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Fort Hood, Texas (AP) - A civilian police officer who shot the Fort Hood gunman four times during his bloody rampage stopped the attacker cold, a U.S. Army official said Friday. Officer Kimberly Munley of the Fort Hood Police Department is a "trained, active first responder" who acted quickly after she "just happened to encounter the gunman," said Lt. Gen. Bob ...

NEW YORK, NY - The Rev. Al Sharpton lashed out Sunday at the "unfair" treatment of his daughter and ex-wife by cops who arrested the duo for arguing over a traffic ticket in Harlem. "I cannot imagine how two unarmed women with no record, could be taken in cuffs from a traffic dispute with NO personal or property damage involved," Sharpton ...

PHILADELPHIA - A former Philadelphia police officer convicted of robbing a drug dealer and participating in a home invasion was sentenced yesterday to 30 years in prison. The rogue officer, Malik Snell, was denounced by the judge, prosecutors, and city officials. The police commissioner sent a letter promising to melt Snell's badge "into a lump of metal." Snell, who spent four ...

PITTSBURG, Calif. — A 32-year-old Pittsburg man was arrested Tuesday night after putting a gun to a police officer's head during a struggle, police said. A patrol officer was driving near the 800 block of Carpino Avenue about 11 p.m. when he spotted a man standing idly in the rain, said Lt. Brian Addington. The officer parked and walked over to ...

TAYLOR, Texas — A black cat showed affection by crawling up and down a Texas police officer in a friendly display captured on the patrol car's dashcam. Taylor police Officer Keith Urban was seen being patient with the cat, whose image was captured during a recent traffic stop, then finally gently booting the kitty away. The Taylor Daily Press reported Urban ...

OXFORD, Ohio - An 18-year-old Ohio man decided to dress up as a breathalyzer for a Halloween party. What do you think happened next? James Miller was arrested after driving the wrong way down a one-way street. His car's headlights weren't on, and he had several different Ohio IDs on him.Police Video: The Dumbest Criminals Caught On TapePolice say he had ...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — A 19-year-old man was jailed on a drug charge after he allegedly went door-to-door trying to sell marijuana. A Brownsville police spokesman said Anthony Carrazco's alleged scheme went awry when he knocked on a police officer's apartment door. [widget:news__off_beat] Spokesman Jimmy Manrrique said the episode happened Thursday downtown near the University of Texas-Texas Southmost College campus. He said ...

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 ...

KILLEEN, Texas — One of two police officers who confronted the alleged Fort Hood killer says he shot Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan before kicking the man's weapon away, handcuffing him and ending the nation's worst killing spree on a military base. Sgt. Mark Todd joined Sgt. Kimberly Munley, hailed as a hero for her actions, in a firefight with Hasan that ...

CLEVELAND — Shaquille O'Neal is looking to continue a sideline career in law enforcement now that he's in Ohio playing for the Cavaliers. Spokesman John O'Brien of the Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH'-guh) County sheriff's office says the Cavs center has applied to become a special deputy. He would have the right to carry a gun and make arrests but not be a paid, ...

RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia inmate Larry Bill Elliott is scheduled to become the first Virginia inmate to die by electrocution since 2006. Here is some basic information about electrocutions in Virginia and nationwide. -Of the 35 death penalty states, Virginia and six other Southern states still offer electrocution. [widget:news__virginia] -Elliott would be the first inmate electrocuted in Virginia since 2006 and ...

DETROIT - A 27-year-old man who drew a gun as he ran from Detroit Police Chief Warren Evans and two police officers were shot and injured Wednesday night on the city's north side. The man is hospitalized in serious condition with a gunshot wound to his side, said Deputy Chief James Tolbert. Per department protocol, Evans is now under investigation for ...

Whether on the big screen or the rear-view mirror, the radio car is as much a part of the ubiquitous American landscape as the golden arches of McDonalds or the billboards offering "Color TV" to road-weary travelers. Though they represent different things to different people, and we don't always love the people inside, they're there and, in the true American ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the U.S., authorities arrested more than 300 people in a sting that demonstrates an upstart cartel's vast reach north of the border. The tentacles of "La Familia" extend coast to coast and deep into America's heartland, with arrests announced Thursday in 38 cities from Boston to Seattle and ...

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 ...

When two Visalia, Calif., police officers swung their cruisers behind a sport utility vehicle that had been carjacked at gunpoint early Sunday, they prepared for a dangerous high-speed chase. The 2009 Chevrolet Tahoe roared away with officers in pursuit, but shortly after the suspect made a right turn, operators at General Motors Co.'s OnStar service sent a command that electronically disabled ...

OAKLAND, CA - Authorities say a transit police officer was hurt and a suspect is in custody after an incident at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in Oakland over the weekend. A video of the incident, filmed by another passenger and later uploaded to YouTube, shows the officer removing the suspect from a train and pushing him toward a heavy-duty ...

The family of Officer Bryce Bezdek, who suffered serious injuries when a suspect crashed her SUV into a pickup truck, is suing the drivers of the two vehicles involved in the crash. The crash happened two years ago on Interstate 75, near Cincinnati. Officer Bezdek was laying out stop sticks to end the pursuit. He suffered major head trauma from the ...

A man wielding a Samurai sword attacked an Upper Darby police officer who was attempting to take him into custody, after the man threatened to set his rowhouse apartment on fire and commit suicide, authorities said today. George Henry Rogers, 36, of the 4000 block of Dayton Road, called police just after midnight yesterday and said he was barricaded in his ...

KILLEEN, Texas -- Police Sgt. Kimberly Munley is a hero. And lucky to be alive. The diminutive officer was shot in both legs Thursday during her gunbattle with Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the man accused of killing 13 fellow Soldiers during a shooting rampage at Fort Hood. One of the shots severed her femoral artery. Dr. Kelly Matlock, an anesthesiologist at ...