A woman in Sonoma County tried to get away with retail theft by pretending to be a 12-year-old girl, police say.

An owl is found in a mailbox, drone sightings abound, and other odd tales from local police and fire departments.

Justice Department investigations, often launched after controversial police killings, show how other forms of abusive ...

Police responded to a Walmart store at noon Dec. 13 for a report of a man who had pushed a cart of merchandise past all ...

Also in this week’s Independence Police blotter, a woman is found with drug-abuse instruments in hotel parking lot.

Ashanti Downey, 20, of North Carolina sustained serious burns after three unidentified people poured gasoline on her and set ...

A taxi driver whose car hit six pedestrians when he jumped a curb in a Manhattan shopping district on Christmas Day was ...

Authorities have yet to confirm the identity of the victim, who died after she was lit on fire while asleep on a subway train ...

The packages still made it to their destinations on time, after an officer on a 2 a.m. patrol in Massachusetts spotted them ...

Police are investigating a Christmas shooting at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix that left three people wounded by gunfire and ...

For 14 years and counting, a Massachusetts community has come together to remember a fallen officer who gave his life to ...

When Terrence Murphy’s fiancé asked him to help finish wrapping holiday gifts, he allegedly threw a gift across the room, pushed his fiancé down and punched a hole in a door while children slept ...