DETROIT — A Christian militia leader accused of plotting the mass murder of law enforcement as a prelude to a larger war against the government hoped killing police would help keep people from joining the force, according to a transcript of a secretly recorded audio tape. The Associated Press obtained the transcript Thursday. It lists David Brian Stone of rural southern ...

Salinas, Calif. (AP) -- A former mall security guard has been arrested after a six-hour standoff with police at his Salinas apartment. Authorities say 28-year-old Marcos Gonzales is suspected of making criminal threats to harm people at the mall. When police arrived at his home with search and arrest warrants late Tuesday night, Gonzales refused to let them enter. Crisis negotiators ...

CAMDEN COUNTY, NJ - A New Jersey State Police sergeant accused of sexually harassing a recruit from Camden County has been cleared by an administrative law judge. Judge Donald Stein found no evidence that Sgt. Christine Shallcross verbally harassed Trooper Alexis Hayes at the Police Academy in 2005 or kissed her at graduation. But the judge ordered Shallcross suspended without pay ...