A medical center that allowed a patient to escape twice before he killed a sheriff’s deputy has been ordered to stop admitting the mentally ill who have been involuntarily committed.

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...

A sheriff’s deputy in northwest Florida is dead after authorities say he was shot by a man who had barricaded himself in a house.Okaloosa County Sheriff’s officials said deputies returned fire and killed the man.The Northwest Florida Daily News says a...