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The La Crosse County Board recently approved funding for two new deputies for the La Crosse County Sheriffs Office.

Recent transit redesign did help; what else can be done?

Coast Guard helicopter crew rescues fallen hiker near Port Orford A US Coast Guard helicopter crew airlifted a 21-year-old hiker who fell from the cliffs above Nellies Cove near Port Orford on Monday evening. Posted: May 11, 2021 10:38 AM Updated: May 11, 2021 10:42 AM Posted By: Jamie Parfitt PORT ORFORD, Ore. — A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew rescued a 21-year-old hiker who fell from the cliffs above Nellies Cove near Port Orford on Monday evening. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector N...

Photo by David Brendan Hall From 2011 to 2019, the city of Austin paid $8 million in settlements to victims of police violence, and another $800,000 to private law firms brought in to defend the city and Austin Police Department officers in civil lawsuits stemming from APDs use of force. With at least eight more suits pending, the costs are likely to increase. Data provided to the Chronicle by the city shows that 61 lawsuits were filed against the city or an individual office...

In the past three months, grand juries have indicted as many law enforcement officers in use-of-force cases under Garzas administration as they did within the entire four-year term of his predecessor, Margaret Moore. But even while his office is accruing indictments, experts say there is no guarantee that Garza and his prosecutors will see a courtroom victory.  "Generally, it is really difficult for prosecutors to get a conviction at trial in a police fatality or police brutality case," sa...

A Travis County grand jury has indicted two Austin police officers on felony assault charges in connection with the violent arrest of a Black man nearly two years ago that had been cleared in a department investigation with no findings of wrongdoing against the officers. The indictments of officers Chance Bretches and Gregory Gentry on aggravated assault by a public servant charges highlight a disparity in how Chief Brian Manley and his administration viewed the case and how new Travis County...