CARMEL, N.Y. — A former New York deputy sheriff who claimed she fell down the stairs at work has admitted improperly receiving workmen's compensation. The Putnam County district attorney says Barbara Dunn pleaded guilty Monday to grand larceny. Prosecutors alleged that Dunn was thrown off a horse in Dutchess County in 2008. They say she then claimed her injuries were caused ...

SEATTLE — The federal Justice Department has begun a preliminary review of the Seattle Police Department after the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington and nearly three dozen other groups sought an investigation of officers' use of force. In December, the ACLU and the other groups contended that some Seattle police appear to "inflict injury out of anger" at suspects, especially ...

ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) - A Vermont woman is facing charges that she failed to return hundreds of dollars' worth of books and videos from the library. State Police say the 35-year-old woman from Concord has been cited on a charge of theft of rented property. Police say that in November they received a request from the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum asking ...

DETROIT - Lamar D. Moore calmly walked into the Detroit Police Department's Northwestern District station just after shift change Sunday afternoon, when few officers were in the building, and approached the front desk while concealing a pistol-grip shotgun. Within moments, he began firing, striking officers as he blasted away. Details emerged Monday night that may explain what first appeared to be ...

COLUMBUS - Two weeks before he was to take the job of Columbus police sketch artist, Officer Tom Hayes walked into a Clintonville convenience store to check on a reported disturbance. It was 2:25 a.m. Dec. 18, 1979. Court testimony later revealed that at least one of the two teenagers in the store had been drinking and smoking marijuana and had ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Police were searching a waterfront neighborhood along the Oregon coast Monday for a man suspected of shooting a police officer who pulled him over for speeding. David Anthony Durham, 43, of Portland, was under investigation in connection with the Sunday night shooting of Lincoln City police Officer Steven Dodds, who remained in critical condition, Newport police Chief Mark ...

ST. PETERSBURG — The house where two St. Petersburg officers were fatally shot Monday is gone. Crews tore down the home Monday night and took the rubble to an off-site location to be combed for evidence. Police demolished the house, 3734 28th Ave S, with armored vehicles Monday during a standoff with wanted fugitive Hydra Lacy Jr. His body was found ...

MIAMI — As thousands of law enforcement officers gathered inside the American Airlines Arena here Monday morning for a funeral for two slain Miami-Dade police officers, news quickly spread that two more officers had been shot and killed a few hours earlier — this time in St. Petersburg, Fla. It was an eerie repeat of the police shootings last Thursday in ...