Crime

Just a few weeks ago, the two officers were lauded as part of a new breed of honest cop, elevated to become key players in a drive to overhaul one of Mexico's most notorious police forces.

Former Ohio State football star Maurice Clarett is again seeking early release from prison.

Plans to introduce mandatory six-month jail sentences for anyone caught carrying a knife have been launched by Labour.

Agents arrested a male illegal immigrant from Mexico on Monday who admitted being a member of the Sureño 13 gang.

A man known by the nickname of "Hollywood" is facing several charges in Cochise County Superior Court involving a Sierra Vista aggravated assault case last year.

The United Nations has "zero tolerance" for sexual misconduct by international troops participating in peacekeeping missions, the UN's special representative on sexual violence in conflict said late Tuesday.

A graduate student from China accused of triggering worldwide flight delays has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from a security breach at Newark Liberty International Airport.

A Keene police officer was justified in fatally shooting a man who had taken his ex-girlfriend hostage and was threatening to kill her, the attorney general's office has concluded.

ID theft: Police got a report Jan. 27 from a woman on South Leopard Road that someone stole her identity and opened a cell-phone account in her name and the bills were coming to her home. --

A judge rejected a plea deal as too lenient for a teenage passenger in a car that crashed into Putnam's Ski & Snowboard shop last June. Passenger Walter "Homey" Dunfey III, 17, of 146 Clark Road, Rye, is charged with a violation-level charge of unlawful possession of alcohol alleging he was intoxicated at the time of the June 13, 2009, crash.

A 62-year-old pianist and professor said on Monday he sustained heavy hand injuries when he was beaten by a police officer - according to a Live Journal post made by his lawyer Vasiliy Fedorovich.

The former bookkeeper for a pair of local condominium associations was indicted on two felony counts of theft by unauthorized taking, alleging she used her position to steal tens of thousands of dollars.

The family of Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan lashed out Tuesday after a medical examiner ruled her father was murdered by her brother.

Michael Storer, the Jackson man accused of setting fire to the former Moose building, owned by AMVETS, at 210 Broadway Street in Jackson, was convicted by a jury on all charges but one.

The Supreme Court has urged China's judges to limit the use of death penalty to those convicted of the most serious crimes, under a policy of "justice tempered with mercy," the official Xinhua news agency said.

Sifiso Zulu is no longer facing charges of being drunk in a public place, defeating the ends of justice and resisting arrest, following a recent incident at a roadblock in Florida Road, Durban.

A WOMAN killed her two children and attempted to kill another "in an act of hate" towards her ex-husband, a court heard today.

A Myanmar court Wednesday sentenced a naturalised US citizen to three years in jail with hard labour on charges of committing forgery, illegal possession of foreign currency and refusing to revoke his Myanmar passport.

Philippine prosecutors filed charges yesterday against the head of a powerful clan and 195 others in the biggest and deadliest murder case since the country's World War II war crimes trials .

A New Rochelle man accused of terrorizing his former lover, in part by starting a fire in front of her apartment door in 2008, was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in state prison.