All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 8 2011 // A Lenoir City, Tenn., man has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the Loudon County sheriff after he said he was mistakenly arrested when deputies mistook his cerebral palsy symptoms for drunkenness.According to...
May 25 2011 // Authorities have identified the fatal stabbing suspect fatally shot by Philadelphia police over the weekend. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports officers shot and killed 22-year-old Eric Radcliff because he lunged at them...
May 24 2011 // Investigators say they’ve ruled out arson as the possible cause of a fire that damaged 11 vehicles parked in a southern New Jersey school bus yard. But the cause of Thursday’s fire in Bordentown Township still...
May 13 2011 // A man awaiting trial in a federal child-pornography case has filed a lawsuit alleging he was harassed by the police department in Biloxi, Mississippi.A lawsuit filed this week for 49-year-old Harry Gonsoulin Jr., of...
Apr 27 2011 // Pennsylvania State police say two boys, ages 12 and 9, drove a large excavator at a southwestern Pennsylvania strip mine, smashing a bulldozer in the process.Police say the 12-year-old will be charged with felony criminal...
Apr 15 2011 // The Applebee’s restaurant chain publicly apologized Wednesday after a 15-month-old boy was served alcohol mislabeled as apple juice when his family dined at one of its Detroit-area restaurants, but it questioned...
Apr 14 2011 // A Superior Court judge has ruled that a sexual harassment case against Delaware State Police may proceed. State officials wanted to quash the lawsuit by state police secretary Diana L. Miller but Judge Jerome O. Herlihy...
Mar 30 2011 // Police in Connecticut are bolstering patrols this week to look for distracted drivers as part of a federal pilot program.Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman and police officials announced the fourth and final enforcement wave of the...
Mar 17 2011 // The father of a Pennsylvania man who had soaked himself in gasoline during a domestic dispute is suing the Pennsylvania State Police because his son caught fire and died when a trooper used a stun gun to subdue him.Shawn...
Mar 11 2011 // A federal judge has tossed a New Jersey man’s suit against a Pennsylvania police department over the 2008 death of his wife in a head-on crash with a suspect being pursued by officers. U.S. District Judge Lawrence...
Feb 22 2011 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry has reappointed Carlos Garcia of Brownsville and Kenneth Ross of Houston to the state Automobile Burglary and Theft Prevention Authority for terms to expire Feb. 1, 2017.The authority assesses the...
Feb 15 2011 // A company that administers an insurance program for county workers injured on the job is discouraging the use of Taser shock weapons in training police officers.The Mississippi Public Entity Workers’ Compensation...
Dec 31 2010 // A Tampa Bay-area police department is the latest to buy into new technology that uses cameras to scan license plates and checks the numbers against a database of stolen cars and other vehicles used in crimes. Clearwater...
Dec 29 2010 // New Jersey will begin a new effort next year to try to improve on a grim reality: Motor vehicle accidents remain the leading cause of death for teenagers and young adults, the age group least likely to wear seat belts.The...
Dec 29 2010 // The family of a 39-year-old man who was fatally shot by three Sterling Heights police officers is suing the Detroit suburb.A civil lawsuit filed by Matthew Moroni’s family in U.S. District Court in Detroit claims...
Dec 15 2010 // A man has filed a federal lawsuit over his claim that two Russell County, Ala. deputy sheriffs beat him while a Phenix City police officer watched. Patrick Carlton Harrington is seeking $8 million in the lawsuit, which was...
Dec 13 2010 // A Tennessee court has ruled that a person who leaves keys in a car can be held responsible if the car is stolen and then involved in a crash.The Tennessee Court of Appeals– in a case involving a stolen car, a police...
Dec 7 2010 // A fire that destroyed a controversial Civil War-themed chapel in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania was set intentionally, police said.There are no official suspects, but investigators are seeking three teens reported to be in the...
Nov 30 2010 // New York City police officers were justified in shooting at an armed suspect on a Harlem street in 2005, a shootout that injured a mother and daughter playing nearby, New York’s highest court ruled.The officers had...
Nov 24 2010 // The estate of an Ecuadorean immigrant has filed a $40 million civil rights lawsuit that blames police inaction over prior violence for the man’s stabbing death during a confrontation with a mob of teens who had made...