FELTON, Calif. -- Firefighters struggled to gain control of a series of wind-driven wildfires burning across Northern California, including a raging forest fire that forced hundreds to flee their homes in the Santa Cruz Mountains.The fast-moving blaze about 10 miles...

WELEETKA, Okla. -- Maybe they stumbled onto a crime in progress. Perhaps they were ambushed by "drunks and dopeheads." Or maybe it was some kind of thrill killing.The slayings of two girls -- ages 11 and 13 -- who were...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Tons of heroin and cocaine move north across the Southwestern border. And millions of dollars and truckloads of weapons move south - feeding the escalating levels of violence that have turned parts of Mexico into war zones...

HOUSTON, Texas -- A Houston police supervisor fired in the fallout after roughly 30 guns went missing from the property room won his job back Tuesday, arguing he had little control over widespread security failures though top HPD officials knew...

CHICAGO -- Chicago Police defended their actions after a lawyer Wednesday released a surveillance video showing stun grenades exploding and SWAT officers pointing assault weapons at people kneeling in a hallway. "It looked to me like the Chicago Police Department...

Do you still view intelligence as clandestine, gathered from confidential informants, hidden in dossiers in investigator's files? Maybe it's time to change your perspective. Secrecy and silo-ing of information are past practices. Intelligence is the future and not just sensitive...

Chicago -- After two years of increases, violent crime in the United States seems to be on the wane. Overall, the number of violent crimes fell by 1.4 percent from 2006; in the 10 largest cities, homicides fell by nearly...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. -- The intruder in his home had just shot his wife, the woman he had loved since he was a teenager, Derrick Yancey told police. So Yancey, 46, a DeKalb County sheriff's deputy who was off-duty at...

NEW ORLEANS -- On what might have been a routine traffic stop, New Orleans police officer Patrick Crowley ended up getting dragged down an Uptown street, hanging onto the car door of a fleeing suspect, New Orleans police said. Though...

PHILADELPHIA -- SEPTA's transit police will go on strike at 2 p.m. tomorrow if no settlement is reached in their long-running contract dispute, union officials said yesterday. If the approximately 200 transit police strike, SEPTA will rely on agency supervisors,...