PITTSBURGH - A city police officer was hospitalized Wednesday after a man struck her with his getaway car during a foiled robbery that spawned a morning shootout and revealed a drug packaging operation just blocks from the North Side police station. Officer Colleen Bristow, 28, a three-year veteran, suffered a broken elbow and a concussion but was "in good spirits and ...

TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey's state police superintendent has been ticketed for speeding after turning himself in. Col. Rick Fuentes was traveling northbound in an unmarked state police-issued black SUV on the Garden State Parkway on Friday morning when a trooper stopped him in Paramus, just northwest of New York City. State police spokesman Capt. Gerald Lewis says Fuentes was going ...

TACOMA, Wash. -- A News Tribune analysis has found that law enforcement agencies patrol the streets in much the same way they did before six Western Washington police officers were killed a year ago. After examining the killings of Mark Renninger, Tina Griswold, Ronald Owens, Greg Richards, Kent Mundell and Timothy Brenton, police officials did little to change their policies or ...

RICHMOND, Va. - A hundred years ago, two teenagers in rural southwest Virginia shared a seemingly innocent kiss which eventually led to a courtroom massacre that dominated the news until it was bumped from the front pages by the sinking of the Titanic. Five people were killed _ a judge, the sheriff, the prosecutor, a juror and a witness _ in ...