WELLINGTON, FL - A 26-year-old Wellington man charged with the November death of a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office parking enforcement worker was ordered held on $30,000 bond Tuesday. James A. Schaffner, son of Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue District Chief James Schaffner, was also ordered by Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Krista Marx not to possess alcohol or operate a vehicle. ...

WOBURN — With more than a dozen police officers and the widow of Woburn Officer John Maguire looking on, three men were formally charged yesterday in connection with Maguire’s death, as prosecutors said the men were the “embodiment of the conspiracy’’ to rob a department store, which resulted in the fatal shooting. Prosecutors alleged that the men knew the lead person ...

TAMPA, FL -- Bryan Reese Jr. never got to meet his father, a Tampa police officer accidentally shot to death by his partner 75 years ago. "My father was killed two months before I was born, and I know it affected my life considerably," he said. Reese and his son, Bryan Reese III, were among the attendees at today's memorial service ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — The names of 15 officers, including 10 who died from illnesses related to their time spent at ground zero in Manhattan, have been added to the New York Police Officers Memorial. Family, friends and hundreds of uniformed police gathered Tuesday at the black granite memorial in Albany where 1,297 names of officers who died in the line of ...

OAKLAND -- A gang suspect who investigators say admitted shooting a Fremont police officer in East Oakland last week was charged Tuesday with 10 felonies, including attempted murder. Andrew Barrientos, 20, who is in San Diego near where he was arrested Saturday just feet from the Mexican border, is scheduled to be arraigned in Alameda County Superior Court next Tuesday. Barrientos ...

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. - The man accused with killing an off-duty Maryland state trooper earlier this summer made his first court appearance Wednesday, where a detective testified the man retaliated after the cop tossed him out of a restaurant. Cyril Williams, currently being held without bond in state prison in Jessup, Md., faces five first-degree murder charges in the June slaying ...