VENICE BEACH, CA - A giant brawl involving as many as 70 young men broke out on the Venice Beach Boardwalk on Sunday evening, prompting the Los Angeles Police Department to briefly declare a citywide tactical alert. Capt. Jon Peters, commanding officer of the LAPD's Pacific Division, said the fight erupted just before 8 p.m. on the boardwalk near 17th and ...

NOTTINGHAM, UK - BBC television presenter Ray Gosling is to be charged with wasting police time after claiming on air that he smothered his terminally ill lover. The Crown Prosecution Service said Mr Gosling, 71, of Nottingham, should be charged over claims he made to BBC Breakfast's Bill Turnbull in February. He was arrested on suspicion of murder and freed on ...

FAIRFAX, Va. - The FBI will review the shooting of an unarmed Fredericksburg man who was killed during a Fairfax County police chase. David Masters, 52, was killed in November at a Richmond highway intersection after he refused to pull over for police, who were chasing him for allegedly stealing flowers. Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney Ray Morrogh, who cleared the unidentified ...

HAMILTON, VA - It wasn't the most inconspicuous of vehicles to choose. But the lure of a fire engine apparently proved too much for a volunteer firefighter in Hamilton, Virginia, who allegedly took four colleagues on a drunken joyride at the weekend. Sean Swanson, 27, was arrested after he nearly crashed into a police patrol car as he sped down the ...

OAK BROOK — Drew Peterson beat the felony gun rap prosecutors tried hanging on him for nearly two and a half years, but his cop son’s troubles are just starting. Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow has opted not to appeal Judge Richard Schoenstedt’s dismissal of felony unlawful use of a weapon charges against Peterson, the disgraced former Bolingbrook police sergeant. ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Oklahoma police officer who was punched in the nose during a bar fight died after he hit the floor, and an Arkansas man likely faces a first-degree murder charge. Police say 25-year-old Elzie Cain of Ardmore, Okla., got into a fight with 26-year-old Aaron Threlkeld of Sheridan at about 4 a.m. Sunday at the Electric ...

KANSAS CITY, MO - When 12-year-old Jennifer Shockley called her mother about 1:30 p.m. Sunday, her mom sounded like she was in a hurry, so they didn’t talk long. They made plans to spend the following weekend together and hung up. Less than an hour later, her mother, Kimberly R. Shockley, 48, suffered fatal injuries when she was run over by ...

TULSA, Okla. — Tulsa's chief of police has quit, just as his department faced layoffs because of the city's budget crisis. Mayor Dewey Bartlett announced Friday that he accepted the resignation of Ron Palmer and appointed Tulsa County Sheriff's Capt. Charles W. Jordan as interim police chief. Palmer served as chief from 1992 to 2002 and then returned in 2007 ...