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Fort Hood, Texas (AP) - A civilian police officer who shot the Fort Hood gunman four times during his bloody rampage stopped the attacker cold, a U.S. Army official said Friday. Officer Kimberly Munley of the Fort Hood Police Department is a "trained, active first responder" who acted quickly after she "just happened to encounter the gunman," said Lt. Gen. Bob ...

NEW YORK, NY - The Rev. Al Sharpton lashed out Sunday at the "unfair" treatment of his daughter and ex-wife by cops who arrested the duo for arguing over a traffic ticket in Harlem. "I cannot imagine how two unarmed women with no record, could be taken in cuffs from a traffic dispute with NO personal or property damage involved," Sharpton ...

The San Jose Police Department will be the first law enforcement agency in the nation to use new ear-mounted video and audio recorders on the streets. The goal of the new device is to provide more details into arrests and other situations. The department has ordered 72 of the cameras, which are built by Taser International, and plans to deploy them ...

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was a soldier who didn't want to go to war, a man of God who defended murder and a doctor who shot up the soldiers he was supposed to heal. As he lay mute in a hospital bed Thursday night, investigators were scrambling to figure out what prompted his rampage. Hasan had been a psychiatrist treating wounded ...

Editor's Note: It is believed that at least one of the wounded is a police officer. It has been reported that the original shooter was killed by a Fort Hood police officer. More on the situation as soon as it develops. FORT HOOD, Texas — The U.S. Army says 12 people have been killed and 31 wounded in a shooting rampage ...

OXFORD, Ohio - An 18-year-old Ohio man decided to dress up as a breathalyzer for a Halloween party. What do you think happened next? James Miller was arrested after driving the wrong way down a one-way street. His car's headlights weren't on, and he had several different Ohio IDs on him.Police Video: The Dumbest Criminals Caught On TapePolice say he had ...

Editor's Note: Lt. Gen Bob Cone has stated during a press conference that the civilian police officer previously reported killed was only wounded and is out of surgery. The female officer was among the first on the scene and reportedly shot the active shooter, ending his shooting spree. More details as they are released... FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - An Army ...

CATSKILL — A state trooper who served with the U.S. Army in Iraq and Afghanistan died Wednesday afternoon when his patrol car struck a telephone pole, police said. Trooper David Lane, 30, was northbound on state Route 32 about 2:25 p.m. when he tried to pass another northbound vehicle, state police said. They said the two vehicles “made contact,” resulting in ...

LOS OLIVOS, CA - An on-duty California Highway Patrol officer was killed Thursday afternoon in Los Olivos after his motorcycle collided with a sports car near State Route 154 and then dragged some 45 feet under the vehicle, the CHP said on Friday. Jarrod John Martinez, 30, of Buellton was riding home from traffic court on his personal motorcycle when the ...

SAN JOSE - The four gang members accused of shooting a 12-year-old boy and stabbing his 13-year-old friend on Halloween night all confessed to police that they carried out the attack, protecting their gang turf even though they had no evidence the young trick-or-treaters belonged to a gang, according to a report released Thursday by San Jose police. Now, the three ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Police in Orlando say a gunman has been apprehended after killing one person and injuring five others at a downtown office building where he was let go two years ago. Police Chief Val Demings says 40-year-old Jason Rodriguez surrendered to police at his mother's home after officers saw him through a window and asked him to come out. ...

MILWAUKEE — Police and health officials say a refrigerated truck carrying H1N1 vaccine has been recovered after being stolen from outside a swine flu clinic in Milwaukee. Health operators officer Raquel Filmanowicz of the city's health department says the truck was taken from the Sarah Scott Middle School after a clinic there closed Thursday. Filmanowicz says she doesn't know how much ...

BARNESVILLE, Ga -- A Griffin police dog has been found shot to death, and the officer he worked with is offering a $500 reward in the case.   The Herald-Gazette newspaper in Barnesville reports that Griffin officer Chad Moxon, who lives in Lamar County, says the dog, called Jimi, was taken from the kennel at his home on Monday along with ...

In less than 10 years on the Seattle Police Department, Officer Timothy Brenton impressed his superiors so much they asked him to train other officers in the field. He was doing that Saturday night, teaching rookie officer Britt Sweeney, when he was killed, apparently randomly in a drive-by shooting while sitting in a patrol car on a tree-lined street. Sweeney, only ...

RICHMOND, VA - The 911 dispatcher asked if there was anyone around the naked girl, lying in a dark courtyard on the Richmond High School campus. "People have passed by there, have been seeing her, but nobody wants to call the cops, so we decided to call," Margarita Vargas told the voice in the phone the night of Oct. 24. "Um, ...

NEW BEDFORD - A State Police special operations trooper was shot, and the alleged gunman was killed, during a heavy exchange of gunfire in a drug raid at the break of dawn yesterday. A mother and her developmentally disabled child were inside the house where the shooting erupted. The trooper, who was not identified, was not seriously injured, and officials said ...

Al Sharprton has backed off his comments and will stay out of the dispute between his daughter and police. “I met with them and the attorney after the rally yesterday [Saturday] and was told to stay out of it,” he tweeted. “Dominique is grown and certainly can handle herself.” A spokeswoman for Sharpton said he wants to show that his daughter ...

(AP) A senior U.S. official in Washington isn't ruling out the possibility that the alleged Fort Hood shooter had ties to radical groups, but isn't saying whether there's evidence to back it up. Officials now say a 13th person has died in yesterday's rampage in Texas and 30 were wounded. Authorities at first thought one of the dead was the shooter, ...

STOCKTON, UT - Stockton Police Chief Heinz Kopp is keeping his distance from what has become a pretty big dustup in this tiny Tooele County town. "It wasn't my decision to suspend [Officer Josh Rowell]," the chief said Monday. "That was the mayor's doing. I was left out of the loop on that one." The chief was referring to the fallout ...

CLEVELAND — Police are expanding their search of a convicted rapist's neighborhood and his neatly kept home, where 10 bodies have been found in the basement, buried in the backyard, in an upstairs living room and in a crawl space. In addition to the four latest bodies they found buried in the backyard of Anthony Sowell's home on Tuesday, authorities found ...