HARDWICK, Vt. – Troopers of the Vermont State Police found themselves in an unusual predicament of being threatened by a man operating an excavator while they were arresting a suspect accused of burglary and assault, according to the agency. State Police said the troopers were in an “unexpected and dangerous situation” as the “parents attempted Read More >

CINCINNATI – The father of a 3-year-old murder victim went ballistic in an Ohio courtroom and relentlessly punched the man in the back of the head who is accused of killing his toddler son. Murder defendant Desean Brown, 22, faces charges after he reportedly stabbed Nyteisha Lattimore, 29, to death and then tossed her three-old-son Read More >

6/24/22 GUN SAFETY Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments The U.S. Congress has passed a bipartisan gun safety bill, representing the first federal gun safety legislation to be passed in a generation. read more Visits: 10 | Today: 10 |

“They don’t have a scenario at the academy where we practice this one,” said Capt. Matt Daley Visits: 10 | Today: 10 |

UVALDE, Texas – Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo who has faced sharp rebuke over his inadequate response to the massacre at Robb Elementary School has been placed on administrative leave, according to reports. As chief of police of the small six-person agency, he should have been in charge at the scene, Read More >

6/23/22 GUNS Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments With its decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol v. Bruen on June 23, 2022, the Supreme Court has announced that the Second Amendment is not a second-class right. The core argument of the decision is that gun rights are to be treated the same as other hallowed rights Read More >

DALLAS – The Dallas Police Department arrested the mayor of a suburban city on Tuesday for suspicion of soliciting a minor, according to the agency. The City of Pilot Point is a suburb north of Dallas. Its mayor, Matthew McIlravy, 42, was arrested Tuesday morning and booked at the Dallas County Jail. He is charged Read More >

6/22/22 TERRORISM Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments Ten months into their extremist theocratic rule in Afghanistan, the Taliban are facing growing resistance in different parts of the country. Leading the way is the National Resistance Front (NRF), headed by Ahmad Massoud—the son of the legendary Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, who, from his native strategic Read More >

Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, called the police response an “abject failure” Visits: 9 | Today: 1 |

The suspect died after the brief standoff Visits: 10 | Today: 0 |