
Black Lives Matter protesters gathered at the Springfield, MA, courthouse Thursday as a hearing was taking place inside to determine the fate of 15 protesters who were arrested in April for blocking traffic.
by John Sexton29 Oct 2015, 7:42 PM PST0

A Tennessee man, whom family members called “troubled,” was arrested for the brutal stabbing of an 88-year-old woman, police say.
by Warner Todd Huston29 Oct 2015, 6:49 PM PST0

Secretly-made recordings of former Subway restaurant spokesman Jared Fogle have gone public, revealing, in his own words, how he lured kids into sexual situations.
by Warner Todd Huston29 Oct 2015, 6:27 PM PST0

The LAPD sergeant who detained Django Unchained actress Daniele Watts and her boyfriend for lewd behavior last year has been accused of violating city ethics rules, and now faces a steep fine for leaking audio of the incident to the media.
by Daniel Nussbaum29 Oct 2015, 6:04 PM PST0

An Ohio woman who was listening to an Amber Alert on the radio was shocked to find that the car that police were looking for was right in front of her
by Warner Todd Huston29 Oct 2015, 5:39 PM PST0

An 8-year-old girl in Illinois is lifting the spirits of police offers all over the U.S. with packages of crosses. The latest package landed with the Chula Vista Police Department in California.
by Mary Chastain29 Oct 2015, 5:32 PM PST0

West Virginia prosecutor Christ White has been suspended from his position for allegedly pulling a gun in the law office and pointing it at spiders that were part of Halloween decorations.
by AWR Hawkins29 Oct 2015, 3:08 PM PST0

Hundreds of Germans are attempting to bring criminal charges against Chancellor Angela Merkel, accusing her of treason by opening the borders of Germany to mass migration. The Federal Prosecutors office in Karlsruhe, Germany, has received over 400 letters calling for
by Oliver Lane29 Oct 2015, 11:07 AM PST0

A photo of a Virginia State Trooper saluting a fallen member of law enforcement Sheriff J.J. DellaVecchio went viral after the Virginia State Police shared the picture on their Facebook page.
by Mary Chastain28 Oct 2015, 4:23 PM PST0

The FBI has issued an alert to police departments across the country warning that anarchist groups are planning a “Halloween revolt” plot aimed at attacking local police during Halloween week.
by Warner Todd Huston28 Oct 2015, 3:54 PM PST0

The View co-host Raven-Symoné defended South Carolina deputy Ben Fields for his actions in a widely-viewed video in which the officer appeared to slam a student down to the ground and drag her out of a classroom at Spring Valley High School on Monday.
by Daniel Nussbaum28 Oct 2015, 11:41 AM PST0

The two-year budget deal announced late Monday includes small-print language that yanks $1.5 billion away from crime victims. The funding is used to compensate victims of crime.
by Alex Swoyer28 Oct 2015, 11:25 AM PST0

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott fired Senior Deputy Ben Fields, and said he overreacted when he was attempting to discipline a recalcitrant student at Spring Valley High School. Video footage of the classroom tussle went viral on Monday, prompting an FBI investigation and calls for Fields to be fired.
by William Bigelow28 Oct 2015, 11:00 AM PST0

Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson stated that “the Black Lives Matter movement is airing a point of view that deserves to be heard” in an interview with USA Today‘s Capital Download released on Monday. Johnson said [relevant exchange begins around
by Ian Hanchett28 Oct 2015, 7:29 AM PST0

A student body-slammed the principal of Florin High School in Sacramento during a fight Monday that required police to arrest three students.
by Joel B. Pollak28 Oct 2015, 5:28 AM PST0

One week after a town hall event featuring L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti was shut down because of protests, the organizers of that event criticized Black Lives Matter for making threats and called on the group to apologize.
by John Sexton27 Oct 2015, 7:04 PM PST0

Republican presidential candidate Florida Senator Marco Rubio argued that “there’s a legitimate issue in this country…with minority communities in general, that feel like they’re targeted or they have a bad relationship with local law enforcement,” but also criticized the White
by Ian Hanchett27 Oct 2015, 6:58 PM PST0

As the FBI and Department of Justice have been called in to investigate, new facts are still emerging in what Black Lives Matter activists have dubbed the #AssultAtSpringValleyHigh after videos of a Columbia, South Carolina, deputy forcibly removing a non-compliant student from a desk went viral after the Monday incident.
by Lee Stranahan27 Oct 2015, 6:55 PM PST0

Roughly 1 in 9 black children you pass on the street has or has had a parent in prison, according to a recent study by Maryland-based research firm Child Trends.
by Jerome Hudson27 Oct 2015, 5:39 PM PST0

Less than 24 hours after agreeing to a two-year budget deal with the Republican Congress, President Barack Obama slammed Republicans for budget cuts, telling police chiefs in Chicago that they had tried to cut funding for police.
by Joel B. Pollak27 Oct 2015, 1:02 PM PST0

The three individuals charged in the murder of a Virginia teenager in September allegedly entered the U.S. illegally as unaccompanied minors in 2013, skipped their immigration hearings, and had been ordered removed “in absentia,” according to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
by Caroline May27 Oct 2015, 10:21 AM PST0

In Anderson, California, population 10,000, the police department has a unique tool to deal with violent suspects: nunchucks.
by William Bigelow27 Oct 2015, 10:20 AM PST0

Videos of a white deputy roughly pulling a non-compliant black high school student out of her chair and then dragging her on the floor went viral Monday night, just hours after the incident occurred at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina. Over half of Spring Valley High’s students are black.
by Lee Stranahan27 Oct 2015, 7:02 AM PST0

Milwaukee Co., Wisc. Sheriff David Clarke (D) argued President Barack Obama “lacks the courage to look at the black community and tell them to look in the mirror as the source of their problems” on Monday’s “Hannity” on the Fox
by Ian Hanchett27 Oct 2015, 6:50 AM PST0

White House officials are aggressively pushing back at FBI director James Comey’s remarkable—although indirect—public criticism of President Barack Obama’s crime policies.
by Neil Munro26 Oct 2015, 9:15 PM PST0