SAN DIEGO — A 33-foot Coast Guard vessel and a pleasure boat collided as a Christmas watercraft parade was going on in San Diego Bay, killing an 8-year-old boy and seriously injuring five people, authorities said. There were no other injuries among the 13 people aboard the 24-foot pleasure boat in the 6 p.m. accident Sunday, Coast Guard spokeswoman Jetta Disco ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Rhode Island attorney general's office says the FBI is investigating Providence police after an officer was caught on videotape beating a suspect. [widget:news__fbi] Spokesman Michael Healey says a separate probe by the attorney general into the arrest of 20-year-old Luis Mendonca (men-DAHN'-kah) will continue as the FBI conducts its own investigation. The FBI would not confirm or ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department is investigating whether hundreds of FBI agents cheated on a test of new rules allowing the bureau to conduct surveillance and open cases without evidence that a crime has been committed. In some instances, agents took the open-book test together, violating rules that they take it alone. Others finished the lengthy exam unusually quickly, current ...