MAPLEWOOD, MN - The St. Paul man charged in the ambush killing of a Maplewood police sergeant pleaded guilty to murder and kidnapping Thursday and will be sentenced to 35 1/2 years in prison. Joshua M. Martin, 21, appeared in a Ramsey County courtroom filled with police officers and the dead man's family. He said that as he and friend Jason ...

TAMPA, Fla. — A manhunt for the convicted felon accused of killing two Tampa police officers — and wanted for questioning in three other homicides — spread to north Florida on Thursday. Jacksonville sheriff's officers received a tip that Dontae Rashawn Morris, 24, was in a neighborhood in that city, some 200 miles from where he is accused of gunning down ...

JONESBORO, Ark. -- From the cab of his FedEx truck, Vincent Brown had a bird's-eye view of the shooting that killed two West Memphis police officers on May 20. A short video clip from an officer's dashboard camera released Wednesday shows 16-year-old Joe Kane in a red T-shirt slowly open the passenger-side door of a 1994 white Plymouth Voyager van and ...

BROCKTON — While the funeral of State Police Sergeant Douglas Weddleton unfolded yesterday with precision choreography, the simple words of a grieving son imbued the solemn pageantry with a painful, palpable humanity. “You are my hero, you are my idol, and I hope I can continue to make you proud,’’ Mark Weddleton, 23, said tearfully during the funeral Mass. “Now, get ...

EDMONTON - A 25-year-old Mountie just seven months on the job is dead following a head-on collision Monday near Stony Plain. Const. Chelsey Robinson died in hospital Monday after her cruiser collided with a semi-trailer carrying a load of pipes. The trucker was also taken to hospital but is expected to survive. Robinson has the tragic distinction of becoming the 50th ...

LOS ANGELES—A California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer who was critically injured in an accident on Interstate 405 in Los Angeles two weeks ago has died. The CHP says Officer Phillip Ortiz died at 5:50 p.m. Tuesday at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Westwood. Ortiz had pulled over an SUV June 9 on the right shoulder of the highway near the ...

DALLAS — The city's new police chief faces one of the worst tragedies that could befall a law enforcement officer: living with the knowledge that his dead son was a cop killer. Just seven weeks after being sworn in as leader of the Dallas police force, David Brown learned on Father's Day that his 27-year-old son gunned down a suburban officer ...

KEY LARGO — A Monroe County Sheriff's deputy was killed Tuesday night when her patrol car crashed while she was on her way to the location of another deputy who could not be reached on his police radio, according to officials. Deputy Melissa Powers was driving north on U.S. 1 just in Key Largo when she was involved in a single ...

Updated: June 22, 2010 at 10:27am TWIGGS COUNTY, GA - A Twiggs County sheriff's deputy was killed early this morning by a falling tree before 2 a.m. on U.S. 80 near Turkey Creek. Richard Daniels, who was believed to be in his 30s, was pronounced dead of blunt head trauma at 2:15 a.m., said Twiggs County Coroner Harold Reece Jr., who ...

RICHMOND, VA - A Richmond sheriff's deputy has died a week after she was involved in a single vehicle crash at VCU Medical Center. On Friday, June 11, Caroline Green, 51, a two-year sheriff's department veteran, crashed an unmarked vehicle into a wall next to a VCU Medical Center entrance around 10:45 p.m. The car ran into a concrete and glass ...

SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. - The patrol car of a Spotsylvania County Sheriff's deputy sits draped in black Sunday as fellow deputies mourn one of their own who died yesterday in a tragic boating accident. Deputy Dean Ridings, 52, was on marine patrol of a crowded Lake Anna when the accident happened around 12:40p.m., Saturday. "The boat was struck by a large wake, ...

UPDATED: June 21, 2010 at 10:48am EST LANCASTER – A police officer and two other men, including Dallas Police Chief David Brown's adult son, were fatally shot Sunday night at an apartment complex. The slain police officer was identified this morning as Craig Shaw, a five-year veteran of the force and a member of its regional tactical team. "This community has ...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- A police officer who arrested a mall shoplifting suspect after a foot chase in suburban New York has collapsed and died. Authorities say Michael Perry was pronounced dead at a hospital about an hour after arresting the suspect in downtown White Plains on Saturday afternoon. Perry was 43. The cause of death was unknown. White Plains Public ...

Deputy Eddie Wotipka drowned after entering a canal in an attempt to rescue a dog that had fallen into the water. At approximately 11:15 pm, as Deputy Wotipka arrived home at the end of his shift, several several neighbors notified him that a group of dogs were possibly in distress near the canal. When he arrived at the canal his own ...

FORESTVILLE, Md. — Police were searching for a man who shot and killed an off-duty Maryland state trooper working security at a Prince George's County restaurant early Friday. Trooper Wesley Brown, 24, escorted a disorderly customer from an Applebee's on Thursday evening and when he left the restaurant around 12:40 a.m. Friday, State Police Superintendent Col. Terrence Sheridan said that customer ...

BURLINGTON, Ontario - On the morning of June 8, 2010, a veteran Halton Regional Police Service officer went into medical distress while on duty at Police Headquarters in Oakville. Rushed to hospital by EMS, he later succumbed to what appears to be natural causes. Constable Bill Henshaw, age 54, joined the Halton Regional Police Service in 1977. He served nearly 33 ...

CALHOUN, GA - A former Calhoun police officer was killed Monday in a suicide attack in Afghanistan, the Calhoun Police Department has confirmed. Wayne Willard, a member of the Calhoun police department from 2001 to 2008, was killed at a police training camp in Kandahar, according to a news release. "Sergeant Willard was a loyal, dedicated law enforcement officer as well ...

UINTAH COUNTY, Utah - Police Officer Joshua Yazzie was killed in an automobile accident while responding to a call. Officer Yazzie was driving near the Bottle Hollow Reservoir on the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation, where he was responding to assist an ambulance crew who were treating an intoxicated person who was behaving violently. As he responded to the call, Officer ...

HOWELL TOWNSHIP — A New Jersey state trooper described as "the embodiment of the finest ideals" of the force, died today after being struck by a car in Monmouth County as he searched for the occupants of an abandoned car. Marc K. Castellano, 29, who has been with the force since 2004, was struck at 10 a.m. in a westbound lane ...

PHOENIX -- A Tucson man with previous theft and weapons convictions was charged Thursday with first-degree murder and weapons violations in the fatal shooting of a Phoenix police officer. Danny Ledezma Martinez, 30, was also charged with burglary and fleeing from a police vehicle, Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley said. Prosecutors will decide whether to pursue the death penalty after reviewing ...