A Polk County deputy has turned in his badge after his wife and mother-in-law took his patrol car out for a joyride. Officials said the 44-year-old deputy resigned Monday after serving 21 years with the sheriff’s office.

Los Angeles County prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for a fourth man in the suspected gang-related murder of a county sheriff’s deputy.

Authorities say a sheriff’s deputy has been been fatally shot by a 19-year-old man in a South Dakota farmhouse.

A top United Nations official who once served on the White House National Security Council has been picked for deputy secretary of the Homeland Security Department, a move that would place two women at the top of the department for the first time.

The head of an organization focused on reducing tobacco use is President-elect Barack Obama’s choice as deputy secretary at the Health and Human Services Department.

Los Angeles police say two men have been arrested in the fatal shooting of a sheriff’s deputy who died as he was getting ready to go to work.

A Pinellas County detention deputy was suspended for using the sound of his stun gun to try and wake up an inmate. According to an internal affairs report, the deputy thought the crackling sound of his Taser would rouse an inmate on July 27. It did not.

A Pinellas County detention deputy was suspended for using the sound of his stun gun to try and wake up an inmate. According to an internal affairs report, the deputy thought the crackling sound of his Taser would rouse an inmate on July 27. It did not.

Iowa authorities say they’ve captured a Kentucky sheriff’s deputy accused of killing his ex-girlfriend.

A sheriff’s deputy accused of killing his ex-girlfriend in Kentucky taunted state police in an e-mail exchange Monday, saying he was going to “make them earn their money” in their search for him.