All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 16 2017 // A United Parcel Service driver who opened fire during a meeting with co-workers had filed a grievance that he was working excessive overtime and appeared to specifically go after the three drivers he killed before fatally...
Jun 15 2017 // A UPS driver opened fire with a handgun inside a United Parcel Service Inc delivery center in San Francisco on Wednesday, killing three co-workers before fatally shooting himself as police closed in, authorities and...
Jun 6 2017 // Missouri lawmakers effectively eliminated funding for sobriety checkpoints for the fiscal year that begins in July, a move by a core group of critical conservative Republicans that officials say could hinder or end the...
Jun 5 2017 // Authorities in a small Arkansas town say local police and firefighters are being targeted by suspicious fires and vandalism.No suspects have been arrested for the fires and property damage in Cotton Plant that began in...
May 31 2017 // Police forces in South Carolina have reached several high-dollar settlements in cases where officers have shot and killed drivers and others in moving vehicles in the past several years. Here are some of the most expensive...
May 25 2017 // Authorities in a small Arkansas town say local police and firefighters are being targeted by suspicious fires and vandalism.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports the incidents in Cotton Plant began in February, when a fire...
May 24 2017 // Soldiers are to patrol British landmarks and sporting events in their biggest homeland deployment in decades, as security services warned that another attack by terrorists who killed 22 people at a pop concert on Monday...
May 23 2017 // Hong Kong police on Tuesday arrested 21 Uber drivers for illegal car-hiring as part of a clamp down against Uber Technologies Inc.’s operations in the Asian financial city.The arrests marked the latest upset for the...
May 18 2017 // A new federal lawsuit against Baylor University alleges football players routinely recorded gang rapes and staged dog fights during hazing parties in a program that fostered sexual violence.A former Baylor volleyball...
May 18 2017 // Days after the global cyber attack, U.K. police are trying to figure out whether it was an established network of criminals, state-backed hackers or bored teenagers that crippled the country’s health service.The...
May 17 2017 // A bus carrying dozens of Pennsylvania eighth-graders to Washington, D.C., for a field trip overturned on Interstate 95 in northeastern Maryland on Monday, state police said. Officials said one child and one teacher were...
May 12 2017 // Government use of aerial drones became much easier when the Federal Aviation Administration flipped the switch on new regulations last year.The Austin American-Statesman reports since then, a number of Austin-area public...
May 10 2017 // Bismarck, N.D., police say the number of motor vehicle thefts more than doubled last year.A new report that compiles crime statistics for the city shows 309 vehicles were stolen in Bismarck last year, compared with 154 in...
May 1 2017 // In his 28 years with the Utah Highway Patrol, Lt. Lee Perry has seen a lot of carnage from crashes in which motorists weren’t wearing seat belts. One crash in 2013 really struck home: He arrived at a scene where two...
May 1 2017 // A Southern California couple who had filed an official complaint accusing police officers of racism has been arrested for insurance fraud and filing a false police report.Lamont Goodwin, 33, and Sylvia Camarillo, 31, were...
Apr 25 2017 // Police say a 10-year-old boy has been charged as a juvenile with aggravated arson after a fire at an Ohio discount store caused damage estimated at more than $200,000.Middletown police Lt. Jim Cunningham says about 10...
Apr 20 2017 // The mother of a black teenager killed by Chicago police in July 2013 has been awarded $350,000. The Chicago Tribune reports that a jury awarded the damages after finding that the shooting of 17-year-old Christian Green was...
Apr 20 2017 // City councilors in Denver, Colo. have approved a nearly $1 million settlement with the family of a teenager who was shot and killed by police while driving a stolen car toward an officer in 2015. The proposed settlement in...
Apr 18 2017 // With Republican Gov. Chris Sununu on board, advocates for marijuana decriminalization hope this is the year New Hampshire joins its New England neighbors in removing criminal penalties for possessing pot.But the measure is...
Apr 18 2017 // The video of a passenger being dragged by an officer from a United Express flight shined an unwanted spotlight on the little-known police force that guards Chicago’s two main airports and could threaten the...