California fire officials are preparing for a fire season that is already seven times more destructive than 2020’s and shows every sign of getting worse. “Every acre in California can and will burn someday, and whether you had a fire near you or ...
Carved on the front of the US Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, are the words of Navy Adm. Chester Nimitz, who said that on Iwo Jima, “uncommon valor was a common virtue.” But Sunday, local firefighters needed to lend a hand after ...
Chandler Police Department Officer Christopher Farrar was a family man who had been decorated four times in his 18-year career for saving a life in the line of duty. He was killed Thursday night when a man fleeing police stole a vehicle from a car ...
Chicago Police Department Officer Julius Givens looks like the kind of cop who could carry you to safety: tall, strong, barrel-chested. But when he and his partner found themselves the only available help for a grievously wounded 13-year-old boy, it ...
After a record-breaking number of synthetic opioid deaths in the last year, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced Project Wave Breaker this week, a national operation targeted at the influx of the drugs. The Centers for Disease Control and ...
Two sheriff’s deputies were killed, and at least one member of a rescue team sent to help them was shot during a 13-hour standoff Wednesday in a neighborhood near Boone, North Carolina, that ended with five people dead. Despite gunfire from a ...
Signaling a new approach to federal oversight of local police departments, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has opened investigations into police departments in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Louisville, Kentucky. US Attorney General ...
A fake image circulated on Twitter this week that appeared to show the official Chicago Police Department Twitter account making a statement in solidarity with former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. The image, appearing to be a screenshot ...
A New York City Police Department police officer was struck and killed by a drunk driver as he directed traffic on a freeway early Tuesday morning. Officer Anastasios Tsakos was a 14-year veteran of the NYPD, assigned to a highway patrol unit in ...
Just after 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, a police officer in Columbus, Ohio, arrived on a call to where a fight had been reported. Within 12 seconds of climbing out of his car, he had shot and killed a 16-year-old girl. In another Midwestern city, a jury ...
A fiery Tesla crash that made national headlines this week ended up being a learning experience for the fire department called to put it out and creating a little heat for the department’s chief. “Thanks a lot Dad,” read a text that The Woodland’s ...
After a 13-year-old was killed by a police officer in Chicago last weekend following a chaotic foot chase, Mayor Lori Lightfoot discussed the issue of police giving chase to suspects in a press conference Thursday. “Dangerous for [police ...
There was still a layer of snow on the foothills outside Denver last week, but it won’t be there for long. When it melts away in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains — and across the wild, airy landscapes of the entire Mountain West — wildfires will be close ...
Nearly six hours after Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder in a Minneapolis courthouse, a Coffee or Die Magazine reporter stationed downtown posted a message for editors awaiting a report: "Ghost town." Despite high tensions and a buildup of ...
A Minneapolis jury convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin of second-degree unintentional murder, the highest charge he faced, and two lesser charges in the death of George Floyd. Chauvin kneeled on Floyd’s back last May while arresting him for ...
On March 29, a Chicago police officer shot and killed 13-year-old Adam Toledo while responding to a report of “shots fired.” On Thursday, police body-camera footage of the killing was released to the public. The video appears to show police ...
No arrest had been made Monday morning following a drive-by shooting 24 hours earlier that targeted a “neighborhood security team” of Minnesota National Guard soldiers and Minneapolis Police Department officers. The team was holding a position at an ...
When WWE's WrestleMania came to Tampa, Florida, last week, the event brought the biggest crowd for a single event the city has seen since COVID-19 lockdowns began. But in a pattern that police say is common around large events, the crowd lured by ...
The release Thursday of body-worn camera videos from a Chicago police shooting that killed 13-year-old Adam Toledo reignited demonstrations in the Windy City overnight, but not to the degree the city had expected. The release came the same week as ...
A police officer in the rural Virginia town of Windsor was recently terminated after body-camera footage of a Dec. 5, 2020, traffic stop and use-of-force incident was released. After video of the incident “became viral,” Windsor Police Chief ...
A gunman killed eight people and himself late Thursday night at a FedEx shipping facility near the Indianapolis airport. Police say at least five others were injured and were transported or took themselves to local hospitals. The shooting occurred ...
Derek Chauvin chose not to take the stand on the final day of his defense, setting the stage for the conclusion of the former Minneapolis police officer’s trial in the death of George Floyd. The jury is set to deliberate after closing arguments ...
The Portland Police Association building was set on fire Tuesday night, according to a Portland Police Bureau press release. The fire is estimated to have caused $25,000 in damage during the second night of demonstrations in Portland, Oregon, in ...
A line of tall, full oak trees are a welcoming splash of nature outside the Brooklyn Center police headquarters, each standing perhaps 30 feet tall over the well-kept lawn outside the building’s main entrance. But Monday night, that open lawn was set ...
The US Capitol Police officer who shot and killed a protester in the halls of the Capitol on Jan. 6 will not be charged in her death, the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced on Wednesday. Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air ...
The Coast Guard continues to search for crew members of the Seacor Power, a 129-foot “lift boat” that capsized in heavy seas 8 miles south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana, Tuesday evening. As of Wednesday afternoon one person is confirmed dead, six ...
Agents from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension this morning arrested Kimberly Potter, the Brooklyn Center Police Department officer who shot and killed Daunte Wright during a traffic stop Sunday afternoon. The Minnesota BCA said the ...
Kenosha Police Chief Daniel Miskinis announced Tuesday that all investigations into Officer Rusten Sheskey’s shooting of Jacob Blake on Aug. 23, 2020, are concluded and he has returned to duty as of March 31. Sheskey acted within policy, according to ...
Police declared a riot Monday night in Portland, Oregon, after a group of about 200 people gathered to protest the police killing of a Black man in Minnesota. Members of the group lit fires; threw objects; vandalized a building that houses offices ...
A Virginia police officer was fired and Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam ordered a special investigation after video emerged of two officers in the town of Windsor pepper-spraying and threatening an active-duty Army lieutenant in a traffic stop in ...
