FORT BEND, TX - A Fort Bend County sheriff's deputy who was critically injured during a traffic wreck while on a emergency call late last month died this morning at the hospital. Deputy John Norsworthy died about 10:30 a.m. at Memorial Hermann Hospital, according to the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office. Funeral arrangements have not been made. Initial reports indicate another ...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- South Carolina authorities have charged a man arrested in Tennessee with murder in the death of a former sheriff. [photo:575098] Multiple media outlets reported that 82-year-old former Sheriff Charles Snipes was found dead at his used car lot in Spartanburg early Tuesday. Snipes was sheriff of Spartanburg County from 1961 to 1968. Coroner Rusty Clevenger says an autopsy ...

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 ...

With the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry overnight on December 14th, national attention has been focused on the war that is occurring along our borders. Although Agent Terry's death has been the most high profile this year, sadly his is the fifth death of a Customs and Border Protection law enforcement officer this year. Protecting the American border is ...

MISHAWAKA — Mishawaka police Cpl. James Szuba's death Saturday night in a crash with a suspected drunken driver left Dan Green angry and saddened. Szuba was one of four officers who in 2004 rescued Green's then-5-year-old grandson, Jaran Newgent, from an icy retention pond near his Normain Heights home. [widget:news__all_discussion] "It hurts me," Green said. "He did what he had to ...

CHICAGO - An 18-year-old has been arrested and charged with the murder of Chicago Police Officer David A. Blake, a member of the SWAT team who was shot to death last month. “It was a classic case of robbery; the suspect wanted to steal Officer Blake’s extensive gun collection,” said a police source. Blake possessed a varied collection of registered and ...

EVANS, CO - The investigation into Tuesday's high-speed police chase and fatal shootout will be exhaustive in the wake of the first death in the line of duty for a Weld County sheriff's deputy in 70 years, authorities said. Deputy Sam Brownlee, 43, was killed, as was suspected car thief Ruben Reyes, 20, of Fort Morgan. The deadly confrontation between Reyes ...

PLANT CITY, FL - There's a new member of the city police department's motorcycle division. And for the first time since it was founded more than 70 years ago, the officer is a woman. DeeDee Gregory, a married mother of two who became an officer at age 40, recently was named the city's first female motorcycle officer. She's a good fit ...

REMBERT, S.C. — An on-duty Sumter police officer has died in a head-on crash on U.S. 521 in Sumter County. Sumter police said in a news release that 39-year-old Cpl. Charles Nesbitt Jr. died at the hospital about an hour after the wreck Friday afternoon. Authorities say Nesbitt and another officer were driving south on U.S. 521 near Rembert when they ...

Assistant Commissioner Winkowski and I are saddened to inform you of the tragic death of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officer John Zykas. On September 2, CBP Officer Zykas suffered a major heart attack during a training course at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry. After undergoing intensive surgery, CBP Officer Zykas was removed from life support and passed away ...

Emily Nollmeyer of Tacoma doesn’t remember her father’s funeral. She was 4 years old when Tacoma police officer Craig Nollmeyer was shot to death Jan. 24, 1985, on a domestic violence call in the North End. A fight between a man and his wife escalated into gunfire. The man killed both his wife and Nollmeyer, who was walking down an alley ...

An Army National Guard sergeant who grew up in Tucson was killed Thursday when insurgents attacked his unit with a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. Sgt. 1st Class Jim Thode, 45, was deployed in July with a unit based out of Blanding, Utah. He was assigned to the 118th Engineer Sapper Company, 1457th Engineer Battalion. His unit's mission was to provide route-clearance ...

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 ...

[photo:588143] PORTLAND, Ore. — Memorial services for Rainier police Chief Ralph Painter are scheduled Friday afternoon at the University of Portland Chiles Center. Painter was shot and killed last week in the small Columbia River town north of Portland after he responded to a report of an attempted car theft. A memorial procession is scheduled to begin 10 a.m. at the ...

An off-duty officer with the Northeast Side Independent School District was killed in a motorcycle accident on the city's South Side around noon today, police reported. Police believe that Joseph Diaz, 63, had just finished a funeral escort and was traveling north in the 5300 block of Presa Street near Hot Wells Boulevard hen he lost control of his motorcycle, fell ...

Update: RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- California authorities are looking for a big-rig truck driver accused of killing a Riverside police officer during a gunfight. Roadblocks went up Monday as a dragnet continues. The Riverside Press-Enterprise says some semis have had to park and can't make deliveries. Police Chief Sergio Diaz tells the paper that Officer Ryan Bonaminio stopped a truck for a ...

HOUSTON - A University of Houston police officer was killed early Friday when her cruiser struck a tree en route to a service call, authorities said. She was the first UH officer to die in the line of duty. Ann O'Donnell, 24, was responding to a possible assault or kidnapping at the Wendy's restaurant on Scott Street across from Robertson Stadium ...