A 16-year-old Christian school student charged with fatally stabbing his principal told police he spent the night before the attack sharpening a knife, court documents say.

The timing of the raid is significant for another oil company — ExxonMobil — which a day earlier agreed to take over the Arctic deal that had fallen through for BP.

New Hanover County Commissioner Brian Berger accused the Wilmington Police Department Tuesday of mischaracterizing his suicide attempt and providing false information in the police report. In an email to Wilmington Police Chief Ralph Evangelous, Berger said the police report was "full of false information" and he added that "nobody was in any danger at any time." Evangelous issued a statement ...

Police in Pennsylvania are searching for a motorist who fatally shot a pedestrian who had yelled at the driver to slow down.

The timing of the raid is significant for another oil company — ExxonMobil — which a day earlier agreed to take over the Arctic deal that had fallen through for BP.

CORRY, Pa.—State police in northwestern Pennsylvania are searching for an unknown jackpot imposter.

Police in Hendersonville, North Carolina, said Tuesday they were interviewing a man and a woman in connection with the discovery of a days-old infant's body in a grocery store restroom.

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GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) - Three suicide bombers were responsible for killing at least nine people in the capital of Russia's Chechnya region, a police official in the North Caucasus province said on Wednesday.

Abington Public drunkenness … Joel Schilling, 51, of Old York Road, Abington, was charged with public drunkenness Aug. 17 at 9:57 p.m., police said. Police said they responded to the report of a man yelling at passing cars along the 1700 block of Old York Road. Schilling was found on the median strip intoxicated and drinking alcohol, police said.