All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 12 2016 // A house north of Richmond has become the sixth home in Central Kentucky that state police think were recently burglarized and then set on fire.Trooper Robert Purdy told news outlets that a Madison County home received a...
May 5 2016 // Kentucky State Police say they are investigating three house fires that occurred after the homes were burglarized. Police said in a statement that they think the cases are related and believe the blazes are the result of...
May 3 2016 // Police in Sioux Falls, S.D., are looking for the vandal who damaged construction equipment to the tune of $400,000. Police spokesman Sam Clemens says the vandal was able to turn on a backhoe and tipped over a pickup truck,...
Apr 29 2016 // Henderson, Nev., police say officers looking for distracted drivers during a three-week enforcement blitz ticketed 75 motorists for infractions like texting, checking emails, accessing the Internet or talking on...
Apr 21 2016 // The Augusta, Maine, Police Department says officers in the state’s capital city will be more focused on cracking down on distracted driving from now until September.Sgt. Christian Behr says extra patrols dedicated to...
Apr 18 2016 // Bangladeshi investigators have identified 20 foreigners – 12 Philippine nationals and eight Sri Lankans – suspected to have been involved in the cyber heist of tens of millions of dollars from its central bank,...
Apr 18 2016 // The U.S. is less capable of managing security issues within its borders than 32 other nations, including France and Belgium, according to a new global ranking.Singapore is the most capable of maintaining domestic security...
Apr 13 2016 // State and local police across Massachusetts have launched a crackdown on texting behind the wheel and other forms of distracted driving.The effort by the Executive Office of Public Safety Highway Safety Division is...
Apr 12 2016 // As day breaks, hundreds of patients wait to see doctors in a queue that snakes around the Peking Union hospital in Beijing. Many will wait in vain – “scalpers” like Yu Wei have already illegally bought...
Apr 7 2016 // Dog bites man may not be a news story — but in nine western states, it’s grounds for a constitutional case. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has allowed a lawsuit by a woman who fell asleep in her...
Mar 16 2016 // A spike in burglaries in Minot, N.D. last year has continued into this year, and police say the rash of break-ins has become “almost overwhelming.”Authorities are investigating 16 burglaries in seven days,...
Mar 7 2016 // One person was injured when a generator inside a refinery near Houston exploded, authorities said on March 5.The incident occurred at the Pasadena Refining System Inc. The injured person was taken to a nearby hospital but...
Mar 3 2016 // Training showing police ways to reduce the chances of dying in a traffic-related incident included something as simple as buckling up.For 27-year police veteran Scott Slagle, the message provided during a recent training...
Mar 3 2016 // On Feb. 25, 15 people at a Kansas factory were shot, three of them killed, by a co-worker whom police say had also shot two other people as he drove toward the facility. The shooting at Excel Industries in Hesston, Kansas,...
Mar 1 2016 // A new real-time auto insurance monitoring system is now being used in some parts of Louisiana to help police enforce the requirement that drivers are up to date on paying their premiums.The American Press reports the new...
Feb 26 2016 // A St. Louis police sergeant who won a racial discrimination case over a police academy promotion will be paid the $620,000 he won in a federal lawsuit, plus $172,000 in attorney’s fees.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch...
Feb 22 2016 // Nashville Police say some citizens are unwittingly helping car thieves steal their vehicles. Police say a review of reports of vehicles stolen from the week of Jan. 31 to Feb. 6 showed that 68 percent of the automobiles...
Feb 19 2016 // In two unanimous decisions, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled Feb. 11 that police have the right to stop motorists if their vehicles cross roadway markings, even if briefly, essentially making it easier to arrest and...
Feb 19 2016 // State troopers say 186 people died in hit-and-run crashes in Florida last year.According to statistics released Monday by the Florida Highway Patrol, more than half the fatalities last year were pedestrians. Officials say...
Feb 18 2016 // The drone intruder was roaming around the Rose Bowl Stadium as 94,000 fans cheered, oblivious to the threat.But scientists testing a new security device at the game knew: they detected its radio signals and seized control...