Grammy weekend 2013: The city of Los Angeles was on edge. Police had LA’s downtown area in a near security lockdown.

Laboratories at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been repeatedly cited in private government audits for failing to properly secure bioterror agents.

It’s a balancing act. It’s always been. But today, it takes more understanding and sensitivity, more training and supervision.

The San Francisco 49ers play the Baltimore Ravens this weekend in New Orleans for Super Bowl XLVII, and the city’s police force is counting on support from law enforcement agencies to help secure the sport’s biggest game. Like winning the big game itself, keeping the peace during the Super Bowl will be a team effort.

More than 400 elementary school campuses will receive a minimum of two new campus aides through the new $4.2 million program.

Fontana Unified School District's school police officers will now check out a semiautomatic rifle each morning to bring with them on their patrols from school to school.

The New Canaan School District will add five new security officers, new two-way radios and cell service boosters in order to bolster security at the district's schools.

With only two security officers to patrol 900 miles of track, state legislators were pushing to grant those officers the power to arrest, issue citations and use firearms if necessary.

Texas voters could decide whether to tax themselves to pay for armed guards or other public school safety measures.

The first six months of 2012 showed a 1.9 percent increase in violent crime, and a 1.5 percent increase in property crime.