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One by one, the lulz are coming to an end. Scotland Yard announced Wednesday that it had arrested a 19-year-old it claims is a core member of the hacker group LulzSec who goes by the name “Topiary.” The young hacktivist was captured in a home in the Shetland Islands off the northeast coast of Great Britain, and taken to London for questioning.

New York's police commissioner is the top choice for the city's next mayor to be elected in 2013, according to a new poll released on Wednesday. Ray Kelly, who has served as police commissioner under both three-term Mayor Michael Bloomberg and David Dinkins, was the choice of 23 percent of voters, including 18 percent of Democrats, in the Quinnipiac University poll.

A 63-year-old Glendale man was in stable condition after he attempted surgery on himself with a six-inch butter knife to remove a protruding hernia from his stomach, police said Tuesday.

An Indiana sheriff says a 4-year-old boy who was fatally shot while out fishing with his father was struck in the head. Wells County Sheriff Monte Fisher told The Associated Press on Sunday that Jacob Michuda was shot in the head late Friday night while he and his father were fishing from a pier at a pond outside Ossian.

A massive bomb shattered Norway's main government building in Oslo Friday, killing two people police were quoted as saying by local news agency NTB.

A Garden Grove woman charged with cutting off her husband's penis served him a strange-tasting tofu soup that police believe was poisoned, according to a law enforcement source.

Police investigating the death of a woman found dead at the Spreckels mansion in Coronado are trying to interview anyone who spoke to her in the hours and days before her death to help determine whether she killed herself or met with possible foul play.

A police dog frightened of noise and too timid to bite has been retired from Northumbria Police's dog unit.

U.S. authorities on Tuesday arrested 16 people on charges they participated in major cyber attacks, including an attempt to cripple eBay's PayPal website as retribution for dropping WikiLeaks as a client.

A man is suspected of fatally stabbing his wife and four children before setting his home on fire, Medford police said Monday.