JEROME, Idaho (AP) - Police in Idaho say a man who asked authorities to arrest and deport him to Mexico stole a squad car after his request was denied. The Idaho Mountain Express reports that 38-year-old Guadalupe Cruz-Vasquez went to the Jerome County Sheriff's office Monday night and demanded to be deported. Police Sgt. Duane Rubink says authorities declined to take ...

ARLINGTON -- God has a plan, Ruby Odom told the mourners at Mount Olive Baptist Church on Tuesday morning. "God has his own timing," said Odom, the wife of former Arlington Mayor Elzie Odom. It may not be clear why 24-year-old church member Jillian Michelle Smith was taken away as she was, Odom said. "The things God has planned may not ...

PHILADELPHIA - You gotta be f - - - - - - - kidding! The Pennsylvania State Police agreed yesterday as part of settlement to a federal lawsuit to stop issuing disorderly-conduct citations to citizens who use profanity. The lawsuit was filed last May by the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania on behalf of Lona Scarpa, a mother of three ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco police shot a knife-wielding man in a wheelchair Tuesday after he allegedly stabbed a police officer in the shoulder and slashed car tires. A witness used his cell phone to capture the shooting on video, which shows four officers surrounding the suspect in his wheelchair. In the video, one of the officers shoots the suspect using ...

[photo:586790] DETROIT — Authorities are still searching for a convicted rapist who escaped from Wayne County sheriff's deputies during a hospital appointment in Detroit. The Wayne County sheriff's office says 45-year-old Willie Wright fled Harper Hospital about noon Tuesday following a struggle with deputies who used pepper spray on the 6-foot-5, 270-pound suspect. Wright is awaiting sentencing for raping his ex-girlfriend, ...

PORT ORCHARD, Wash. -- The Washington State Patrol says a man reported by a woman driver as a police impersonator in Kitsap County was really a King County sheriff's fire investigator. Trooper Krista Hedstrom says the man told troopers on Tuesday that he was driving home Monday in his work vehicle when he saw a woman driver talking on her cell ...