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e city looms large from the Atlanta Police Department’s Zone 1, which comprises 19 square miles west of downtown and north of I-20. Sometimes you turn a corner and, suddenly, catch a dramatic view of the gleaming skyline. It’s a breathtaking sight, especially at night when the city lights contrast so starkly to the darkness of a neighborhood known as the ...

A North Salt Lake man was arrested after allegedly killing a man with his car after a Saturday fight at a party in Eagle Mountain. Police believe it was an accident

City council members in Marietta, Ga., will consider changing the oath of office that the city's police officers take so that recruits can swear to uphold the law without saying the phrase "so help me God."

I wanted to take the time to tell everyone of the new uniform wearing video cameras now available from Zapper International Jacksonville, Florida. These cameras are durable and high quality,  are worn on the uniform. The cameras record all events up to 8 hours as they occur, in high resolution, color, and have audio and infared total darkness recording built in ...

It is with great sadness to inform the K9 community of the recent death of  Military Working Dog, Blackie.  Assigned to the USAF,  He was 11 yrs 2mos old.  He died Saturday  21 Nov 2009 from asphyxiation due to complications from blout or gastric dilatation-volvulus (GDV) .  MWD Blackie was a trained Patrol/Explosive detector dog.  Thorugh his assignment, he worked his way through ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block Tuesday's scheduled execution of sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad. The Court did not comment Monday on why it refused to consider his appeal. [widget:news__washington_dc_area] Muhammad is scheduled to die by injection at a Virginia prison for the slaying of Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during a three-week ...

SEATTLE — The firebombing of four Seattle police vehicles on Oct. 22 was a failed attempt to kill police officers by the same man now suspected of the ambush-slaying of Officer Timothy Brenton, police officials said Monday. During a wide-ranging news conference, Seattle police laid out details of the intense, weeklong investigation into Brenton's killing on Halloween night that ended Friday ...

KILLEEN, Texas - -- A civilian police officer is being praised for taking down a man suspected of opening fire on his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood when she shot him in the torso. Shortly after the attack began, Fort Hood Police Sgt. Kimberly Munley got the call of "shots fired." The Soldier Readiness Processing center isn't on Munley's beat; she ...

Pittsburgh police say they will continue to benefit from the millions of dollars spent to prepare for the Group of 20 summit. "We spent months getting ready for this and it was a lot of preparation, but we'll see the dividends of that for a long time to come," Public Safety Director Michael Huss said. "It was invaluable to us." [widget:news__pennsylvania] ...

Raymond Pelzer was playing dice on a known West Philadelphia drug corner when two police officers approached him. Pelzer, 25, handed over his identification but ran off before the officers learned that he was wanted for a probation violation. [widget:news__career_profiles] [widget:366] Moments later, an officer cornered Pelzer in a yard. Pelzer refused to show his hands, appeared to be searching in ...

Officer Josph Fulton suffered a fatal heart attack while pursuing a vehicle on County Road 2101 at approximately 3:00 am. He had attempted to make a traffic stop of the vehicle on East Jefferson Extension but the driver refused to stop. Other officers located his patrol car, which had served off of the roadway, after losing radio contact with him. They ...

WESTMINSTER, Colo. - Gunfire erupted as police in north metro Denver tried to apprehend two suspects wanted for a bank robbery Thursday afternoon. One suspect was killed died at the scene. The second was critically wounded and later died at a hospital. Two police officers also sustained gunshot wounds.  

LOS ANGELES, CA - Los Angeles police investigators are trying to piece together how a highly determined attacker eluded officers watching a Mid-City apartment and managed to kill a woman who had just filed a domestic violence complaint. Wilshire Division officers who specialize in domestic abuse were on the lookout for the man after taking Flor Medrano's report, counseling her and ...

As a reserve deputy, Michael Wilken was known as Big Mike, the 300-plus-pound "gentle giant." He worked crowd control at hockey games, parades and hundreds of other civic events during his 10 years with the Ramsey County Sheriff's office, a constant contributor who loved creating "a safe place for kids" and whose size belied his soft voice and cheerful disposition. Wilken, ...

PERKASIE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) – Carin Froehlich pegs her laundry to three clotheslines strung between trees outside her 18th-century farmhouse, knowing that her actions annoy local officials who have asked her to stop.

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The 13-year-old son of John and Tara Farrell and a 12-year-old friend were walking in Brooklyn Park one August night when a Cadillac Escalade sped up and the driver ordered them inside. The man drove to his nearby house, sat the frightened boys on a curb and slapped handcuffs on them. Only then did they learn that they had been placed ...