The career cop picked to lead America's largest police department is embracing a throwback strategy to repair the deep rift that has opened between officers and the public. He wants patrol officers to get to know people on their beat on a first-name basis.
Alabama's parole board is deciding whether to free a one-time Ku Klux Klansman convicted in a church bombing that killed four black girls more than 50 years ago.
A year after a social worker was killed outside a state office building, the state employees' union says Vermont hasn't done enough to protect workers.
A man opened fire immediately on a San Diego police officer who walked up to him on a dark residential street last week to ask if he lived nearby, prosecutors said Tuesday, then shot into a patrol car, hitting the officer's partner with five bullets as he sat wearing a seatbelt.
Portland Mayor Charlie Hales on Tuesday announced the end of pilot program that allowed homeless people to sleep on the streets undisturbed by law enforcement, saying it created confusion because some believed it legalized public camping.
Shares in Fitbit Inc. jumped in after-hours trading Tuesday after the wearable device maker posted second-quarter results that topped Wall Street expectations.
In the midst of a five-hour standoff that turned deadly, Facebook granted an emergency request from the Baltimore County Police Department to take offline the social media accounts belonging to a woman who wielded a shotgun at officers.
A Louisiana sheriff says an Army veteran struggling from depression as a result of war wounds has been arrested on three counts of attempted murder after he shot his father-in-law in the chest and was poised to throw a Molotov cocktail into a home.
A white former police officer on trial for first-degree murder in Virginia testified Tuesday that he shot and killed an unarmed black teen after the 18-year-old knocked away his stun gun and charged toward him.