Police official: Charlie Hebdo suspects dead, hostage freed
By LORI HINNANT and ELAINE GANLEY A police official on the scene of the standoff between two armed brothers suspected in the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo newsroom says the…
Municipal governments
PASADENA, Texas emerges as new battleground on voting rights
By PAUL J. WEBER When the movie “Urban Cowboy” made this refinery town famous in 1980, the honkytonk Gilley’s was booming and wannabe cowpokes from the white Houston suburbs flocked…
Mario Cuomo, a giant in NY, liberal politics, dies
By DAVID KLEPPER and MICHAEL HILL Mario Cuomo had a loud and liberal voice that inspired a generation of politicians to turn to public service, and a story of humble…
Police commissioner : Turning backs on mayor inappropriate
By JONATHAN LEMIRE and MIKE BALSAMO New York City’s police commissioner says it was “very inappropriate” for officers to turn their backs on the mayor in a sign of disrespect…
Battered NY mayor calls for temporary protest halt
By JONATHAN LEMIRE As the New York Police Department mourns two of its own, Mayor Bill de Blasio pleaded for a pause in protests and rancor amid a widening rift…
NY police union leader well known for his bite
By COLLEEN LONG Patrick Lynch was hollering. Standing outside a Brooklyn hospital after the bodies of two slain police officers were taken away, the head of the nation’s largest police…
Pope in blistering critique of Vatican bureaucrats
Pope Francis issued a blistering critique Monday of the Vatican bureaucracy that serves him, denouncing how some people lust for power at all costs, live hypocritical double lives and suffer…
Cops’ killer angry at chokehold death
By COLLEEN LONG and JENNIFER PELTZ A gunman who announced online that he was planning to shoot two “pigs” in retaliation for the police chokehold death of Eric Garner ambushed…