By Kimberly Pierceall Associated Press LAS VEGAS — A former Las Vegas police captain who resigned rather than be demoted for helping a Guns N' Roses guitarist use the department's helicopter for an elaborate wedding proposal is poised to get his job back, have his record cleared and be paid what he would have earned […]

By Marie French Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri's legislative session began with hundreds of protesters shutting down the Senate, demanding changes to state law in response to the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer. It ended Friday with the Senate again shut down — this time because of its […]

By Jake Pearson and Tom Hays Associated Press NEW YORK — Sheila Beasley was struggling to clean up after her beloved Rottweiler, Rocky, on a Bronx sidewalk on a December day in 2008 when she briefly put his leash down — a move spotted by a nearby plainclothes police officer who promptly wrote her a […]