Tag: Higher Education

BILL DRAPER Associated Press Writer

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Gov. Mike Beebe announced an effort that will allow more law enforcement officers to finish certification and associate-degree programs at reduced costs.Criminal justice courses will be ...

NEW YORK It's a police officer's nightmare scenario: Confronting someone who appears to be an armed suspect and opening fire, only to discover that person was actually an officer not ...

Teenagers, a small town and alcohol. Tension between whites and a growing Hispanic population. Ethnic slurs, punches and kicks. A dead illegal immigrant from Mexico.The acquittal of white Pennsylvania teenagers ...

WASHINGTON U.S. officials said Monday that it's too early to say the swine-flu threat is receding, even though there are some signs the outbreak may not be as serious as ...

Pedro Guzman has been an American citizen all his life. Yet in 2007, the 31-year-old Los Angeles native in jail for a misdemeanor, mentally ill and never able to read ...

It was February of 1980. I found myself at Parris Island enduring the transformational experience that is marine boot camp. Over the coming three months, four drill instructors and many ...

HARTFORD, Conn. Connecticut prosecutors on Thursday dropped charges against a Roman Catholic priest who was arrested while videotaping East Haven police officers in an attempt to document alleged harassment of ...

In police work, the impact of complacency is too readily obvious in training accidents, deaths and operational tragedies(2). Where does complacency in police officers come from? There are at least ...

The crime drips with brutal irony: a woman decapitated, allegedly by her estranged husband, in the offices of the television network the couple founded with the hope of countering Muslim ...