The police say they acted appropriately in a chaotic situation, but critics say they treated members of the public as enemies.

A lone robber armed with a handgun on Saturday got away with jewellery worth around 6.6 million euros (9.3 million dollars) in a hold-up at the exclusive Chopard store in central Paris, police said.

Chicago police this afternoon were investigating the attempted abduction of an 11-year-old girl earlier this week on the Far Southeast Side. The girl was walking in the 10600 block of South Ewing Avenue Thursday when a man tried to lure her into his vehicle, police said in a community alert. The victim ran into a nearby drugstore and called her mother, who reported the incident to the police, ...

It's a police officer's nightmare scenario: Confronting someone who appears to be an armed suspect and opening fire, only to discover that person was actually an officer not in uniform.

Jewellery worth some six million euros (8.4 million dollars) was stolen in a hold-up Saturday at the elite Chopard store in Paris's Place Vendome, police said.

The Boston Police Department wants to arm neighborhood patrol officers with high-powered military assault weapons, but the mayor doesn't think it's such a good idea.

Police were dispatched to a wreck reported in the back of the Peach Tree Apartments in the 4600 block of Saturn Road early Saturday morning.

Chicago Police officers secure the area in the 3600 block of North Tripp Avenue, the scene of a barricade situation this morning. (Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)

Chicago Police officers secure the area in the 3600 block of North Tripp Avenue, the scene of a barricade situation this morning. (Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune) A Chicago police SWAT team was on the scene of a barricade situation involving a "despondent" man on the city's Northwest Side this afternoon. Police received a call before 7 a.m. from a person who had contact with a man inside a ...

A 19-year-old was killed in a rollover crash early Saturday on the Edens Expressway in north suburban Northfield, police said.  Police suspect the male teen was drag racing with another vehicle before he crashed.The driver was heading south on the Edens Expy. (I-94) about 1 a.m. when his vehicle went off the expressway, struck a tree and rolled over, according to Illinois State Police District ...