public safety

Only 4 states continue a ban on fireworks. The other states bring in a lot of revenue. Read Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/business/03fireworks.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper

I happen to live in something of an earthquake zone and it seems that these things do happen quite randomly, such as when you're sitting at home watching TV. However, some in Italy feel that it's about time seismologists were held responsible for their supposed ability to recognize when a...

NEW YORK -- It is a stomach-churning sign of spring, as reliable as cherry blossoms or allergy attacks: reports of dead bodies rising to the surface of New York's harbor and rivers as the water warms with the season, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. More of these so-called floaters...

A man arrested for keeping an alligator in his kitchen has told police he did it because the reptile impressed women. Police raided a property in Ford Heights, Illinois after receiving a tip-off that Dewayne Yarbrough had an alligator in his home. It is not clear who the information came...

WASHINGTON – Some of the first information gleaned from Osama bin Laden's compound indicates al-Qaida considered attacking U.S. trains on the upcoming anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. But counterterrorism officials say they believe the planning never got beyond the initial phase and have no...

Authorities on Massachusetts' South Shore are investigating an apparent bizarre murder-suicide with a power saw that left a husband and wife dead. The alleged crime was revealed at approximately 10 p.m. on Monday, when police officers in the historic town of Plymouth, located about 40 miles...

Spray paint addict Kelly Gibson has been caught by the police red handed and silver faced for solvent abuse. He was arrested at his home in Fort Wayne, Indiana after his wife Elizabeth made a call to the police following an argument. Gibson had been arrested for the same offence 47...

For a crime-fighting Ninja has begun patrolling the streets of Royal Tunbridge Wells scaring off yobs, helping pensioners and rescuing cats from trees. The 25-year-old, who calls himself the ‘Neighbourhood Ninja of Tunbridge Wells’, claims to be a ‘grandmaster’ of the Japanese martial art...

Four bank robbers have been arrested after boasting about their successful raid on Facebook. The dim witted criminals posted the message "I'm rich" and "Wipe my teeth with hundreds" soon after an armed raid on a bank in Houston, Texas. Police were...

A mailman in Oregon has been suspended after being caught on camera by a Portland homeowner defecating in a yard while on his postal route. Local resident Don Derfler said he saw the act take place while he was babysitting his son last Wednesday. ‘He started pulling his pants down and...

Drivers looking to avoid pricey citations for traffic offenses such as red-light camera violations and speed trap busts are turning to technology to level the playing field. As red-light cameras proliferate around the United States and cash-starved police agencies pump up coffers with...

For seven years, Roger Huang, a pastor who runs a rescue mission in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, has been trying to shut down the sex shops there. This week he may have seen a sign that his efforts are working. On Wednesday, a man burst into flames while inside one of those porn...

Police in China were stunned to spot a man 'driving' two bumper cars along a street. Officer Liu Yulin was watching CCTV footage of a road in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province when the bumper cars came into view. He said: 'I saw on the screen that a man was driving two bumper cars. He sat in...

The International Atomic Energy Agency weighed in on the simmering nuclear crisis with alarming radiation data, but the government said Thursday it has no plans for now to expand the current evacuation zone. The international nuclear watchdog said Wednesday in Geneva it detected about 2...

Police say that package exploded next to Egged bus 74 opposite Binyanei Ha'uma in central Jerusalem; Netanyahu delaying departure for Moscow. An explosion took place on or near a bus in central Jerusalem Wednesday afternoon. Police said that a bomb exploded outside Egged bus number 74 at...

A Russian bomb squad were called out to defuse a bomb on Monday, but an investigation into the ticking package revealed it to be a vibrating sex toy. The crack team of bomb experts were called out to a post office in Petrozavodsk after receiving a call from a postal worker who had...

Police investigating complaints about a man’s noisy pets found two adult lions being kept in his garden in Romania. Owner Lorian Galcescu, 45, said: ‘I don’t know what the problem is – they weren’t hurting anyone.’ He said he bought the two Senegalese lions as cubs from a fair that...

Police hope a man in Florida will think long and hard before he prank calls 911 again. Investigators in Broward County say 28-year-old Matthew Wade Douglas Jr. is responsible for two obscene 911 calls in which a man graphically described symptoms -- and raunchy home remedies -- following an...