A St. Louis man says a box that had been in his mother’s freezer for decades contained the mummified remains of a newborn baby, which he discovered while cleaning out her home after she died. Adam Smith told St. Louis ...

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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg faced criticism Sunday from angry residents of South Bend, Indiana, at an emotional town hall meeting a week after a white police officer fatally shot a black man in the city where he is mayor. ...

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South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg pulled himself off the presidential campaign trail Monday after the fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer in his hometown forced him to confront issues of race and policing. The ...

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Police in a western Michigan city already under scrutiny for alleged discrimination are defending their actions in the arrest of a 12-year-old black boy, saying they had to handcuff the child while they sorted out a confusing situation. Grand Rapids ...

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The gunfire that has long haunted St. Louis streets has taken an even more disturbing turn, with a rash of shootings involving children that has left the city’s police chief angered and frustrated by the lack of cooperation of witnesses. ...

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The police chief of Alaska’s largest city hurried out of the department’s glass building after the ground began to shake. Phone lines jammed and even police radios were spotty after a major earthquake, but his cellphone was recently equipped with ...

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The number of untested rape kits with the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s crime lab has more than doubled since last August, when a new law requiring police to submit kits within 14 days took effect. As of May 1, 403 ...

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Police departments in at least five states are investigating, and in some cases condemning, their officers’ social media feeds after the weekend publication of a database that appears to catalog thousands of bigoted or violent posts by active-duty and former ...

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Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro on Monday released a proposal to lessen wrongful police shootings that would use the power of the federal government to change the way local law enforcement is conducted. Castro’s policing plan would set a federal ...

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The families of four people killed by an off-duty Sunset Hills police officer have filed a lawsuit against the officer and the bar that provided her alcohol while she was allegedly intoxicated. The lawsuit accuses O’Leary’s Restaurant and Bar of ...

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Computer technology, the Internet and cellular phones are used as tools to commit crimes, butcan also be used as evidence to prosecute criminals. The Regional Computer Crimes Education and Enforcement Group (RCCEEG) conducts forensic analysis on seized computers and other ...

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