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A Maryland man was sentenced to 17 years for invading an 80-year-old woman’s Potomac condo and robbing her at knifepoint.

A man who randomly stabbed five people Saturday at a suburban Baltimore shopping center was fatally shot by authorities, a police spokeswoman said. The victims in the afternoon attack at Hunt Valley Towne Center in Cockeysville, Maryland, survived with non-life-threatening injuries, said Baltimore County Officer Jennifer Peach. Peach said the man attacked five people, four outside a liquor store, with...

Greek police said Saturday they have arrested a suspect in the 1985 hijacking of a flight from Athens that became a multi-day ordeal and included the slaying of an American. Police said a 65-year-old suspect in the hijacking was arrested Thursday on the island of Mykonos in response to a warrant from Germany. Lt. Col. Theodoros Chronopoulos, a police spokesman,...

Ocean City police say five people were taken to a local hospital as a precaution after a car on a roller coaster hit another car.

Protesters in Hong Kong ended their overnight siege of police headquarters peacefully Saturday, disappointed that their demands for the territory’s leader to formally withdraw a contentious extradition bill and police to apologize for heavy handed tactics have gone unmet. By daybreak, police had cleared the streets of barriers set up by protesters to snarl traffic in the Asian financial center,...

Another “Empire” actor has been arrested in Chicago, but this time on a traffic-related offense.

Chicago police are investigating after video was posted online showing the shooting death of a woman who was shielding her toddler from gunfire.

Richmond Police are conducting an investigation after a video shows an officer shouting a mild obscenity at a group of middle-school students.

An American visitor to the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp attempted to steal a metal part of the historic rail tracks where prisoners were unloaded, officials said Sunday. The 37-year-old man has been charged with attempted theft of an item of cultural importance, according to Malgorzata Jurecka, a police spokeswoman in the southern Polish town of Oswiecim, which was under German...

The city of Portland, often in the spotlight for its liberal leanings, has been roiled by the revelation that a police lieutenant in charge of containing protests texted repeatedly with the leader of a far-right group involved in those demonstrations. The mayor asked the police chief Friday to investigate “disturbing” texts between Lt. Jeff Niiya, who is the head of...

A member of Portland’s city council said Thursday a newspaper’s report that the commander for the police rapid response team exchanged friendly text messages with a leader of far-right protests that have rocked the city confirms collusion exists between some police and right-wing extremists. “I am not shocked, and I am not surprised at today’s reporting of Lt. Jeff Niiya’s...

Officials joined relatives and friends Thursday for the funeral of five teenage girls killed last week in a fire that broke out at a recreational escape room in northern Poland. The 15-year-old girls were celebrating a birthday at the escape room entertainment site in the city of Koszalin when a fire broke out next to the locked room and they...

A fire broke out at an “Escape Room” game location in northern Poland on Friday, killing five teenage girls and injuring a man, authorities said. Police said the dead were found after firefighters put out the blaze, which began around 5 p.m. at an “Escape Room” venue in Koszalin. Highly popular with teenagers across Poland, the “Escape Room” game has...

A man knocked on the door of an 80-year-old woman’s home and said he was there to inspect the roof. Thinking it was odd that someone would inspect a roof on a Sunday, the woman questioned him.

A father protecting his daughter from what he thought was a home invasion shot two police officers who mistakenly entered his apartment in District Heights, Maryland, the Prince George’s County’s police chief says.

A man armed with a shotgun shot two police officers who went to an apartment building in District Heights, Maryland, to serve a warrant.

Determining why a vintage plane crashed in the Swiss Alps will be challenging since the 79-year-old aircraft did not have black boxes and was traveling in an area without frequent radar readings when it plunged into a mountain, killing all 20 of the people on board, investigators said Sunday. The Junkers Ju-52 plane, operated by Swiss company Ju-Air, moved at...

A 74-year-old man ranting about a broken phone drove his car through the glass storefront of a Verizon Wireless store in North Carolina, authorities said Friday, stunning shoppers during the dinner hour at an upscale mall. Charles Michael Hager was charged with assault with a deadly weapon and damaging property after he drove a 2006 Volkswagen Jetta into the store...

The driver of a tractor-trailer that slammed into cars stopped at a traffic light, killing two people, was sentenced to 11 years in prison with seven years suspended.

Police in Maryland’s biggest beach town say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding a series of arrests outside an underage nightclub.