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New York City police said Sunday they were seeking a man who allegedly started a fight with another man who wound up dead after being hit by a train. The unidentified suspect allegedly got into an argument with Joshua Basin, 20, of the Queens borough's Howard Beach neighborhood while riding the...

An Arizona judge sentenced a 73-year-old man to 10 years in prison for faking his death to cover up crimes he committed in the 1980s, officials said. Robert Arcieri was also given five years of probation after pleading guilty in February to seven felony counts at the Maricopa County Superior...

A teen thinks it will be funny to send a text saying she's hidden a body to a completely random number. The number happens to belong to a police detective. The teen says she got the idea from Pinterest. Some interesting read I came across to share. Any comments?

An Ottawa jury hearing closing arguments is told former Mountie Kevin Gregson never intended or planned to kill a police officer, but was "immature" and "selfish" in committing "culpable homicide." More...

- A boy died Thursday when he was hit by a tree while walking through the woods with his mother in a Philadelphia suburb, police said. Police in Upper Providence described the death of the 5-year-old as a tragic accident, The Times Herald of Montgomery County reported. In a news release, police...

Police moved in on student protesters gathered near McGill University, during a planned demonstration against tuition hikes. More...

TUNIS (Reuters) - The head of a group that has government permission to seek to promote religious teachings in Tunisia says he will use persuasion and protest but not violence to encourage Islamic behaviour in one of the Arab world's most secular countries. Adel al-Ilmi, a date merchant by...

The widow and one son of a slain Ottawa police officer say the murder trial has been emotional but they appreciate hearing from the emergency personnel who tried to save Const. Eric Czapnik. More...

The police work of a former Mountie charged with first-degree murder in the 2009 death of an Ottawa police officer will take centre stage Friday. More...

AP - A 10-year-old boy shook when asked about being prostituted to two other men by an adoptive father who regularly had sex with him, according to police, who said the boy was fearful of talking because he didn't want to be taken from his home or separated from his new siblings. More...

AP - Gunmen attacked a bus in northern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 18 passengers on board, police said. More...

A Toronto police officer has been charged with second-degree murder

AP - The mayor and police director of New Jersey's largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on Newark's Muslim neighborhoods. Had they known, they said, they never would have allowed it...

Allegations of past sexual abuse by scout leaders are being investigated by Ontario Provincial Police, CBC News has learned. More...

Scouts Canada's chief commissioner, Steve Kent, says he now accepts that his organization did not report all allegations of sexual abuse to the police in past decades, contrary to previous denials. More...

Authorities in South Carolina said they were investigating the disappearance of a woman whose fiance was found dead in the couple's home near Charleston. Dara Lee Watson, 30, was last seen in Boone, N.C., where her parents live, last Monday, her mother told police, and Watson's burned sport...

A Quebec man is in custody after police found three bodies

New Westminster, B.C., police will investigate an incident in which 16-year-old B.C. boy was allegedly mauled by a police dog during an arrest. More...

Here's how easy it was to get away with bank robbery back in the '30s -- as long as you weren't still there when the police arrived, you had a 99% chance of getting away with it.

A renowned criminologist who warned the Vancouver Police Department that a serial killer might be at work while women went missing told the Pickton inquiry on Tuesday that a planned news release to alert the public was scrapped. More...