East Palo Alto - A pair of police negotiators ended a tense two-hour standoff when they convinced a distraught man not to jump from the Dumbarton Bridge late Tuesday afternoon. The possible suicide attempt snarled the rush-hour commute as authorities closed the bridge to traffic. Eastbound access was blocked at University Avenue and Bayfront Expressway in Menlo Park. "We have to ...

TORONTO - A Toronto Police officer, struck by a stolen snow plow Wednesday morning, has died of his injuries, a source has told the Toronto Sun. Sgt. Ryan Russell, 35, was pronounced dead at St. Michael's Hospital hours after being hit by the plow. Russell, an 11-year veteran of the force, leaves behind a wife and young son, Chief Bill Blair ...

MARYLAND - A University of Maryland student killed during a drug-related robbery Tuesday became the 11th homicide victim in Prince George's County in as many days this year, putting added pressure on the police department to come up with a way to stop the violence. A 12th killing occurred Tuesday night when an occupant of a house in the Lanham-New Carrollton ...

FAIRFAX, VA - Under the "For Sale" category on Craigslist, there is a sub-category of "baby+kids." But rarely has a living baby been offered for sale. Until now. Fairfax County police are investigating a posting from Friday listing "a 2-month-old female for sale," which was promptly taken down by Craigslist administrators. No one has been charged, and there is some good ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—Huntington Beach police may be closer to identifying a woman found dead in a drainage ditch more than 40 years ago. Lt. Russell Reinhart tells the Orange County Register Tuesday that a friend of a woman named "Rosie" told detectives she recognized the woman from a sketch of a sexual assault and murder victim that authorities posted on Facebook ...

BRADENTON, Fla. -- Police are trying to figure out the story behind a partial skull discovered in a cardboard box and wrapped in newspaper in the Bradenton Police Department's homicide evidence room. Police found the skull packed in a box marked "the skull" last Thursday. According to an FBI report, it was found in 4 inches of water in Bradenton on ...

WASHINGTON -- A federal board has ordered the reinstatement of a U.S. Park Police chief who was fired in 2004 after complaining publicly that her department was understaffed and underfunded. The Merit Systems Protection Board, in a decision Tuesday, also ordered that the U.S. Department of the Interior pay Teresa Chambers back pay, interest and other benefits. Chambers had contended ...

NEW YORK CITY - NYPD officers logged a record low number of fatal police-involved shootings last year, a new report shows. Last year, cops shot and killed eight people, wounding 16 others. The numbers are a sharp decrease from 2009, when police killed 12 and wounded 20. The report also shows there were 93 police-shooting incidents, which include accidental discharges and ...