LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Police Department has been handed the keys to its new headquarters. Outgoing Chief William J. Bratton dedicated the gleaming 10-story, $437 million downtown structure at a ceremony Saturday attended by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and other city and state officials. Bratton said the glass fascade …

ATHENS, Greece – Greek police say they have arrested a fugitive British child sex offender on the southern resort island of Crete. A police statement says the 56-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday in the coastal village of Lentas, on a European arrest warrant. The British Embassy identified him Friday …

BERLIN – Part of Berlin’s red-light scene is going green. One bordello, hoping to stave off falling demand in the economic crisis, has begun offering discounts to customers who pedal bicycles to the door. “It’s very difficult to find parking around here, and this option is better for our environment,” …

DETROIT – Investigators are expected to release a bilingual poster seeking information into the 2008 disappearance of a 2-year-old Bangladeshi girl from the Detroit area. The poster and details of a $20,000 reward come Friday, a year after Tangena Hussain was reported missing by her mother’s live-in boyfriend at a …

LEBANON, Pa. – Police in central Pennsylvania say they’ve nabbed a real pot head. Twenty-nine-year-old Cesar Lopez is charged with drug possession after police say an officer saw him with a bag of marijuana stuck to his forehead. Investigators say an officer saw Lopez looking at the inside of his …

SALT LAKE CITY — Elizabeth Smart is facing her alleged kidnapper — Brian David Mitchell — for the first time in court as Thursday she testifies against him about her 9-month-long abduction. The Salt Lake City Tribune is providing running her testimony as it happens. Click here to the Salt …

BIG BAY, Mich. – A 14-year-old Michigan boy has completed a four-day, 100-mile trip in his wheelchair as part of a fundraiser. Gene Fletcher said he raised more than $20,000 for the Bay Cliff Health Camp, a nonprofit therapy and wellness center on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for children and adults …

South Korea has outlined a plan to counter a possible missile attack by North Korea, Seoul’s Yonhap News reported on Sunday. The scenario submitted to President Lee Myung-bak included a plan to counter-attack in case North Korea fires a missile targeting the South’s battleships in the contested waters off the …

Former Vice President Al Gore may be sent to North Korea to negotiate the release of two American journalists on trial, the AFP reported. Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for Gore’s California-based Current TV, were arrested March 17 near the North Korean border while on a reporting trip to …

SEOUL, South Korea – The U.S. and South Korea have pinpointed 11 underground sites in North Korea where a third nuclear test could be conducted, a newspaper reported Monday ahead of a summit between the two allies on the communist regime’s growing atomic threat. South Korean President Lee Myung-bak departed …