By Sarah Calams Police1 OCALA, Fla. — A 16-year-old was arrested Monday after fleeing from deputies and concealing a rifle under his shirt. The incident occurred when a Marion County Sheriff’s Office deputy encountered a vehicle speeding with dark tinted windows and a non-functioning right...
By Grethel AguilaMiami HeraldBROWARD, Fla. — For decades, the brutal slaying of a bodybuilder in his Broward townhouse left investigators with more questions than answers.The lengthy search for answers in the murder of William Halpern partially ended when Miramar Police Detective Danny Smith announced Tuesday...
By David KromanThe Seattle TimesSEATTLE — A new report from Seattle’s independent Civil Service Commission undercuts a key goal of legislation recently passed by the Seattle City Council aimed at improving the process for hiring new police officers.Andrea Scheele, executive director of the Public Safety...
By Liz SawyerStar TribuneMINNEAPOLIS — Bullets rang out while she was in the bathroom. The caller emerged to find a horrific sight: two men mortally wounded inside the south Minneapolis apartment. Her partner lay bleeding from a gunshot wound to the head and was barely...
By Kaitlin McCallumHartford CourantWETHERSFIELD, Conn. — A Connecticut town will review its flag policy after a decision not to fly the Thin Blue Line police flag in honor of a fallen state police trooper drew national attention.Wethersfield Mayor Ken Lesser made the announcement at a...
By Aimee Greenoregonlive.comPORTLAND, Ore. — A long-time Portland police officer has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the city, its insurance company and the man who ran over him in a stolen car in 2022.Fred Wiechmann states that the city and its Texas-based insurance company,...
By Mark ThiessenAssociated PressANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Alaska man and two police officers rescued a baby moose from what police described as “a sure demise” after it fell into a lake and got stuck in a narrow space between a floatplane and a dock.Spencer Warren,...
Associated PressNEW YORK — Residents of a New York City neighborhood were praised for their role in the arrest of an Ecuadorian accused of raping a 13-year-old girl, a crime that the city’s police commissioner said “shocked our entire city.”Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, 25, was arrested...
By Dominic GatesThe Seattle TimesMILTON, Wash. — A police officer with the city of Milton, just east of Tacoma, was hospitalized with serious injuries Wednesday while trying to take a suspect into custody for an outstanding drug warrant.When the suspect fled in his car, Officer...
Massachusetts law enforcement officials are continuing their efforts to solve missing children cases from the 90s that they believe involved serial killer Lewis Lent. Lent pleaded guilty in 1996 to the 1990 kidnapping and murder of Jimmy Bernardo, 12, of Pittsfield. He received a mandatory...