Police

A Tennessee Highway Patrol officer apparently ran an unauthorized background check on a reporter who had written about ongoing agency woes, The (Nashville)Tennessean said.

A local district attorney in Oklahoma has filed a criminal libel complaint against a blogger there -- and police are…

With the Olympics underway, reports are streaming in from China this week of foreign journalists being detained, having photos deleted…

Faced with spreading criticism, the mayor of Buffalo agreed Thursday to restore basic crime details that have vanished from the police computer that…

A photographer with a Texas newspaper was detained Monday for 45 minutes after he refused to show police his pictures…

Sixteen years after the rape and murder of a University of Georgia student, with no suspects and no fresh leads in the case, the police files can…

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals encouraged the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to review whether the Legislature violated the state’s…

Federal appellate judges in Chicago heard oral arguments Tuesday over whether records containing police misconduct and excessive force complaints should…

Judge Marilyn G. Diamond gave the New York Police Department 60 days to turn over a database of hundreds of…

The New Orleans Police Department and the Times-Picayune have reached an agreement that will require the police department to turn…