Understaffed police departments and concerns over public safety are spurring greater use of private security guards. But they aren't a perfect substitute.

The Burnette Branch Library in Warren will be employing a security guard in an attempt to quell loitering at the library.

A former security guard will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the murder of an unarmed Black man at a supermarket gas station in Memphis, Tennessee. Gregory Livingston was found guilty ...