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Police are guarding an evacuated Tokyo residence after its address was found on the second smartphone the police have seized in connection with a string of robberies in the Kanto region, police sources have told The Yomiuri Shimbun.

A 90-year-old woman was found dead Thursday in her house in Komae, Tokyo, in a suspected robbery-homicide.

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minneapolis City Council unanimously confirmed Brian O'Hara as the city's next police chief, a decision meant to usher in a new era of policing in a town still defined by George Floyd's murder.

The Metropolitan Police Department on Monday began cracking down more heavily on cyclists who violate traffic regulations.

Out of 37 officers who were terminated and later reinstated, 17 had committed acts deemed a "threat to safety."

MINNEAPOLIS — The joint trial scheduled for a pair of ex-Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting George Floyd's killing later this month will mark the latest proceeding after two and a half years in and out of state and federal courtrooms amid the nationwide reckoning in policing reignited…

MINNEAPOLIS — A litany of 170 motions were argued in Hennepin County District court ahead of the joint trial of two ex-Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting George Floyd's killing, and who are already serving federal sentences for violating Floyd's civil rights.

The president of Kappa Sushi's operating company was arrested Friday on suspicion of illegally obtaining data that was a trade secret of rival chain Hama-Sushi, the police said.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department mobilized up to 20,000 police officers Tuesday for the state funeral of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.