The Peoria Police Department has partnered with the McClure Library to launch a new reading program called “Books and Badges” to encourage kids to read and prevent the summer slide.

The Lynchburg Police Department has changed the badges its sworn officers wear to ones with a design that incorporates “powerful imagery” of the Hill City, the police department said Thursday.

Making the move to the Town of Orange Police Department in 2014, he continued in that vein of success, being promoted to deputy chief. James Fenwick was chief at that time. Madison says of his tim ...