Now in its second decade, the Cook County Jail chess program is thriving, competing internationally and above all — it’s ...

The sheriff's office has a newly renovated range and training center in Maywood. It's a $1 million investment to prepare ...

From hostage rescues to active shooter situations, the drills are based on actual encounters officers have faced in the field ...

COOK COUNTY, Ill. ( WGN) — The Cook County Sheriff Police’s new shooting range and training center in Maywood is complete ...

Then, a man who she thought was a sheriff from the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office arrived, the complaint says. It was actually Pelletier, who was posing as the sheriff, according to the ...

Mark Shull, the one-term Clackamas County commissioner who lost his reelection bid last fall, said Tuesday he intends to apply for his old job now that Melissa Fireside has resigned amid felony ...

Cook County Clerk Monica Gordon said her office is reinforcing its diversity, equity and inclusion measures amid “threatening rhetoric and cruel policies” from the federal government that are ...

Cook County Clerk Monica Gordon on Monday announced she will appoint the office’s first deputy clerk of diversity, equity and inclusion. On the left is Brian Johnson, CEO of LGBTQ civil rights ...

“She never was a sad person.” Mercedes Smith, 28, was fatally struck by a Cook County sheriff officer’s vehicle at about 5 a.m. Tuesday in the 9800 block of Milwaukee Avenue, according to ...

The Sheriff in a hat knows a lot about that. Bertie County Sheriff Tyrone M. Ruffin participated in reading to local elementary school kids for Read Across America week. According to the National ...

Hackman was likely home with his deceased wife for one week before he died, Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said. There was no food in his stomach, which means he had not eaten recently ...