By Lyn RiddleThe StateFOUNTAIN INN, S.C. — One year for Halloween, Sam Lee and Amanda Riggins Peden put a broken airplane with skeleton passengers on the front lawn of their Fountain Inn home.Another year, it was an overturned van with a 12-foot skeleton inside.This year...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced the opening of applications for two new public safety grant programs totaling $175 million, aimed at helping local law enforcement reduce violent crime and improve safety in downtown areas, the Office of the Governor announced.Beginning Oct. 2,...
By Milena Malaver, David J. Neal and David GoodhueMiami HeraldMIAMI — Two Miami police officers were shot Thursday morning while responding to a call about gunshots fired in Allapattah, leading to a man barricaded in a house killed, another man in police custody and a...
By Megan GuzaPittsburgh Post-GazettePITTSBURGH — City leaders are abandoning Pittsburgh’s co-response program, which places a police officer and social worker in the same vehicle to respond to mental health-related calls, opting instead to pair social workers together in separate vehicles to act as “secondary” responders.Public...
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Newly released body camera footage shows the tense and dangerous moments when a machete-wielding suspect held his toddler son hostage, WLBT reported.According to Phoenix Police, officers arrived at the scene after the suspect’s brother-in-law discreetly texted 911 to report that the suspect...
SARTELL, Minn. — A 12-year-old boy whose dream was to become a police officer was honored by the Sartell Police Department hours before he was taken off life support following a bike accident, the New York Post reported.Raghav Shrestha, a seventh-grade student at Sartell-St. Stephen...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio is integrating drone technology into public safety operations with the launch of its new Drones for First Responders Pilot Program, Government Technology reported.The two-year initiative, announced by the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) and managed by DriveOhio, aims to support police,...
Associated PressPARMA HEIGHTS, Ohio — The subject of an Ohio police pursuit took off down the road, a flash of orange in the darkness, but officers eventually caught up and grabbed the escapee: a runaway inflatable pumpkin as tall as them.Body camera footage from the...
By Christine Fernando and Sudhin ThanawalaAssociated PressCHICAGO — A judge on Thursday blocked the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area for at least two weeks, finding no substantial evidence that a “danger of rebellion” is brewing in Illinois during Trump’s immigration crackdown.“The...
MARINETTE COUNTY, Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Justice has released video footage showing a pursuit and officer-involved shooting of a homicide suspect, WBAY reported.Dash camera footage released on Oct. 3 shows Marinette Police Department officers pursuing a white vehicle on Aug. 29 as it...
