4 h. ago Idaho attorney general says officers who fatally shot intellectually disabled teen won't be charged

Four Idaho police officers who fatally shot an autistic, nonverbal teenage boy who was holding a knife on the other side of a chain-link fence in April were justified in their actions and will not face criminal charges, according to the state attorney general

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4 d. ago What to know in the case against former Memphis police officers in the death of Tyre Nichols

The federal criminal case against former Memphis police officers charged in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols has taken a shocking, unusual twist: Three of them are getting a new trial because a judge made comments after their convictions that raised questions of bias

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7 d. ago The disgraceful conspiracy theory sovereign citizens are pushing after two cops were shot dead on rural property in Victoria

Dezi Freeman went on the run after being suspected of fatally shooting two officers at a property in Porepunkah, 300km northeast of Melbourne, on Tuesday.

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7 d. ago In idyllic Porepunkah, a manhunt this huge feels ‘surreal’ – and the alleged killer could be anywhere

A peaceful Victoria town has been rocked by the fatal shootings of two police officers, leaving locals shuttered indoors and police scouring bushland for the suspectWho is Dezi Freeman? Porepunkah shooting suspect called police ‘terrorist thugs’ and tried to arrest magistrateHow a police search warrant at a rural Victorian property ended in a day of tragedyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIt would have been idyllic were it not for the sound of a police helicopter reverberating over the valley.By late afternoon on Wednesday the rain had slowed to a drizzle in Porepunkah. Mist curled around the foothills of Mt Buffalo. Cows and sheep grazed under a grey sky, unperturbed by the massive manhunt around them. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Australian police identify suspect in fatal shooting of officers as manhunt enters second day

Australian police have identified a suspect who shot and killed two police officers and seriously wounded a third as the search for the shooter entered day two in a vast, remote rural area in the country’s southeast

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1 week ago Fact check: Home Office has had mass fatality plans in place for decades

Social media posts have attached significance to a contract which is just replacing an old facility.

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1 week ago Prosecutors to seek death penalty for man accused of killing 2 police officers in Utah

Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty for a man accused of fatally shooting two police officers in northern Utah last weekend

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2 w. ago Hiker who died after being bitten by venomous snake in Tennessee made fatal mistake, officials believe

The man died in a local hospital after being bitten on the hand by what officials speculate was a timber rattlesnake

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3 w. ago Explosion at Pennsylvania US Steel plant leaves people trapped under rubble

Emergency workers are on site at the coking facility in Clairton, Pennsylvania, trying to rescue people, officials sayAn explosion Monday at a US Steel plant in Pennsylvania – near Pittsburgh – has left people trapped under the rubble, with emergency workers on site trying to rescue them, an official said.There are no confirmed fatalities yet at the Clairton Coke Works, said Abigail Gardner, director of communications for Allegheny county. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Alarm in China that efforts to control Chikungunya virus are infringing on rights

Many say control measure for mosquito-borne disease hark back to the zero-Covid era, in which people’s daily lives were strictly monitoredThere is growing alarm in China that official efforts to control the spread of Chikungunya virus, a non-fatal mosquito-borne disease that has been spreading in the south of the country, are infringing on people’s personal rights.A single mother living in Zhanjiang, a port city in Guangdong province, posted a video on social media this week showing a group of people, including a uniformed police officer, entering her children’s bedroom in the middle of the night and taking blood samples from the boy and the girl, without their mother’s presence or consent. The mother had been working a night shift so was not at home. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago District attorneys says Alabama teen killed by police had grabbed a gun

A district attorney says an Alabama police officer who fatally shot a teenager in the back was justified in using deadly force

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4 w. ago Boyfriend charged with killing police officer in their Maryland home nearly 30 years ago

Authorities say a man charged this week with fatally shooting a police officer in her Maryland home nearly 30 years ago was the officer’s live-in boyfriend and had blamed her 1995 killing on a burglary

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4 w. ago Parents of man shot and killed by Colorado officer after scuffle sue

The parents of a man who was fatally shot by an officer after the two scuffled are suing the officer and accusing police in the Denver suburb of Aurora of failing to end racially discriminatory policing

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