Older dogs across the state are set to be retired as new K-9 recruits are trained to ignore cannabis.
One hundred people have been indicted in connection with a fentanyl, heroin and cocaine trafficking ring responsible for moving enough drugs to kill almost 1.5m people.
A couple from Florida went to extraordinary lengths to get a insurance payout from the owner of their rented home.
In a picture that could rival 'hot felon' Jeremy Meeks, women have been gushing over a man who spectacularly escaped Dungavel Immigration Centre in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
David Gammon, 35, was supervising his two-year-old Anakin and a sibling outside her home in Pennsylvania when he passed out through drink, according to police.
Swords and machetes were among nearly 100 deadly weapons handed over during a seven-day knife amnesty by Cambridgeshire Police.
An Illinois couple, Michael and Georgena Roberts, have been charged with starving their six-year-old boy to death, said police.
Spanish police have arrested the driver, who is accused of killing the German Shepherd by towing it along the highway for several kilometres.
A new law has been introduced in Rio de Janeiro which requires children to wear their blood type on their school uniforms.
"We believe that the pangolins were to be sold as exotic meats in China as the demand for such food is high there," Kedah wildlife chief Muhammad Ali Che Aman said.
Gurtej Randhawa, from Wolverhampton, could face jail after he was caught buying a remotely-detonated car bomb from the dark web.
Three Brazilian teenagers reportedly live streamed their own deaths when police opened fire on their car during an anti-drug-trafficking raid in Rio de Janeiro.
According to CBI, the arrested student was weak in studies and wanted his examinations postponed, so he killed the child thinking a death in the school could delay the exams.
WMP's Assistant Chief Constable Marcus Beale to appear in court accused of offence under the Official Secrets Act.
Netchanok Nokyungtong, 20, said she was devastated after her married lover returned to his family in South Korea, leaving her alone.
Attempted murder investigation launched after 34-year-old man attending birthday BBQ in Hackney's Daubeney Fields shot.
Police had charged six men of gang-raping the elderly nun, but court found only one man guilty of the crime and the others guilty of robbery and criminal conspiracy.
A special unit to hold children as young as 10 who carry out sex attacks is being considered by ministers amid a rise in convictions.
Gabrielle Canales was caught on camera while stealing from driver Mohammed H Bhuiyan's jar in August. The video recently went viral on social media.
Wearing such attire is a sensitive issue for the general public, following recent terror incidents linked to the Isis militant group, a police officer said.
Philip Ahr also resigned from the Radnor Township Board of Commissioners following his resignation as the board's president on 23 October.
A 32-year-old man was charged with his wife's murder after a friend found her with 'severe head injuries'. Despite efforts to save her, the woman died in paramedics' arms.
Reports say that Devin Patrick Kelley was treated at a mental health centre in New Mexico and briefly escaped in 2012. Kelley killed 26 people at a baptist church in Texas.
An asylum seeker from El Salvador alleges that a female guard at a privately-owned detention centre in Texas, sexually assaulted her repeatedly.
Craig Smith, 28, from Birkenhead, Merseyside, was jailed for life last week after being convicted of beating his two-year-old step-son Teddy Tilston to death.
Afghan refugee Hussein Khavari raped and drowned Maria Ladenburger, 19, in Freiberg in October 2016. Police found a tooth in his home which showed that Khavari is 25.
A vigilante mob doused a teacher in paraffin after they found him attempting to rape his 8-year-old student. Police intervened before he could be set alight.
Christopher Tucker, 34, was arrested in Illinois and has been extradited to Pennsylvania after allegedly killing Tara Serino, 19, from Upper Macungie, on 30 October.
One person is reported to have been injured after a gunman opened fire in a building close to the university campus. The university reported that the lockdown has now been lifted.
Financier Bill Browder is Vladimir Putin's biggest enemy after passing Magnitsky Act over killing of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who exposed mass tax fraud by Russian government