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911 call and radio audio shows how tense the scene was when a Lenoir County paramedic was shot
The bill called for changing the standard for releasing police K-9s to bite someone, which would make it the same standard for officers using deadly force
Charleston firefighters faced three bad hydrants and had to wait on tankers from neighboring FDs
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House Democrats and several of the hearing’s witnesses said some immigrants and Hispanics may still be afraid to participate in the census this spring
Telecommunications outages have worsened as wildfires have become more common and more destructive. A report from the California Public Utilities Commission found 85,000 wireless customers and 160,000 wired customers lost service during the 2017 North Bay Fires.
Practically speaking, there’s a big difference between scanning a network for vulnerabilities and actually breaking into it and extracting sensitive information. But that doesn’t mean these efforts don’t undermine the public’s trust.
The guidelines will likely fall short of expectations of auto safety advocates and the National Transportation Safety Board. In November, the NTSB condemned a lack of state and federal regulation for testing autonomous vehicles.
Recent earthquakes hit a region still struggling to recover from Hurricane Maria’s devastation two years ago
The governor and former mayor said compassion for those who are homeless “isn’t allowing a person suffering a severe psychotic break or from a lethal substance abuse addiction to literally drift towards death on our streets and sidewalks.”
Three national refugee resettlement agencies argue that Trump’s October executive order allowing local governments to keep new refugees from settling in their jurisdictions illegally conflicts with the Refugee Act and are seeking a preliminary injunction.
Mothers of the recently murdered inmates say their sons had pleaded for help or transfers to safer spaces before they died in the violence.
The move will have little practical effect as no refugees have been resettled in Beltrami County in the past five years.
Governor Greg Abbott has tweeted videos that he calls evidence of the homeless threatening public safety in Texas’ capital city, and urged his nearly 330,000 followers to share more.