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The University of California, Davis, placed the officers on leave after videos of the incident were widely distributed over the Internet.

The University of California, Davis said on Saturday it would launch an investigation over video footage that appeared to show campus police using pepper spray against seated student protesters at close range.

Clashes erupted between riot police and protesters in Cairo's Tahrir square Saturday after police dispersed a sit-in by demonstrators demanding the ruling military transfer power swiftly to a civilian government.

Serious crimes more than doubled in the area around Occupy Los Angeles during the first 45 days since the protesters began their encampment, Los Angeles Police Department officials said.

A former employee ran into a FedEx facility in Bedford Park this morning and opened fire while yelling his wife's name, sending workers scrambling for cover before he turned the gun on himself, police said. Benjamin Robinson, 28, entered the building at 5151 W. 73rd St. shortly before 8 a.m. and jumped into a truck and started firing, police said. About an hour later, with SWAT teams stationed outside, Robinson shot and killed himself, police and witnesses said.

Law enforcement officials wound up looking into the question of a Penn State cover-up in the Sandusky case... A critical break in the investigation of Jerry Sandusky came via a posting on the Internet: a random mention that a Penn State football coach, years before, might have seen something ugly, but kept silent.

Penn State campus police and their counterparts in State College said Wednesday that they had no record of Mike McQueary reporting an alleged sexual assault by Jerry Sandusky on a 10-year-old boy in a campus shower. The details ran counter to McQueary’s claims in an e-mail to former teammates and made available to the Associated Press this week.

Police said the person found in the chimney of a suburban-Atlanta home was not Santa Claus arriving early but a 17-year-old alleged burglar who got stuck.

Police in riot gear assembled in Oakland, California, on Monday in an apparent preparation to clear a downtown encampment of Occupy Oakland protesters.

Brazilian police backed by armored military vehicles have invaded Rio de Janeiro’s biggest slum. Hundreds of black-clad, rifle-armed officers began swarming into the Rocinha shantytown early Sunday. Experts say it’s the most important step yet in bringing security to Rio de Janeiro before it hosts the final matches of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.