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Florida deputies opened fire on a suspect who allegedly attempted to stab a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office K9 after an hours-long standoff with authorities.

Marion County, Florida, Sheriff Billy Woods held a press conference describing the arrest of two suspects in connection with the shooting deaths of three teenagers in rural Marion County.

Benton County, Minnesota, Sheriff Troy Heck posted a letter on Facebook over the weekend expressing his conviction that violent criminals will ignore new gun controls in much the same way as they ignore the old ones.

A 27-year-old Minnesota man is accused of fatally beating an elderly sex offender to death on Wednesday, using a shovel and moose antler.

At least three Oklahoma sheriffs have posted videos and/or notices on their Facebook pages to let the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) know they have no intention of enforcing the pistol brace rule in non-criminal situations.

Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputy, Corporal Ray Hamilton, was shot and fatally wounded just before 3 p.m. Saturday while responding to a domestic violence call in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. 

Polk County, Florida, Sheriff Grady Judd intimated that deputies shot alleged arsonist Luke Neely in the penis as he tried to flee following pursuit. 

Deputies responding to reports of a South Carolina home intruder being shot late Wednesday night arrived to find the body of the alleged intruder lying on the front porch of the home he allegedly targeted.

Florida’s Indian River County School District has added an AR-15 to every school so students returning to class in the fall will have school resource officers who can access rifles in the event of an attack.

Officials in North Carolina made it clear Monday that drugs are not welcome in their communities.

The Marin County, California, Sheriff’s Office said it will no longer help federal authorities track down migrants who are in the country illegally.

A 14-year-old boy is dead after being shot late last month while trying to rob a retired Cook County, Illinois, sheriff’s officer. The retired officer was “distraught” after learning the age of the suspect he shot during the incident.

Authorities in Louisiana say they have identified three persons of interest after locating a woman’s body that was stuffed in a plastic storage container in a pickup truck.

JACKSONVILLE, Florida — A bipartisan group of 55 Florida sheriffs endorsed Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) in his Senate reelection campaign for governor on Monday.

Michigan’s Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard said Friday if the school had included resource officers in meetings with parents over concerns of violence, his office would have taken action to be sure the alleged Oxford High School shooter had no access to guns.

A Florida sheriff is making waves on social media with a humorous post about a seizure of 770 pounds of marijuana. The sheriff joked that the “rightful owner” should contact the office’s “narcotics agents” in order to “reunite” the owner with their “lost property.”

Utah’s 29 sheriffs signed a statement pledging to protect Second Amendment rights from federal gun controls.

The North Carolina Sheriff’s Association made clear Tuesday that they support the Republican-led push to do away with the state’s pistol permit requirement.

Mark Dannels, the Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, said on Wednesday that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is not keeping his promise to meet weekly with law enforcement who are dealing with a surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Frederick County Maryland Sheriff Chuck Jenkins said that President Biden’s border policies will make Americans and legal immigrants unsafe.

An unnamed Sacramento sherriff’s deputy and a K9 officer were slain on Monday night in a shooting on the Cal Expo grounds.

Columbia County, Florida, Sheriff Mark Hunter praised a Lake City homeowner who shot an alleged armed intruder Saturday night in order to protect himself and his children.

An Ohio sheriff is responding to the election-time trend of celebrities threatening to leave the U.S. if their desired candidate does not win the election.

Jerry Sheridan, the Republican candidate for Arizona’s Maricopa County Sheriff, says he will “line up jail buses” to take protesters-turned-rioters to prison.

A biological man who describes himself as a “transsexual Satanist anarchist” and whose campaign slogan running for sheriff in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, was “f—k the police” has won the Republican nomination for that post.

The two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies shot Saturday night are out of surgery and are expected to survive.

Vanderburgh County Sheriff Dave Wedding announced Thursday that he had changed his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican in Evansville, Indiana.

Butler County, Ohio, Sheriff Richard Jones warned would-be police attackers Wednesday his deputies will shoot back if they come under firearm-based assault.

Marion County, Florida, Sheriff Billy Woods has ordered his deputies not wear masks while on duty or while working “special details and/or any special events.”

Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said a homeowner who shot and killed 55-year-old Ronald Fleet Saturday afternoon was “utilizing” his Second Amendment right.

Clay County Florida Sheriff Darryl Daniels warned would-be rioters that if they come to his county they will get the brunt force of his sheriff’s department and if they continue he will deputize every “lawful gun owner” in this county to shut riots down.

A California town in the state’s Central Valley voted to be a “sanctuary city,” free from the coronavirus lockdown and is now reopened.

The sheriff’s office of Pennsylvania’s Cumberland County said on Friday that it will not enforce Gov. Tom Wolf’s (D) shutdown orders, vowing to continue to “honor our solemn oath to Support, Obey and Defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of this Commonwealth.”

Four Michigan county sheriffs said in a letter on Wednesday that they will not strictly enforce Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s (D) aggressive stay-at-home orders, emphasizing their oath to “uphold and defend the Michigan Constitution, as well as the U.S. Constitution, and to ensure that your God-given rights are not violated.”

A home intrusion suspect pretending to be with the sheriff’s department entered a Lindsay, California, home Tuesday night and was shot dead by the homeowner. 

The Secret Service opened fire Friday morning as a 30-year-old woman allegedly breached security with a vehicle at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago and refused to stop.