The Detroit Police Department is expanding a program of mental health crisis intervention teams after seeing success in the pilot program it launched in December. DPD Chief James E. White announced the decision to expand the program throughout the ...
A California SWAT sheriff's deputy and SWAT team member, who was also a Marine combat veteran, was killed Sunday while attempting to rescue hostages in central California. Kern County Sheriff's Deputy Phillip Campas was one of four deputies hit by ...
While members of a mob shocked him repeatedly with a taser on Jan. 6, DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone suffered a mild heart attack. But he knew that he couldn’t go for his gun because “that, in their minds, would provide their ...
Almost 80 missing children were found in the first two months of a multiagency law enforcement effort in southern New Mexico known as Operation Rescue Me. One minor was located in Mexico. Officials with Homeland Security and the US Marshals ...
In the early hours of July 3, 2021, residents of Wakefield and Reading, Massachusetts, were awoken by a reverse 911 call ordering them to shelter in place. A heavily armed group calling itself "Rise of the Moors" had encountered police earlier and ...
Security camera footage released this week captures the moment a deputy in Biloxi, Mississippi, fires in midair as he falls over backward, retreating from a man with a knife. On Jan. 15, Harrison County Sheriff's Deputy Bobby Jackson confronted ...
Police in Florida and New York were caught on body cameras performing acts of courage and comfort with the same three words — "I got you" — as they helped a family escape a burning building and pulled a trapped woman from a flooded car. Officer ...
Police in Springfield, Missouri, saved a hot dog trapped in a hot car last week. But when a picture of the pooch and his rescuers — all with big smiles and matching eyes — hit social media, it was commenters who sounded thirsty. A shooting last ...
Before Mark Bezos became one half of the first pair of brothers to go to space together, he was in another brotherhood — that of firefighters. Alongside his brother, Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the Blue Origin space company, Mark launched ...
A rioter who admitted to setting fire to Portland’s Justice Center and throwing a Molotov cocktail toward police officers during the 2020 civil unrest was sentenced Monday to four years in prison. Police arrested Cyan Waters Bass after a riot ...
A Texas community is mourning the loss of a sheriff’s deputy killed in a shootout Thursday. Four officers were shot by a man who tried to provoke a confrontation with police earlier in the day. After an extended standoff at the man's home, he opened ...
A rampage shooter in Tucson, Arizona, shot at least five people Sunday afternoon, including three first responders — two EMTs and a firefighter — and left police frantically searching for three missing children. Monday, police announced the ...
The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department swore in a new member of the force Wednesday. He stood at attention — as all very good boys do in formal moments — though it wasn’t clear if he had to raise a paw for an oath. Satoshi, or Toshi for short, is a ...
Mechanics at a Southern California auto shop arrived at work Tuesday to hear what they thought were far-off cries for help. But no matter how carefully they listened, they couldn’t narrow down where the voice was coming from. After police ...
A California firefighter who has spent nearly 10 years on fire lines around the state said he’d never seen anything like the early months of the 2021 season. “I think that all of us are very nervous,” said the firefighter, who spoke to Coffee or ...
One officer gives the order: “Get out.” With that, two Toledo cops leave the safety of their patrol car and begin weaving through a dark landscape that has erupted in chaos. Around them, people run and scream, fleeing a Fourth of July block party ...
A wildfire spotting and control aircraft crashed in northwest Arizona Saturday, killing the pilot and a career firefighter. Pilot Matthew Miller, 48, and Air Tactical Group Supervisor Jeff Piechura, 62, were executing “visual reconnaissance and ...
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a law Tuesday that prevents police from influencing the decisions of EMS medics to administer sedatives — particularly ketamine — to patients whom police are arresting. Ketamine is a powerful but largely safe and ...
Cops love doughnuts. That’s the stereotype at least. Being caught in uniform with one of the delicious but unhealthy confections has long carried a certain stigma, but the real history behind the close relationship cops have with doughnuts is ...
Four law enforcement officers were shot and one was killed in two incidents Wednesday — one in Chicago, and the other about three hours away in Terre Haute, Indiana. One Chicago police officer and two agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, ...
As tropical storm Elsa bears down on South Florida, Miami-Dade County officials chose to bring down the final standing section of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, destroying the structure with controlled explosions Sunday night. Officials ...
The Fourth of July saw celebrations around the country, often with massive official fireworks displays for whole cities and towns, and other places with friends and neighbors shooting off their own. Most went off without a hitch. Some did ...
While carting away 5,000 pounds of illegal fireworks from a Los Angeles home this week, an LAPD bomb squad decided that a small stash of homemade bombs looked too sketchy to transport. The technicians thought the controlled detonation would be a ...
Remembered as "joyous" and "goofy" by friends and colleagues, and as deeply committed to reaching out to students struggling through middle school's social tripwires, Police Officer Gordon Beesley was hailed as a friend, father, husband, and good cop ...
Oregon lawmakers passed a staggering 22 police reform bills before ending their legislative session Saturday, but reforms still didn’t go as far as some advocates would have liked. In the summer of 2020, after more than 100 continuous days of ...
Just past 1 a.m. Thursday, half of a Miami 12-story apartment building crumbled into rubble, crushing 55 apartments in seconds. The building collapse likely will be one of the deadliest in US history. Here’s what we know 24 hours later: Four ...
Rescue officials said 55 apartments were crushed when a beachside condominium building partially collapsed overnight. Nearly half of the apartments in the 13-story, 136-unit Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, 6 miles north of Miami Beach, ...
The van was carrying nine people — an adult driver and eight children, the oldest 17, the youngest just 3, according to a press release from the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. The children had been at an Alabama Sheriffs Youth Ranch, a retreat for ...
After a 19-year veteran police officer was shot and killed Monday in the Denver suburb of Arvada, Colorado, people across the community found ways to honor and say goodbye to Officer Gordon Beesley. Beesley was well-known in Arvada for his ...
On his worst day as a cop, De’Joure Mercer did everything right. And then, he says, the National Football League tried to make him a villain. Mercer, a two-time district Officer of the Year with the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, ...
