July 02--ALBANY, NY -- The state's highest court on Thursday ordered the city of Albany to unseal records related to the illicit purchase and possession of machine guns by current, former and now-deceased city police officers. The Court of Appeals' unanimous decision caps a four-year effort by the Times Union to obtain the records under a Freedom of Information Law request. ...

BALTIMORE - A Baltimore jury has awarded an aspiring boxer more than $113,000 in damages and medical expenses after a hit-and-run by an unmarked police vehicle in 2009, according to his attorney. Deon Johnson, 19, said he was sitting on a dirt bike at Pennsylvania Avenue and Mosher Street when an unmarked city police car hit him and knocked him to ...

BOSTON, MA - A panel of State Police officials is expected today to suspend without pay a trooper accused of pointing a handgun at an off-duty Boston police officer after allegedly driving drunk and crashing into several vehicles on his Dorchester street. Timothy J. Walsh, an 18-year State Police veteran who has been on military leave since early 2004 and has ...

Authorities are investigating why a New Jersey state trooper who struck another vehicle on I-295 with an unmarked police car was permitted to use a false name on accident reports. Undercover Detective Sgt. William Billingham has since been suspended without pay and charged. However, many questions remain unanswered about the accident on March 22, 2009, that sent the trooper and Philadelphia ...

DETROIT — The Michigan State Police announced Thursday it will shutter 21 posts statewide, including one in Detroit, in a restructuring effort that could affect police presence in the city and force rural troopers to work from cars. Gov. Rick Snyder announced his intention to close posts last month but gave few details. The severity of the plan shocked some: No ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Authorities say four police officers have been hurt after a brawl inside a Saratoga Springs nightclub spilled into the street, where dozens of people began fighting. Police in the upstate city tell local media that all 15 Saratoga officers on duty plus more than a dozen from other law enforcement agencies helped quell the melee outside Club ...

NEWBURGH, N.Y. — Officers in upstate New York are pressing their search for a 4-year-old boy who police say wandered away from the family apartment while under the care of his mom's boyfriend. [widget:news__new_york] Police say Marc Anthony Bookal vanished from the Newburgh apartment Monday. They've been using dogs and dive teams have been checking the nearby Hudson River but on ...

The NYPD is sitting on $103,000 slated for new vans for southern Brooklyn auxiliary cops, a state lawmaker has charged. The state funds for the four vans have gathered dust for four years because Police Department officials have not filled out paperwork, while Coney Island and East Flatbush precincts expecting the vehicles for volunteer cops have seen crime increase this year. ...

SEATTLE — The federal Justice Department has begun a preliminary review of the Seattle Police Department after the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington and nearly three dozen other groups sought an investigation of officers' use of force. In December, the ACLU and the other groups contended that some Seattle police appear to "inflict injury out of anger" at suspects, especially ...

LOS ANGELES - A $2.2-million settlement was approved Tuesday for a man shot and paralyzed by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies last year in Compton. Deputies were on a routine patrol after midnight May 24 when they noticed Daniel Martinez and another man acting suspiciously, according to county records. Believing Martinez was a lookout in a potential robbery, the deputies got ...

NEW YORK - The glaring absence of federal authorities at this week's announcement of the arrests of two men accused of plotting to attack a New York City synagogue is raising questions about the strength of the case against them and how severe the threat was. The terrorism arrests were announced with fanfare in City Hall and a dramatic photo of ...

HOLLAND, Pa. — A central Pennsylvania child is dead after authorities say he drowned in a manure pit on the family farm. New Holland police say 4-year-old Josiah Martin was found face-down Saturday in the 8-foot-deep pit by his mother, who pulled the boy out and called 911. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Officer Troy Deshong tells the Intelligencer ...

BOSTON - Police are investigating a morning crash involving a Boston Police motorcycle and a 2000 Honda Civic near the Thomas P. O'Neill Tunnel, officials said. The crash happened about 8:41 a.m. on Interstate 93 northbound just before the tunnel, said Lieutenant David Wilson, a State Police spokesman. The motorcycle driver, a Boston police officer who was on duty, suffered injuries ...