NEW YORK — More than 800 detailed New York Police Department reports on incidents of officers firing at civilians could be disclosed within months. City lawyers initially fought a judge’s February ruling ordering them to turn over the internal documents to the New York Civil Liberties Union. They withdrew their appeal last week. The civil […]

LOS ANGELES – The doctor charged in Michael Jackson’s death is returning to court to meet the first batch of potential jurors who may eventually decide whether to convict him of involuntary manslaughter. It will be the second time this year that a judge, prosecutors and attorneys for Dr. Conrad Murray try to pick a […]

WASHINGTON — The Republican presidential debate made two things clear: The 2012 contest is focused more than ever on jobs, and the GOP field is led by two men who can make plausible, though certainly imperfect, claims of experience in job creation. President Barack Obama, already under pressure to present a compelling new job-expansion strategy […]

ATLANTA — With bipartisan buy-in and no big price tag, a Georgia program pairing job seekers with potential employers for on-the-job training is gaining momentum as President Barack Obama crafts a plan to tackle the nation’s bedeviling unemployment problem. The fans of Georgia Works run the range of the political spectrum, from civil rights activist […]

NEW YORK — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday compared the New York Police Department’s surveillance of the city’s ethnic neighborhoods to screening kids for measles, and said the department had not unfairly targeted any group in an effort to root out possible terror connections. An Associated Press investigation found that NYPD dispatched undercover […]

New York — Josephine Harris, a 69-year-old grandmother from Brooklyn whose story of survival during the September 11 terrorist attacks received nationwide attention, has passed away. On 9/11, following the plane attacks on the World Trade Center, Harris descended 50 floors of stairs in an attempt to escape the building. That’s when she encountered a […]