OAKLAND, Calif. Dec 17 2020 Two weeks from now, armed Alameda County sheriff’s deputies will be a thing of the past at Laney College in Oakland, and other campuses that make up the Peralta Community College District. “The relationship with the Alameda sheriffs ends on Dec. 31. So that really put them under a lot of […]
Burlington VT Dec 16 2020 Cars park along King Street in Burlington, where parking issues are no longer police matters. Instead, the Department of Public Works has taken them on. File photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger After the Burlington City Council voted to move parking responsibilities from the Police Department to the Public Works Department, the […]
Las Vegas NV Dec 16 2020 A Las Vegas man was taken to custody after climbing on the wing of an airplane at McCarran Int…Read More It wasn’t a bird or another plane that grounded a flight from Las Vegas to Portland, Oregon, before takeoff Saturday, but rather a man who got onto the wing, according […]
Modesto CA Dec 16 2020 A fire at a McHenry Avenue business Sunday morning didn’t spread, limiting damage almost entirely to heat and smoke, the Modesto Fire Department reported. The fire was reported about 6:20 a.m. by a security guard who was in the area and is estimated to have started about 20 minutes earlier, Battalion […]
Blacksburg VA Dec 16 2020 Marijuana has been growing on Virginia. This summer, the state decriminalized the drug, meaning simple possession prompts a $25 civil fine rather than a misdemeanor that could carry a $500 fee, a suspended driver’s license and even jail time. Last month, Gov. Ralph Northam pledged that the General Assembly convening […]
PONTIAC, Mich. Dec 16 2020– A West Bloomfield man was knocked unconscious by a Pontiac man while working as a security guard at an apartment complex, according to officials. Oakland County deputies were called at 11:04 p.m. Sunday to the Phoenix Place Apartments at 47251 Woodward Avenue. A caller told police a 34-year-old West Bloomfield […]
INDIANAPOLIS IN Dec 16 2020 — A security company is offering a $25,000 reward in the case of one if its guards killed in Indianapolis. GardaWorld is offering the reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people who killed Quintin Cole. Cole was killed in early November while working his […]
Houston TX Dec 16 2020 An off-duty police officer shot a man early Monday inside the parking garage at Ben Taub Hospital, the Houston Police Department confirmed. HPD believes the man came to the hospital wanting to check himself in because he was in psychological distress. And then around 1:21 a.m., he was seen on surveillance […]
Akron OH Dec 16 2020 Three local residents who rescued three children and their mother from an armed ex-boyfriend are getting international recognition and a $5,500 financial reward for their bravery. Jason Aaron Strunk and Seth Robert Bond, and Leslie Shaffer are among the last 2020 recipients of the Carnegie Medal, an award bestowed upon people […]
ATLANTA GA Dec 16 2020 One of Atlanta’s busiest malls will be adding metal detectors to a growing list of safety precautions in the face of multiple shootings, or reports of shots fired inside or nearby, in the last year. Lenox Square shared a statement with 11Alive on Monday that listed existing security measures, new ones […]