OKLAHOMA CITY — Police in Oklahoma are investigating the death of a 16-year-old student who died a day after an altercation in a high school bathroom that may have been prompted by bullying over gender identity. Neither police nor school officials have said what led to the fight. But the family of Nex Benedict says […]
One of the fundamental jobs of local government is public safety. Usually that means funding a police force that is capable of dealing with whatever crime a city is facing. But progressive city supervisors in San Francisco, many of whom were fans of defunding the police just a few years ago, are now putting forward […]
One of two adult men who have been charged with murder and other crimes for opening fire at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade last week told police his actions were “stupid,” according to a charging document. Lyndell Mays and Dominic Miller were both charged this week with second-degree murder, two counts of armed […]
Federal agents on Tuesday said the man accused of stealing a Maryland-owned tow truck and leading police on a wild chase is in the country illegally. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it wants to take custody of Flavio Cesar Lanuza, 27, from Nicaragua, after the suspect was arrested in Montgomery County Friday, according to a […]
A Wisconsin man who has been charged with killing two people in a robbery at a sports bar on Feb. 1 has told police he netted less than $150 from the heist. Thomas Routt Jr., 57, was charged with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in the deaths of Gina Weingart, 37, and her husband, […]
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The driver of a stolen tow truck led police on a chase through Maryland on Friday, using the vehicle to break through a barricade of law enforcement vehicles and ram private cars that got in its way. Troopers from the College Park barrack responded to a report of a stolen State […]
AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine state police on Thursday defended their search last fall for a gunman who had just killed 18 people, saying they didn’t rush to search woods surrounding his abandoned car because they feared a late-night ambush. The Oct. 25 shooting at a bowling alley and a bar was the deadliest in state […]
While no one has been charged in the shooting that erupted during the Super Bowl parade in Kansas City on Wednesday, three people have been arrested, and authorities have determined it likely was the result of a “dispute” rather than a planned mass shooting. Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves said during a news conference […]
AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge on Thursday voiced concerns over a Texas law that would give police broad authority to arrest migrants on charges of illegal entry starting in March, saying it would be a “nightmare” if the U.S. became a patchwork of states enforcing different immigration laws. “That turns us from the United […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The city of Memphis on Wednesday released hundreds of pages of documents tied to the January 2023 fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by five police officers, including an account from a witness who saw Nichols slumped on the pavement and thought he was already dead. The latest documents include personnel files for […]
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