a dozen murders involving fake drug deals that turned into robberies, police sources said. Police killed Arturo Ibarra, 37, of 4521 S. Troy, Saturday night after two people were found killed and a third seriously injured in an Edgewater apartment ...

SEATTLE - A roving gang of rioters smashed property and attacked Seattle police with fireworks, flares and fire extinguishers Saturday night near the site where an officer shot a woodcarver to death last August. The incident began at about 9 p.m. as an officer drove through the intersection at Boren Avenue and Howell Street and came upon a group of what ...

WASHINGTON, DC - A D.C. police officer was hit by a car and seriously injured early Monday while investigating a deadly hit-and-run collision at the Key Bridge, police said. The officer was reported in stable condition at a local hospital. Parts of Key Bridge were closed in both directions overnight, but all lanes appeared to be open by 5:30 a.m. Police ...

CHARLOTTE, NC - A SWAT officer has died after he was checking a stun grenade in his home when it went off. Officer Fred Thornton was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery but doctors were unable to save him. The 50-year-old veteran, who was the longest serving SWAT officer on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg force in North Carolina and had previously helped in ...