SAN FRANCISCO -- California voters will have their first opportunity in more than three decades to consider whether to keep the death penalty. During news conferences Thursday in San Francisco and three other cities across the state, backers of a...

BERKELEY, Calif. -- Police dispatch tapes provide chilling details about the last moments of a Berkeley hills resident bludgeoned to death with a ceramic pot and officers' inability to respond to his earlier call about an intruder because law enforcement...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man faces DUI and reckless endangerment charges and will undergo psychiatric tests after he sped his sport-utility vehicle through a fence Thursday and drove up and down two runways at Philadelphia International Airport, police said. Chief...

BANGKOK (AP) — Thai police said they confiscated more than 4 million methamphetamine tablets Friday in northern Thailand in one of the largest such seizures in the country in recent years. The pills were seized when a pickup truck was...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A woman who calls herself the "Black Madam" could face charges in the death of a London tourist who received illegal buttocks-enhancement injections last year in a Philadelphia hotel, police said Thursday.

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says New Jersey officials' complaints about NYPD surveillance of Muslim groups are "ridiculous." He was responding to criticism from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Newark Mayor Cory Booker over...

CHARDON, Ohio—The deadline to file charges in a fatal high school shooting loomed Thursday as students still reeling from the slaying of three teenagers marched by the hundreds to their reopened school and family members of victims recounted their losses....

PHILADELPHIA—A man faces DUI and reckless endangerment charges and will undergo psychiatric tests after he sped his sport-utility vehicle through a fence Thursday and drove up and down two runways at Philadelphia International Airport, police said. Chief Inspector Joe Sullivan,...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas—The leader of the fugitive gang known as the "Texas 7" was executed Wednesday for killing a suburban Dallas police officer during a robbery 11 years ago after organizing and pulling off Texas' biggest prison break. George Rivas, 41,...

Washington, DC-- The American Civil Liberties Union sounded the alarm on Wednesday over police officers' ability to use cellphone signals and license-plate-reading technology to track people inside the District. A senior staff attorney from the organization's local chapter told the...