Motorists on a highway in Northern California on Saturday called police after spotting a female juvenile in the backseat of a car holding up a sign that read: “Help me she’s not my mom!! Help!!” Two ...

Endless misspent hours of telephone mischief became a coming-of-age story for generations of teens in the pre-internet age.

Every day, police officers respond to reports of all sorts of events and nonevents, most of which never make the news. Here is a sampling of lesser-known — but no less noteworthy — incidents from ...