Police officers who fail background checks will face automatic dismissal under new regulations designed to bolster public trust in law enforcement. The measures will legally mandate vetting procedures ...

Sarah's boyfriend used to say things she did not think much of at the time. "I love it when you wear your hair up because I can see your neck," he would say. But as time went on, his behaviour started ...

Columbus police didn't notice a missing girl who was in a car during a traffic stop earlier this month. A 12-year-old girl was reported missing on Wednesday, July 16. The following Monday, July 21, ...

A “blue wall of silence” protected the state trooper who killed his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in Franklin, Hunterdon County, earlier this month, lawyers and the victims’ loved ones said ...

The Portland police captain formerly in charge of the bureau’s internal affairs unit failed to do his job last year, when he learned then-Chief Larry O’Dea had mistakenly shot a friend while camping, ...

As a financial supporter of the 100 Club, I tried as best I could to read with an open mind Sunday’s article (Herald, Nov. 2) about residents’ anger with the Durango Police Department after violence ...

Cincinnati City Council is once again trying to figure out how to deal with the problem of teenagers congregating in large public groups − often late at night − after the recent fatal shooting of a 15 ...