Palm Springs police Chief David Dominguez will keep his job, City Manager David Ready said this week.

Turkish police have detained 10 suspected al Qaeda militants who they believe were planning an attack ahead of New Year, state-run Anatolian news agency reported.

Police are continuing to quiz the landlord of landscape architect Jo Yeates on suspicion of her murder.

A rookie police officer responding to a domestic violence call in suburban Dallas was shot to death trying to protect an 11-year-old girl from her mother's gun-wielding ex-boyfriend, a department spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Police are given more time by a magistrate to question the 65-year-old landlord of landscape architect Joanna Yeates about her murder.

Fifteen police officers have been injured in clashes with rock-wielding protesters near La Paz, as major cities in the Andean nation were crippled by a transport strike protesting huge fuel price hikes.

Police and community briefs for Marion County for Dec. 31, 2010.

Gunmen believed to be linked to drug cartels killed four police officers and a doctor in apparently coordinated attacks in and around the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, authorities said Thursday.

A day after attacks on two police stations that resulted in the deaths of four police officers in the northern state of Nuevo Leon, a police spokesman vowed Thursday that security will be beefed up in the municipalities and strategies to fight organized crime will be reconsidered.

Police are looking for a man who sexually assaulted a 63-year-old woman Tuesday night in South Seattle, and say there may be a connection to similar recent assaults.