Drone advances in Ukraine could bring dawn of killer robots
By FRANK BAJAK and HANNA ARHIROVA (Associated Press) KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Drone advances in Ukraine have accelerated a long-anticipated technology trend that could soon bring the world’s first fully...
View ArticleFake food deliveries, drones and lax security: how drugs get into L.A....
Two Los Angeles County juvenile facilities have such lax security that illicit substances and other contraband are thrown over fences, dropped by drones and even delivered by fake DoorDash drivers and...
View ArticleEast Bay police department details how it has used military equipment,...
Late last year, a man walked into the Sunvalley Shopping Center in Concord claiming he had a gun and would shoot people. Concord police officers quickly swarmed the mall — but instead of sending in one...
View ArticleSix accused of using drones, CashApp for prison contraband smuggling scheme
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Six people are accused in a federal indictment of conspiring to use a drone to fly contraband such as cell phones and marijuana into the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth. The...
View ArticleEast Bay resident with drone leads police to Uber-riding Texas teen suspected...
HERCULES — A resident operating a personal drone located a teenager suspected of a home invasion robbery, then helped lead officers to him by tipping them that he was trying to flee the scene in an...
View ArticleGreat white sharks lurked near swimmers, surfers 97% of the time in drone study
As great white sharks make their way back north to Cape Cod for the summer and fall, shark researchers have released “shocking” results from a 2-year drone study — showing that apex predators came very...
View ArticleNeighbor fatally shot in dispute over snooping drone, police say
A Utah man was fatally shot during a dispute with a neighbor who had been flying a drone to investigate a “commotion” near his home, police said. The shooting was reported around 10 p.m. Monday in a...
View ArticleCalifornia man gets 1-year probation for flying drone near gyrocopter, blimp,...
A Laguna Beach man who flew a drone too close to a gyrocopter, a blimp advertising “Shark Week,” and a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter received one year of probation in federal court in Santa Ana on...
View ArticleCalifornia police want drones in car chases. How San Francisco’s Prop E could...
BY KHARI JOHNSON | CalMatters Two months ago, a robbery suspect in a high-speed car chase struck Ciara Keegan’s Honda CR-V while fleeing police. Keegan, 25, had been on the phone with her boyfriend...
View ArticlePolice drone aids in capture of East Bay kidnapping suspects, hostage release
Officers with the Tracy Police Department arrested two East Bay men on kidnapping charges on Friday, after using a drone and armored vehicle to aid in their capture. A reported hostage was rescued and...
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