LEXINGTON, N.C. — An off-duty Lexington police officer was killed in a shooting that also left two others wounded, including an off-duty firefighter, police said.Lexington police officers responded to reports of a shooting around 9:13 p.m. on Dec. 17 in a parking lot on Cedar...
MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. — The mayor of Mount Vernon has approved a six-month extension of health benefits and delayed separation for Officer Derek Williams, the department veteran who said he was facing termination while undergoing daily dialysis for end-stage kidney disease.In a statement released Dec....
HOUSTON — Houston police released body-worn camera video showing the tense moments before an officer was stabbed in the head during a confrontation that ended in a fatal officer-involved shooting outside a downtown CVS.The incident happened around 7:25 p.m. on Nov. 23 at a CVS...
By Kimberlee Kruesi, Alanna Durkin Richer, Eric Tucker and Hannah SchoenbaumAssociated PressPROVIDENCE, R.I. — A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University ended at a New Hampshire storage facility where authorities discovered the man dead inside and then revealed...
By Lindsay Whitehurst and Bill BarrowAssociated PressWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug and open new avenues for medical research, a major shift in federal drug policy that inches closer to what many...
By Scott R. AxelrodStaten Island Advance, N.Y.NEW YORK — The New York City Police Department hired 4,056 officers this year, marking the largest number of recruits brought on in a single year in recorded history, Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch announced.The department swore in 1,143...
By Eric Tucker Associated PressWASHINGTON — FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Wednesday that he will resign from the bureau next month, ending a tenure in which he clashed with the Justice Department over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and was forced to...
Editor’s note: This article, originally published on Dec. 17, has been updated to reflect that Williams was not six months away from retirement and has been on medical leave since 2023. It also reflects a statement from the city. MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. — A 19-year...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has approved the Honoring Our Fallen Heroes Act as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, advancing a long-running push to recognize occupational cancer as a line-of-duty death for federal benefits.The bill now heads to President Donald Trump’s desk for...
LOS ANGELES — The LAPD released bystander and body camera video showing a fatal officer-involved shooting of a man who charged at officers while swinging a cluster of metal wires at them. The Nov. 11 incident began when officers were dispatched to a call of...
