WASHINGTON, DC - The three masked men, wearing black clothes and gloves, burst into a house filled with Catholic University students. The terror was just beginning. They beat the students. They kicked them. They robbed and threatened to kill them, according to a police affidavit. Amid the chaos, someone managed to dial 911. The call to police late Sunday led to ...

COMMERCE, Calif. — Four buses — three carrying U.S. Army troops and one transporting Los Angeles County jail inmates — collided Thursday on a freeway, critically injuring a soldier and causing seven other minor injuries, authorities said. The accident shortly before noon shut down northbound Interstate 5 in Commerce, east of downtown Los Angeles. The crash involved a county bus carrying ...

HONG KONG - An Air Canada flight chartered from Hong Kong to Vancouver has produced an “unbelievable case of concealment” worthy of spy film lore. The incident – which occurred on Oct. 29 according to a Canada Border Services Agency intelligence alert obtained by American television news network CNN - involved a man boarding the plane as a cardigan-clad, Caucasian senior ...

ANTIOCH -- A 15-year-old boy killed when he and his older brother broke into an Antioch home where marijuana was being grown apparently had his gun wrestled from him and was shot with it, authorities said Wednesday. Keylow Colston of Oakland was shot by 34-year-old Sonepaseut Meksouvanh, who lives in the four-bedroom home on the 1300 block of Aster Drive with ...

SSUFFOLK COUNTY, MA - uffolk County Sheriff Andrea J. Cabral said yesterday that US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has asked her to reconsider her decision to stop housing immigrant detainees at a Boston jail. She said she plans to huddle with federal authorities in a bid to resolve her complaints of a serious breakdown in communications with the agency. ...

TORONTO - Toronto’s G20 Summit organizers have renewed a call to bolster police ranks by 500 officers after a Royal Bank of Canada branch in Ottawa was firebombed by anarchists this week, the National Post has learned. “The bombing, obviously, spooked people,” said a Montreal police officer who asked for anonymity. Officers from that city’s force, and others, were told they ...