Mapping Crime in San Francisco

China is to carry out a geographical survey of islands in the East China Sea at the centre of a bitter dispute with Japan, state media said. The survey of the Diaoyu islands -- known as Senkakus in Japan, which controls them -- was part of a programme to map China's "territorial islands and reefs", the Xinhua news agency said, citing a state geographical agency.

ARLINGTON, Va. — An Air Force officer who led the branch’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response unit has been charged with groping a woman in a northern Virginia parking lot, authorities said Monday.

Prostitution peaks in San Francisco.

With an influx in federal cash from Department of Homeland Security grants, local police departments nationwide have been outfitting their officers with armored vehicles, surveillance drones, and sophisticated weaponry.

Just over a month after police broke up an alleged online gambling ring at a Markham Super Bowl party, a slew of raids in Toronto and elsewhere in Ontario Tuesday morning added 18 more arrests to the tally. “Today, I can say that we have dismantled one of the largest illegal gaming groups in Canada and the previous arrests were one phase of a larger project,” said RCMP Deputy Commissioner, Steve Graham. “Organized crime groups are entirely profit-motivated and this illegal gaming activity generated significant profits.”

There are a multitude of ways to experience a new city — biking, pub crawls, and museums among them. But what about through the eyes of a homeless person?

If there was one thing that hung over Apple's head all year last year it was the failure of Apple Maps. It made the company a punch-line, and it led to the dismissal of Scott Forstall, who ran iOS.

The Orland Park Police Department shut down its lobby and front parking lot for about an hour last week after someone carried a non-functioning military grenade into the building. Cmdr. John Keating said a brother and sister who had been cleaning out their deceased father's Orland Park home came across the grenade and were seeking assistance from the police on how to get rid of it.