HANFORD — A sheriff's deputy fatally shot a machete-wielding man Tuesday after he attacked three people near Hanford, authorities said. Deputies responded to a call just before 8 a.m. at a home on 1st Place and Houston Avenue in Home Garden just before 8 a.m. They found a woman and...
California Closer to First-in-US Rules on Police Shootings
SACRAMENTO — A grieving mother choked up as she questioned why police didn't use other tactics instead of killing her son. A deputy recalled the terror of second-guessing herself as she traded fire with a suspect who killed her partner. The emotional testimony Tuesday came before California lawmakers advanced a...
Road Rage Suspect Who Killed Deputy Was in US Illegally
SPOKANE, Wash. — The road rage suspect who killed a sheriff’s deputy, wounded a police officer and died in a central Washington state shootout this week was living in the United States illegally, the federal government said Thursday. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Juan Manuel Flores Del Toro, 29,...
Man Linked to 4 Killings Suspected of Being in US Illegally
LAS VEGAS — A Nevada community shaken by the fatal shootings of four people over the past two weeks is grateful that the suspect is behind bars, but a motive for the crimes remains unknown. The case has been thrust into the immigration debate, with President Donald Trump seizing on the...
California Rookie Officer Fatally Shot Responding to Crash
DAVIS — A 22-year-old police officer on the job only a few weeks was shot and killed by a suspect who opened fire as she was investigating a three-car crash, authorities in Northern California said. The suspect, who has not been identified, was later found dead inside a home with...
Suspect's Truck Found in Slaying of Veteran Valley Police Officer
Authorities launched a manhunt Wednesday after they said a gunman shot and killed a police officer during a traffic stop in the Stanislaus County town of Newman. In an alert, the California Highway Patrol said the suspect, whose name was not known, is considered to be armed and dangerous. By...
Search Underway for Killer of Veteran Valley Police Officer
Authorities launched a manhunt Wednesday after they said a gunman shot and killed a police officer during a traffic stop in the Stanislaus County town of Newman. In an alert, the California Highway Patrol said the suspect, whose name was not known, is considered to be armed and dangerous. Suspect...
Police: Synagogue Gunman Said He Wanted All Jews to Die
PITTSBURGH — The suspect in the mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue expressed hatred of Jews during the rampage and told officers afterward that Jews were committing genocide and that he wanted them all to die, according to charging documents made public Sunday. Robert Gregory Bowers killed eight men and...
What Is Known About Mail-Bomb Suspect and Case
WASHINGTON — Federal authorities took a man into custody Friday in Florida in connection with the mail-bomb scare that earlier widened to 12 suspicious packages, the Justice Department said. Law enforcement officers were seen on television examining a white van, its windows covered with an assortment of stickers, in the...
FBI Arrests Man Suspected of Plotting July 4 Parade Attack
An American-born citizen who federal authorities say recently scouted locations in Cleveland to attack people watching Fourth of July fireworks and talked of carrying out additional bombings has been charged with trying to support terrorism. Federal authorities said Monday that Demetrius Pitts, 48, had repeatedly expressed his support for al-Qaida...