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A tourist from Minnesota has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas charging defamation, false imprisonment and assault over an Oct. 12, 2010 incident with hotel security.

Security guards at Madison Square Garden who claimed they had been cheated out of overtime pay have been awarded $1.3 million.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is in Tel Aviv to study the Israeli airport security system, widely considered the best in the world. Terrorists haven't penetrated Ben Gurion International Airport's security since 1972. What makes Israeli airport security so great?

A federal trial court held that a school board might be liable for the death of a student's unborn child who died after faculty members forcefully removed a pregnant student from school grounds without provocation.

 

Chicago’s murder rate is higher than some other big cities, but according to Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis, the last time it was this low in the city, Mayor Daley’s father was mayor and Lyndon Johnson was president.

Since taking effect Aug. 11, 2010, the Columbia, S.C. Police Department's license plate scanners have resulted in 50 arrests.

A letter was purportedly signed by the La Familia drug cartel announcing a one-month truce circulated Sunday in the western state of Michoacan, Mexico.

In a new report, security firm McAfee says that mobile phones are likely to be the target of malicious attacks in 2011, noting that the year ahead could be "a turning point for threats to mobile devices."

Officials in London have unveiled a terrorism plot to bomb the London Eye and the Houses of Parliament.

"Year 2010 was the year of the vulnerability. And 2011 only promises the worse," predicts Alexander Gostev, head of Kaspersky Lab's global research & analysis team.