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Hot, impatient crowd vies for Olympics tickets

AP — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:19:23 +0000

A crowd of 30,000 people, baking in the heat and waiting for up to two days, swarmed a ticketing center Friday as the final batch of Olympic tickets went on sale. Police shoved and kicked them and used metal barricades to prevent a...

Leading Colombian party chief arrested

AP — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:20:50 +0000

Police have arrested the head of one of Colombia’s main governing parties for alleged ties with far-right paramilitaries.

Police: 1 killed in India blasts

AP — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:27:59 +0000

Police say a series of explosions have rocked the southern Indian city of Bangalore, killing at least one person.

Police: Militants blow up girls school in Pakistan

AP — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:40:11 +0000

Police say militants have blown up a girls school and 10 shops in northwestern Pakistan. There were no casualties.

NYPD, Port Authority agree on WTC security plan

AP — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:04:27 +0000

Police and the World Trade Center site’s owner sketched out a security agreement Thursday that settles a turf war over who will protect ground zero against terrorism as the Lower Manhattan site is...

Boy kills 9-year-old at Suriname school

AP — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:34:01 +0000

Police say a boy stabbed and killed a 9-year-old girl in front of her classmates and teacher at an elementary school in Suriname.

Reports of wire taps emerge in Drew Peterson case

AP — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:21:11 +0000

Two friends of former police officer Drew Peterson told a newspaper he made incriminating statements during secretly taped conversations following the disappearance of his fourth wife _ claims that Peterson...

In Portland, Ore., parking laws include police

AP — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:44:34 +0000

Portland police are not above the parking laws, even if they’re hungry.

In Portland, parking laws include police

AP — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:06:26 +0000

Portland police are not above the parking laws, even if they’re hungry.

Mass. woman kills self before home foreclosure

AP — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:47:17 +0000

Police in Taunton, Mass., say a woman has killed herself after faxing a letter telling her mortgage company she would be dead by the time they foreclosed on her house.