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Two inmates in Newport News, Va., escaped from jail by using crude tools, but were apprehended while dining at a nearby IHOP.

Two inmates in Newport News, Va., escaped from jail by using crude tools, but were apprehended while dining at a nearby IHOP.

A police captain was pulled over on suspicion of drunk driving and asked the officer to turn off his body cam during the interaction.

The 28-year-old graduate student accused of killing four Idaho college students was denied bail in his first court appearance Thursday.

José Irizarry accepts that he’s known as the most corrupt agent in U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration history, admitting he “became another man” in conspiring with Colombian cartels to build a lavish lifestyle of expensive sports cars, Tiffany jewels and paramours around the world.

During a visit to Wilkes University on Tuesday, President Joe Biden blasted members of the GOP who continue to support participants of the Jan. 6 riot. “Let me say this to my MAGA Republican friends in Congress: don’t tell me you support law enforcement if you won’t condemn what happened on the 6th.”

Crawford County Sheriff Jimmy Damante responded Monday to video showing two county deputies and a Mulberry police officer beating a detained man and slamming his head into the cement in Arkansas.

After the attack on the Cincinnati FBI field office Thursday, the discussion on online extremist forums has heated up and grown more threatening against law enforcement, experts say. Donell Harvin, former chief of homeland security and intelligence in Washington D.C., joins LX News.

Residents were outraged when the text messages surfaced in social media posts.

The actions of a school district police chief and other law enforcement officers moved swiftly to the center of the investigation into this week’s shocking school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Authorities acknowledged Friday that children and teachers repeatedly begged 911 operators for help while the police chief told more than a dozen officers to wait in a hallway at Robb...

Texas authorities acknowledged Friday that officers did not immediately enact a tactical response during a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, despite 911 calls from students inside begging for help.

Two years after George Floyd was murdered by a police officer, President Joe Biden signed an executive order requiring new use-of-force rules for federal law enforcement. “I don’t know any good cop that likes a bad cop. But many people … such accountability is all too rare.”

President Joe Biden received a standing ovation from both sides of the aisle while addressing police funding during the State of the Union address. “The answer is not to defund the police. It’s to fund the police,” Biden said. “Fund them with the resources and training they need to protect our communities.”

President Joe Biden is considering expanding a policy that limits the use of “no-knock” warrants for certain federal agents.

The number of law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty across the U.S. last year totaled 458, a 55% increase from 2020.

Authorities were seen searching a Joliet canal Tuesday afternoon, the same canal where the sibling of missing Bolingbrook mother Stacy Peterson claimed her sister’s body had been found years ago, sources close to the investigation told NBC Chicago.

Authorities were seen searching a Joliet canal Tuesday afternoon, the same canal where the sibling of missing Bolingbrook mother Stacy Peterson claimed her sister’s body had been found years ago, sources close to the investigation told NBC Chicago.

Standing in front of the Capitol, President Joe Biden paid tribute on Saturday to fallen police officers and honored those who fought off the Jan. 6 insurrection at that very site