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Sheriff Dave Wedding told news outlets on Monday how murder suspect Casey White and former corrections officer Vicky White were located.

A manhunt is continuing for a dangerous inmate and a corrections officer after they went missing Friday

A North Carolina sheriff says four deputies involved in the case of a Black man who was fatally shot last week have returned to active duty after a review of body camera video showed they did not fire their weapons

On Election Day, a young lieutenant in the Strafford County Sheriff’s Office made history, becoming the first Black person ever elected sheriff in New Hampshire. “I’m so excited, I really am,” said Lt. Mark Brave. “That says that New Hampshire is open to progress, they’re open to new ideas.” The 35-year-old Dover resident ran on a platform of transparency,...

Hundreds of flights were canceled and thousands delayed for travelers heading home after the Thanksgiving holiday as a deadly winter storm moved to the Northeast on Sunday, packing one last punch of snow and ice. The National Weather Service predicted more than a foot (0.3 meters) of snow in swaths of upstate New York and New England, as well as...

A Marine deserter, accused of gunning down his mother’s boyfriend, was captured Wednesday in Virginia — at the scene of the alleged slaying — following a two-week, multi-state search, authorities said. Cpl. Michael Alexander Brown, 22, was safely taken into custody at his mother’s house in Hardy, Virginia, about 8 a.m. ET, Franklin County Sheriff W. Q. “Bill” Overton Jr....

Authorities say feral hogs attacked and killed a woman outside a Southeast Texas home where she worked as a caretaker.

Sheriff’s deputies seized a duffel bag filled with cocaine that washed up on a northeast Florida beach.

An Oklahoma police chief was killed during an altercation with one of his own officers while at a conference in Florida Sunday, NBC News reports. Escambia County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a physical altercation at the Hilton Garden Inn in Pensacola Beach Sunday evening and found Mannford Police Chief Lucky Miller dead, according to NBC affiliate KJRH....

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on Sunday said 46-year-old James G. Boyce, of Palm Beach Gardens, suffered a “substantial” bite to his leg while hunting on Saturday.

Authorities in southeastern Wisconsin say they now know the identity of a woman found fatally beaten near a cornfield in 1999 and have made an arrest in her death.

The man arrested in connection to the deadly shooting in Greenville Oct. 26 was released from jail Tuesday, the Hunt County Sheriff’s Office says.

Nashville’s sheriff has presented the Johnny Cash Museum proof that the late musician who famously cultivated an image as an outlaw was actually granted law enforcement authority four decades ago. This week, Nashville Sheriff Daron Hall gave a blown-up image of Cash’s September 1979 deputy sheriff commission card. It was issued by then-Davidson County Sheriff Fate Thomas and features Cash’s...

A skeleton recently found on California’s second-highest mountain could be the remains of a Japanese-American man who disappeared from an internment camp during the waning days of World War II.

A Northern California sheriff’s deputy was killed Wednesday while responding to a call regarding a theft from a private marijuana garden in the rural Sierra Nevada foothills, officials said.

Monroe County jail inmate Jason Aaron Gibson was charged Monday with animal cruelty after he was already being held on a vehicle theft charge.

Authorities evacuated an elementary school in Montana on Tuesday after officials found what they thought were the remnants of a homemade bomb that exploded, but it turned out to be a plastic bottle filled with nuts and bolts left in the schoolyard. School officials in Helena made the discovery shortly before classes began at Rossiter Elementary School. They blocked off...

A judge has ordered that a Houston man charged with capital murder in the slaying of a sheriff’s deputy be held without bond.

Sandeep Dhaliwal carried a badge and a gun while devoting his life to a faith that teaches love and peace. Dhaliwal, who was fatally shot from behind during a traffic stop Friday, was the first Sikh sheriff’s deputy on a force that covers an area including the nation’s fourth largest city of Houston. Four years ago he won an accommodation...

Sheriff’s officials say a Florida woman who was found dead along with her four children in Georgia was beaten to death with a baseball bat.