PHILADELPHIA -- A death-row inmate from Philadelphia who has been on the state's execution list since 1987 committed suicide Tuesday at a state prison in southwestern Pennsylvania, state police and his lawyer said yesterday. The body of William Tilley, 46,...

DENVER -- The federal government has agreed to reimburse Denver for the $1.85 million in upfront costs of liability insurance and workers' compensation insurance to cover outside police during the Democratic National Convention. Earlier this month, news of the costs...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Got a flat-screen TV? Keep your eye on it. Law-enforcement officials in Central Florida -- and across the country -- have noted a sharp rise in flat-screen-television thefts. In Orlando, police reports obtained by the Sentinel show...

DETROIT -- Dale Fortin is getting a new kind of customer at his Detroit auto repair shop, customers who have not just been in fender-benders or had windshields smashed by rocks. The soaring price of crude oil has turned gas...

2:20 P.M.: a diner on Charleston Boulevard I had been having coffee with an old friend, another cop from a neighboring department, when his cell phone rang. He listened for a moment and then his eyes sought mine; I caught...

PHILADELPHIA -- There is justice. Then there's street justice. David Vernitsky said yesterday that he felt like he got a painful dose of both. "Those officers shouldn't have done what they did," Vernitsky remarked, understatedly. In a move that rattled...

EVERETT, Wash. -- Kay Jones was losing her battle with cancer. As she lay dying, the grieving mother ached for justice. She needed to know who killed her youngest daughter, Kelly Sarsten, five months earlier. Her surviving children asked detectives...

MIAMI -- Authorities on Monday charged a 17-year-old from North Miami with second-degree felony murder after an attempted burglary and shootout that left a second suspect dead and a Miami-Dade police officer injured Sunday. Kharl Henry Lebrun was also charged...

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. -- First came the 911 calls. "I am on I-95 and Woolbright and this guy next to us, in the next car is pointing stuff at us and it's getting really scary," said the first caller. Then:...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Florida cops and retired law-enforcement officers can now carry guns nationwide. The final step took effect two months ago. Until then, many states refused to let them travel armed to investigate crimes or when on vacation.