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Gov. Josh Shapiro: “Making our communities safer starts with ensuring PDs are well-staffed, well-funded, well-trained and well-equipped”
The mobile testing unit will give more time to patrol officers to answer calls for service
Orange County decision affects devices used by over 18,000 employees, except as necessary for law enforcement purposes
The court found him guilty of 136 counts of rape, 13 counts of sexual assault, eight counts of attempted rape and two counts of assault by penetration
The school’s mission is intricately tied to the state’s future. A multitude of issues from the leveeing of the Mississippi River to oil and gas development have made Louisiana ground zero for coastal land loss.
Police leaders say witnesses are simply too scared to cooperate. In Kansas City, 70% of people who survive being shot refuse to name their assailant
From Tampa to Philadelphia and San Francisco to New York, protesters carried signs and chanted anti-war slogans.
Only six states have laws specifically allowing campaign money to be used for child care.
The destructive cyberattacks on U.S. targets ebbed when Tehran reached a nuclear deal with the Obama administration in 2015. The killing early Friday in Iraq of Quds Force commander Gen. Qassam Soleimani — long after Trump scrapped the nuclear deal — completely alters the equation.
Officer Charles Starks was fired after shooting at Bradley Blackshire at least 15 times through the windshield of a car last February; a spokeswoman for Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott said the city will appeal the ruling
A report last year from the Learning Policy Institute found that the nation’s public schools are among the most inequitably funded of any in the industrialized world
The backlog of 34 unfunded projects -- which include abandoned mines that discharged heavy metals and arsenic in the West to an old wood pulp site in Mississippi and a defunct dry cleaner that released toxic solvents in North Carolina -- is up from only 12 in 2016, Obama’s last year, and the most at least since 2004.
“I have a positive outlook, and I believe in the kindness of strangers,” Officer Peme Canas said. “I knew all we needed was a spark and people would step up and help. I know the officers in Savoonga are moved by the kindness of people they will never meet.”