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Two Los Angeles Police Department officers lied under oath during a drug possession case four years ago, a Los Angeles County jury decided Tuesday.

Two Syracuse area men who claimed to be holding a $5 million lottery ticket sold at their family store were arrested this morning on charges they conspired to falsely claim the prize as their own.

Police in Belize are looking for the founder of the software company McAfee Inc. to question him about the death of another U.S. citizen, his neighbor in an island town on the Caribbean....

A former personal assistant of Waffle House's CEO accused him of forcing her to "perform sexual services," among other degrading acts, during her nine years of working for him, according to an Atlanta police report.

A top trader at Nigeria's biggest donkey market has been abducted by gunmen, a police spokesman says. Al-Haji Salisu Yunusa's abduction led to the brief closure of the 80-year-old market in the south-eastern town of Ezamgbo, a BBC reporter in Nigeria says.

A Detroit suburb that was forced to lay off half its police department has seen a spike in violent crime, MyFoxDetroit.com reports. Since July, when the police force was cut in half, there have been 10 murders in Inkster, a Detroit suburb with a population of about 25,000. There have been 12 murders so far this year.

A Colorado police officer was killed while responding to a call about a suspicious person, Fox News confirms. Lakewood Police initially reported that the suspect in the shooting was also killed, but have since changed that statement and are only reporting that the officer is killed, FOX31.com reports.

A suburban Des Moines couple is under arrest after their adopted teenage children reported being locked in the basement and fed under a locked door as punishment. The 45-year-old father and 44-year-old mother are charged with false imprisonment and neglect or abandonment of a dependent person.

The Manhattan borough president added his name to those opposed to running the marathon on Sunday, and the Police Department has called on department retirees for help.

Children were handed packets of cocaine instead of sweets on a Halloween trick-or-treating trip, Greater Manchester Police say.