The Chicago Police Department (CPD), New York Police Department (NYPD), and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) have been helping families through Thanksgiving by providing people in their communities with turkeys and other holiday ...
New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, along with Mayor Bill de Blasio, announced that two New York Police Department officers were wounded by gunfire while investigating a domestic violence incident Tuesday. “I want to emphasize when it ...
It was a cold December morning, and Taylor Olson and his fire department crew had just finished their start-of-shift checks on their gear. They wanted to get a hot breakfast before the winter storm set in, so they headed off while they had the ...
One night, at an on-base bar at a U.S. Army air installation in South Korea, a soldier drank too much. Not exactly breaking news, but his first sergeant and company commander happened to be at the club, and after realizing the “super-drunk” soldier ...
The fog hangs low, a cool blanket pulled tight over the cornfields. Peaking through the haze, a tall, dark silhouette of a man holding binoculars becomes exposed with the sunrise. The bronze figure is Gen. John Buford, the famed cavalryman who ...
June 28, 2016, is a date that Sgt. Steven Borgstedte will never forget. On that Tuesday afternoon, a 911 call reported a burglary in process, and police officers from the Houston Police Department (HPD) responded with their sirens blaring. Two ...
A police officer with the Helena-West Helena Police Department in Arkansas was shot in the line of duty Thursday. The officer later died, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives New Orleans Field Division. Arkansas ...
Chief of Police Art Acevedo of the Houston Police Department announced the arrest of a primary suspect in connection with the Monday shooting death of HPD Sgt. Sean Rios, during a press conference Tuesday. Acevedo identified the man in custody as ...
A Houston Police Department officer is dead following a gun battle on a side road off Interstate 45 at approximately 1:30 p.m. local time Monday, according to Houston Chief of Police Art Acevedo. During a Monday press conference, Acevedo ...
From Jan. 1 to June 30, 2020, 65 law enforcement officers have died in the line of duty, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. Of the 65, five have been confirmed as being COVID-19 deaths in the line of duty. The total ...
Alani Bankhead was unsure of how this meeting would go. She had arrived at the Jordan Detection K9 kennel in Indianapolis to meet her new partner: her first K-9. She’d never had a dog growing up, or for the majority of her adult life, but that was ...
FBI agents received intelligence that John Dillinger — the most wanted gangster, bank robber, and fugitive in the country — had entered the Biograph Theater at 8:30 p.m. to watch Clark Gable and Myrna Loy in the movie Manhattan Melodrama. Samuel A. ...
The Oregon National Guard was activated Wednesday night to assist in quelling violence in Portland, Oregon, after “widespread property destruction and attacks on law enforcement officers” had occurred, according to the Multnomah County Sheriff’s ...
On Sunday, a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer was shot after an exchange of gunfire during a confrontation with an armed man inside a Ralphs grocery store near the intersection of Devonshire Street and Balboa Boulevard in Granada Hills, ...
The man believed to be responsible for ambushing New Orleans Police Department officers on Saturday has been identified as 44-year-old Donnell Hassell, NOPD Superintendent Shaun Ferguson said Monday during a press conference. Ferguson said that ...
Police departments across the US are preparing for the potential of civil unrest following the 2020 presidential election Tuesday. The International Crisis Group, an independent think tank with a mission to “prevent deadly conflict,” released a ...
The Drug Enforcement Agency’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day brought in 985,392 pounds of medication on Oct. 24, 2020, marking the largest collection in one day since the initiative began, according to a DEA press ...
Two New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) officers came under fire by a passing pedicab at the intersection of Royal and St. Philip streets in the French Quarter of New Orleans on Friday, according to a NOPD press release. The two officers were on ...
Federal Bureau of Investigations Special Agent in Charge Chris Hacker, Atlanta Police Department Interim Chief Rodney Bryant, and US Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak announced the preliminary results of the ongoing Operation Phoenix during a Thursday ...
John Williams’ Hedwig’s Theme plays softly, and the lights are dimmed low with the sounds of scraping on pumpkin skin continuing into the night. Monique Hawk, champion pumpkin carver and full-time police officer, has had a busy week of shifts and is ...
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced, in a press release, the charges against two men for possessing illegal explosives found in a van that was stopped on Wednesday in the Center City neighborhood of Philadelphia, ...
Investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Arson and Explosives Task Force responded along with the Philadelphia Police Department to a suspicious van with possible explosive devices inside, according to ATF Special ...
The US Marshals Service along with several other local, state, and federal agencies have recovered a combined total of 50 children in Ohio, Hawaii, and West Virginia. The results of Operation Autumn Hope, conducted in Ohio, and Operation Shine ...
Protests and riots erupted in Philadelphia following the shooting death of Walter Wallace Jr. Officers with the Philadelphia Police Department shot and killed Wallace after he ignored several commands to drop a knife he was carrying. PPD officers ...
Two hand-crew firefighters were caught and critically injured by the wind-fueled flames of the Silverado Fire Complex around 12:15 p.m. Monday, announced Brian Fennessy, the Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA) fire chief, during a Monday press ...
The call rang out in the firehouse of Rescue Company 1 reporting a jumper at the Ritz-Carlton hotel. Ed Loder, a 41-year-old firefighter with 20 years on the job, threw on his gear and pulled himself into the driver’s seat of their fire engine. The ...
Since as early as June, California firefighters have been taking on one of the most powerful forces on earth — Mother Nature. A perfect storm of conditions led to widespread wildfires throughout the state, as well as along the entire West Coast. The ...
During a Wednesday press conference, Chief Art Acevedo said that Houston police officers responded to a domestic disturbance call on Tuesday, resulting in one officer dead and another wounded. Acevedo first announced the shooting via Twitter at ...
The Drug Enforcement Administration announced Tuesday a new initiative, Project Safeguard, and the preliminary results since its August 2020 launch. The project was started to combat violent crime in connection with drug trafficking ...
Officers and the SWAT team from the Aurora Police Department in Colorado successfully negotiated the release of a 6-year-old hostage from her father, 39-year-old Eric Burns, Sept. 24. Burns barricaded himself and his daughter inside his home in ...
