NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The traffic stop starts like any other: an officer pulls over a motorist, walks up to the driver's side window and asks for license and registration. What happened minutes later appears to take place without any obvious sign of provocation or conflict: The driver opens the door and runs, and […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Graphic videos have surfaced previously that kindled outrage over police use of force — the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles, last year's chokehold death in New York City. The new video from South Carolina is perhaps the most striking yet — its depiction of a fleeing, unarmed black man being […]

By Michael Fleeman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A judge set bail on Friday at $25 million for Suge Knight in a murder case, agreeing on the amount requested by prosecutors who had described the rap mogul in court papers as being "incapable of stopping his violent criminal behavior." Knight, 49, is accused of running down […]

VALHALLA, N.Y. (AP) — An investigation into what caused a fiery crash that killed a motorist and five rail riders is focusing on how a mother of three described by friends as safety conscious ended up between two crossing gates in her SUV as a commuter train barreled toward her.

Honda Motor Co Ltd on Friday said it has confirmed that a Takata Corp (7312.T) air bag inflator ruptured in a Jan. 18 crash in Texas that killed the driver. Prior to the incident that took place near Houston, Takata air bags had been linked to at least five deaths. On Thursday, Honda issued a […]

Zakov pleaded guilty in federal court to encouraging and inducing illegal aliens resulting in death and bringing illegal aliens into the United States for financial gain. He faces up to life in prison and a $250,000 fine when he is sentenced April 10 …

A condom discovered three years after the rape and murder a New Milford man's estranged wife contains his DNA as well as hers, a New Jersey State Police forensic analyst testified on Thursday. Pedro Gutierrez is on trial in Bergen County Superior Court …

A Illinois man accused of shooting a mother in Ohio and her son in Kentucky was back in a Warren County courtroom Wednesday while his attorneys and prosecutors argued over a plethora of DNA evidence that could be used in his capital murder trial.

Newport Police Chief Tom Collins says investigators will rely on forensics to answer who was driving a car that crashed on Monmouth Street in the early hours of New Year's Day. Jordan McElroy, 39, of Anderson Township, was found dead in the passenger …

The couple, named locally as Eric and Carol Ruddy, were found with fatal injuries at a house in Elswick, Newcastle and were pronounced dead in hospital with police treating their deaths as suspicious.