During a violent Memorial Day spree, an off-duty Franklin County deputy shot and killed his ex-wife in a Roanoke convenience store parking lot and then fled in his patrol car, police said. Then, after a nearly hour-long pursuit that ended in Montgomery County, the deputy was stopped by police gunfire -- after a state trooper was wounded and the resulting investigation ...

OTTAWA, Ohio - Saying her crime was tantamount to robbing a bank 86 times, visiting Judge Keith P. Muehlfeld sentenced the wife of Putnam County Sheriff James Beutler Tuesday to three years in prison for stealing more than $261,000 from the Ohio Farmers Union. Kathy Beutler, 47, of Columbus Grove broke down in tears as her sentence was read in a ...

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. - A Mount Rainier police officer was indicted Tuesday by a Prince George’s County grand jury on attempted murder and sex-offense charges after a July 2 shooting in Capitol Heights, the state’s attorney’s office said. The officer, who was off-duty at the time, maintained that he had been carjacked. A 12-count indictment alleges that Gene Gillette, 27, shot ...

LOS ANGELES — The report of a school police officer shot last week touched off one of the largest Los Angeles-area manhunts in recent memory and forced thousands of students to remain in their classrooms for hours as officers searched for the attacker. Now law enforcement officials allege Officer Jeffrey Stenroos was lying when he said a gunman shot him in ...

SALT LAKE CITY - A Salt Lake City woman is accused of trying to sell her 13-year-old daughter’s virginity for $10,000. The woman’s boyfriend reported the alleged plot to police after finding text messages on the woman’s phone detailing negotiations with a man identified only as "Don," said Salt Lake County prosecutor Sim Gill. The woman, 32, had promised Don that ...

BOISE, Idaho -- Boise police are accusing a Washington man of trying to strangle a woman and a police dog responding to a domestic violence call. Thirty-four-year-old Michael R. Gillespie, of Tacoma, Wash., is being held in the Ada County Jail and facing numerous charges stemming from Monday's confrontation. Police accuse Gillespie of attempting to strangle a woman, then fleeing the ...

CROSS CITY, Fla. - A Florida sheriff says one of his deputies was killed in a shootout with a man suspected of killing two people and wounding two others. Dixie County Sheriff Dewey Hatcher says 33-year-old Capt. Chad Reed died at a hospital Thursday. Hernando County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Donna Black says the suspect is 55-year-old John Kalisz. The Gainesville Sun ...

WEST HAVEN, CT - It's often said if a dog bites a man it's not news, but if a man bites a dog, you've got a story. Well, here is that story. West Haven, Conn., Officer Scott Bloom was on patrol with his K-9, Onyx, near the Rite Aid on Elm Street early Thursday morning, when he noticed Roderick Lewis walking ...

SEATTLE — Authorities in Washington state say they’re outraged that a former pilot who’s already admitted molesting young boys is being allowed to watch videos he made of the abuse while he sits in jail awaiting trial. “The whole thing is just dirty,” said Pierce County Sheriff’s Detective Ed Troyer on Wednesday. “Now that victims know he’s going to be watching ...

GRUNDY, Va. -- Multiple people were shot and killed Sunday in southwestern Virginia and at least one deputy was wounded, state police said. The deputy was shot near Grundy in Buchanan County, said state police spokeswoman Corinne Geller who said she was trying to confirm how many were killed and whether any were police officers. Buchanan County emergency dispatchers told WVVA-TV ...

SEATTLE, WA - A federal appeals court on Tuesday tossed out Washington's law banning incarcerated felons from voting, finding the state's criminal-justice system is "infected" with racial discrimination. The surprising ruling, by a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle, said the law violates the 1965 Voting Rights Act by disenfranchising minority voters. [widget:news__politics] The decision is ...

WASHINGTON, DC - An on-duty D.C. police officer charged with murder in a street robbery gone wrong initially told supervisors that he was at police headquarters writing search warrants the night of the Dec. 1 shooting, a homicide detective told a D.C. Superior Court judge Tuesday. But, the detective testified, Officer Reginald Jones changed his story after a suspect in the ...

ARLINGTON — The woman accused of running into a Fort Worth motorcycle Tuesday when she became annoyed with the traffic from slain police officer Jillian Smith's funeral procession has been identified as Lorraine P. Levine, an Arlington police spokeswoman said on Wednesday. Levine, 67, originally was identified as Lorraine Rogson, but that was an alias, said Tiara Ellis Richard, Arlington police ...

ST. PETERSBURG — The largest manhunt in city history ended not with a man, but with a boy. Hundreds of heavily-armed police officers flooded the streets after Officer David S. Crawford was shot and killed that Feb. 21 night. They searched by land and air, knocking on doors, scouring drainage ditches, chasing tips. Their work led to a lanky teenager, 16-year-old ...

CHICAGO - Chicago police late Monday shot and wounded a 13-year-old boy who one official said was holding a BB gun, the second police-involved shooting of the night. No officers were injured in the roughly 11 p.m. shooting in the 1000 block of North Kedvale Avenue in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side, authorities said. His parents identified ...

ESCAMBIA COUNTY, FL - An Escambia County deputy is fighting for his life after a close-range gunfight with a Mississippi man in the living room of a suburban Pensacola home. Deputy Jeremy Cassady underwent surgery Friday afternoon and again Friday night at Sacred Heart Hospital. He was in critical condition this afternoon in the hospital's Intensive Care Unit. Two of his ...

PORT ALLEN, LA — A drunken driving suspect shot a Louisiana state trooper early Wednesday, grazing the trooper's head, and was preparing to shoot the downed trooper again when West Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputies shot him, state police said. The man was standing over the trooper, revolver in hand, when deputies arrived, said Col. Mike Edmonson, commander of Louisiana State ...

DAYTON, OH - The grandparents of a 9-year-old Ohio girl have been charged with regularly holding her captive in a bathroom since she was three. Brian Hart, 50, and his wife Rivae, 49, are accused of locking the girl up for extended periods after she displayed 'abnormal behaviour' as a toddler. According to police the girl was only allowed out to ...

MIRAMAR — Two hearing-impaired men are recovering from stab wounds they suffered when a patron of a Hallandale Beach bar apparently mistook their sign language for gang signs. Neither Alfred Stewart nor the other man, whose name could not be confirmed, could be reached for comment on Tuesday, four days after the attack at Ocean's Eleven Lounge. But Stewart's mother, Brenda ...

Police ready to head out into the woods of Appomattox County, Va. during a manhunt on Tuesday Jan. 19, 2010. Police searched early Wednesday for a gunman they believe killed eight people found at a nearby home and forced down a police helicopter by shooting its fuel tank. (AP Photo/The News & Advance, Nick Adams) Next Photo >>>[page] State Police Officer ...