LANSING -- Less than a month after Gov. Rick Snyder signed new taxes on pensions, the Senate voted Tuesday to exempt most police and firefighter pensions from Michigan's income tax. The exemptions would apply to the majority of police and firefighters who do not pay into or receive benefits from Social Security, a practice in cities that dates back decades. Because ...

SEATTLE - Everybody's done it. You place an item on top of a car only to remember later — after you or someone else has driven off. But when the forgetful individual is a Seattle police officer and the item is a semi-automatic rifle, it's more than a little embarrassing. It's also the focus of an internal investigation. Seattle police spokesman ...

CHICAGO - Chicago police this morning were holding a motorist who they said struck a police officer during a North Side traffic stop and then took off. The officer, assigned to the Near North police district, was conducting a traffic stop when he was struck by a Jaguar at about 2:10 a.m. in the 1500 block of North Sheffield Avenue in ...