The Washington Times Online Edition

Topic - State Police

State police are a type of sub-national territorial police force, particularly in Australia and the United States. Some other countries have analogous police forces, such as the provincial police in some Canadian provinces, while in other places, the same responsibilities are held by national police forces. - Source: Wikipedia

Subscribe to this topic via RSS or ATOM
Related Stories
  • Indy battens down hatches for Super Bowl security

    From pickpockets and prostitutes to dirty bombs and exploding manhole covers, authorities are bracing for whatever threat the first Super Bowl in downtown Indianapolis might bring.

  • A security guard works Jan. 28, 2012, at a concert in Super Bowl Village in Indianapolis. (Associated Press)

    Indy battens down hatches for Super Bowl security

    From pickpockets and prostitutes to dirty bombs and exploding manhole covers, authorities are bracing for whatever threat the first Super Bowl in downtown Indianapolis might bring.

  • Charges upgraded in fight after Jets game

    State police have upgraded charges against a New Jersey man accused of beating a fan in the parking lot after the Jets defeated the Chiefs at MetLife Stadium on Sunday.

  • Virginia Tech police Officer Deriek Crouse was shot and killed on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, during a routine traffic stop on the school's Blacksburg, Va., campus. (AP Photo/Virginia Tech)

    Motive still unknown in Va. Tech officer shooting

    The Virginia Tech police officer who was shot dead at his parked cruiser was a trained firearms and defense instructor with a specialty in crisis intervention. His death leaves investigators puzzling over how and why a gunman walked up to the patrol car during a traffic stop, killed the officer and wound up dead himself in a nearby parking lot.

  • Paterno gone, but questions at Penn State remain

    Just because Joe Paterno is gone doesn't mean the child sex abuse scandal at Penn State is over.

  • Paterno to retire at end of season

    Penn State football coach Joe Paterno will retire at the end of the season, his long and illustrious career brought down because he failed to do all he could about an allegation of child sex abuse against a former assistant.

  • AP source: Paterno to retire at end of season

    Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has decided to retire at the end of the season, according to a person familiar with the decision.

  • Source: Sandusky was on PSU campus last week

    Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky had access to the team's weight room as recently as last week, a person familiar with the situation said just hours before Joe Paterno was to give his first news conference since his former protege was charged with child sex abuse.

  • Paterno news conference canceled amid scandal

  • Paterno cancels news conference amid scandal

    Penn State's president abruptly canceled Joe Paterno's weekly news conference Tuesday amid increasing calls for both men to resign in the wake of a former assistant coach's sex-abuse scandal and as another potential victim came forward.

  • Penn State's Joe Paterno, the winningest coach in Division I football history, is shown with then-defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky in 1999. (Associated Press)

    Official: Paterno, Penn State skirted 'moral responsibility'

    Football coach Joe Paterno and other Penn State officials didn't do enough to try to stop suspected sexual abuse of children at the hands of a former assistant football coach, the state police commissioner said Monday.

  • Official: Paterno didn't do enough to stop abuse

    Football coach Joe Paterno and other Penn State officials didn't do enough to try to stop suspected sexual abuse of children at the hands of a former assistant football coach, the state police commissioner said Monday.

  • Penn St. officials surrender in sex-abuse case

    Two Penn State officials surrendered Monday on charges that they failed to report suspected child-sexual abuse by a former coach and committed perjury in their related grand jury testimony.

  • Former Penn State football defensive coordinator Gerald "Jerry" Sandusky (center) is placed in a police car in Bellefonte, Pa., to be taken to the office of a Centre County Magisterial District judge on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011.  (AP Photo/Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, Commonwealth Media Services)

    Penn State officials surrender in sex-abuse case

    Two Penn State officials surrendered Monday on charges that they failed to report suspected child-sexual abuse by a former coach and committed perjury in their related grand jury testimony.

  • Illustration by Donna Grethen

    KNIGHT: Left's war on legal immigration and voter integrity

    On Oct. 14, a federal judge blocked key portions of Alabama's new immigration law after several groups, including the Obama Justice Department and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), asked for an injunction. The Justice Department claims that states that assist in enforcing federal immigration laws are violating the constitutional separation of powers.

More Stories →

Happening Now