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.

Authorities in rural North Carolina are searching for an Iraq veteran they suspect in the fatal shooting of a sheriff’s deputy. Another sheriff’s officer was shot but suffered minor injuries.

Two people have been arrested and charged in the slaying of a sheriff’s deputy who was gunned down while responding to an early morning burglary last month, authorities said Monday.

Authorities arrested one man as a person of interest and were questioning at least two others as they searched for the killer of a sheriff’s deputy shot as he responded to an alarm at an empty house, but no charges had been filed by early Thursday.

Authorities in South Carolina have been interviewing people as they search for the killer of a sheriff’s deputy who was shot while responding to a home alarm.

A South Carolina sheriff’s deputy was shot to death while responding to an early morning home alarm Wednesday, and though authorities were searching for a suspect with dogs and a helicopter, they said they had few leads.

An off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was killed Saturday in a drive-by shooting outside his home in a gang-plagued area, police said.

A man who fatally shot a sheriff’s deputy Tuesday had been ordered by a court to undergo a mental evaluation and had twice left a hospital before barricading himself in a home and triggering a shootout with police, authorities said.Deputies later shot...

An Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed Tuesday by a man who had barricaded himself inside a home after a violent clash with police hours earlier, officials said. The suspected gunman was also killed.The deputy, whose name was not...