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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 23, 2015

Tampa Chief Tells Presidential Task Force that Officer Safety Depends on Real-Time Information

Tampa police Chief Jane Castor testified Monday in Washington, D.C., about ways to keep police officers safer, focusing her comments on the importance of social media as a tool for delivering real-time information to officers on the street.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 20, 2015

Florida K-9 Retired From Force After Biting Officer, Civilian

Renzo, a 4-year-old Belgian Malinois, had been with the department about a year and a half. In November, he bit a Coconut Creek officer while tracking a suspect, wounding the officer's leg.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 19, 2015

3 Texas Officers Shot Serving Narcotics Warrant

Three Corpus Christi Police Department SWAT officers were shot during a narcotics raid Thursday morning at around 9 a.m.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 19, 2015

Video: Florida Deputies Help Rescue Lonely Autistic Boy's Birthday Party

An entire Florida community, including local sheriff's deputies, made a 6-year-old autistic boy's birthday party one that he won't forget.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 19, 2015

Video: Dallas Officer Adopts Dog He Rescued from Highway

Laurel was lying on the concrete barrier on I-35E near Interstate 20 when officers found her Feb. 13. Rogers was able to coax her into his police cruiser, where she perked up and licked his face.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 19, 2015

Video: Alabama Governor Apologizes to India for Police Force Incident that Injured Indian Citizen

Gov. Robert Bentley also ordered the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency to launch a parallel investigation — the Federal Bureau of Investigation has already started its own probe — into the "excessive force" that left Sureshbhai Patel, 57, partially paralyzed.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 9, 2015

Former Savannah Chief Gets 90 Months in Prison for Gambling, Extortion

Former Savannah-Chatham (Ga.) Metropolitan Police Chief Willie Lovett has been sentenced to 90 months (7.5 years) in prison and a $50,000 fine for his part in a federal gambling and extortion case.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 9, 2015

Off-Duty Texas Deputy Killed During Domestic Call at His Home

The officer responded to a disturbance call just after midnight at the deputy's home in the 200 block of Jordan Drive in Nocona. The deputy is identified as 41-year-old Larry Bryan Hostetter. He was not on duty at the time.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 9, 2015

Video: Off-Duty Dallas Officer Killed in Apparent Murder-Suicide

At 6:13 p.m. Saturday police were called to the Lake Highlands Landing Apartments at 7950 Forest Lane. They found the bodies of Officer Larry Tuttle and a woman inside his apartment.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 9, 2015

Tennessee Motorist Cited for Using Flashlights as Headlights

Officials say a Sweetwater resident was pulled over twice in an 18 hour period for driving after dark with only flashlights used to light up the road.

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