criminal investigations

HELSINKI (AP) — Helsinki police say they are investigating seven cases of suspected sexual assault and harassment of women on New Year's Eve by men wh...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An appeals court ruling is threatening to derail Mexico's effort to prosecute suspects in one of its most notorious crimes of recen...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — After three basketball players were charged with raping a teammate in an apparent hazing incident, a Tennessee high school h...

CHICAGO (AP) — A top city of Chicago lawyer stepped down after a federal judge accused him of hiding evidence in a fatal police shooting, the latest a...

CHICAGO (AP) — At least one officer responding to the fatal shooting of a northern Illinois police officer who staged his suicide to make it look like...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police are investigating an allegation of battery against R&B singer Chris Brown. Authorities received a call shortly befor...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian investigators on Tuesday filed an indictment against four men accused of involvement in the murder of opposition leader Boris Ne...

KOH SAMUI, Thailand (AP) — A Thai court on Thursday sentenced two Myanmar migrants to death for the murder of two British backpackers on a resort isla...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The type of blood clot revealed in the autopsy of a woman who died after being forcibly removed from a hospital is often "dif...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities questioned and released five people, including two brothers, who were detained after searches related to the Paris...

CHICAGO (AP) — Janet Lindsey Ferguson has carried a poster bearing a photograph of her teenage son, Rickey Childs, ever since he was shot and killed b...

HAWTHORNE, Calif. (AP) — Vandals spray-painted graffiti about Jesus at two mosques in the Southern California city of Hawthorne and left a device that...

COACHELLA, Calif. (AP) — A 23-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of committing a hate crime and arson in connection with a Southern Californi...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Specialized divers with the FBI searched a San Bernardino lake for a second day Friday, looking for a computer hard drive and any o...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A former Oklahoma City police officer was convicted Thursday of raping and sexually victimizing eight women on his police beat in...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vincent Gray spent his only term as Washington's mayor dogged by allegations of corruption. Then, three weeks before the 2014 Democr...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Interior Secretary Sally Jewell says she's seen no evidence of criminal negligence in a toxic wastewater spill triggered by fed...

CHICAGO (AP) — With federal agents preparing to scrutinize Chicago's police practices in a wide-ranging civil rights investigation, Mayor Rahm Emanuel...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Justice Department will investigate patterns of racial disparity in the use of force by Chicago police officers as part of a wide-r...

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A change came over Tashfeen Malik two or three years ago. She started dressing more conservatively, wearing a scarf that...