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Police in Kenya arrest five men accused of planning a "gay wedding" - a day after another union was halted.

An attorney testified that the fourth wife of former suburban Chicago police officer Drew Peterson talked about extorting money from her husband just days before she vanished in 2007.

Police in Vermont say a 75-year-old woman trying to rescue a cat stuck on a highway's median was hit by a car and killed.

Police at Northwestern University's Downtown campus placed the school's Rubloff Building on lockdown Wednesday morning after a man with a gun was spotted in an elevator of the building.

About 10 a.m. Wednesday, a man with a gun in his waistband was spotted in an eleventh floor elevator of the Rubloff Building on the Chicago campus, according to an alert issued on Northwestern's Web site. The building is located at 375 E. Chicago Ave.

Grief counselors are on hand at a suburban Dallas elementary school after a 9-year-old boy was found hanged in a school bathroom. Police in The Colony say the fourth-grader was found by school staff at Stewart's Creek Elementary ...

Chaos ensued after the police encountered a gunman in a thickly wooded area on Tuesday.

An explosion brought down a house in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Friday, killing at least five people, but the cause of the blast was not immediately known, a police said.

Ten months after a multimillion-dollar Florida lottery winner was last seen, police Wednesday said they fear he has met with "an untimely death."

Pakistani police will ask a court to charge five Americans detained in the country this month with planning terrorist attacks and jail them for life, a police official said on Thursday.

An escaped British prisoner is taunting police and attracting a growing fan base from a Facebook profile page.