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Chopper footage showed the scene after the police car struck a pole near Pines Boulevard and Palm Avenue around 9 a.m. as a van was damaged in the middle of the road.

Evacuations orders for the Saddleridge Fire were lifted Saturday evening, after the fire forced tens of thousands of people to be evacuated.

Miami’s police chief says at least one off-duty officer will be investigated and the internal affairs unit has been reminded to thoroughly examine all evidence it reviews, after the NBC 6 Investigators revealed deficiencies in how the department oversees off-duty police activities.

Stacey Dash’s domestic battery case was dropped days after the “Clueless” actress was arrested in Florida for allegedly pushing and slapping a man across the face following a verbal argument. According to court records, prosecutors in Pasco County dropped the case on Thursday, a day after she pleaded not guilty to a domestic battery charge. Read More

More than a million dollars a month is paid to Miami police officers, often in cash, working what they call “extra duty assignments.” NBC 6 Investigator Tony Pipitone found rules being broken and two independent investigations questioning whether officers and clubs are reporting all the money changing hands

Authorities say an 18-year-old man rammed a police car with a stolen vehicle and attacked a police dog as he attempted to flee.

The crash involving the police car and another vehicle took place near the intersection of Northeast 19th Avenue and 175th Street, with both cars involved suffering damage to the front of their vehicles.

An alleged gunman and five accomplices have been detained in the shooting of former Red Sox superstar David Ortiz, Dominican officials said Wednesday, while providing no information about why a group of young men would try to kill their country’s most beloved sports hero. Four other suspects were also being pursued in the shooting, which witnesses said was carried out...

Jorge was driving a friend’s car in December 2017 when a police officer in Long Island stopped him. Because the car’s registration had expired, and because Jorge was driving without a license, the officer slapped him with a $300 fine. “Thank god he only gave me a ticket,” Jorge, 49, told NBC in Spanish. It could have been much worse....

A plea for an outside agency or civil rights group to review the Vallejo Police Department has been renewed by residents and activists after the fatal shooting in February of a young black rapper, Willie McCoy, by six officers — the 16th death involving Vallejo officers since 2011, police records show. In San Francisco, with a population more than seven...

New police body camera footage shows the arrest of an armed white man who got into a traffic confrontation with a group of black teenagers protesting housing inequality on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Brickell.

A ‘highly aggressive’ bull in New Jersey went berserk, attacking its owner and charging at police officers after it got out of its enclosure.

Three suspects were taken into custody and authorities were searching for a fourth after officials said they rammed a police car while trying to flee in Sweetwater Thursday morning.

A rattlesnake in Florida ended up in the back of a police car.

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art says it’s returning a prized artifact to Egypt after learning it was stolen from the country in 2011.

After a few years of being clean from heroin, Courtney Nunnally decided she wanted to use her own experience to help others. Under an innovative program in Virginia, she rides along with police to tell addicts: If I could recover, so can you.

An Ohio man trying to cash his paycheck from a new job was handcuffed and put in the back of a police car after a bank teller called 911 on the false belief the check was fraudulent, NBC News reports. Now the bank is apologizing as reports of the incident have sparked a new hashtag, #BankingWhileBlack. Read More

Apparently the Jersey Shore isn’t big enough for reality star Jenni “JWoww” Farley and her estranged husband. Farley filed a restraining order against Roger Mathews Thursday night after the two got into an argument that ended with Matthews in the back of a police car.

Authorities are searching for three armed thieves who reportedly posed as police to pull over and rob two men in a Corvette in southwest Miami-Dade early Tuesday.