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 ...

A Grant County sheriff's deputy was killed in a single-car crash about 7:20 p.m. Sunday, according to Grant County Sheriff Frank DeTrolio. The deputy, John Bernard, of Moses Lake was on patrol when his car crashed and rolled on a rural road near Ephrata. A witness called 911. Ambulance crews and other deputies responding to the call found Bernard, 52, of ...

Reeves County, Texas, Deputy Jacob Rayos was killed in an automobile accident on the I-20 service road at approximately 3:30 am. He was attempting to locate a suspect when his patrol car left the roadway on a curve and rolled over several times, ejecting him. Read more at the Officer Down Memorial Page. Today's Top News: Brawling Brooklyn Hipsters Says Bust ...

MEADVILLE, PA - A jail inmate who was upset about an unsharpened pencil attacked a guard by "pile-driving" him onto his head and will be charged with criminal homicide, a district attorney said. Crawford County District Attorney Francis Schultz told The Associated Press that Gregory G. Brown, 24, will be arraigned on the charge Tuesday afternoon. Brown was in the county ...

BALTIMORE - A 33-year Baltimore police veteran was killed Monday evening in a single-vehicle accident in Pennsylvania while traveling to a training program, police said. Officer James E. Fowler III, of Catonsville, was driving through Lewiston, Pa. at about 5:25 p.m. when his 2002 Chevrolet truck hit a berm on U.S. 22/322 West and came to rest along a concrete barrier ...

TUSCON, AZ - An on-duty Border Patrol agent assigned to the Tucson Sector was killed Thursday morning in a two-vehicle collision southwest of Tucson The agent, whose name is not being released pending notification of relatives, suffered multiple injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene on Federal Route 19 south of Sells, authorities said. Officers with the Tohono O'odham Police ...

MUNCIE, Ind. — Relatives and friends of a Muncie police officer fatally wounded by a prisoner in 1990 have marked the 20th anniversary of the shooting. Tuesday's midnight vigil for officer Gregg Winters was held at the site along a Muncie road where a handcuffed man Winters was driving him to the Delaware County Jail pulled out a hidden gun and ...

A 16-year veteran of the Delaware River Port Authority Police Department died early yesterday after he was hit while rushing across the Walt Whitman Bridge to help another officer who was handling a car accident. About 1:30 a.m., Cpl. Christopher Milito, 40, of Media, left his car in the 300 block of Packer Avenue and was running across the five-lane highway ...

GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Authorities in New Jersey say a robbery suspect killed a police dog by throwing it into traffic. Gloucester Township police say the 3 1/2-year-old German shepherd named Schultz was trying to apprehend the man around 7:15 p.m. Tuesday. Police say the man grabbed the animal and tossed him onto the busy roadway, where it was struck. The ...

SAN ANTONIO -- Police announced that Officer Sergio Antillon died early Friday morning at University Hospital. Officer Antillon had been in critical condition since he was injured in an accident two weeks ago. In a statement released by the SAPD, Chief McManus said, “ It is with great sadness that I report the death of Officer Sergio Antillon today. My prayers ...

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. -- An elderly driver says he blacked out shortly before his vehicle struck and killed a sheriff's sergeant on Sunday. Authorities say the sports utility vehicle driven by 79-year-old Leo John Saunders plowed through a 7-11 parking lot where Polk County Sheriff's Sgt. Wesley Whitmore was making a traffic stop. The SUV hit the patrol car, which then ...

TAMPA — Four grieving families filled a courtroom Thursday, together for the first time to face the same murder suspect, Dontae Morris. The wives of two slain Tampa police officers heard prosecutors announce the intent to seek the harshest punishment: death. And the frustrated families of two civilians learned that for their loved ones, the state would stop at life in ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An Ohio man's resentment of authority and run-ins with the law was enough for a local sheriff to warn that he could be dangerous if confronted by law enforcement. Years later, the sheriff appears right: The man and his teenage son are suspected of fatally shooting two Arkansas police officers during a traffic stop before they died ...