Lorenzo Leatherwood Jr. faces drug trafficking, assault and weapons charges after fleeing from police and ramming cruisers as officers sought to raid his home in Akron.

Capt. Doug Kitzmiller, 50, has been on leave since mid-December after state police initiated a criminal misdemeanor investigation in Clackamas County, according to Canby Police Chief Jorge Tro. The state made hunting with thermal and infrared devices illegal several years ago.

A Michigan police officer who fatally shot a Black man in the back of the head after a tumultuous traffic stop will not face a second murder trial.

The Ashtabula Township couple apprehended May 18 in Bainbridge Township after an alleged car theft and a car jacking in Willoughby, may also face auto theft charges in Bainbridge Township.

A police officer recently reinstated to his role after he was sacked last year was fired because he used a racial slur to refer to a black woman. Jack Thrumble used it in a WhatsApp conversation while working as volunteer special constable for Dorset Police in February 2021.

In 1971, only two months into his service, the Michigan native died while on duty. On Friday, 54 years after his death, city officials honored the fallen officer in a Memorial Day ceremony to show how his sacrifice, and that of others dedicated to service, is not forgotten.

On June 18, 1975, days after finishing eighth grade, Zetterower and Schreiber got into a white van with the two men in Hollywood, Florida, police said. Their bodies were found in the Everglades the next day. Keebler and Stein are dead, police said, so they won't be prosecuted for the murders.

The watch officer of a huge container ship that ran aground and crashed into a garden in Norway has told police he was asleep at the time of the incident. Investigators said the man, a Ukrainian national in his thirties, admitted to falling asleep while on duty on his own.