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After four straight years of steady declines, pedestrian deaths increased during the first six months of 2010.

Scammers are shifting their focus away from Windows-based PCs to other operating systems and platforms, including smart phones, tablet computers, and mobile platforms in general, according to a report from Cisco Systems Inc.

Shoplifters in Britain make off with goods worth almost £400,000 (approx. $637,000) every day, British retailers have said.

The Supreme Court ruled that the government, in its background investigations of employees, can ask about their drug treatment, medical conditions or other personal information.

All visitors to the Washington, D.C. jails soon will have their fingerprints scanned and checked against law enforcement databases for outstanding warrants.

Two men who authorities say were competing to impress their fellow hackers were arrested on federal charges they stole the e-mail addresses of more than 100,000 Apple iPad users, including politicians and media personalities.

Two students were shot with one bullet at a Los Angeles high school when a student dropped a backpack containing a gun and it went off.

More than half of midsize companies are planning to increase their information technology (IT) budgets over the next 12 to 18 months, according to an IBM global study of more than 2,000 midsize companies representing more than 20 countries.

Santa Cruz. Calif. police are poised to be the first in the nation to use a new statistical model to predict crime and try to prevent it.