Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco speaks to the press after a domestic violence incident in Pasco, County, Fla., where a neighbor helped free the victim's children from a dangerous scene, Aug. 21 ...

Officials are touting a young Tennessee gamer as a hero after the boy thwarted a mass shooting allegedly being planned and discussed on a gamer chat site by two Tehama County teenagers. The two ...

-- A Tennessee middle school counselor is being hailed a hero after she talked a 14-year-old boy who came to school with a loaded gun out of his alleged plans to shoot teachers and a police ...

Deputy Matt Kirchner, featured below as this week’s “Our Town Hero,” was the officer injured in a serious head-on crash last ...

Knox County Sheriff's deputy Dalton Swanger was beaten in the head with a rock or a brick while searching for a suspect in a residential Knoxville, Tennessee, neighborhood, according to reports.

Tehama County Sheriff Dave Kain said at a press conference Tuesday that he’s since talked with the Tennessee gamer, whom he didn’t identify, and thanked him on behalf of the community.