All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 1 2019 // The National Football League is not aware of any security threats against Sunday’s Super Bowl, the league’s top security officer said Wednesday.“We have no credible or specific threats that have been...
Jan 30 2019 // The family of a 22-year-old unarmed black man killed by police last year have filed a wrongful death lawsuit seeking more than $20 million from the city of Sacramento and the two officers who opened fire.The federal...
Jan 28 2019 // State police say New Hampshire saw more fatal crashes last year than in any year since 2004.WMUR-TV reports New Hampshire State Police said in a report released Friday that there were 145 fatal crashes in 2018. That...
Jan 17 2019 // The Massachusetts Supreme Court has ruled that a state police officer was justified in arresting a suspect for driving under the influence of marijuana based on the officer’s observations of the driver’s...
Jan 10 2019 // Los Angeles has agreed to pay $1.8 million to a woman who was sexually assaulted by two police officers.The Los Angeles Times reported the lawsuit settlement agreement was filed Monday in federal court, although it still...
Jan 9 2019 // A former police officer has been sentenced to prison for his role in stealing $187,000 in federal Superstorm Sandy relief funds to repair a vacation home on the New Jersey shore.The Asbury Park Press reports 45-year-old...
Jan 8 2019 // An initial police report indicates a charter bus carrying elementary school-age football players from Tennessee was going too fast when it rolled off an Arkansas interstate last month and overturned, killing a 9-year-old...
Jan 2 2019 // Three former managers for the University of Iowa police force claim in lawsuits that their jobs were eliminated as part of a “culture of discrimination” against older workers and other protected employees.Their...
Dec 31 2018 // Two Detroit residents and a car leasing company have filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the city and a towing company worked with police to impound vehicles without informing owners.The suit alleges that Bobby’s...
Dec 27 2018 // The National Transportation Safety Board told a New York prosecutor she has hampered the agency’s efforts to determine the cause of the limousine crash that killed 20 people in her rural upstate county, the...
Dec 27 2018 // U.S. airports may be just as vulnerable as London’s Gatwick airport to the kind of illegal drone incursions that shut down the U.K.’s second-busiest hub this week.Counter- drone technology performed so poorly...
Dec 20 2018 // London’s Gatwick airport is closed to aircraft following multiple sightings of illegal drones, disrupting flights for as many as 115,000 people on one of the busiest travel days of the year.Lines of passengers...
Dec 14 2018 // A judge has rejected a deputy’s claim that he had no duty to confront the gunman during the school shooting in Parkland, Florida.Refusing to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the parent of a victim, Broward Circuit Judge...
Nov 30 2018 // The family of a 30-year-old Vermont woman whose obituary gained national attention for its discussion about her opioid addiction are suing a Massachusetts police department for information about the days leading up to her...
Nov 2 2018 // Documents show five lawsuits against a former West Virginia state trooper have been settled for $780,000, with half of that sum involving a woman who accused him of sexual assault.The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports the...
Oct 31 2018 // There’s a $240,000 settlement in the case of an 11-year-old black girl stunned by a Cincinnati, Ohio, police officer after she was spotted shoplifting in a grocery store and tried to run away.The Cincinnati Enquirer...
Oct 12 2018 // A St. Louis chiropractor has been sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $350,000 for a scheme that involved bribing police officers to get information used to solicit clients.Mitchell Davis was sentenced in U.S....
Oct 12 2018 // Police charged a limousine service operator Wednesday with criminally negligent homicide in a crash that killed 20 people, while the man’s lawyer said that he wasn’t guilty and that police were rushing to...
Oct 12 2018 // An attorney says victims molested by a Southern California police officer while participating in the department’s Police Explorer program have reached a $4 million settlement in a civil lawsuit. Anthony DeMarco says...
Oct 9 2018 // Police in Virginia say a 65-year-old man has died after his single-engine plane crashed in the far western part of the state. Virginia State Police said in a statement that the plane was reported missing shortly after 2...