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A fired Vermont sheriff’s deputy who was charged with assault for kicking a shackled prisoner has won the election for sheriff of the county in which he served. John Grismore, 49, of Fairfax, won Tuesday’s race to become Franklin County sheriff, surpassing the two write-in candidates, according to the Vermont secretary of state’s office. Grismore was the only candidate...

After a lengthy investigation, then a review by outside officials, a candidate to lead the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office was formally charged Monday with simple assault — a charge to which he pleaded not guilty. John Grismore already lost his job as a deputy in the office. The retiring sheriff, Roger Langevin, fired him this summer after watching video showing…

His treatment of this handcuffed and shackled man in early August — who investigators say was also drunk — already cost John Grismore his job in the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office.

Crawford County Sheriff Jimmy Damante responded Monday to video showing two county deputies and a Mulberry police officer beating a detained man and slamming his head into the cement in Arkansas.

Sheriff Dave Wedding told news outlets on Monday how murder suspect Casey White and former corrections officer Vicky White were located.

A manhunt is continuing for a dangerous inmate and a corrections officer after they went missing Friday

A North Carolina sheriff says four deputies involved in the case of a Black man who was fatally shot last week have returned to active duty after a review of body camera video showed they did not fire their weapons

On Election Day, a young lieutenant in the Strafford County Sheriff’s Office made history, becoming the first Black person ever elected sheriff in New Hampshire. “I’m so excited, I really am,” said Lt. Mark Brave. “That says that New Hampshire is open to progress, they’re open to new ideas.” The 35-year-old Dover resident ran on a platform of transparency,...

A Strafford County sheriff’s lieutenant became the first black person ever elected sheriff in New Hampshire.

Hundreds of flights were canceled and thousands delayed for travelers heading home after the Thanksgiving holiday as a deadly winter storm moved to the Northeast on Sunday, packing one last punch of snow and ice. The National Weather Service predicted more than a foot (0.3 meters) of snow in swaths of upstate New York and New England, as well as...

A Marine deserter, accused of gunning down his mother’s boyfriend, was captured Wednesday in Virginia — at the scene of the alleged slaying — following a two-week, multi-state search, authorities said. Cpl. Michael Alexander Brown, 22, was safely taken into custody at his mother’s house in Hardy, Virginia, about 8 a.m. ET, Franklin County Sheriff W. Q. “Bill” Overton Jr....

Authorities say feral hogs attacked and killed a woman outside a Southeast Texas home where she worked as a caretaker.

Sheriff’s deputies seized a duffel bag filled with cocaine that washed up on a northeast Florida beach.

A New Hampshire county sheriff accused of drunken driving is scheduled to face a one-day trial. Merrimack County Sheriff Scott Hilliard is scheduled for trial on Dec. 19. Court proceedings initially were scheduled in Franklin. A judge granted both parties’ request for a change of venue, to Nashua, in Hillsborough County.

An Oklahoma police chief was killed during an altercation with one of his own officers while at a conference in Florida Sunday, NBC News reports. Escambia County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a physical altercation at the Hilton Garden Inn in Pensacola Beach Sunday evening and found Mannford Police Chief Lucky Miller dead, according to NBC affiliate KJRH....

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on Sunday said 46-year-old James G. Boyce, of Palm Beach Gardens, suffered a “substantial” bite to his leg while hunting on Saturday.

Authorities in southeastern Wisconsin say they now know the identity of a woman found fatally beaten near a cornfield in 1999 and have made an arrest in her death.

The man arrested in connection to the deadly shooting in Greenville Oct. 26 was released from jail Tuesday, the Hunt County Sheriff’s Office says.

Investigators are trying to identify two bodies found buried at a South Texas beach amid the search for a missing New Hampshire couple.

Investigators are trying to identify two bodies found buried at a South Texas beach amid the search for a missing New Hampshire couple.