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The drug landscape in the U.S. over the last decade has shifted, with the opioid threat reaching epidemic levels and impacting significant portions of the country
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Authorities were searching Sunday for two men suspected of shooting and wounding a police officer in Ferguson
Officer who fatally shot a man said he didn’t respond to repeated commands to drop the weapon and turned toward officers in an aggressive manner
It is important to build a partnership between law enforcement and the citizens that you protect to help ensure the safety of human life and the protection of assets
Officer was putting up barricades when he saw a woman plunge into the water. He dived in to rescue her, but was swept away
Man who had been fired from food processing plant beheaded a woman with a knife and was attacking another worker when he was shot
Officer and his K-9 are back home after being injured pursuing a burglary suspect Wednesday
Eric Frein performed extensive Internet research on how to avoid police manhunts, experimented with explosives and might have booby-trapped the woods
A Louisiana deputy was shot and killed by his fellow officers after opening fire during a domestic dispute Wednesday
Police killed a man Thursday after he led them on a lengthy pursuit, crashed in downtown San Francisco and then fired a gun at those trying to help
Video captured a woman’s rooftop escape from a burglar as police drew their guns and provided a fire ladder
More than 160 District of Columbia police officers will wear cameras that record them performing their duties as part of a six-month pilot program
Justice Department has begun its latest review of department practices following grand jury’s decision not to indict officers in fatal shooting
Eric Frein, 31, appears to have purposely made himself visible at times, staying just far enough away to make it unlikely he’d be caught
Officers had asked the 18-year-old man to come to a police station on Tuesday night to answer questions
An average of six shootings occurred in the first seven years that were studied. That average rose to 16 shootings per year in the past seven years
A jury found a University of Central Florida student guilty of resisting arrest Friday in a confrontation with an officer that was caught on camera last year
Deputy arrived at the scene Tuesday after the dog bit two people
Caller reported suspect was waving a rifle in the store. Police said he didn’t obey commands to put down what turned out to be an air rifle
Officers responded to shots being fired near the Osceola Square Mall’s Ross Dress For Less store around 6:15 p.m Tuesday
Police are defending themselves against complaints they have unfairly denied residents access to their homes during the manhunt for a suspected killer
Protesters returned to Ferguson streets Tuesday night, with reports of smashed windows and possible arson coming hours after a makeshift memorial for Michael Brown burned
Eric Frein obsessively collected military memorabilia, dismissed his fellow war re-enactors as dilettantes, and took his hobby so seriously that he spoke French during a simulated Vietnam War-era interrogation
Officer was pushed at least 18-feet off a bridge Saturday after pulling over a man suspected to be driving while intoxicated
Two suspects have been charged in a hit-and-run incident that left an officer in critical condition after a traffic stop Monday
Man was killed Aug. 5 while holding an air rifle his family said he’d taken off a store shelf. Two officers responded to a call reporting a man waving a gun
Police say an officer subdued a 15-year-old Ohio high school student who came to school armed with a loaded semi-automatic pistol
Gunman was killed along with two other people in the Tuesday morning gunfire
36-year-old Officer Nicholas Guerrero suffered a “very serious head injury” after he and another officer stopped a car on an arrest warrant
