NEW BEDFORD, Mass. -- A firearms instructor in southern Massachusetts has been assigned to other duties after his gun accidentally went off while he was teaching a class on weapons safety. Officials say the Glock handgun discharged while Maj. Donald...

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The city of Oakland agreed Tuesday to pay $100,000 to a 19-year-old man who was left a quadriplegic after he was shot by a police officer who has been involved in two fatal shootings. Ameir Rollins was...

PHILADELPHIA -- Philadelphia's police commissioner said Monday that four officers will be fired and four others disciplined for their roles in the beatings of three shooting suspects, an encounter that was captured on videotape and drew widespread outrage.

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has upheld criminal penalties for promoting child pornography.The court, in a 7-2 decision, is brushing aside concerns that the law could apply to mainstream movies that depict adolescent sex, classic literature or innocent e-mails that...

LOS ANGELES -- Seemingly defiant to the end, a former Los Angeles police officer convicted of participating in a home invasion-style robbery ring declined Monday to address a federal judge moments before sentencing, an opportunity many defendants use to plead...

PANAMINT SPRINGS, Calif. -- Spooky rumors have persisted for decades that there are clandestine graves at a secluded ranch used as a hide-out by the Charles Manson clan after a 1969 killing rampage. Today, Inyo County sheriff's investigators and scientists...

PHILADELPHIA -- Philadelphia police announced yesterday that they will arrest a man they believe to be the so-called foot-fetish rapist - who is now jailed in a state prison - in connection with a string of sexual attacks on women...

DENVER -- The daughter of a Montbello man who was killed in a weekend confrontation with police said Monday that her father died after officers called him on his cell phone and asked him to return to a first communion...

The most powerful influence for maintaining a culture of integrity within a patrol division is the role-modeling of line supervisors. FTOs are line supervisors. Conversely, one of the most devastating, yet preventable ways to breed misconduct is to have FTOs...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The .40-caliber Glock handgun stolen from a sheriff's deputy claimed the lives of four men in three days and left a trail of evidence in its bullet cartridges, discarded at the murder scenes. It was...