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La Paz, Jan 17 (Prensa Latina) Three Bolivian policemen accused of extortion due to the theft of over USD$ 800,000 in a vehicle in Santa Cruz were sent on Wednesday to Palmasola prison, preventively detained.

Ghana and Togo have pledged to address challenges affecting the smooth operation of the Noepe-Akanu Joint Border Post within six...

A 17-year-old boy has been charged after allegedly robbing a man who was on a CTA platform in the South Loop.

Deputies in Everett arrested a man who stabbed another person in the back of the neck while getting off a bus Wednesday evening.

With ridership still lagging behind pre-COVID pandemic levels, and with additional transit funding brought about during the pandemic set to expire, the Chicago...

A police constable (WPC) assigned to the Transit Unit has been discharged from the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex and is on sick leave after she was knocked down by a maxi taxi while on duty on Tuesday morning. Police said she received 13 stitches to the back of haer head, legs and lower back

A 17-year-old boy faces charges after being seen with a firearm in a restricted area of a CTA train car Thursday evening. 

A CTA union president demanded Wednesday that the transit agency bring back conductors and re-establish its own police unit to stop a surge in violent crime and unruly behavior that’s depressing ridership and putting CTA employees at risk.

Eric Dixon, president of the Amalgamated Transit Workers Union Local 308, argued that crime on the CTA would remain “out of control” until conductors return — at least on subway trains.

The pair, one of them in a wheelchair, confronted the victim around 3:30 p.m. Nov. 24 in an elevator at the station, police said.