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OAKLAND, CA - Authorities say a transit police officer was hurt and a suspect is in custody after an incident at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in Oakland over the weekend. A video of the incident, filmed by another passenger and later uploaded to YouTube, shows the officer removing the suspect from a train and pushing him toward a heavy-duty ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Police say they've arrested an Indiana truck driver who went drinking at a strip club after leaving his 5-year-old son in his semitrailer watching cartoons. An Indianapolis police report says 39-year-old Donald Crawford was arrested early Tuesday on child neglect and public intoxication charges after reporting his truck stolen and son missing. Police said he forgot where he parked. ...

In April 2006, an irritated David Hackbart gave the finger to a driver who yelled at him -- only to discover that he had flipped off a cop. After Hackbart was ticketed, the ACLU sued on his behalf, arguing that the gesture is constitutionally protected free speech. Now the Pittsburgh City Council has tentatively approved a $50,000 settlement to Hackbart.   ...

The family of Officer Bryce Bezdek, who suffered serious injuries when a suspect crashed her SUV into a pickup truck, is suing the drivers of the two vehicles involved in the crash. The crash happened two years ago on Interstate 75, near Cincinnati. Officer Bezdek was laying out stop sticks to end the pursuit. He suffered major head trauma from the ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - The troubles of the San Francisco Bay area's transit police went viral again as video hit the Internet showing what some claim was another use of excessive force. A cell phone video showing the arrest of a mentally ill passenger accused of being disruptive on a commuter train came less than a year after footage of an ...

It’s been more than a month since Clayton County inmates have had two hot meals a day – as required by Georgia law.

Ex-LAPD officer Charles Mottern was tasered and arrested after attempting to flee Orange County Sheriff's deputies investigating a burlary at Saddleback Church.

Jason Anderson, the police officer driving the vehicle involved in this crash, has been charged with manslaughter. He is still being paid though he is on leave from the police department. Neither Anderson, nor the trailing officer, Richard Pisani were responding to an emergency at the time. Parents of the two 19-year-old students killed in the crash were allowed to view ...

(CNN) -- Professional basketball star Shaquille O'Neal paid for the funeral of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl whose body was found last week, O'Neal's team confirmed Thursday.

JONESBORO, Ga. - Many of the Clayton County badges that were improperly issued to more than 100 people have been returned, but the sheriff says quite a few are still in circulation. [widget:news__georgia] The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported last week that at least 121 people had been issued badges by former Sheriff Victor Hill and that current Sheriff Kem Kimbrough was trying ...

ORANGE, Conn. — An arrest affidavit says a Milford police officer charged with manslaughter for a car crash that killed two teenagers was driving 94 miles per hour and was not on an emergency call. State police earlier this month charged Jason Anderson with two counts of second-degree manslaughter and one count of reckless driving. He was released on $250,000 bond.WATCH: ...

MERCER, Pa. - A western Pennsylvania woman has been ordered to stand trial on charges she passed a drug-filled balloon to a state prison inmate while kissing him. [widget:news__corrections] State police said guards at the State Correctional Institution-Mercer became suspicious when an inmate appeared to swallow something after a prolonged kiss with a visitor on Oct. 19. When the inmate wouldn't ...

A Sunrise man sleeping on a mattress next to his 7-month-old daughter accidentally rolled on top of her and suffocated her, police say. But police said the 30-year-old father, Emanuel Lawrence, was irresponsible in many ways before the accident: He allegedly smoked marijuana and stayed up all night playing a video game. He also later tried to cover up how his ...

A man convicted of murdering his girlfriend because she refused to dispose of his previous girlfriend's body has been sentenced to death. Calling the defendant "a savage beast" and "the face of evil," Superior Court Judge Joan Comparet-Cassani on Tuesday sentenced 28-year-old Santiago Martinez to die by lethal injection.

Police officers and firefighters, including those from the metro-east, will participate in boxing matches against each other to support families of those who have died in the line of duty. The 23rd annual Budweiser Guns 'N Hoses boxing event will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Scottrade Center. Granite City firefighter Brian Brinson will participate in the boxing match for ...

CHICAGO - Last week a Chicago Police sergeant was busted for allegedly stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from his union coffer, and now authorities say it was even more. Prosecutors told a judge today that John Pallohousky laundered about a million bucks from the Chicago Police Sergeants' Association, using the money for everything from steak dinners to gambling trips to ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A police officer in a small Arkansas town used a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old girl after he said her mother gave him permission to do so. Now the town's mayor is calling for an investigation into whether the Taser use was appropriate. According to a report by Officer Dustin Bradshaw, obtained Wednesday by The Associated ...

INDIANAPOLIS -A man was arrested after police said he left his 5-year-old son in a tractor-trailer while he ducked into an Indianapolis strip club to drink. The 39-year-old was arrested at 1:15 a.m. Tuesday on child neglect and public intoxication charges after calling police to report his truck stolen and his child missing. Police said the man was too drunk to ...

 MONROEVILLE, Ala. —  A 14-year-old Alabama girl might have helped arrange the gang rape of her ninth-grade classmate and could face charges as an accomplice based on her comments in a televised interview, a district attorney said. The girl told reporters last week that she and her 14-year-old classmate had planned to have sex with the suspects who have been charged with ...