ST. PETERSBURG - City officials estimate more than 10,000 could turn out for services on Friday, Jan. 28, honoring St. Petersburg Police Sgt. Thomas Baitinger and K-9/TAC Officer Jeffrey Yaslowitz. The men died in the line of duty Monday, Jan. 24 in St. Petersburg. Friday’s memorial service begins at 11 a.m. at the First Baptist Church of St. Petersburg, 1900 Gandy ...

RICHMOND -- Detectives found 18 firearms, including several assault rifles, at a home Wednesday night in the largest single weapons seizure in the department's history, police said. A team from the Special Investigations Division served a search warrant about 8 p.m. Wednesday at a home in the 2300 block of San Joaquin Street, said Sgt. Bisa French. She added that the ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A police sergeant faces up to six years in prison after a jury found him guilty on charges of official misconduct and false reports. Jurors returned the verdict against 44-year-old Marc Garza Thursday night. Police say Garza was behind a fake burglary report that was written to keep him and his men out of trouble after an August ...

GOLD COAST, IL - Police talked a man off the 11th-story ledge of a Gold Coast apartment early this morning following a domestic-dispute stabbing, police said. A woman was in critical condition at Northwestern Memorial Hospital with a stab wound to her throat, police said. Police responded to a "battery in progress" on the 1400 block of North Lake Shore Drive ...

HILLSIDE, IL - Three police officers were hospitalized early Friday after a crowd of more than 20 people attacked them as they attempted to break up a fight at a bowling alley in west suburban Hillside, police said. Seven people are in custody. The officers responded to Hillside Bowl, 4545 W. Harrison St., about 2:15 a.m. to quell a brawl in ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Doctors say an Oregon police officer ambushed during a traffic stop is recovering from gunshots to his pelvis and abdomen that would have killed him if he hadn't managed to call in the shooting to dispatchers, then been rushed to the hospital for surgery. One of the bullets fired by a man who's still at large severed ...

LOS ANGELES — The report of a school police officer shot last week touched off one of the largest Los Angeles-area manhunts in recent memory and forced thousands of students to remain in their classrooms for hours as officers searched for the attacker. Now law enforcement officials allege Officer Jeffrey Stenroos was lying when he said a gunman shot him in ...