Crime News

Utah police are putting more investigators into the search for a 28-year-old mother whose disappearance has been termed "highly suspicious." Since Susan Powell was reported missing Monday, authorities have questioned her husband and searched a desert area where he said he took the couple's two young children.

As negotiators grapple in Copenhagen over how to curtail carbon emissions, Europe's own system turns out to be an ATM for organized crime. According to officials, criminals have gamed the EU's Emissions Trading System for a cool $7.4 billion in purloined tax revenues over the last 18 months.

He's 100 years old, but he's still spry. Theodore Sypnier is about to leave a halfway house after serving a lengthy prison sentence for molesting little girls. And one official says he's still the same manipulator who used his grandfatherly charm to snare young victims.

Her choppy blue-and-blond hair hiding the fear in her eyes, a 15-year-old voices her dislike for a hip-hop music group and gets punched in the face by a classmate. The whole thing is caught on video -- and social media helps police in their investigation.

A panhandler opens fire in New York City's Times Square, and is shot and killed by a plainclothes officer, police say. No one else was injured. The 25-year-old suspect was recognized by a member of a task force that monitors aggressive panhandling, and opened fire when the officer gave chase.

Police hunt for scores of people in an election-related massacre that left 57 people dead Nov. 23 in the Philippines. Some of the suspects are tied to the powerful Ampatuan clan, which is facing murder and rebellion charges.