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Bardstown (Ky.) Police Officer Jason Ellis was fatally shot early Saturday morning as he removed debris that had been intentionally placed on an exit ramp of the Blue Grass Parkway as part of a murder plot, the Kentucky State Police said Sunday.
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An Inglewood (Calif.) Police officer shot and killed a man in the station's fleet lot after he smashed out windows of vehicles with an 18-inch sword. Read the full story here.
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Inglewood (Calif.) Police shot and killed a sword-wielding man, after he smashed the windows of eight police vehicles parked at the agency's headquarters.
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Phoenix-area officers demonstrated the strength of the Thin Blue Line on Wednesday, as a large group of uniformed personnel showed up to attend the kindergarten graduation ceremony for the daughter of a fallen officer.
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Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo won't face punishment for calling a gun-rights supporter a "lying extremist" during a Twitter war.
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Accidentally butt dialing someone is embarrassing or inconsequential to most, but for two Fresno, Calif., men, their cell phone mishap landed them in jail. The call, which went to 911, started like any other call to the police dispatcher, with the operator asking, "What is your emergency?"
Read More →Alhambra (Calif.) Police officers fatally shot a man who pulled a large kitchen knife out of his backpack in police headquarters on Friday morning. Officers shot and killed Tony Nim, 35, at about 7:30 a.m. Nim died at the scene.
Read More →A hotly contested California gun-control law that was passed in 2007 is finally ready to be implemented, state Attorney General Kamala Harris said last week. The requirement that every new semiautomatic handgun contain "micro-stamping" technology would allow police to trace a weapon from cartridges found at a crime scene.
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Officer Daryl Raetz, 29, was struck at about 3:30 a.m. while processing a DUI suspect with several other officers at 51st and Cambridge avenues. The driver fled the scene.
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The Dallas Police Department honored retired Det. Jim Leavelle this week for his role in the investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963. The agency's annual Detective of the Year award will now be named in his honor.
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