There’s a new mobile dental-care program making the rounds in Toronto. Toronto Public Health has two vans with built-in dental clinics that are travelling around the city to provide care to seniors in 10 long-term care homes operated by the city. “Everything is on site, so it’s accessible, it’s timely and it’s free,” Dr. Karen Lee, a dentist with the mobile team, told CTV News Toronto Monday following an announcement about the program. The vans are equipped to handle patients using...
A Chicago shooting left a police officer shot on the Southwest Side
Off-duty Chicago Police Officer Luis M. Huesca was shot to death on the Southwest Side while heading home from his shift early Sunday, officials said.
Off-duty Chicago Police Officer Luis M. Huesca was shot to death on the Southwest Side while heading home from his shift early Sunday, officials said.
Police say a 30-year-old Chicago police officer was shot and killed
Five New Iberia police officers were given lifesaving awards after their part in saving a woman’s life from a burning home.
A police officer and a sheriff's deputy were shot and killed after confronting a driver who had failed to stop in upstate New York on Sunday, police said. The so-far unidentified suspect was also killed in the shootout outside his home, police said. Syracuse Police Department said in a statement that its officers spotted a "suspicious vehicle" shortly after 7 p.m. Sunday between Emerson Avenue and Hamilton Street on the west side of the city. Police tried to stop the car but the driver "refused...
A man who was left unable to communicate after a skiing accident has taken on an ambassador role at his care home in Sheffield. Dave Hollinger suffered a brain stem stroke after the accident six years ago, and was left with severe physical impairments and locked-in syndrome. The condition means most of his body is paralysed but he is still fully conscious, and able to perform certain eye movements. His right hand functions just enough to operate a powered wheelchair, and he can communicate the...
The BBC's Belfast-set cop drama Blue Lights (BBC1, Mon, 9pm) returned for its second series with a tense and fiery sequence which saw an armoured Land Rover come under attack from a petrol bomb-chucking mob. The tension dissipated when it was revealed this was a mere training exercise, a trend followed across the first two episodes, as set-pieces – a flute band march, a stand-off in a pharmacy, a foot chase through a Belfast estate – are resolved with a few well-chosen words or a baton to the...
The ‘Sherlock’ and ‘Trying’ star plays a rookie cop in the BBC’s hit police drama ‘Blue Lights’. She talks to Gabriel Tate about being the daughter of a policeman, her views on trigger warnings in theatre, and the importance of Arts Council grants for young performers
The BBC’s Northern Ireland-set drama would be a more distinctive and ambitious show if it were slightly less preoccupied with regurgitating pre-existing tropes
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Cops eat doughnuts. Coppers eat cake. That's the distinction between US and UK police - same ethos, different recipes, that's all.