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Texas law enforcement agents will be hunting for a little-known crime during this week's Super Bowl festivities in metropolitan Dallas: child sex rings.

British police arrested five young men on Thursday as they and U.S. authorities conducted searches as part of a probe into Internet activists who carried out cyber attacks against groups they viewed as enemies of the WikiLeaks website.

A man who fled his trial on drug and racketeering charges in 1979 and eluded police in several different countries while on the run was arrested Thursday at a Florida senior living community, U.S. Marshals said.

An embattled Nevada councilwoman called police shortly before they found her and her husband dead in an apparent murder-suicide, police in Mesquite said Wednesday.

Police in California say two children were hospitalized after eating a marijuana cookie they found on a kitchen counter, and their mother was arrested on suspicion of child endangerment.

An Indiana woman shot her three children and set the family's house on fire before turning the gun on herself, police said.

Four people were shot late Sunday afternoon outside a Walmart in Washington state, Kitsap County Sheriff's Department spokesman Scott Wilson said.

In Tunisia, police join demonstrators calling for the interim government to resign.

Los Angeles police say actor Peter Fonda discovered a dead body in a car and they are investigating the death.

Ted Williams, the Ohio homeless man whose golden voice made him a YouTube sensation and brought him offers of work, was detained by the Los Angeles Police Department Monday night at a Hollywood hotel.