A renowned San Francisco police officer was placed on medical leave before he was arrested on suspicion of hit-and-run and will be suspended when he is eligible to return to duty, authorities said Monday.

Prosecutors have charged a renowned San Francisco Police officer with two felony counts of hit-and-run in connection with a crash that left two men with serious injuries.

After being fired from his post as chief of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department on Thursday, Larry Scirotto addressed the controversy at the NAACP Broward office on Monday morning.

The New York Police Department is investigating a bias attack on two men who were the first gay couple to be married at West Point.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A second Oregon judge says he is no longer performing weddings after a federal judge overturned the state's ban on same-sex marriage last year.

(AP) The Hampton Roads region now has six police departments with liaisons to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

The new city parking garage on Fort Lauderdale Beach at Las Olas Blvd. was illuminated in rainbow colors on May 28 as part of international observances of LGBTQ Domestic Violence Awareness Day. The campaign began in Australia and this year was recognized for the first time in the U.S., United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands.

He is remembered as a calming presence amid the chaos.

An Arizona lawmaker wants to bar the public from videotaping law enforcement officers from close-range, saying groups that rush in to film police interactions are routinely endangering officers by distracting them while they're engaged with suspects.

Maltz Jupiter Theatre will launch the regional premiere of “Billy Elliot The Musical” on Tuesday, Dec. 1, running through Sunday, Dec 20.

Upcoming film accused of whitewashing history

Equality Florida’s highest honor of the year went to the man behind the man.

If you want to get a contract signed with the police quickly and cheaply, just get rid of the lawyers.

The Community Affairs Advisory Board may have reached a final decision on its police survey: leave it to the professionals.

(SS) Shelby Kendall considers herself female, as does her doctor and the state of Florida.

Court documents filed in federal court late Tuesday allege the Atlanta Police Department is failing to train its officers to follow court-mandated reforms that were part of the city’s settlement with Atlanta Eagle plaintiffs after the APD’s unlawful raid on the bar in 2009.

What was supposed to be a trial date turned into a calendar call in the case of the man alleged to have vandalized the Pride intersection in Delray Beach.

DETROIT (AP) - Law enforcement officials in Detroit are stepping up efforts to reach out to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender targets or victims of crime.

Representatives from local and federal law enforcement agencies came together to participate in a hate crimes panel presented by the Matthew Shepard Foundation.

Phoenix, AZ (KPHO) -- Handcuffs and jail stripes: It's a stark contrast from the Phoenix Police uniform Chris Wilson wore for 15 years when he was the one handcuffing bad guys.

WASHINGTON - Republicans seeking their party's 2016 presidential nomination have the challenging task of trying to stand out among the 17 candidates in the race, and Thursday's televised debate was the first opportunity for the party to start whittling down its choices. So it's no surprise that the candidates had a vested interest in puffing up their own records as governors, senators and public figures. And some of them just got the facts wrong.

A Pasco sheriff's deputy who was fired last week after authorities say he showed up to meet a 15-year-old boy for sex in Davie pleaded not guilty and was released from jail Thursday.

(AP) A small town police chief in staunchly conservative South Carolina is trying to make history by becoming the first female sheriff in the state. And the first openly gay one, too.

(WB) In the aftermath of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, the resulting conservative shift on the U.S. Supreme Court may enhance the prospect of wins for religious freedom at the expense of LGBT rights, including in a pending lawsuit that will decide if a Catholic foster care center in Philadelphia can reject same-sex couples.

(EDGE) On Friday, a gay New York City police officer was posthumously honored when Greenwich Village block was named in his honor. The move came 35 years after NYPD Sgt. Charles Cochrane came out publicly during a City Council hearing on gay rights.

On April 2 I will retire from the Wilton Manors Police Department.

During Pride month this year, several local LGBT nonprofit organizations like Aqua Foundation for Women, Pridelines, and Survivor’s Pathway, collaborated on an event centering on the City of Miami Police’s unveiling of their rainbow-wrapped cruiser.

WESTMINSTER, Colo. — Hundreds of friends and relatives gathered Saturday to say goodbye to a 17-year-old lesbian teen shot to death by Denver police officers, recalling her big heart and gregarious spirit.

(WB) Police in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta on Oct. 6 arrested 51 people at a “gay party.”