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PHILADELPHIA - John "Jordan" Lewis - the baby-faced high school dropout whose six-week career as an armed robber ended with the Halloween 2007 slaying of Police Officer Chuck Cassidy - was sentenced to death yesterday by a Philadelphia jury. The Common Pleas Court jury of eight women and four men deliberated for less than an hour over lunch before deciding that ...

LAS VEGAS, NV - Three people were arrested on suspicion of killing an off-duty Las Vegas police officer in a shootout in his garage, North Las Vegas police said Thursday. Police said that Prentice Marshall, 18, and Saul Williams Jr., 20, of North Las Vegas were in custody, suspected of killing Trevor Nettleton just after midnight. A 17-year-old male was arrested ...

LAS VEGAS - Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie on Saturday had trouble finding the words for his latest fallen comrade, a corrections officer who died hours earlier in a collision on U.S. Highway 95 near Searchlight. "In circumstances like this ... I just can't put it into words," a somber Gillespie said. "This organization is strong and we will prevail." Gillespie ...

Bow Police Officer Killed In Chainsaw Accident Officer Killed In Chainsaw Accident In Yard POSTED: 3:18 pm EST November 24, 2009 UPDATED: 1:38 am EST November 25, 2009 BOW, N.H. -- A Bow police officer was killed Tuesday morning in an accident at his home involving a chain saw.Bow officials said Nathan Taylor, 34, died at his Epsom home, and town ...

WARSAW, Ind. - Indiana State Police say a Kosciusko County sheriff's officer has died in a collision between his cruiser and a truck. State police say Sgt. Jeffery B. Shaw was pronounced dead at Kosciusko Community Hospital following the 3 p.m. crash on state highway 14 south of Warsaw. The driver of the truck, 53-year-old Steven L. Byerly of Fort Wayne, ...

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 ...

This just in: An off-duty Las Vegas police officer was shot dead early Thursday in a shootout in the garage of his home during what authorities said they think was a random robbery attempt. Just another reminder to always stay safe.  Let's keep the family and the LVMPD in our hearts and prayers.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A state appellate court on Monday upheld the first-degree murder conviction of a Woodland man in connection with the roadside slaying of California Highway Patrol Officer Andrew "Andy" Stevens. Evidence at the trial of Gregory Fred Zielesch established that he bailed Brendt Anthony Volarvich out of jail and asked, in return, that Volarvich kill Doug Shamberger, who had been sleeping with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

WINSTON-SALEM - A critically wounded Winston-Salem police officer died Monday night, according to department officials. Sergeant Mickey Hutchens, a 27-year veteran of the force, suffered a gunshot wound to the head in a shootout behind a Bojangles restaurant last Wednesday. He was 50-years-old. "Mickey was an exceptional person," said Police Chief Scott Cunningham in a statement late Monday. "For more than ...

Cumbria, UK The body of a man found after a bridge collapsed over a flooded river is Pc Bill Barker, police have confirmed. Pc Barker, 44, was directing motorists off the bridge in Workington "saving lives" when it caved in as Cumbria was hit by record rainfall, police said.

Two men were taken in custody for their involvement in the shooting this morning of an off-duty Essex county Sheriff’s officer outside a Newark night club, Sheriff Armando Fontoura said.