BOSTON - Police officers stepping into hostage standoffs and other dicey situations now have something new to throw into the mix - a baseball-sized camera that can be hurled from afar, survive the landing and wirelessly relay video and audio back to base for two hours.

Car thieves beware: A new gadget is on its way to Tempe, and it’s looking for you.

High school football game films aren’t usually horror flicks, but some weeks, coaches see things on the video screen that scare them out of their tube socks and turf shoes.

High school football game films aren’t usually horror flicks, but some weeks, coaches see things on the video screen that scare them out of their tube socks and turf shoes.

PHOENIX — Military-style semiautomatic rifles have been used in at least four high-profile shootings in the past year. Bushmaster variations of the weapon have been used in two recent attacks, including the Newtown, Conn., school shootings and the Christmas Eve ambush slayings of two New York firefighters. While commonly called the AR-15, Colt and Armalite have been the only companies to make weapons by that specific name. Many other manufacturers, however, now sell similar versions of the rifle largely styled after the military's fully automatic M-16.

April 1, 2005

The Mesa City Council, brought to you by Excedrin. Dinosaur exhibits at the Remington Arms Co. Mesa Southwest Museum.

DEKALB, Ill. - The man who gunned down five people at Northern Illinois University in a suicidal rampage became erratic after halting his medication and carried a shotgun to campus inside a guitar case, police said Friday.