All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 21 2014 // The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to pay $5 million to the family of an unarmed, disabled man who was killed by police in a shooting captured on live television.The council voted 12-2 in closed session to...
Aug 12 2014 // The Louisiana State Police (LSP) announced it is now possible to order crash photographs online at www.lsp.org.To order, the driver’s or pedestrian’s first and last name, parish of the crash, and date of the...
Aug 8 2014 // Wichita, Kan., police say thieves have stripped $100,000 worth of copper wire and piping from a former grocery store. Police said the theft was discovered Aug. 5 at a now-closed Dillons store in the southern part of the...
Aug 4 2014 // McDonald’s Corp. lost a $27 million jury verdict in Texas over a claim that lax security at one of its restaurants led to the deaths of two teenagers, an award litigators say is unlikely to survive appeal.The victims...
Aug 4 2014 // When neighbors in Kingsport, Tennessee went to help a man whose home bore the brunt of a tornado, they made a discovery police say couldn’t have been caused by the wind.Police spokesman Thomas Patton told WBIR-TV in...
Aug 4 2014 // A former Greenville, Mississippi police officer wants a federal appeals court to reinstate her wrongful firing lawsuit against city.Oral arguments are Sept 3 before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans....
Aug 4 2014 // The recently fired police chief of a central Oregon town says he was undone by an ambitious deputy who had eyes for his job and a city government that resented the leave he took for military service.Former Prineville...
Jul 28 2014 // A Vermont Transportation Agency foreman is facing charges he lied to police and his insurance company after reporting damage to his personal truck was a hit-and-run accident, when it was hit by a new employee.Roger Daigle,...
Jul 25 2014 // Some Austin, Texas, police officers are suing the city for what they say was race and age discrimination in job assignments.The Austin American-Statesman reports 18 officers filed the lawsuit Wednesday. The officers say...
Jul 25 2014 // A mobile app from a law enforcement technology firm could soon allow emergency responders from different agencies to communicate seamlessly with each other in a crisis for the first time, sharing files and conducting...
Jul 22 2014 // The recently fired police chief of a central Oregon town says he was undone by an ambitious deputy who had eyes for his job and a city government that resented the leave he took for military service.Former Prineville...
Jul 22 2014 // For New Jersey Assemblyman Paul Moriarty, putting video cameras in new police cars became personal two years ago when he was arrested for drunken driving and video from a camera mounted on a cruiser helped get the charges...
Jun 30 2014 // A three-year-old law barring Indiana drivers from texting while driving has generated more frustration than tickets from police officers, who say the law makes it hard to prove a driver is in violation.The 2011 law was a...
Jun 22 2014 // In less than five seconds after hearing gunfire, almost 60 faculty and staff cleared the media room at Mason County Intermediate School in Mayside, Kentucky, through only two exits, or into locked rooms, away from where...
Jun 13 2014 // A northwestern Indiana police department is one of the first law enforcement agencies in the country to distribute a theft-deterring chemical that leaves DNA-like “signatures” on property and those who attempt...
Jun 10 2014 // A Wal-Mart Stores Inc. truck driver went at least 24 hours without sleep before his tractor-trailer crashed into a limousine, critically injuring actor-comedian Tracy Morgan and killing another entertainer, according to a...
Jun 9 2014 // In the final hours of Louisiana’s legislative session, lawmakers passed a $53 million fee hike on drivers who don’t maintain car insurance as required by law.Most of the money expected to be raised is slated to...
Jun 6 2014 // More than 20,000 burglary, assault and other cases were not investigated last year by Houston, Texas, police because of a lack of personnel, according to a report released June 2.The findings recommend that at least 45...
May 19 2014 // Police officers across Virginia are planning an effort to enforce traffic laws, particularly seat-belt and child-restraint use.The enforcement efforts this month are part of the national Click It or Ticket enforcement...
May 14 2014 // Anti-China rallies sparked by the placement of an oil rig in waters near Vietnam damaged factories owned by Taiwanese companies, with some plants closing as Vietnam detained hundreds of protesters.Vietnam’s...