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LAS VEGAS, NV - Three people were arrested on suspicion of killing an off-duty Las Vegas police officer in a shootout in his garage, North Las Vegas police said Thursday. Police said that Prentice Marshall, 18, and Saul Williams Jr., 20, of North Las Vegas were in custody, suspected of killing Trevor Nettleton just after midnight. A 17-year-old male was arrested ...

Jason Anderson, the police officer driving the vehicle involved in this crash, has been charged with manslaughter. He is still being paid though he is on leave from the police department. Neither Anderson, nor the trailing officer, Richard Pisani were responding to an emergency at the time. Parents of the two 19-year-old students killed in the crash were allowed to view ...

ORANGE, Conn. — An arrest affidavit says a Milford police officer charged with manslaughter for a car crash that killed two teenagers was driving 94 miles per hour and was not on an emergency call. State police earlier this month charged Jason Anderson with two counts of second-degree manslaughter and one count of reckless driving. He was released on $250,000 bond.WATCH: ...

SHIRLEY, MA - A housing unit at the state’s maximum security prison is in lockdown after an inmate assaulted four correction officers last night, according to a Department of Correction official. One correction officer was slashed in the throat and another sustained a stab wound on his cheek after an inmate became enraged because he was assigned to double bunk with ...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — A 19-year-old man was jailed on a drug charge after he allegedly went door-to-door trying to sell marijuana. A Brownsville police spokesman said Anthony Carrazco's alleged scheme went awry when he knocked on a police officer's apartment door. [widget:news__off_beat] Spokesman Jimmy Manrrique said the episode happened Thursday downtown near the University of Texas-Texas Southmost College campus. He said ...

TAYLOR, Texas — A black cat showed affection by crawling up and down a Texas police officer in a friendly display captured on the patrol car's dashcam. Taylor police Officer Keith Urban was seen being patient with the cat, whose image was captured during a recent traffic stop, then finally gently booting the kitty away. The Taylor Daily Press reported Urban ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A police officer in a small Arkansas town used a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old girl after he said her mother gave him permission to do so. Now the town's mayor is calling for an investigation into whether the Taser use was appropriate. According to a report by Officer Dustin Bradshaw, obtained Wednesday by The Associated ...

WESTMINSTER — A late-morning bank robbery turned frantic and violent Thursday, ending with both suspects dead and a police officer hospitalized after a gun battle near West 120th Avenue and Federal Boulevard. A deputy chief also was injured. It began shortly after 11:51 a.m., when police received a report of a robbery at the FirstBank branch at West 120th and Sheridan ...

BOYNTON BEACH - An arrest got out of hand Thursday night at Sara Simms Park when friends of the suspect attacked officers verbally and physically, police said. One officer broke his wrist in the struggle. [widget:news__florida] According to police: Police were on foot patrol about 7 p.m. in the 200 block of Northwest Ninth Court, when they saw a 17-year-old try ...

INDIANAPOLIS -An 18-year-old is in police custody after he warmed up a bottle for a crying baby inside the house he was allegedly robbing. [widget:news__off_beat] Indianapolis police arrested the suspect at Arlington High School on Tuesday after receiving a tip from a television viewer saw surveillance video on a newscast. Detectives said two suspects forced their way into a home on ...

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia jury has convicted a confessed cop killer of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a police officer on Halloween 2007. Twenty-three-year-old John Lewis was found guilty Thursday of first-degree murder in the shooting death of 54-year-old Officer Chuck Cassidy. Lewis shot Cassidy in the head when the officer walked in on a robbery at a North Philadelphia doughnut ...

UPPER DARBY, PA - An Upper Darby police detective posing as a pizza delivery man shot and wounded a would-be robber who charged at the officer and refused to drop his handgun, authorities said this morning. Police arrested a suspected female accomplice and were seeking a man who got away. The wounded gunman, not immediately identified, was reported in serious but ...

WICHITA, Kan. -A man and woman who reported to police that robbers stole their marijuana are now facing charges themselves. The 32-year-old man and 29-year-old woman told police five armed men came to their Wichita apartment late Monday night and took marijuana. [widget:news__off_beat] Police said one suspect accidentally fired his gun and spooked the other suspects. They ran from the apartment ...

SEATTLE -Seattle police say a man who thought he was ninja was impaled on a metal fence when he tried to leap over it. [widget:news__washington] An officer who was looking for an assault victim nearby Monday night heard the man screaming for help. Police supported him to prevent further injuries until medics arrived and took him to a hospital, where he ...

WHEELING, WV — Ohio County authorities have not located a fully automatic assault rifle stolen from the Wheeling Police Department almost a month ago. Wheeling Police Chief Robert Matheny said the full-auto M16 rifle was stolen from the pickup truck of a Wheeling Police SWAT member on Oct. 21 at the officer's home. SWAT team members had been permitted to take ...

SEATTLE - Rookie Seattle police officer Britt Sweeney admits she is anxious about returning to duty after watching the fatal shooting of her partner, Timothy Brenton, three weeks ago. "There is some anxiety. I can't lie," she said Wednesday in a television interview, breaking her silence about the horrific Halloween night in which she and Brenton were ambushed as they sat ...

PHOENIX - Three U.S. Army soldiers in a rental car pulled over for speeding outside Phoenix have been arrested after authorities say they found 680 pounds of marijuana and $10,000 cash inside the vehicle. [widget:news__military] Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies say Dwayne Campbell, Llewellyn Stamoulis and Romaine May all were dressed in military uniform and carried valid military ID when deputies pulled ...

EAST GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - A southwest Michigan man has died following a confrontation with two police officers who subdued him with stun guns, authorities said Tuesday. Police said Matthew Bolick, 30, died Monday night at his home in East Grand Rapids, a suburb of Grand Rapids. [widget:news__tasers] Chief Mark A. Herald, director of the East Grand Rapids Department of Public ...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A man charged with raping and killing a 5-year-old North Carolina girl was expected in court Friday, a day after authorities revealed what they believed happened to her in her final days. Authorities said Thursday that Shaniya Davis was sexually assaulted and asphyxiated before her body was dumped off a rural road. Mario McNeill is charged with first-degree ...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was sexually assaulted and asphyxiated Nov. 10, the day her mother reported her missing from the trailer park where she was staying, according to the warrant. Authorities embarked on a nearly ...