Officers reported using force far more often during traffic stops last year — even as scrutiny grew following the fatal ...

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Larry Busacca/Getty The Notorious B.I.G. was killed when he was 24 years old, but he had already become known as one of the greatest rappers of all time. The musician — born Christopher George ...

Kristie Rieken | The Associated Press Reed Sheppard sustained the injury during Thursday’s game against the Pelicans when he slapped down on the ball. • Get NBA League Pass TODAY > HOUSTON ...

Clashes between government security forces and supporters of ousted former President Bashar al-Assad have killed at least 311 people in Syria since Thursday, according to a monitoring group that ...

A 14-year-old shot and killed a police officer and wounded another Friday evening in New Jersey, authorities said, in a chaotic scene that witnesses described as seeing officers running down a ...

Kyle Mazza/NurPhoto via AP A police officer was killed and another was critically injured during a shoot-out involving a teenager in New Jersey. The two Newark police officers were shot while on ...

One Newark police officer was killed and another is “fighting for his life” in critical condition after a shootout with a 14-year-old suspect Friday evening, according to reports. Shots rang ...

More than 1,000 people have been killed in fighting between forces of the new government and remnants of the ousted regime, according to a war monitor, which said about 700 were civilians.

Syrian authorities face insurgency by Assad's Alawite sect War monitor says 340 killed by gunmen and security forces Dozens of security forces killed, security official says March 8 (Reuters ...

Three people were killed in separate Portland shootings in less than 24 hours. The gunfire is particularly startling as the city had experienced a large decline in homicides in the first few weeks ...

Forty-six people were killed when a Sudanese military transport plane crashed into a residential neighbourhood on the outskirts of Khartoum, the regional government said Wednesday. The Antonov ...