County officials in Springfield, Illinois, have agreed to pay $10 million to the family of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman shot and killed in her home last summer by a sheriff's deputy ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Jefferson County Commissioners will interview and select an interim-sheriff for the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office from three applicants on Feb. 24. Their choice will be appointed ...

Jamie Buteyn was sworn in as Turner County Sheriff after a series of resignations in 2023, and is now stepping down.

Attorney General Alan Wilson said that South Carolina needs to do its part to help control an "unprecedented and disastrous influx" of illegal migrants ...

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson sent a letter Tuesday to the state’s 46 sheriffs encouraging them to work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Part of President Trump's mass deportation plan includes using local sheriffs to help. However, sheriffs from both political ...

A dashcam video from the Seminole County Sheriff's Office in Florida showed Marcus Jordan speeding away from deputies.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson sent a letter Tuesday to the state’s 46 sheriffs to encourage them to work with U ...

Aarron Fleming covers Memphis and Shelby County’s court system and is a member of The Daily Memphian’s public safety reporting team. He formerly covered education and earned his B.A. in journalism ...

According to the Madison County Sheriff's Office, a family found dead in a house fire in Monrovia were victims of a murder-suicide. On Jan. 7, the Madison County Sheriff's Office Major Crimes Unit ...

GET IT ON G E T I T O N On Jan. 16, deputies responded to two calls reporting Michael Schwartz acting erratically. One caller mentioned Schwartz had a gun, was waving it around and yelling ...

Shelby County Sheriff's Office deputies came across the person in a stolen car and tried to take them into custody near a cluster of businesses in east Memphis, said Kim Wheeler, a spokeswoman for ...