The council passes 2026 fiscal year budget by adding, subtracting from mayor's $431M plan. Council Secretary says first responders 'woefully understaffed.'

Several protesters were arrested for disrupting a House committee's budget reconciliation markup on Tuesday, as Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., thanked those holding court in the hallway.

John Freeman, 37, of Midlothian, is facing a charge of theft of property valued at $300,000 or more, according to a Tuesday news release. Freeman was arrested without incident and transported to the Wylie jail, police said. It’s not immediately clear if he has an attorney.

According to the lawsuit, Hinton was “subjected to excessive force resulting in visible injuries” following his May 2 arrest by Cincinnati police. The lawsuit also states that authorities “clearly intended to intimidate” Hinton when deputies lined up in a row behind him during his May 3 arraignment in Hamilton County Municipal Court .

Investigators arrested a suspected gunman accused of killing a teen boy in Grand Rapids after receiving a spike in tips due to a new docuseries.

The city of San Bernardino agreed to pay nearly $5 million to the family of a man killed in 2023 by police after a foot pursuit. Police say the man, Robert Brown, was armed. His family say a body-cam video shows he was empty-handed at the time of the shooting.

Police have identified the man who died after being accidentally shot while driving in downtown Huntsville on Monday afternoon. According to the Huntsville Police Department, the man was Christopher Keunta Hatcher, 24. The accident occurred on the 100 block of Jefferson Street, not far from the courthouse square, at about 12:30 p.m.

A woman or girl wearing a grey jacket and green pants was last seen entering a white van in the 800 block of Southeast 162nd Avenue.

The Portage Police contract the city council approved will require future tax increment financing for subdivisions to pay for it.

It’s about a new method police departments and federal agencies have found to track people: an AI tool that uses attributes like body size, gender, hair color and style, clothing, and accessories instead of faces. It offers a way around laws curbing the use of facial recognition, which are on the rise.