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HOUSTON, TX - Texas' Board of Pardons and Paroles on Wednesday recommended that Gov. Rick Perry spare the life of Houston killer Robert Lee Thompson, who is scheduled to be executed tonight in Huntsville. A Perry spokeswoman did not indicate when the governor, who has voluntarily commuted only one death sentence in his tenure as chief executive, might rule in the ...

A Baltimore police dog was shot Sunday evening by a police officer during a foot pursuit of a motorist who drove through a speed checkpoint in South Baltimore, said a Police Department spokesman. About 6 p.m., police were manning the checkpoint in the 2600 block of Wegworth Lane near Hollins Ferry Road, near Wegworth Park, when a male motorist failed to ...

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 ...

ONTARIO, Calif. — These days social networking sites and cell phones are not just a place to catch up with friends. Gangs in Southern California are using them to orchestra crime, commit fraud and traffic drugs. The issue is so severe at California Institution for Men in Chino, that Lt. Thomas Goetz said he has assigned two staff members to try ...

NEW BRUNSWICK -- A city man arrested for fighting was taken to police headquarters, where he took a mouthful of water from a toilet and spit at an officer, police said. Shawn Holland, 27, was arrested about 5 p.m. Sunday after police saw him fighting with several other men in front of a building on the 200 block of Livingston Avenue, ...

  SARALAND, Ala. —  Police in Saraland say an Alabama National Guardsman was beaten and stabbed to death in a robbery that netted about $120 in cash. Anthony Embley Sr.'s son-in-law and daughter, John Lamar Pope and Lacy Elizabeth Pope, are charged with murder. Embley's body was found in the hallway of his home last month. Saraland Police Chief Kevin Anderson says ...

Officer fires once in self defense and kills one.

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 ...

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly is tapping a New York City Police Department inspector to run security for the upcoming trials of five September 11th suspects in the city.   The NYPD promoted Michael Blake, 48, to deputy chief today. Kelly says Blake has already done preliminary assessments of the areas in Lower Manhattan that will be affected by the trials. Blake ...

Convicted cop-killer John "Jordan" Lewis today could learn if a Philadelphia jury will sentence him to life in prison without parole, or death. After defense and prosecution attorneys deliver closing remarks in the penalty phase of Lewis' capital murder trial this morning, the jury will get instructions from Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey Minehart and then begin deliberating the defendant's fate. If ...

DEDHAM - Ronald Gale, 79, held his head in his shaking hands and cried yesterday in court as he faced the family of a Weymouth police officer he struck and killed with his car last summer. The devastated family of Officer Michael Davey, a 34-year-old father of three who survived a stint in Iraq only to be killed while working a ...

CHUBB sure does have tight security.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Justice Department gave more than $77 million in stimulus funds this year to 200 police agencies because of their locations rather than economic or crime-fighting needs, department records show. That's because the program to help law enforcement agencies hire more officers is required under a 1994 rule by Congress to distribute money to every state where police ...

PALO ALTO, CA - A packed, standing room only courtroom watched Monday as prosecution and defense attorneys tried to convince a jury that the 26-year-old man accused of murdering East Palo Alto police Officer Richard May was either a cold-blood executioner bent on staying out of prison or the victim of a wrongheaded cop who chased, struck and shot him. [widget:news__career_profiles] ...

An undercover Minneapolis police officer engaged in outrageous conduct when he fondled the bare breasts of a woman giving him a massage, the state Court of Appeals ruled today in a decision reversing the woman's prostitution conviction in Hennepin County District Court.

PHILADELPHIA - A former Philadelphia police officer convicted of robbing a drug dealer and participating in a home invasion was sentenced yesterday to 30 years in prison. The rogue officer, Malik Snell, was denounced by the judge, prosecutors, and city officials. The police commissioner sent a letter promising to melt Snell's badge "into a lump of metal." Snell, who spent four ...

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 ...

Nov. 20--For former Officer Michael Brown, the police credo "to serve and protect" includes two free scoops of strawberry cheesecake ice cream. "We protect you, why can't you hook me up?" Brown told a Ben & Jerry's ice cream shop employee April 20 after the store closed for the day, according to internal affair's documents released Friday. Feeling intimidated, the employee ...