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A highly mobile killer went on a 60-mile, 12-hour spree that ended with 18 killed, including an RCMP constable
Crews evacuated 30 people from the church complex and satellite college campus during the blaze
Officers found LAPD Detective Nadine Hernandez suffering from a single gunshot wound to the chest Tuesday in a Calif. home
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said he will press legislators to provide 59,000 Texas patrol officers with bulletproof vests capable of stopping high-caliber rounds
The FBI said a homemade bomb left outside the Nederland Police Department on Tuesday morning was active but failed to detonate
The City Council was voting on a contract that included more pay for officers and raised questions about the future use of body cameras
Prosecutors say John Felix wore body armor and used armor-piercing ammunition when he opened fire on the police who came to the door
Two officers are in “extremely critical condition” after responding to a domestic disturbance where a man opened fire before he was shot and killed
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Dispatchers reported the ambulance was stolen from a local hospital
State crime lab personnel initially notified investigators there was a “presence of a foreign substance in the officer’s drink”
William Luth and Brady Newman-Caddell are charged with two counts of rape and single counts of aggravated kidnapping and sodomy
The series of slayings have forced many LEOs to become hyperaware of their surroundings, especially as more cops are being scrutinized for their actions
A trooper searching for people trapped by flood waters in hard-hit Lumberton shot and killed an angry man who confronted officers while holding a gun
Attorneys said the DOJ has spent many hours on the investigation of Alton Sterling’s shooting and is “committed to taking all necessary steps to reach a just result”
The surveillance plane used by Baltimore police was likely flying above the city when at least nine homicides and 21 shootings occurred on the streets
The latest alleged attack drew attention after Superintendent Eddie Johnson said an officer who was severely injured told him she didn’t use her gun for fear of public backlash
Johnson County officials said the abduction and assault of an off-duty, female deputy sheriff was apparently not a targeted attack
Bill Forster said he has to let the justice system do what the system does and can’t defend what his son Trenton did
The domestic violence call that ended the lives of two Calif. officers last weekend was the kind of report that many officials say they hate and fear the most
A Syrian man wanted for allegedly preparing a bombing attack was apprehended by three men, who tied him up in their apartment, and then alerted police
The number of people shot in the city has surpassed 3,000
Trenton Trevon Lovell could make him eligible for the death penalty if he is convicted for the fatal shooting of Sgt. Steve Owen
SWAT made several attempts over the course of a 12-hour standoff to make contact with suspect John Felix, who was holed up in his family’s residence
The unnamed gunman opened fire on officers who were responding to a domestic disturbance call, killing two and wounding one
