Crime

POLICE have handed out their latest crime prevention weapon to homeowners – spikes to stop thieves climbing over fences.

A man has died after being assaulted and then run over by a car outside a pub, police said.

A detective accused of stealing clothes from her force is to stand trial.

The 15-year-old, who cannot be named, is jointly charged with Dominic Younger, 23, over the death of Kevin Goggins, 46.

Police have been called to a spate of domestic violence calls across Sunderland during the past 24 hours.

The prisoner suspected of stabbing three warders was jailed for a machine gun attack.

A review by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) found almost 21 out of 1,000 Asian people are stopped by the county's police.

A bicycle was stolen from a garden on Grizedale Crescent, Ribbleton, Preston, some time on March 11.

Some Maryland counties say the state's plan to house 600 federal inmates by 2012 at the former Supermax prison in Baltimore is hurting them.

Charlie Sheen has pleaded not guilty to domestic violence charges, nearly three months after his wife called police in a 911 call after an alleged incident.

A man found with a machete stuffed down his trousers has been jailed for a year.

Police have arrested two suspected car thieves after the pair ran out of petrol making a getaway.

An Illinois insurance executive who secretly shot nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews was sentenced Monday to 2 1/2 years in prison after giving a tearful apology that was harshly rebuked by his victim.

A 23-YEAR-OLD man was arrested on Friday and has been remanded into custody after allegedly raping his 9-year-old niece at his home in Banteay Meanchey province's Phnom Srok district, police said.

POLICE are investigating a fire which was started deliberately at a Stratford home.

PINE BLUFF, Ark. A Pine Bluff man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing his girlfriend then burning her body and dumping the remains in a bayou.

WEST PALM BEACH, FL --The newlywed South Florida woman accused of hiring an undercover officer to kill her husband is expected in court for a status hearing.

A Jackson County grand jury has indicted three men on capital murder charges in the Oct. 5 shooting death of a man at his grandmother's home in Moss Point.

Former Bay High School teacher Steven Seth Tadlock has pleaded guilty to sexual battery of a teen.

Around 2:30AM Tuesday morning, gunshots were heard along Colley Avenue in Norfolk's Ghent neighborhood.