Police in northeastern Brazil are recommending that three Roman Catholic priests be formally charged with sexually abusing boys.

A Jamaica man who was shot by police and became a paraplegic has been awarded $230,000 in compensation 16 years after the incident.

The police chief of Arizona's largest city said on Friday the state's controversial new crackdown on illegal immigrants would likely create more problems than it solved for local law enforcement.

Three Houston police officers have been restricted to desk duty after they followed a Chinese diplomat into the parking garage of the Chinese Consulate, arrested the man and injured him, the Houston mayor said.

A judge in Puerto Rico has sentenced two former police officers to prison for the beating death of a suspect who was detained for allegedly stealing a patrol car.

Police in northeastern Brazil are recommending that three Roman Catholic priests be formally charged with sexually abusing boys.

Police in New Bedford, Mass., say a substitute teacher who was taken to a hospital after drinking tainted iced coffee has admitted lacing the drink himself.

Police in northern Indiana said a man who was apparently sleeping inside a large trash bin narrowly missed being crushed by a garbage truck.

German police said a couple of hungry pigs digging for food came nose-to-nose with a long-buried World War II anti-tank weapon. Police said Friday the two pigs found the single-shot "panzerfaust" on private land southwest of Dresden. The pigs' owner secured the animals in their stall then called police who were able to remove the weapon and destroy it.

An unemployed Georgia doctor charged with fatally shooting a Yale University physician acknowledged he was at the crime scene at the time of the shooting and said he was sorry for what happened, police said Friday.