GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - Police in Gwinnett County won’t be using laser guns to catch speeders on the roads—at least for now. The change came January 1 because of a disagreement among several government agencies. Officers say they’re making adjustments to the way they do their jobs. Radar and lasers are now no longer an option for police in Gwinnett County, ...

DALLAS - A Dallas police senior corporal who led the Crime Stoppers program was escorted from police headquarters in handcuffs Wednesday afternoon. Theadora Ross had been under investigation for about eight months over funds missing from the popular tips-for-cash program. She is likely to face charges of conspiracy to commit fraud today in Dallas federal court. Ross, a 26-year veteran of ...

WASHINGTON — A nonprofit group in Washington says the number of police officers who have died in the line of duty is up 43 percent so far this year. The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund released preliminary data Wednesday. It shows that 87 officers died in the line of duty between Jan. 1 and June 30. That's compared with 61 ...

BUENA VISTA, Va. - The city of Buena Vista doesn't have the money to make a payment due on its golf course and faces losing the course, its municipal building and police station that were used as collateral. The Rockbridge County community issued $9.2 million in bonds in 2005 to finance the golf course's construction. Last week the City Council decided ...

HOUSTON - It was a bold move by the United States government: “You took out one of ours, we're coming after yours.” We saw evidence of that retaliation by the government in north Houston where local and federal agents went after suspects with alleged ties to Mexican drug cartels. Thomas Hinojosa, with the Drug Enforcement Agency, would not confirm the effort ...

OCEAN GATE, N.J. -- Fellow officers and residents are mourning the death of a small-town New Jersey police officer who was killed when a suspected drunken driver crashed into his Jeep. Thirty-two-year-old Ocean Gate Officer Jason Marles was killed early Thursday on the Garden State Parkway. He was headed home to his wife and two children after working a holiday anti-drunken ...

INDIANAPOLIS — It was a story of "girl bites dog" for a teenager who thought she was in a battle for her life with a police K-9. The dog attacked Natalie Bradley-Wilson outside the Kingdom Hall in the 8200 block of Five Points Road Sunday. "When it bit me over here again, I ended up biting his neck," she said. The ...

BOSTON - A Boston police officer who teaches women how to defend themselves was shot by a suspect in a domestic violence call yesterday morning during a fierce exchange of gunfire, marking the third time since November that a Massachusetts officer has been shot in the line of duty. Officer Shawn Marando was about to finish his overnight shift, authorities said, ...

WALLER, Tx. -- A retired officer with the Waller Police Department who authorities said described himself as a "terrorist" from Ireland, is the target of a federal investigation after explosives were found in his home. George K. McCullough, 64, was arrested Friday and accused of illegally storing 800 feet of detonating cord and four electric blasting caps at his home in ...

Los Angeles, CA (AP) -- Taxpayers are paying nearly $5 million for a crash involving a drunken Los Angeles deputy whose sheriff's SUV slammed into a car with a driver high on methamphetamine. Investigators say Deputy Robert Moran drank a couple of beers, dressed into his uniform and got behind the wheel of the Los Angeles County sport utility vehicle three ...

Looking to reduce sky-high security costs, Mineta San Jose International Airport is launching an idea that few other major cities have tried -- jettisoning the city's police officers from the airport and replacing them with a private security force. The transfer of 41 police officers and 12 firefighters might save the airport an estimated $10 million a year, a savings essential ...

DELAWARE COUNTY, PA - A two-year investigation into allegations that municipal police officers cheated on a routine recertification exam has resulted in 15 officers in Delaware and Chester Counties being stripped of their law enforcement powers. The case began after officers in one Chester County department reported that answers were circulated in advance by e-mail to a 10-question, multiple-choice recertification test ...

SEATTLE - Vigilante justice has come to Seattle, and the caped crusaders drive a Kia. Seattle police say a group of self-described superheroes have been patrolling the streets at night trying to save people from crime. They call themselves the Rain City Superhero Movement and say they're part of a nationwide movement of real-life crime fighters. The national website -- cited ...

The toddler son of a Midvale police officer was flown to the hospital after the family's dog -- which failed out of training to become a police dog -- attacked the child. The boy was alone with the dog in the backyard of his home on Wildberry Circle in Kearns when the dog attacked. His mother found him lying in the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A man with a two-decade history of biting and attacking San Francisco police officers was convicted of misdemeanor charges Thursday stemming from the latest incident but cleared of a felony. Miquel McNorton, 49, of San Francisco was found guilty of misdemeanor battery on an officer and two counts of resisting arrest stemming from an Aug. 18 run-in with ...

NEW YORK - Two New York City police officers were acquitted Thursday of raping a drunken woman they'd been called to help but were convicted of official misconduct. Officers Franklin Mata and Kenneth Moreno look stunned after hearing the verdict. They were called to help the woman get out of a taxi in 2008. The woman testified that she passed out ...

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) - Officials in Wyoming want people to be on the lookout for a black box with white lettering that says "METH," after a deputy lost a stash used to train police dogs. Teton County sheriff's Sgt. Lloyd Funk said the deputy accidentally left the box on a bumper after a canine training exercise Oct. 27. It contained nearly ...

DALLAS – Three Houston police officers have been restricted to desk duty after they followed a Chinese diplomat into the parking garage of the Chinese Consulate, arrested the man and injured him, the Houston mayor said. Mayor Annise Parker said in a statement that the officers' duties will remain limited pending an investigation into how Chinese diplomat Yu Boren was injured ...

MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ - A high-ranking member of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office has filed a $5 million notice of claim against the county, saying he was injured by a searing memorandum that alleged widespread mismanagement, inappropriate campaign activities and other wrongdoing within the Sheriff's Office. The memo in question, authored by Sheriff's Deputy Chief Frank Munnell, prompted Arpaio to ...