TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Authorities have charged a man with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a Washington state sheriff’s deputy after a home invasion. Prosecutors say 32-year-old Frank Pawul also was charged Thursday with kidnapping and unlawful possession of a firearm in the death of Deputy Daniel McCartney. Pawul’s bail was set at …
A Louisiana teacher was escorted out of a school board meeting in handcuffs after she asked a question about teacher pay in the school district, and a disturbing video shows what appears to be egregious aggression on the part of the city marshal who took her out of the meeting and later booked her into …
The wife of a Pennsylvania police chief has broken her silence days after he was arrested for allegedly soliciting sex from an undercover officer posing as a 14-year-old girl. Leechburg police Chief Michael Diebold, 40, is accused of sending explicit photos to and soliciting sex from the girl who ended up being an undercover agent. In a …
‘This is not who we knew’
A Kansas woman died in a hail of bullets following an armed standoff with police inside an Olathe residence. In police camera footage obtained through a lawsuit by the Kansas City Star, 26-year-old Ciara Howard’s final moments on Aug. 23 can be seen as she attempted to barricade herself inside a laundry room. The ordeal, …
A sheriff’s deputy in California has died after a gang member allegedly punched him the head — and the deadly blow was caught on surveillance camera footage. Fox News reports that San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Deputy Larry Falce died on Tuesday after a minor traffic collision with a man police are calling a “career criminal.” …
Police have said Andrew Finch, 28, was shot after a prankster called 911 last week with a fake story about a shooting and kidnapping at Finch’s Wichita home.
The suspect in a deadly ambush that killed a sheriff’s deputy in Colorado on Sunday had previously escaped from a mental health ward, and his own mother had warned local authorties that he was off his medication and likely suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Matthew Riehl, 37, was killed by SWAT team gunfire on Sunday …
One New Year’s Day baby was born amid chaos after her father reportedly sped down an interstate and evaded police. Little Anastasia’s mother told WCBD that the baby came three weeks early, leading her father to floor it from their home in St. George to a hospital in downtown Charleston, where they planned to deliver …
You’ll never see a psychic detective testify in a criminal case, but many investigators have used their special skills to find clues and even solve criminal mysteries. Nancy Grace explores their stories in this New Years Day Crime Stories show. Her guests in include psychic detectives Noreen Renier, Gale St. John, and Allison DuBois. Forensics …
– Suspect posted anti-police YouTube videos – Slain officer was father of 2 who joined department just 7 months ago
A Massachusetts man threatened to kill a police officer’s family and then force the officer to watch him eat them, the Greenfield Recorder reports. Jeffrey Liimatainen, 26, threatened the officer while he was being taken to jail after he threw a boot at the cop and punched him in the chest. The officer, Adam Cooley, …
