All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 30 2015 // A Michigan village that has been the center of disputes over publicly releasing the names of those involved in its police force turned to donors to pay for its more than $20,000 insurance policy this fall. There are...
Nov 23 2015 // William Cohen beeped his car horn, making those nearest jump and then laugh. Getting the all-clear from a nearby Albemarle County, Virginia, police officer, the senior driver took off for the parking lot exit in his black...
Nov 17 2015 // Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announced he’ll double funding to strengthen the U.K.’s cyber defenses, while refusing to confirm that budget cuts to be announced next week would spare...
Nov 9 2015 // Kinsale Insurance Co. has launched a new law enforcement/police professional product. This is the initial product in Kinsale’s recently established Public Entity Division.Per Clay Rhoades, Kinsale vice president, law...
Nov 8 2015 // A bus ferrying migrant farmworkers from Michigan to Texas ran off a highway and hit an overpass in Arkansas on Nov. 6, ripping off the roof and ejecting passengers onto the interstate. Six people were killed and six...
Oct 23 2015 // An arsonist set fire to the rectory doors of a 172-year-old Catholic church early on Oct. 22, marking the seventh attempt to burn a place of worship in the St. Louis area in two weeks, police said.Authorities said an...
Oct 22 2015 // St. Louis, Mo., police are stepping up patrols and trying to develop profiles of possible suspects in a spate of fires that have damaged six churches in largely black neighborhoods during the past two weeks, the...
Oct 21 2015 // It’s common knowledge that driving with blood alcohol content higher than .08 violates the law. But with marijuana, things are a lot more hazy.As Vermont and other states consider following the lead of Colorado and...
Oct 15 2015 // A jury has ordered a gun shop to pay nearly $6 million in a lawsuit filed by two Milwaukee, Wis., police officers who were seriously wounded when shot by a gun purchased at the store.Jurors ruled that Badger Guns was...
Oct 5 2015 // The Kentucky Office of Highway Safety is working with local county officials to evaluate a roadside drug test that could help police address the growing number of drivers who are high behind the wheel.The agency and...
Oct 2 2015 // Drivers pulled over by the police in Michigan will be able to show proof of their auto insurance on a phone or another mobile device instead of having to provide a hard copy under legislation going to Gov. Rick Snyder for...
Sep 25 2015 // The Kentucky Office of Highway Safety is working with local county officials to evaluate a roadside drug test that could help police address the growing number of drivers who are high behind the wheel.The agency and...
Sep 23 2015 // South Carolina taxpayers are spending millions of dollars a year addressing alleged misdeeds by law officers or detention officials including excessive force and civil rights violations. The Greenville News reports the...
Sep 21 2015 // Polices in Pensacola Florida recently arrested 37 teenagers for vehicle burglaries.Assistant police chief Tommi Lyter told the Pensacola News-Journal there were no overarching affiliations among the teens even though there...
Sep 18 2015 // If you’re planning a drone fly-by at any of Sweden’s reactors, think again.The Nordic region’s biggest producer of atomic energy will from Oct. 15 add nuclear plants to a list of sites including airports...
Sep 14 2015 // University of Kentucky campus police have charged law student Peyton Wilson with second degree wanton endangerment for operating a drone that crashed into a section of Commonwealth Stadium before the Wildcats’...
Sep 11 2015 // The Tennessee Supreme Court is hearing two cases that could have justices deciding how many times drivers have to cross a painted line on the road before officers can pull them over.The two driving under the influence...
Sep 9 2015 // The family of Freddie Gray, who died after being critically injured in police custody, reached a tentative $6.4 million wrongful death settlement with the city of Baltimore, resolving civil claims about a week after the...
Sep 8 2015 // A drone crash during a U.S. Open match has tennis officials thinking about whether they can do more to safeguard the sprawling National Tennis Center from such hazards, a spokesman said.“Obviously, it’s...
Sep 3 2015 // Rodolfo Valladares wore the wrong hat to the wrong Miami bank while trying to cash a $100 check in a case of mistaken identity that’s led to a court battle over $3.3 million.A bank teller mistook Valladares for a...