RICHMOND, VA - A Virginia state police trooper died Tuesday after making a training dive in Lake Anna, the state police said. Trooper Mark D. Barrett, 41, was part of a team making deep-water dives in the lake, which is about 70 miles southwest of Washington, the state police said. As Barrett and a second trooper were ascending after a dive, ...

HARVEY, IL - A Harvey man was charged Wednesday with murdering a Metra police officer four years ago, officials said. Jemetric Nicholson, 23, was charged with the murder of Thomas Cook after a lengthy investigation, Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez said. Cook, of Dyer, Ind., was a former Riverdale police officer. He was the first Metra officer killed in the ...

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 ...

Deputy Don McCutcheon suffered a fatal heart attack shortly after shoveling snow from the front steps of the sheriff's office. He had returned to the office after answering several calls for service and, as part of his duties, was clearing front steps to make it accessible to the public. After about 20 minutes of shoveling he began to feel ill and ...

Tpr. Paul G. Richey, 40, a 16-year-veteran of the Pennsylvania State Police, died Jan. 13, as the result of a gunshot wound suffered during an incident in Cranberry Twp., Venango County. Tpr. Richey was assigned to the Patrol Unit at Troop E, Franklin. Richey and Tpr. Jason Whitman responded to a call at approximately 11:34 a.m. regarding a domestic incident in ...

TAMPA, Fla. — A convicted felon accused of killing two Tampa police officers during a traffic stop surrendered after detectives spent more than a day negotiating with an associate of the man, police said Saturday. Dontae Rashawn Morris, 24, turned himself in at a police station about 10:30 p.m. Friday, police said. He was charged with two counts of first-degree murder ...

PHOENIX - After two days of an extensive ongoing investigation that involves some of the most experienced homicide detectives working around the clock, Phoenix police are no closer to explaining how a patrol sergeant ended up dead alongside his squad vehicle in an alley near an open industrial lot. With limited physical evidence and witnesses, Phoenix police are asking the public's ...

EUFAULA, OKLAHOMA AND NOLANVILLE, CENTRAL TEXAS -- An off-duty Central Texas police officer was killed in a traffic accident in Oklahoma Tuesday evening. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says Nolanville reserve officer Patrick Sirois, 50, of Copperas Cove, died in the accident about one mile north of Eufaula, about 80 miles southeast of Tulsa. State Troopers say Sirois was northbound on Highway ...

CEDAR PARK, Texas — A 41-year-old Austin-area police officer training for motorcycle service has died of injuries incurred when the motorcycle on which he was training crashed. Cedar Park police say Officer Leonard Reed died Wednesday evening, several hours after the mid-afternoon crash on a side street in the Austin suburb. A Cedar Park police spokesman says details of the ...

ABILENE, TX - Officer Rodney Holder was killed in a motorcycle accident at the intersection of Sayles Boulevard and South 13th Street while attempting to stop a speeder. Another vehicle collided with his motorcycle in the intersection as he attempted to the stop the speeder on Sayles Boulevard. Officer Holder is survived by his wife, daughter, and son.

Deputy Sheriff Roy Sutton was killed in a single vehicle automobile accident. Deputy Sutton was responding to a domestic disturbance call involving weapons near Madison. He met an oncoming vehicle on a hilly, winding section of Dugan Hollow Road. Deputy Sutton's cruiser ran off the right side of the road and down a steep embankment. The vehicle went airborne and struck ...