A defendant standing trial on allegations of attacking a corrections officer sucker-punched his attorney in an Arizona courtroom after the judge ordered him to leave, according to a report. The defendant, Lamont Payne, had repeatedly interrupted the judge during the courtroom proceeding last year, KTVK-TV of Phoenix reported. “He was swearing and rolling his eyes and making a scene,” his public attorney Vladimir Gagic ...

A white man confronted a black Georgia state lawmaker in front of reporters Saturday and denied her accusation that he told her to “go back where you came from” during an argument in a supermarket checkout lane a day earlier. Eric Sparkes that he cursed at state Rep. Erica Thomas for taking too many items into an express checkout lane but denied making the racially ...

A video released by police shows a man appearing to wave to the camera before proceeding to enter the home.  (Fort Worth Police Department) Say cheese! A brazen man dressed in an NBA jersey pulled up to a home in Fort Worth, Texas, got out and gave a friendly wave to the security camera before walking into an open garage ...

Sheriff Donny Youngblood of the Kern County Sheriff’s Office said it was “financially better” for officers to kill suspects rather than injure them.  (Kern County Sheriff’s Office ) A California sheriff who’s trying to beat his chief deputy and win re-election is fighting back after the release of a 2006 video in which he says it’s “financially better” for cops ...

File Feb. 21, 2017: The New York New York hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Bandits have gotten away with cash and chips from four casino-hotels in Las Vegas since last week, leaving police on the hunt for multiple suspects. “It’s unusual,” Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Lt Michael Mauntel said of the frequency of the robberies since Nov. ...

Kevin Sturgis, 31, was identified as the man authorities said was involved in the U.S. marshal shooting in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on Thursday, the U.S. attorney’s office said.  (Justice Department) Officials announced the identity of the man believed to have fatally shot a U.S. marshal and wounded a York City police officer early Thursday in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The U.S. attorney’s office ...

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck touted the multimillion-dollar purchase of an electric vehicle BMW fleet in 2016. The fleet has been misused and underused, CBS reported.  (LAPD / Reuters) Two years after the LAPD touted a multimillion-dollar purchase of a fleet of eco-friendly electric BMWS, the vehicles are being used for personal trips to grab lunch and — in one instance ...

A massive snowstorm on Wednesday affected a wide swath of the U.S.—from parts of Texas to Florida and up to Massachusetts– killing at least 10 people, including a 8-month-old baby in New Orleans. The Times-Picayune reported that the baby’s mother lost control of the car and the vehicle plunged into a drainage canal. The baby was pulled from the car ...