NEW YORK — A police officer is gunned down in his patrol car in Penn Hills, Pa., while waiting for backup. Near Seattle, four officers starting their day at a coffee shop are ambushed by an ex-con with a handgun. Another four officers are shot to death in Oakland, Calif., after a traffic stop gone awry. Across the nation, 2009 was ...

CHICAGO - Nearly two dozen weapons, including high-powered assault rifles, were stolen from a shooting range belonging to south suburban Harvey police, prompting a statewide alert this week. At least 21 weapons, which included handguns, MP5 and AR-15 assault rifles, were reported stolen from a trailer on the semi-wooded property of the shooting range at 153rd Street and Campbell Avenue about ...

LOUISIANA, Mo. - A 4-year-old girl Missouri girl missing for more than 24 hours was found alive more than 70 miles from her home, authorities say. St. Louis County police dispatcher Paul Jackson said Alisa Maier was found late Tuesday in the St. Louis suburb of Fenton after police received a call about a boy wandering around at a car wash. ...

PALM BEACH, FL - Funeral services for former Sheriff's Major Robert "Bob" Ferrell will be held this afternoon at Boynton Memorial Chapel. The services will begin at 1 p.m. A burial will follow immediately at South Florida National Cemetery on State Road 7 in suburban Lake Worth. And a luncheon will be held after the burial at the FOP Lodge 50, ...

WASHINGTON - One local community is having second thoughts about participating in immigration enforcement. In Arlington County -- where 25 percent of residents are immigrants -- officials are worried the federal Secure Communities program is having a chilling effect on community policing. The program is a partnership between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and local jails to identify and deport "criminal aliens." ...

PARDEEVILLE, Wis. — Columbia County prosecutors will not charge two sheriff's deputies who shot and killed a Cambridge man last month. District attorney Jane Kohlwey says a report from the Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation concludes that the deputies fired in self-defense. Authorities received a call Nov. 14 saying 51-year-old Kelly J. Bishell was threatening to kill himself and his dog. ...

BALTIMORE - An off-duty Baltimore police officer accused in the fatal shooting of a Marine outside a Mount Vernon club last summer should not have been on the force after a series of questionable incidents, the victim's family alleges in a $270 million lawsuit filed last week in Baltimore Circuit Court. Officer Gahiji Tshamba has been charged with first-degree murder in ...