Rick Odell Smith gunned down five people at a Manchester, Ill., home on Wednesday. Police caught up with him hours later and he died in a gunfight with officers.
Read More →It does make logical sense to keep firearms out of the hands of people who have just been treated for psychiatric issues or adjudicated mentally ill. However, taking weapons out of the hands of people with low-level misdemeanor convictions is nothing short of excessive government overreach.
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The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) agreed to delay a decision to leave a slain Wisconsin officer off the national police memorial because of the way she died.
Read More →A Fort Wayne (Ind.) Police sniper ended a stand-off Wednesday afternoon that began when a suspect pulled a woman off a city bus, killed her, and took a 3-year-old hostage.
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A Melbourne, Fla., man who had slashed his father with a knife led police on a high-speed pursuit that ended when he lost control of the vehicle and struck a utility pole.
Read More →A gunman killed three people, including his wife, and wounded two officers at the New Castle County Courthouse in Wilmington on Monday morning.
Read More →Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks, already facing possible charges for threatening to harm a legislative leader, attempted to grab an officer's service weapon during a second arrest Sunday.
Read More →A Bangor (Maine) Police officer defeated a martial arts move to arrest a domestic violence suspect on Monday afternoon.
Read More →Ah, yes. In the tenth month of the year the days are getting shorter and the creeps seem to be getting creepier. It wouldn't be October without weird Halloween-related crime stories.
Read More →Three people including a veteran Lancaster (Ohio) Police officer died early Tuesday, after a possessive husband gunned down his ex-wife and the officer before turning the gun on himself.
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