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Videosby Staff WriterAugust 1, 2013

Deadly SWAT Raid In Fla.

Video shot from a neighbor's balcony shows the Hialeah Police Department's SWAT team entering an apartment to rescue two hostages from an active shooter who had killed six people. Read the full story here.

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Videosby Staff WriterAugust 1, 2013

U.S. Fish & Wildlife's K-9 Detectors

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service started a K-9 detection program that uses Labrador mixes to locate illegally transported exotic animals and products at five U.S. airports. Video by Kareem Girgis. Read the full story here.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 1, 2013

Video: Bizarre 911 Call Preceded Deadly SWAT Raid

A South Florida man who killed six people in a shooting spree at his apartment complex had called 911 hours earlier to report he was being followed and threatened by people doing witchcraft on him.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 30, 2013

Ark. School District Plans To Arm Teachers

A small Arkansas school district is arming and training 20 volunteer teachers and staff with handguns for fall classes under a little known state law allowing license, armed security guards on campus.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 30, 2013

Video: Off-Duty Minn. Cops Insult Uniformed Officers

Two Minneapolis Police officers disparaged their police chief and called the Green Bay PD a "clown show" in an expletive-laden rant that included racial slurs.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 29, 2013

Calif. Pepper-Spray Officer Claims Psychiatric Damage

Former University of California, Davis, Police Lt. John Pike is claiming he suffered psychiatric and nervous system damage as a result of a video-taped incident showing him pepper spraying Occupy protesters.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 29, 2013

Fla. K-9 Apprehends Murder Suspect, Retires

A Hillsborough County (Fla.) Sheriff's police dog nabbed one last suspect, who was wanted for murder, before retiring Friday to cap a successful career, the agency said.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 26, 2013

Atlanta Police Launch Path Force Unit for Trail Loop

The Atlanta Police Department on Friday unveiled the Path Force Unit, a special unit of 15 mostly bicycle patrol officers to patrol the Beltline, a 22-mile loop of bicycle and pedestrian trails.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 25, 2013

Unrepentant Killer Gets Death for NYPD Slaying

A cop killer who executed two undercover NYPD detectives has again been sentenced to death by a federal jury in a case that has drawn attention for the overturning of the first death sentence and his affair with a prison guard.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 24, 2013

Texas Man Burns Police Horse with Cigarette

An officer said he saw a man, later identified as 23-year-old Tyrone Branch Jr., take a lit cigarette and burn the right side of his police horse.

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