Mexican authorities detained a former top anti-drug prosecutor on Thursday as part of an investigation into possible links between senior law enforcements officials and drug cartels.
Law enforcement officials bracing for the largest crowds in inaugural history are preparing far-reaching security -- thousands of video cameras, sharpshooters, air patrols -- to safeguard President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in. People attending the ceremony and parade on Jan. 20 can expect to be searched by machines, security personnel or both. Precautions will range from the routine -- magnetometers like those ...
Thousands of contractors, both private Americans and non-Iraqi foreigners working in key roles for the United States in Iraq, will lose immunity and be subject to Iraqi law under new security arrangements, Bush administration officials say.
Massachusetts law enforcement officials think the state can reduce urban violence with comprehensive prevention programs and summer and school year job internships.
A federal appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation law making doctors' prescription writing habits confidential.
An 8-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting his father and another man is shown in a video calmly telling law enforcement officers that he found the men lying in his home after returning from school on the day of the shootings.
Nebraska's lawmakers are trying to limit the state's open-ended safe haven law with an age cap on children who can be dropped off at hospitals without fear of prosecution.
Yale Law School professor Jay Katz, who served on a national panel that studied and exposed the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment on black men, died Monday in New Haven of heart failure, the law school said. He was 86.
A Nebraska legislative committee is gearing up for a public hearing on bills that would block parents from using the state's safe-haven law to abandon teenage children.
A new state law is helping more landowners enroll parts of their properties in the state's current-use program, lowering their property taxes and preserving sensitive areas from development.
