Latest Law Enforcement Headlines
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Delaware Police Continuing Probe Into Alleged Prescription Fraud
Aug 14 2017 // Delaware State Police say more arrests are expected in an investigation involving a Philadelphia woman accused of distributing fraudulent prescriptions for controlled substances. Police said Thursday that 49-year-old...
Police Video: Florida Officer Told Venus Williams She Caused Fatal Crash
Jul 31 2017 // A police officer told tennis star Venus Williams she likely caused a crash in Florida that fatally injured an elderly man last month but didn’t cite her, saying it appeared the actions of a third driver left her in a...
Rhode Island State Police Issue $57K Fine for Overweight Truck
Jul 20 2017 // The Rhode Island State Police has issued a $57,000 fine against the company that owns the flatbed truck that was ruled too heavy for state bridges. Police announced the fine against Bay Crane Northeast Tuesday. The...
Florida Police Rescind Determination of Fault in Venus Williams Crash
Jul 10 2017 // Tennis star Venus Williams legally entered an intersection but was cut off by another car, setting off a chain of events that seconds later resulted in a fatal crash with a third car, police say video released Friday...
Florida Police Chief Not Guilty of Negligence in Fatal Citizens Academy Exercise
Jul 6 2017 // Jurors have found a Florida police chief not guilty of culpable negligence in the death of a woman who was accidentally shot during a citizens academy “shoot/don’t shoot” exercise. News outlets report...
Tennis Star Venus Williams Sued by Family of Florida Man Over Fatal Car Accident
Jul 5 2017 // Tennis star Venus Williams is being sued by the estate of a Florida man who died after a car crash police say she caused. An attorney representing the family of Jerome Barson, 78, filed the lawsuit Friday in Palm Beach...
Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust to Pay $3M in Philando Castile Settlement
Jun 27 2017 // The mother of Philando Castile, a black motorist killed by a Minnesota police officer last July, has reached a nearly $3 million settlement with the city that employed the officer, avoiding a federal wrongful death lawsuit...
Missouri Judge OKs $1.5M Settlement in Brown Family Wrongful Death Suit
Jun 26 2017 // A federal judge in St. Louis on June 20 approved a $1.5 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Michael Brown Sr. and Lezley McSpadden. Their 18-year-old son was unarmed on Aug. 9, 2014, when he was fatally...
UPS Gunman in San Francisco Who Killed 3 Had Filed Grievance
Jun 16 2017 // A United Parcel Service driver who opened fire during a meeting with co-workers had filed a grievance that he was working excessive overtime and appeared to specifically go after the three drivers he killed before fatally...
UPS Worker in Northern California Kills 3, Turns Gun on Self
Jun 15 2017 // A UPS driver opened fire with a handgun inside a United Parcel Service Inc delivery center in San Francisco on Wednesday, killing three co-workers before fatally shooting himself as police closed in, authorities and...
Missouri Lawmakers Eliminate Funding for Sobriety Checkpoints
Jun 6 2017 // Missouri lawmakers effectively eliminated funding for sobriety checkpoints for the fiscal year that begins in July, a move by a core group of critical conservative Republicans that officials say could hinder or end the...
Properties of Arkansas Police, Firefighters Target of Suspicious Fires
Jun 5 2017 // Authorities in a small Arkansas town say local police and firefighters are being targeted by suspicious fires and vandalism. No suspects have been arrested for the fires and property damage in Cotton Plant that began in...
Motorist Deaths by South Carolina Police Trigger Costly Settlements
May 31 2017 // Police forces in South Carolina have reached several high-dollar settlements in cases where officers have shot and killed drivers and others in moving vehicles in the past several years. Here are some of the most expensive...
Suspicious Fires in Arkansas Targeting Police, Firefighter Properties
May 25 2017 // Authorities in a small Arkansas town say local police and firefighters are being targeted by suspicious fires and vandalism. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports the incidents in Cotton Plant began in February, when a...
U.K. Security Services Warn of Imminent Terrorist Attack; U.S. Leaks Criticized
May 24 2017 // Soldiers are to patrol British landmarks and sporting events in their biggest homeland deployment in decades, as security services warned that another attack by terrorists who killed 22 people at a pop concert on Monday...
Uber Drivers Arrested in Hong Kong for Driving Without Insurance
May 23 2017 // Hong Kong police on Tuesday arrested 21 Uber drivers for illegal car-hiring as part of a clamp down against Uber Technologies Inc.’s operations in the Asian financial city. The arrests marked the latest upset for the...
Federal Lawsuit Alleges Baylor Football Players Recorded Rapes
May 18 2017 // A new federal lawsuit against Baylor University alleges football players routinely recorded gang rapes and staged dog fights during hazing parties in a program that fostered sexual violence. A former Baylor volleyball...
European Cyber Police Hunt for Culprits of Global Ransomware Attack
May 18 2017 // Days after the global cyber attack, U.K. police are trying to figure out whether it was an established network of criminals, state-backed hackers or bored teenagers that crippled the country’s health service. The...
Bus Carrying 26 Pennsylvania Students on Field Trip to D.C. Overturns on I-95
May 17 2017 // A bus carrying dozens of Pennsylvania eighth-graders to Washington, D.C., for a field trip overturned on Interstate 95 in northeastern Maryland on Monday, state police said. Officials said one child and one teacher were...
Texas Public Safety Agencies Embracing Drone Use
May 12 2017 // Government use of aerial drones became much easier when the Federal Aviation Administration flipped the switch on new regulations last year. The Austin American-Statesman reports since then, a number of Austin-area public...
