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A Philadelphia police officer was killed and another officer was injured during a shootout this afternoon in North Philadelphia about three blocks from the Temple University campus. The suspected gunman was killed.
Read More →North Carolina State Highway Patrol Trooper Andrew Stocks was on his way to help those involved in a car accident near Wake Technical Community College on Tuesday when he slid into the path of a garbage truck.
Read More →It was on patrol at 2:50 p.m. that Dep. Anne Jackson responded to a trespassing call. Investigators don't yet know what happened next but they believe 28-year-old Isaac Zamora of Alger, a man Jackson had been called about before, shot and killed her, another man and four more people before his arrest hours later.
Read More →Tabatha Compton pleaded through tears Wednesday for someone, anyone, to come forward with information about who shot and killed her husband, Colleton County (S.C.) Deputy Dennis Compton, nearly a month ago.
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Alexandria (La.) PD’s Special Response Team was executing a detailed plan to serve warrants and search for evidence to connect Anthony Molette, 25, to recent ambush attack. Intelligence gathered before the assault told them that Molette would not be home. It was wrong.
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Once that gray squirrel had settled into his new home, the California State Police officers who patrol the park experienced a dramatic increase in the number of squirrel bite reports. They went from none to 30 per day.
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On a muggy summer night in Georgia, it feels like you can reach out and squeeze water out of the air. Such were the conditions on July 23, 1999, when officer Jorge Mestre of the Cobb County Police Department was dispatched to a house in the Atlanta suburb of Austell, Ga.
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"Police workers are a family--we deal with some of the most bizarre, some of the most obnoxious, some of the stupidest, and some of the most dangerous problems that people can conjure up. Funeral attendance shows respect for the family, love for the officer, admiration for the profession and shares the grief."
Read More →As we stared at the sea of vehicles, the hair stood up on my arms and the back of my neck. Memories of the previous three weeks were replaced by a sense of pride, duty and honor. I wanted more than anything to be a part of what I saw, to belong among the people who were gathered to pay respect to a fallen officer.
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