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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 ...

It’s been more than a month since Clayton County inmates have had two hot meals a day – as required by Georgia law.

JONESBORO, Ga. - Many of the Clayton County badges that were improperly issued to more than 100 people have been returned, but the sheriff says quite a few are still in circulation. [widget:news__georgia] The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported last week that at least 121 people had been issued badges by former Sheriff Victor Hill and that current Sheriff Kem Kimbrough was trying ...

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 ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - The troubles of the San Francisco Bay area's transit police went viral again as video hit the Internet showing what some claim was another use of excessive force. A cell phone video showing the arrest of a mentally ill passenger accused of being disruptive on a commuter train came less than a year after footage of an ...

Jason Anderson, the police officer driving the vehicle involved in this crash, has been charged with manslaughter. He is still being paid though he is on leave from the police department. Neither Anderson, nor the trailing officer, Richard Pisani were responding to an emergency at the time. Parents of the two 19-year-old students killed in the crash were allowed to view ...

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 ...

The New Jersey attorney general yesterday approved the use of electronic stun guns by police officers under limited circumstances involving emotionally disturbed people. The stun guns -- which fire electronically-charged darts -- may be used by officers only when a person has a weapon, poses a serious threat to others, and refuses to be taken into custody. "This is the first ...

A West Chester Twp. police officer remained in critical condition following an on-duty crash overnight. West Chester police officer Nicholas Gattermeyer, 24, was responding to a call of a burglary in progress just after 1:45 a.m. Tuesday in the 7700 block of Barret Road, according to West Chester Sgt. Joe Gutman. The officer’s cruiser went off the road and struck a ...

MERCER, Pa. - A western Pennsylvania woman has been ordered to stand trial on charges she passed a drug-filled balloon to a state prison inmate while kissing him. [widget:news__corrections] State police said guards at the State Correctional Institution-Mercer became suspicious when an inmate appeared to swallow something after a prolonged kiss with a visitor on Oct. 19. When the inmate wouldn't ...

Police officers and firefighters, including those from the metro-east, will participate in boxing matches against each other to support families of those who have died in the line of duty. The 23rd annual Budweiser Guns 'N Hoses boxing event will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Scottrade Center. Granite City firefighter Brian Brinson will participate in the boxing match for ...

INDIANAPOLIS -A man was arrested after police said he left his 5-year-old son in a tractor-trailer while he ducked into an Indianapolis strip club to drink. The 39-year-old was arrested at 1:15 a.m. Tuesday on child neglect and public intoxication charges after calling police to report his truck stolen and his child missing. Police said the man was too drunk to ...

She watched "The Silence of the Lambs" as a girl and so related to Jodie Foster's character that she wanted to become an FBI agent and go after psychopaths. Instead, Ally Jacobs became a police officer at UC Berkeley, handling mostly garden-variety cases until one day in August when she helped crack the case that ended the 18-year kidnapping nightmare of ...

ORANGE, Conn. — An arrest affidavit says a Milford police officer charged with manslaughter for a car crash that killed two teenagers was driving 94 miles per hour and was not on an emergency call. State police earlier this month charged Jason Anderson with two counts of second-degree manslaughter and one count of reckless driving. He was released on $250,000 bond.WATCH: ...

PHILADELPHIA - A jury will soon begin deliberating whether a man should be sentenced to the death penalty or life in prison for the fatal shooting of a Philadelphia police officer during a robbery. Closing arguments are set for Tuesday in the penalty phase of the trial for 23-year-old John Lewis. Jurors will then begin deliberating Lewis' fate. Lewis was convicted ...

-UPDATE-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 officials were notified of his death by the Epsom police chief.Relatives said Taylor was alone, trimming tree branches on his property on Goboro Road when the chainsaw kicked ...

A 79-year-old man received probation after pleading guilty to negligent motor vehicle homicide in the death of a Weymouth police officer killed while directing traffic. [widget:news__chiefs__sheriffs] Ronald Gale of Weymouth was sentenced to 15 years of probation - with one year of house arrest - in the death of Officer Michael Davey. Prosecutors asked for Gale to be sentenced to the ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee said Friday. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said after a briefing from Pentagon and Army officials that his committee will investigate how those and other ...