The Latest Breaking News from State Police

OKEMOS, Michigan — Local, state and federal law enforcement teams were deployed Tuesday to at least seven high schools across Michigan after false threats known as "swatting" were made in what some officials called a "coordinated campaign," causing students to be evacuated or sent into lockdown mode.

State troopers responded to the crash about 11:35 p.m. in the southbound lanes of Interstate 94 just north of the I-94/I-57 split, state police said.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law Tuesday night a comprehensive measure that supporters called one of the nation’s toughest bans on military style firearms, immediately prohibiting their sale and giving current owners until Jan. 1 to register gun serial numbers with Illinois State Police.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois House gave final approval Tuesday to a comprehensive measure to ban military style firearms that was drafted by Democrats, which now awaits Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s signature even as gun rights advocates contend it is unconstitutional and vow a legal challenge.

PHILADELPHIA — When Taneesha Brodie's eldest son turned 8, she moved her family out of North Philadelphia to Upper Darby, seeking a safer community away from the city's gun violence.

Five Louisiana law enforcement officers have been charged with state crimes for their roles in the 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, whose death authorities initially blamed on a car crash until The Associated Press published long-withheld body-camera video showing the Black motorist being stunned, beaten and dragged

The Nov. 8 crash killed Lauren Wegner of Clayton, North Carolina. Police say Shane Woods traveled northbound in his GMC Sierra into the southbound lanes of I-55. His Sierra then crashed into Wegner’s Mercury Sable and a Toyota Corolla driven by a Granite City man.

Federal law enforcement has identified the source of a broad threat to synagogues “who no longer poses a danger to the community.”

Authorities on Monday announced an arrest in the unsolved murders of two teenage girls — a drugstore worker who has been living in the same small Indiana community where their bodies were found.

Richard Matthew Allen, 50, is charged with murder in the deaths of 14-year-old Liberty German and 13-year-old Abigail Williams in February 2017.

Indiana State Police gave no indication what they would announce regarding the February 2017 killings of Liberty German, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13 in Delphi, a city of about 3,000 people in northwest Indiana.