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A man was shot and killed then accidentally run over Thursday night during the filming of an amateur rap video, according to Philadelphia police.

The departure of Sanford's police chief fails to calm protesters led by the Rev. Al Sharpton. They want the prosecution of a crime-watch volunteer who shot an unarmed black 17-year-old.

Under pressure to resign over the investigation into the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, Chief Bill Lee Jr. of the Sanford Police Department announces that he will temporarily step aside.

They are joining the Trayvon Martin crusade by the hour now. It feels like an echo from another era – when there was racial injustice in the headlines, when federal troops were dispatched to comb Southern swamps to look for blacks who had vanished.

The head of Scotland's largest police force says he has "no doubt" there are individuals in his force "in receipt of money from various people".

Police say they are investigating the shooting deaths of a mother and her three children at a remote Missouri campground as a possible triple murder-suicide.

Police say they detained the co-founder of the group behind the “KONY 2012” video, after witnesses reported a man masturbating and possibly under the influence, NBCSanDiego.com reported.

New Orleans police have issued an arrest warrant for actor Russell Brand on a charge of simple criminal damage to property valued at $700.

A northwest Arkansas teenager thought it would be funny to text a random phone number saying she hid a body, but the joke backfired.

A 3-year-old boy fatally shot himself with a gun he found in a car while his family stopped for gas early Wednesday in Tacoma, police said. It was western Washington's third recent shooting by a child....