Ohio carried out the nation's 999th execution since 1977 on Tuesday. The macabre milestone of 1000 is scheduled for later in the week with another execution.

John Hicks, 49, was put to death a day after Eric Nance was executed in Arkansas for killing a teenager by slicing her throat with a box cutter.

A night of drinking left a man with such a heavy buzz, he hopped into a police patrol car thinking he had hailed a cab.

The 20-year-old man was arrested Saturday soon after he sat inside Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Deputy Esther Beckman's car, as she was questioning a bicyclist. The suspect's name has not been released.

After 18 years of living as a fugitive, an escaped inmate turns himself in.

Hernando Hennessy-Rossi was 39 when he escaped from a federal minimum security prison camp at Eglin Air Force Base near Pensacola, Florida.

Federal police at Mexico City's international airport have seized over one million dollars in cash after discovering the bills packed into cans labeled as chili peppers.

The Associated Press

The FBI, known for its hard nosed and clean cut crime-fighting image, considers relaxing its previous hiring policy for former drug users.

Some senior FBI managers have been deeply frustrated that applicants, who acknowledged occasional marijuana use in college, had to be rejected. Even though in some cases many had performed top-secret work at other government agencies, such as the CIA or State Department.