Called to a home to help control an "unruly child," an an Ozark, Arkansas police officer was given permission by the girl's mother to use a Taser to subdue the child.

A Vancouver RCMP officer has been charged with impaired driving for a second time in just over four weeks. Vancouver Police arrested him on Oct. 3 when he slammed his car into a bridge. Now, cops have picked him against for driving while impaired.

A wildlife officer in America decided to bring an alligator into his daughter's school, but it ended up escaping and heading to the local pond for a drink.

Five British soldiers were shot dead by an Afghan police officer on Tuesday afternoon as they rested inside a compound in Helmand Province where they had been living for the past two weeks and acting as mentors to the gunman and his colleagues.

A nine-year veteran of the Seattle Police department was shot dead as he sat in the driver's seat of a police cruiser with a trainee officer by his side. A car pulled up and fired several shots. Officer Timothy Brenton died from a shot to the head.

A drunken police officer and a group of friends were walking around the House of Screams (Haunted House) when they were approached by worker Mike Morrison dressed as Leatherface, the murderer in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Canadians have had their cherished belief in abundant fresh water shaken by a new report released by World Wildlife Fund Canada.

Thirteen men have been indicted in an international sex trafficking case, which they are accused of using women as slaves. One of the suspects is a Senior Russian intelligence officer.

On the same day that a poll revealed growing opposition amongst the American public to the war in Afghanistan, a senior U.S. military officer spoke of the probable need to deploy more troops to the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

David Steele, former 20-year United States Marine Corps and intelligence officer, has gone public before by stating that 9/11 was allowed to happen as a pretext for war. Now he has gone one step further.

On Tuesday, a town hall meeting on health care was being held at South Lakes High School in Reston, Virginia, a district being represented by Democratic Congressman Jim Moran. But as usual, it became controversial between protesters and law enforcement.

Britain's most senior female police officer has warned that a relaxation of the laws with regard to assisted suicide may allow people to rid themselves of elderly members of their family whom they view as a burden.

There have been many racial firsts in America’s history. The US Supreme Court, established in 1789, waited 178 years before the Senate confirmed its first Black Justice. Now, Green Bay is welcoming its black police officer.

The U.S. army officer convicted on 22 counts of murder after he took part in the 1968 massacre of civilians in the village of My Lai in Vietnam, has spoken of the matter for the first time in public and told of his remorse at what happened.

A wetland conservation area honouring the late Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin could lost 12,300 hectares due to strip mining.

Sergeant Brian Kelly of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, on August 15, 2009 at 8:15 a.m. local Afghanistan time, sustained non-life threatening injuries.

A Humboldt penguin named Ralph residing at the Marwell Wildlife Center in Hampshire, England became unexpectedly bald when moulting recently. Without his feathers, the penguin couldn't swim or keep warm, and he had no UV protection.

Sgt. James Crowley, the CPD officer who arrested Dr. Gates last week, has denied charges of racism. Crowley was also the officer who attempted to save Celtics star Reggie Lewis' life in 1993. Also, Dr. Gates has threatened to sue. UPDATES ADDED.

An anaesthetist and an obstetrician at Jersey Hospital, The Channel Islands worked hard to save Dana, a Sumatran Orang-utan living at Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust this week, when Dana ran into complications during childbirth.

An 18-year veteran of the United States Air Force may be honorably discharged without retirement benefits due to his sexual orientation.