Money may not grow on trees, but with a little diligence, grant money can be just as prolific. According to government sources, nearly $450 billion in federal assistance is awarded every year, mostly in the form of grants. Although the...

Two Columbus police officers were being treated at Grant Medical Center last night after being shot in a drug raid on a Near East Side house. Early this morning, police still weren't releasing much information about the injured officers, including...

A Concord police officer was shot in the chest by another officer yesterday morning while on duty but suffered only minor injuries because he was wearing a bulletproof vest, according to the state attorney general's office. The shooting happened at...

With a crazed fugitive gunman lurking down the hall, Miami-Dade Officer Richard Hansen sneaked into a Miami Gardens home to rescue three hostages from the laundry room. From the back door, he led a grandmother out first. Then, her 7-year-oldgranddaughter....

If Wisconsin prisoners seem a little sluggish and perhaps a bit irritable these days, it could be because they haven't had their coffee.As global food prices soar, corrections facilities across the country and in Wisconsin are trimming some of the...

SPALDING COUNTY, Ga. -- A drug kingpin and 33 co-conspirators were indicted in Spalding County (Ga.) after a yearlong multijurisdictional investigation that netted drugs, guns, money and cars, prosecutors said Thursday.Griffin Circuit District Attorney Scott Ballard said Craig Woods, 41,...

HUMBOLDT, Calif. -- A police officer from Humboldt State (Calif.) University was injured today as he ran to stop an assault occurring on the Arcata Plaza.According to the Arcata Police Department, early this morning officers from the Arcata Police Department...

It seems somehow appropriate that just as the new LawOfficer.com is rolled out, so is the new National Response Framework, (NRF), effective March 22, 2008. The NRF replaces the National Response Plan (NRP) that had previously replaced the Federal Response...

This morning was my annual visit to the range to do my HR 218 qualifications. As I headed out west, I thought about qualifications--my own, and the kind that I was about to do. Over 29 years you see a...

As we approach the start of the official Atlantic hurricane season, June 1 to November, how prepared are you and your department? It is not too late to start to prepare, better now than when the first hurricane of the...