The Texas police officer filmed wrestling a teenage girl to the ground at a pool party — stoking racial tensions in a Dallas suburb — responded to two suicide calls earlier in his shift that took an emotional toll on him, his lawyer said. Officer David Eric Casebolt, 41, who …

BELLINGHAM, Wash. – High school students grieved at a northwest Washington candlelight vigil after an SUV earlier jumped a curb and plowed into a group of teens out for a gym class walk, killing two boys and seriously injuring two others. About 30 students from Windward High School in Ferndale, …

Health screenings reveal that eight infants have tested positive for tuberculosis following the discovery that a nurse’s assistant infected with TB worked at an El Paso hospital’s nursery. El Paso Public Health Director Robert Resendes said Thursday that of the eight, five babies had been vaccinated previously against TB and …

FREDERICK, Md. – Police say an ice cream truck driver in Maryland was gunned down as he was selling treats to children and a suspect has been arrested. Frederick police say 22-year-old Brandon Brown was fatally shot Saturday afternoon at Lucas Village, a subsidized housing complex. Lt. Clark Pennington, a …

VATICAN CITY – There’s something of a whodunit going on in the Vatican to discover who leaked Pope Francis’ environment encyclical to an Italian newsweekly, deflating the release of the most anticipated and feared papal document in recent times. L’Espresso magazine published the full 191 pages of “Laudato Si” (Be …

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar – The African Union has welcomed the decision by Madagascar’s high court to reject parliament’s effort to impeach the president. Chairwoman of the union’s commission, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, in a Wednesday statement called on decision makers to be responsible and avoid further instability after years of crisis. The …

AJDABIYA, Lyba — We set out early Tuesday morning on the desert highway from Libya’s eastern-most city of Tobruk for Ajdabiya, scene of some of the most recent attacks by Colonel Muammar Qaddafi against rebel fighters. It took almost four hours to cover the roughly 225 miles, almost all of …

California police are searching for four suspects who avoided rising prices at the pump by allegedly stealing 528 gallons of gas from a Pasadena Mobil station early Monday morning. The suspects activated the station’s pumps with a type of card or other mechanism before pumping $2,465 of supreme unleaded gas …

Twenty five lions from Bolivia aren’t just adapting to a new language, but a whole new existence. Rescued, after their home country banned the use of animals for entertainment, the lions touched down last week on American soil, in a DC-10 chartered by Animal Defenders International (ADI). Now lounging in …

Ever wonder why your Doberman circles five times before sitting down or eating? So did the researchers at Tufts and UMass. Obsessive compulsive disorder is characterized by time consuming, repetitive behaviors, and it affects about 2 percent of humans. You may not even be aware that your dogs actions could …