All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 16 2012 // Online social networks cannot be forced to block users from downloading songs illegally, as this would push up their costs and infringe privacy, Europe’s highest court said on Thursday, adding to a worldwide debate...
Feb 10 2012 // The problem encountered by Del. Joe May’s constituent seemed simple enough to solve.The citizen had taken his car in for service and was shocked when the mechanic found a GPS device attached to the undercarriage. The...
Feb 10 2012 // Leather seats are disappearing from cars. Precious jewels are vanishing from drawers. TVs are spirited out of homes in the dead of night.These crimes are not what they seem. And the perpetrators are not the usual suspects....
Feb 7 2012 // Rescuers dug with picks and shovels trying to reach dozens of people trapped under houses collapsed by a strong earthquake Monday that shook a central Philippine island and set off landslides.At least 13 people were killed...
Feb 7 2012 // U.S. authorities are stepping up investigations, including an FBI criminal inquiry, into possible violations by employees of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire of a U.S. law banning corrupt payments to foreign officials...
Feb 3 2012 // A federal appeals court this week granted a new hearing to a 40-year-old man who claimed the Atlanta Police Department rejected his job application because he has HIV.The ruling was a victory for gay rights advocates and...
Jan 31 2012 // Police at the University of California, Santa Barbara say they are looking for an arsonist after a fire that badly damaged a trailer, a water tender and other heavy equipment at a campus construction site.University police...
Jan 27 2012 // Louisiana State Police have arrested four people for allegedly staging traffic accidents in Ouachita Parish.Detectives tell The News-Star they looked into six of 20 crashes where individuals filed false bodily injury...
Jan 27 2012 // A panel of federal judges appeared skeptical Wednesday of the Atlanta police department’s decision to reject a job application from an HIV-infected man.The 40-year-old man sued the city in 2010, claiming he was...
Jan 23 2012 // Police say a Honolulu, Hawaii officer died following a three-vehicle crash on the H-1 freeway in Aiea.The crash occurred Saturday night as the officer’s car was on the side of the freeway behind another pickup truck,...
Jan 19 2012 // The British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. looks set to settle at great expense a string of legal claims after admitting wide-scale phone hacking that was both known about and concealed by senior...
Jan 18 2012 // Boulder, Colo. police are warning car owners that thieves are targeting catalytic converters. Police say the small boxes attached to the underside of most vehicles have precious metals that can fetch hundreds of...
Jan 12 2012 // The director of the West Virginia Governor’s Highway Safety Program says arrests for driving under the influence increased in the past year, contradicting earlier reports.The Charleston Gazette reported that Highway...
Jan 11 2012 // The number of traffic stops across Illinois has dropped by nearly 6 percent and the number of ticketed motorists has dipped about 11 percent, according to a published report.The Chicago Tribune analyzed state data on...
Jan 9 2012 // A former Idaho officer with the Fort Hall Police Department injured when his patrol vehicle was hit by another vehicle has been awarded $717,000 by a Pocatello jury. But Nicolas Garcia says he’d rather continue...
Jan 6 2012 // Louisiana State Police troopers are continuing a crackdown on drivers on the state highways who refuse to move from the left lane and allow other traffic to pass.In a recent left-lane enforcement detail on Interstate 10...
Jan 4 2012 // After a bit of a rocky start, law enforcement officials and prosecutors around the state say they’re now running into few problems with Wyoming’s new mandatory DUI (driving under the influence) testing...
Jan 4 2012 // The city of New Orleans has agreed to pay $25,000 to settle a federal lawsuit that accused police of ignoring a woman’s complaint that her ex-husband threatened her two weeks before he killed her and a friend, a...
Dec 27 2011 // A former Idaho officer with the Fort Hall Police Department injured when his patrol vehicle was hit by another vehicle has been awarded $717,000 by a Pocatello jury.But Nicolas Garcia says he’d rather continue...
Dec 27 2011 // Records show that more than a $1 million has been paid out since 2005 in claims against a South Florida police department.The city of Fort Lauderdale released a list of claims and payouts in response to a public records...