Karen Read, Boston Police Department
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Police, boy dies
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Police investigating death of Maine paddleboarder
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Two people are dead following a shooting at a business in Arlington Thursday morning in what police believe was an isolated incident between individuals who knew each other.
An effigy of a boat containing mannequins of migrants was set alight in the village of Moygashel on Thursday, in an incident condemned by political and religious leaders as racist and threatening.
A Harrisburg man tried to set a trash pile on fire with a blow torch Friday at Karma, a downtown nightclub, police said.
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Mayor Francisco Martinez was arrested in 2015 for allegedly trying to kill a daughter's boyfriend with a machete, police said.
A McDonald's manager was stabbed to death at work by an employee after an argument at a Detroit-area restaurant on Thursday, police have said. The victim has been named as Jennifer Harris, a 36-year-old mother-of-six who had worked at the Eastpointe McDonald's, on 9 Mile and Schroeder Avenue, for 15 years.
While the Westfield Police Department has operated two drones for several years, the department only recently completed training three patrol officers to use it daily and outfitted a cruiser to carry it and the peripheral equipment needed to make it a mobile flight deck.
A sinking boat is saved, a man in a pickle costume gives an impromptu concert, and other odd tales from local police and fire departments.
The former Metropolitan Police commissioner, Lord Ian Blair, has died at the age of 72. The crossbench peer and senior police officer led the UK's largest force between 2005 and 2008, including during the 7/7 suicide bombings in London.