DALLAS ― SWAT teams swarmed a parking garage at Dallas Police Department headquarters on Saturday, following reports of a suspicious person in the area. Ultimately, nobody was found, but the early evening search added to tensions in a city where a sniper had killed five law enforcement officers

BATON ROUGE, La. ― Police on Friday night faced off with several hundred protesters in Baton Rouge who were demanding justice for victims of police brutality, particularly Alton Sterling, who was killed here Tuesday.At least 100 officers, some in riot gear, tried to keep the protesters contained on

Two Baton Rouge Police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a black man outside of a convenience store in Louisiana early Tuesday have been identified.Police Chief Carl Dabadie on Wednesday identified Blane Salamoni, a four-year veteran of the force, and Howie Lake II, a three-year veteran,

A Twitter hoax that author Cormac McCarthy had died tricked many on Tuesday, including USA Today and writer Joyce Carol Oates. A bogus Twitter account resembling book publisher Alfred A. Knopf's handle tweeted Tuesday morning in broken English that the author of The Road and No County for Old

The man who gunned down 49 people in an Orlando gay nightclub praised God and told authorities, "I did the shootings," before hanging up.Omar Mateen called 911 at least several times during the attack, which also wounded dozens. In the calls, transcripts of which were released by the FBI on Monday,