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St. Augustine, FL – The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office fired its finance director on Tuesday, after it was discovered that she allegedly embezzled nearly $700,000 from the county’s operating funds and officers’ benevolent fund. Raye Annette Brutnell, 47, had worked for the sheriff’s office since Mar. 5, 1991, according to the Historic City News. […]

Limon, CO – A 68-year-old man driving the wrong direction on a major highway struck an off-duty Denver police detective’s vehicle on Saturday, killing his six year-old daughter and the family dog. Denver Police Detective Jared Purdy and his daughter, Reagan, were returning from a hunting trip at about 5:50 pm on Nov. 17 when […]

Detroit, MI – A U.S. District Court Judge has declared that a 22-year-old federal law against female genital mutilation is unconstitutional, and dismissed key charges against two Michigan doctors and six other adults accused of performing the procedure on at least nine underage girls. U.S. District Court Judge Bernard Friedman filed the decision on Tuesday, […]

Talladega, AL – Two police officers were wounded, and a man and a woman were killed, during a gun battle outside the Talladega Walmart early Wednesday morning. The incident began at about 4:30 a.m. on Nov. 21 when the Talladega Police Department received a 911 call for help with a possible kidnapping that had just […]

Volusia County, FL – The Volusia County Sheriff’s Office (VCSO) has released video footage that captured a roadside shootout between an attempted murder suspect and several law enforcement officers on Monday (video below). Dillon Parker, 33, was wanted in connection with a Nov. 10 shooting in DeLeon Springs, during which 33-year-old Daniel Dekman was critically […]

Sacramento, CA – The brother of a man who was killed by Sacramento police has announced he is running for mayor of that city in 2020. Stevante Clark, 25, filed paperwork with the California Secretary of State on Monday to open up two campaign finance committees, one of which directly references the next mayoral election, […]

New Orleans, LA – A man accused of threatening to blow up a restaurant told police he was just making a reference to using the restroom. Arthur Posey, 30, faces charges in connection to a bomb threat made at Willie’s Chicken Shack when police didn’t buy his story that he was talking about a bowel […]

Chicago, IL – A Chicago police officer was shot on the city’s South Side on Tuesday morning. Police said that an officer from the Chicago Police Department’s 6th District was making a traffic stop at about 11 a.m. in the 8700-block of South Marshfield Avenue when he was shot, WLS reported. The officer was hit […]

Tulsa, OK – An Oklahoma activist group is calling for a criminal investigation after video surfaced that showed a physical altercation between a QuikTrip security guard and a customer (video below). We the People Oklahoma has demanded that police determine whether or not the private security guard who appeared in the video is also a […]

Washington, DC – Officials have ruled that the death of a U.S. Health and Human Services Department employee by blunt force trauma was a suicide. Daniel Best, 49, was found “unresponsive” by the garage exit door of an apartment building in the Navy Yard neighborhood near Capitol Hill, the Associated Press reported. Best was found […]