New Zealand police have condemned the actions of a Sunday newspaper which asked people masquerading as terrorists to smuggle fake bombs into two Super 14 rugby matches last weekend. Spokesman Jon Neilson on Friday said police were unlikely to charge the Sunday Star-Times newspaper over the stunt in which an undisclosed number of fake bombs were carried into matches at Hamilton and Christchurch,...

A helicopter from a suburban Washington police department made an emergency landing near a District of Columbia school, forcing its evacuation.

A second former New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty Thursday in connection with police shootings of civilians on a Louisiana bridge in the days following Hurricane Katrina, authorities said.

Police say a national traffic safety agency is sending inspectors to suburban New York City to look at a wrecked Toyota Prius (PREE'-uhs) that its driver said accelerated on its own into a stone wall.

Police departments across the country are stepping up efforts to recruit officers who can speak more than one language, in some cases offering raises or even sending cops abroad as part of immersion programs.

Greek police fired tear gas to disperse protesters throwing rocks and firebombs outside Parliament as more than 20,000 people marched through central Athens during a nationwide strike against the government's harsh new austerity measures.

Kingsport Police have filed a 10th DUI charge against a driver who was going about 20 miles per hour on Interstate 26 and weaving. The Kingsport Times -News reported that the 57-year-old man told the officer on Tuesday, "I'm drunk. Do what you gotta do." The police report stated that when asked to take sobriety, breath or alcohol tests, the man kept repeating that he was drunk.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo on Thursday said he would make an announcement at 3:45 p.m. EST on his investigation of the state police and the governor's office.

U.S. troops opened fire on a car in western Baghdad, killing an Iraqi journalist and her husband, a police official said Thursday.

In a video posted on the Internet, a man describes police ordering several drivers to use their cars as a shield to stop an armed criminal.