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This storm is PlowNYC's first big test in New York City. GPS systems are on 1,700 city vehicles, including about 3,000 plow trucks and salt spreaders. They transmit 15,000 data points per minute to a Web service where residents can enter their address to see when plows have gone by and when they are expected back. The maps are updated every half hour.
A plan by Seattle police to send aloft miniature drones equipped with cameras has been grounded, following heated criticism by residents concerned about privacy, the mayor says.
Police were investigating an incident after a burglary at an Illinois doctor's office: The powerful magnets in an MRI machine grabbed and held onto an officer's gun.
Forget Lassie: A homeless man outside Olympia, Wash., is thanking his dog, Buddy, for heroics that may well have saved his life.
Two more Marines, including the first officer to be implicated, have been charged in connection with a video showing Marines urinating on bodies in Afghanistan, the Marine Corps says.
The FBI says it has arrested a California man after he tried to set off what he thought was a car bomb at a bank in Oakland.
As millions in the Northeast braced for a winter storm bearing down on region on Friday, those still recovering from Hurricane Sandy worried about suffering another major setback.
A new article from the Economic Policy Institute takes on several myths related to the debt and deficit and shows that the focus of many politicians and policy analysts is misguided and could undercut the fragile economic recovery. The growing consensus is that policymakers should set specific goals for deficit reduction in order to stabilize the debt and that this is one of the top priorities the country faces. Some of the more popular proposals aim to reduce the deficit by $1.4 trillion or $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years.
Published at 1:50 p.m. ET: A mother and daughter who were mistakenly shot by Los Angeles police hunting for rampage suspect Christopher Dorner had no warning before bullets started whizzing through their newspaper-delivery truck, their lawyer said Friday.
Dozens of police officers were going door-to-door on a snowy California mountain, searching abandoned cabins for ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner, suspected of killing three people in a revenge-fueled rampage he mapped out in an online manifesto.
