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Police said a district judge from Intercourse, Pa., hid condoms inside acorns and handed them out to women in the state Capitol complex last week. A summary charge of disorderly conduct was filed Tuesday against Isaac H. Stoltzfus, who presides over low-level cases as a district judge in Lancaster County.

It appears that law enforcement officers are finding it too difficult to track the Facebook messages.

Six people have died in an apparent murder-suicide in Riviera Beach, Florida, police said Monday.

Police say a Montana woman used an unlikely weapon to fend off a charging bear — a zucchini.

A controversial Twitter user has been challenging South African authorities by alerting thousands of followers to speed traps set by traffic police.

Sandy Springs police have charged an 11-year-old girl with murder and child cruelty in the death of a toddler she was babysitting. The babysitter, whose name has not been released, was taken to a juvenile Youth Detention Center in Fulton County, where she will be held while prosecutors decide how to proceed.

A convicted rapist wanted in the killing of a woman was arrested Monday, police said shortly after the woman's father, a N.C. police chief, had pleaded with peers nationwide to find the man.

A woman who claimed she was the victim of an acid attack has admitted her injuries were self-inflicted, Vancouver, Wash., police said Thursday afternoon.

An Indiana teenager who police say strangled his 10-year-old brother to satisfy an urge to kill that he likened to hunger pleaded guilty to murder Monday, and his defense attorney described him as remorseful.

A man shot his grandson to death during an argument at a home in Pasadena early this morning. The shooting occurred about 2 a.m. at the house in the 4400 block of Foxmeadow near Allen-Genoa, said Vance Mitchell, a spokesman for the Pasadena Police Department.