Associated Press (07/07)
NEW YORK (AP) — A man whose takedown by police last month led to an officer being charged for using what officials said was an illegal chokehold has himself been taken into custody in connection with an attempted robbery and slashing,
Associated Press (07/03)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer has hired a Chicago firm to perform a comprehensive review of the city’s police department amid weeks of protests.
By ANNA LIZ NICHOLS Associated Press/Report for America (07/01)
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A board overseeing Michigan’s Capitol determined Tuesday that it has the legal authority to decide whether guns will continue to be allowed in the building and on its grounds.
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) 07/01 — San Francisco police will stop releasing the mug shots of people who have been arrested unless they pose a threat to the public,
By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press, LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) 07/01 — Federal officials are working “urgently and expeditiously” to investigate possible civil rights violations by the Louisville officers who fatally shot Breonna Taylor,
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press, WASHINGTON (AP) 03/04 — The FBI needs to improve how it handles tips and leads about people who may carry out violent acts,
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) 02/25 — Having a few too many at home shouldn’t make handling one’s own firearm illegal, according to an Ohio man challenging his arrest on a charge of possessing a weapon while intoxicated.
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) 02/25 — The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday to close the courthouse door on the parents of a Mexican teenager who was shot dead over the border by an American agent.
By MARCELO DE SOUSA, Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) 02/14 — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro celebrated Friday after a crime index showed homicides fell to their lowest level in more than a decade during the first year of his term.
By JAKE BLEIBERG, Associated Press DALLAS (AP) 02/13 — A former Dallas police officer who opened fire on a 21-year-old woman driving a stolen car in January 2017 is not guilty of assault in her death,
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) 02/11 — St. Louis County has agreed to a $10.25 million settlement with a gay police lieutenant who says he was passed over for promotion 23 times and was told to “tone down” his “gayness.”
By DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) 02/10 — Chicago recorded nine homicides between 6 p.m. Friday and midnight Sunday, a weekend police said was the deadliest of the year for a city that has seen the number of fatal shootings surge this year after a previous decline.
By JIM MUSTIAN, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) 01/18 — Federal authorities are turning to a new tactic in the escalating conflict over New York City’s so-called sanctuary policies,
By ED WHITE, DETROIT (AP) 12/27 — The family of a Detroit teenager who crashed an all-terrain vehicle and died after he was shot with a Taser has reached a $12 million settlement in a lawsuit against state troopers,
TERRY SPENCER, Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) 12/28 — For Florida, the 2010s were a decade of high-profile mass shootings: at a nightclub, a high school,
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) 12/16 — Hours after the police chief in Vermont’s largest city resigned over using a fake social media account to heckle a critic,
By ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) 12/18 — The chief judge of a secretive surveillance court said Tuesday that the FBI provided “unsupported” information when it applied to eavesdrop on a former Trump campaign adviser and directed the bureau to report back by next month on what steps it was taking to fix the problems.
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and BRENDAN FARRINGTON, Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) 10/21 — The tragedy of the Parkland school massacre framed a developing political drama in Florida’s capital,
PARIS (AP) 10/06 — France’s interior minister acknowledges there were “malfunctions” that failed to prevent a deadly attack inside Paris police headquarters by a police employee.
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) 09/27 — Ohio’s capital city agreed Friday to pay porn actress Stormy Daniels $450,000 to settle a lawsuit over her arrest at a strip club last year,