CAMDEN — The anti-crime group Guardian Angels said today that it will send members to Camden just before police layoffs take effect. The group says 40 members from New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania will arrive in Camden on Sunday. Facing a budget crunch, the city expects to lay off up to one-fourth the government work force, effective Tuesday. About half ...

BALTIMORE - City police union officials said Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake lacks faith in the Police Department as it investigates the fatal shooting of an officer and a 22-year-old man, and called her demand for an independent review an attempt to "utilize this tragic incident for political gain." "We too want a thorough investigation of this incident to reveal all the facts ...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Three police officers in a Pennsylvania town obstructed a federal investigation into the fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant to protect white football players to whom they had close personal ties, a prosecutor said Thursday. Former Shenandoah Police Chief Matthew Nestor and two subordinates orchestrated a cover-up in the July 2008 beating death of 25-year-old Luis ...

[photo:588143] PORTLAND, Ore. — Memorial services for Rainier police Chief Ralph Painter are scheduled Friday afternoon at the University of Portland Chiles Center. Painter was shot and killed last week in the small Columbia River town north of Portland after he responded to a report of an attempted car theft. A memorial procession is scheduled to begin 10 a.m. at the ...

LOS ANGELES—An official says surgeons may yet be able to save the eye of a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who was shot in the face during a confrontation with a gang member. Sheriff's spokeswoman Nicole Nishida said Thursday that Deputy Mohamed Ahmed was coming out of sedation after the first of what is expected to be a series of operations ...

WEBER COUNTY, UT - A Utah civil rights attorney says a religion-laced post on the Weber County sheriff’s office Facebook page violates state and federal laws separating church and state. In a letter sent Wednesday, Salt Lake City-based attorney Brian Barnard asks Weber County Sheriff Terry Thompson to remove the post from the social networking site. The letter to employees and ...

PERKINS TOWNSHIP, OH — Erie County Sheriff Terry Lyons was not seriously injured in a head-on crash yesterday morning, but Capt. Paul Sigsworth said he did not want to speculate as to when Lyons will return to work. “We’re very glad the injuries were not worse than they were,” Sigsworth said about Lyons and Terrance Pace, 27, the driver of the ...

TUSCON - Mourners at the funeral of Christina-Taylor Green were greeted by more than a thousand sympathizers who lined North Shannon Road for a quarter-mile south of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church. Many wore white, and many had responded to an Internet call to counter the possible appearance of an out-of-state hate group. They arrived on nearly 200 motorcycles, on foot ...