Kentucky officer reprimanded for firing non-lethal rounds in 2020 protests under investigation again

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky police officer reprimanded years later for firing chemical agents at a TV news crew during Louisville street protests in 2020 is under investigation for firing other non-lethal rounds on the same night. Louisville Police Officer Dustin Dean...

Officer injured at Ferguson protest shows improvement, transferred to rehab

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who was badly injured during a protest on the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown's death was moved to a rehabilitation hospital Tuesday, still not speaking but showing significant improvement, according to a family friend. More...

Police in Antigua charge a man with murder in the stabbing death of a politician

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua (AP) — Police in Antigua charged a man Saturday with murder in the stabbing death this week of a controversial member of parliament in his seaside home. Police on the tiny Caribbean island charged 26-year-old Alexta Francis two days after the landscaper was...

Kentucky officer who fired pepper rounds at a TV crew during 2020 protests reprimanded

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky police officer has been reprimanded years later for firing non-lethal rounds at a TV camera crew during street protests over Breonna Taylor 's death in 2020. A crew from WAVE-TV was filming live as Louisville Police Officer Dustin Dean fired two...

Ex-officer found guilty in the 2020 shooting death of Andre Hill

A former police officer was convicted of murder Monday in the shooting of Andre Hill, a Black man who was holding a cellphone and keys when he was killed. Officer Adam Coy, who served nearly 20 years with the Columbus police force, shot Hill four times in a garage nearly four years...

A jury has reached a verdict for an ex-police officer in Ohio who shot Andre Hill

Jury convicts former Kentucky officer of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during deadly raid

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A federal jury on Friday convicted a former Kentucky police detective of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during a botched 2020 drug raid that left her dead. The 12-member jury returned the late-night verdict after clearing Brett Hankison earlier in...

2 Ohio officers charged with reckless homicide in death of man in custody after crash arrest

CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Prosecutors in Ohio have announced reckless homicide charges against two police officers in the death of a man who was handcuffed and left face down on the floor of a social club in Canton while telling officers he couldn’t breathe. Stark County prosecutor...

Brazil's federal police indict 20 in connection with salt mine catastrophe in country's northeast

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's federal police on Friday indicted 20 people for rock salt mining in the northeastern coastal city of Maceio that destroyed five urban neighborhoods and forced tens of thousands of people to leave their homes. The alleged crimes include damage to public...

Former officer's shots were 'like a drive-by shooting' during Breonna Taylor raid, prosecutors say

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Federal prosecutors told a jury Wednesday that a former Louisville police detective's actions were like “a drive-by shooting” when he fired 10 bullets into the side of Breonna Taylor’s apartment the night she was shot to death by police. That former...