WASHINGTON -- The sheriff of Prince George's County is adopting a more aggressive approach to maintaining the peace at county schools, following a string of violence recently documented on video. Sheriff's deputies will be placed at High Point High School -- where an attack on a student last week was documented on YouTube -- and other schools which Sheriff Melvin High ...

FRAMINGHAM, MA — A car possibly racing another vehicle on Route 30 in Framingham smashed into a cruiser carrying a veteran state trooper early yesterday, critically injuring the car’s driver but leaving the trooper nearly unscathed, State Police said. The trooper was at least the 11th involved in a serious crash in the past 15 months in which suspected erratic driving, ...

Forrest City, AR -- The FBI has begun a criminal rights investigation in the death of Marcal Camero Tye, a transgendered woman who was found shot in the head and dragged behind a car in Forrest City, Arkansas Tuesday. A civil rights investigation is the first step in ruling Tye's death a hate crime, said an FBI spokesperson. Local lesbian, gay, ...

STAMFORD, Conn. -- A 21-year-old man sitting down for a haircut allegedly grabbed scissors and slashed another in the back Tuesday, police told the Stamford Advocate. That led to his arrest and a bizarre booking photo taken before his haircut could be finished. [photo:595115] David Davis, of Cedar Hill Avenue, New Haven, was arrested shortly after the incident when Stamford patrol ...

ZACHARY, La. -- A southern Louisiana man drove for about six hours with his wife's body before entering a police station early Wednesday afternoon to say he killed her, authorities said. Police in Zachary, a Baton Rouge suburb, said they don't know how the woman died. "I couldn't tell if it was blunt force trauma. It was definitely homicidal," Zachary Police ...

Read the original story at CliffviewPilot.com MAHWAH, NJ - A convicted felon was carrying a pair of unlicensed loaded guns, along with extra ammunition, when a Mahwah police officer pulled over a rental truck he was riding in before dawn this morning, authorities said. Officer Christopher Fasulo was alone when he stopped the U-Haul box truck on Ramapo Valley Road near ...

LIMON — A standoff that began with the fatal shooting of a Limon police officer ended late Wednesday when the suspect was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. At a post-midnight news conference, State Trooper Heather Cobler said that officers were serving a warrant at a residence at the Wagon Wheel Mobile Home Park at about 6:10 p.m. when the ...