Police in California say a man who gunned down his two children and three other relatives in an apparent murder-suicide had been helping his brother-in-law settle into the area.

A man who police say skipped out of paying for a prosthetic leg has been arrested. Police said the man was arrested March 9 at an Omaha, Neb., apartment and charged with conspiracy to sell methamphetamine. Pottawattamie County, Iowa, Sheriff Jeff Danker said the man was brought to his jail on suspicion of being in the country illegally. That's when authorities discovered he was wanted on a ...

Police say a 78-year-old woman was sexually assaulted and set on fire in her Texas home by a man who might have gained access by saying he was selling magazines.

An explosive found in a dead man's basement led to an Arkansas police station being evacuated. Officers said a Hot Springs man walked into police headquarters Monday and placed a World War II-era "pineapple" grenade on the front desk. Officers evacuated the headquarters for more than an hour as police worked to safely remove the grenade and destroy it.

A man who previously kept dead animals in cold storage and dozens more living in filthy conditions in a Dallas home was under investigation Monday after police found almost two dozen cats in his suburban motel room. Plano police stopped the man on Sunday and found he had outstanding warrants for animal cruelty and outdated animal vaccinations related to his previous case.

German police are struggling to explain why they chased a phantom serial killer for 16 years after confusion over an innocent woman's DNA samples.

Sochaux captain Stephane Dalmat was charged on Tuesday with assaulting a police officer after a drunken brawl on the Champs-Elysees in Paris.

Eight people were killed in three attacks in the northern Iraq on Tuesday, including seven when a suicide bomber smashed his way into a police compound in Mosul and exploded his truck, police said.

Northern Ireland police Tuesday reported a string of bomb scares and carjackings in Belfast overnight, blamed on dissident republicans linked to the killings of two soldiers and a policeman.

Authorities investigating how machine guns, pistols and marijuana disappeared from a police department in a Mississippi Delta town say they have uncovered a ring of prison inmates and a county worker who planned to sell the stolen weapons in Chicago.