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Police Investigate Alabama Mosque Burglaries
Mar 21 2017 // Authorities are trying to determine whether a series of break-ins at mosques in Alabama might be linked to a similar case in Virginia based partly on similarities shown in surveillance photos, officials said Friday. Images...
Colorado Bill to Curb Growing Pot at Home Making Way Through Legislature
Mar 15 2017 // The nation’s most generous grow-your-own marijuana laws came closer this week to being curbed in Colorado, where the state House advanced a pair of bills aimed at cracking down on people who grow weed outside the...
Woman Seeks $350M in Suit Over 2015 Texas Biker Shootout
Mar 10 2017 // A Texas woman is asking for $350 million in damages after alleging in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday that her civil rights were violated when she was wrongfully arrested in the wake of a deadly 2015 gun battle involving...
Louisiana Woman Pleads Guilty in Texas in Opioid Pill Mill Case
Mar 9 2017 // Carolina Giselle Berrio, a/k/a “Carolina Slocum Berrio,” “Karrie,” 37, of Lafayette, Louisiana is the latest defendant to plead guilty to being involved in a large opioid “pill mill”...
XL Catlin & PGU to Offer EPLI Cover for Public Officials, Educators & Police
Mar 3 2017 // XL Catlin’s insurance companies and Professional Governmental Underwriters Inc. (PGU) have entered into an underwriting agreement to offer public entity management and employment practices liability insurance (EPLI)...
Police Say Worker Dies After Falling from Roof of Massachusetts Home
Feb 27 2017 // Police say a man working on a house under construction in Duxbury, Mass., has died in a fall from the roof. The Patriot Ledger reports that police and firefighters were called to the construction site at around 7:45 a.m....
Wisconsin Police Officers Targeting Aggressive Drivers
Feb 14 2017 // Police across Wisconsin have ramped up efforts to stop aggressive driving by writing more speeding tickets. The strategy is appearing to work, as citations increased nearly 7 percent in 2015, to more than 172,000, the...
Driver in Double Fatal Tesla Crash in Indiana Was Drunk, Police Say
Feb 10 2017 // The driver of a speeding Tesla electric car that crashed and burned in Indianapolis, killing her and a passenger, was too drunk to drive, according to a police report released Wednesday. The report, which includes...
Officials Visited California Warehouse Before Deadly Fire, Records Show
Feb 10 2017 // Police officers responded to complaints of a raucous “rave” at a California warehouse illegally used as an entertainment venue and residence two years before a late-night fire at the venue killed 36 partygoers,...
Facebook Takes Search Warrant Challenge to New York’s Top Court
Feb 9 2017 // Facebook and Manhattan prosecutors went to New York state’s highest court Tuesday to settle a legal dispute over search warrants for users’ accounts, a closely watched case with big implications for online...
Tennessee Police to Monitor School Buses After Deadly Crash
Feb 9 2017 // Law enforcement officers in Tennessee plan to follow and ride Hamilton County school buses at random after a bus crash killed six students in November. The Times Free Press says the Tennessee Highway Patrol, Hamilton...
Oregon Jury Sides With City in Police Dog Attack
Feb 6 2017 // An Oregon jury has ruled against a man who sued the city of Salem after he was bitten by a police dog. The Statesman Journal reported John Hillebrand sought $1 million for physical pain, emotional harm and legal...
More Than 50 Guns Stolen from North Carolina Gun Show
Feb 2 2017 // Police in Greensboro, N.C., say more than 50 guns were stolen from a gun show over the weekend. Police said in a release Monday security guards reported the theft Sunday before the Greensboro Gun and Knife Show...
FBI: Security Planning for Houston Super Bowl in Works for Years
Jan 31 2017 // When tens of thousands of fans stream into NRG Stadium in Houston for the Super Bowl this Sunday, they will understandably be thinking more about the big game than the behind-the-scenes preparations that have gone into...
Judge: Sorrento, Louisiana, and Ex-Police Chief Must Pay Legal Fees
Jan 24 2017 // A federal judge has awarded nearly $40,000 in fees to attorneys for a woman who accused a former Louisiana police chief of sexually assaulting her in his office while she was drunk and he was on duty. The woman’s...
State Agency Advocates for Self-Driving Car Legislation in Maryland
Jan 19 2017 // Maryland state’s Motor Vehicle Administration is advocating legislation that would transfer regulatory power of self-driving cars to the agency and the state police, saying the change may improve safety on Maryland...
Icy Cold Creates Problems Across the South
Jan 9 2017 // Snow and sleet pounded a large swath of the U.S. East Coast on Saturday, coating roads with ice and causing hundreds of crashes. Thousands of people lost power and forecasters warned of blizzard-like conditions from...
Police in Savannah, Georgia Urge Vigilance After Rise of Business Burglaries in 2016
Jan 4 2017 // Police records show business owners in Savannah, Ga., reported a significant increase in burglaries during 2016. Crime reports by Savannah-Chatham County police show 347 commercial burglaries were reported between last...
Bangladesh Police Detail How Insiders May Have Aided Cyber Bank Heist
Dec 30 2016 // A top investigator into the electronic theft of $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank is turning his attention to some IT technicians from the bank whom he suspects hooked up its transactions system to the public...
German Police Resume Hunt for Killer in Christmas Market Terrorist Attack
Dec 21 2016 // German investigators intensified their search for the perpetrator of a deadly truck assault on a Christmas market in Berlin after an initial suspect was released, deepening the fear and uncertainty over what Chancellor...
