TRUMANN, Ark. -- The police chief of a northeast Arkansas town where an officer was fatally shot this week during a traffic stop told The Associated Press that the same man suspected in that shooting also attacked him more than seven years ago. Tony Rusher, now the Trumann police chief, said in an interview Thursday that he was a patrolman in ...

MEADVILLE, PA - A jail inmate who was upset about an unsharpened pencil attacked a guard by "pile-driving" him onto his head and will be charged with criminal homicide, a district attorney said. Crawford County District Attorney Francis Schultz told The Associated Press that Gregory G. Brown, 24, will be arraigned on the charge Tuesday afternoon. Brown was in the county ...

GREEKTOWN - A New York man accused of hitting an on-duty police officer with his car this month is now facing a murder charge. Saddam Hussein Mohsin, 30, of Buffalo is being charged with first-degree murder in the death of Officer Charles Armour, 40, who died June 11, a week after being hit while on foot patrol in Greektown, according to ...

GARLAND, TX - Kenneth Mosley, a 51-year-old Mesquite man who killed a Garland police officer in 1997, is scheduled to be the first person executed in Texas this year. Also Online [widget:news__become_a_cop] [widget366] The state Department of Criminal Justice said Monday that Mosley will be executed Thursday for the capital murder of Officer Michael "David" Moore. Mosley shot the 32-year-old officer ...

TAMPA, Fla. — A convicted felon accused of killing two Tampa police officers during a traffic stop surrendered after detectives spent more than a day negotiating with an associate of the man, police said Saturday. Dontae Rashawn Morris, 24, turned himself in at a police station about 10:30 p.m. Friday, police said. He was charged with two counts of first-degree murder ...

GREELEY, CO — Samuel Kent Brownlee fastidiously picked the peas out of his chicken potpie, harassed but protected his little brother, and had blushed and stammered when asked about his soon-to-be-wife, Heather. But what nearly 3,500 people heard most about the 43-year-old Brownlee at his memorial service Monday was that he wanted desperately to be a cop. "Sam was all about ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An Ohio man's resentment of authority and run-ins with the law was enough for a local sheriff to warn that he could be dangerous if confronted by law enforcement. Years later, the sheriff appears right: The man and his teenage son are suspected of fatally shooting two Arkansas police officers during a traffic stop before they died ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Oklahoma police officer who was punched in the nose during a bar fight died after he hit the floor, and an Arkansas man likely faces a first-degree murder charge. Police say 25-year-old Elzie Cain of Ardmore, Okla., got into a fight with 26-year-old Aaron Threlkeld of Sheridan at about 4 a.m. Sunday at the Electric ...

RIPLEY, Miss. (AP) A Tippah County sheriff's deputy has been shot and killed and a suspect is in custody. Sheriff's investigator Jason Willis says Deputy Dewayne Crenshaw was fatally wounded just after 4 a.m. Friday after responding to a disturbance call. Willis identified the suspect as 26-year-old Franklin Fitzpatrick. Jon Kalahar, spokesman of the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, says Mississippi ...

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. -- An elderly driver says he blacked out shortly before his vehicle struck and killed a sheriff's sergeant on Sunday. Authorities say the sports utility vehicle driven by 79-year-old Leo John Saunders plowed through a 7-11 parking lot where Polk County Sheriff's Sgt. Wesley Whitmore was making a traffic stop. The SUV hit the patrol car, which then ...

An NYPD cop on his way home from work was killed Monday when his car was rammed by a boozed-up Brooklyn man driving the wrong way, authorities said. Officer Andre Menzies - a father of five - was driving east on the Northern State Parkway in Dix Hills, L.I., about 12:05 a.m. when he was hit head-on by Michael Bowen's Ford ...

Emily Nollmeyer of Tacoma doesn’t remember her father’s funeral. She was 4 years old when Tacoma police officer Craig Nollmeyer was shot to death Jan. 24, 1985, on a domestic violence call in the North End. A fight between a man and his wife escalated into gunfire. The man killed both his wife and Nollmeyer, who was walking down an alley ...

LIMON, CO — Authorities on Thursday identified the man responsible for the first officer killing in the history of the Limon Police Department as a 52-year-old Tennessee sex offender who had vowed not to be taken alive. Officer Jay Sheridan, 27, was shot and killed Wednesday evening as he tried to arrest Dennis Mark Hasty. Hasty, who later killed himself, had ...

Pennsylvania state police believe a man fatally ambushed a state trooper responding to a domestic dispute, and also killed his wife before turning the gun on himself, investigators said Wednesday. Lt. Col. Lenny Bandy said a man police couldn't see yelled from a window as two troopers responded to a dispute at the home of Michael J. Smith, 44, shortly after ...

TYLER, Texas — An East Texas deputy has died of head injuries suffered when he was attacked by an injured cow while he directed traffic around the half-ton animal. Smith County Sheriff J.B. Smith says Deputy Robert Britton of Tyler died Monday at East Texas Medical Center in Tyler, where he'd been since the incident early Thursday near Bullard, 95 miles ...

DALLAS - A jury on Monday sentenced Charles Payne to life in prison for the murder of Dallas police Senior Cpl. Norm Smith in January 2009. After State District Judge Rick Magnis read the jury’s verdict, Smith’s mother, Carolyn Long, smiled slightly and reached over and briefly clasped the hand of Dallas police Sr. Cpl. Teena Schultz. Schultz is a member ...

TRENTON — People who intentionally kill police dogs or dogs involved in search and rescue operations may soon face stiffer penalties in New Jersey. The Assembly is set to consider legislation this week that would mandate minimum five-year prison terms — with no chance of parole — for such offenders, who would also face fines of up to $15,000. The current ...

SAN DIEGO -- A suspect found dead in his apartment after the killing of a San Diego police officer died by suicide, and a woman found next to him died by homicide, authorities said after an autopsy Saturday. Holim Lee, 30, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office said in a statement ...

TAMPA — Four grieving families filled a courtroom Thursday, together for the first time to face the same murder suspect, Dontae Morris. The wives of two slain Tampa police officers heard prosecutors announce the intent to seek the harshest punishment: death. And the frustrated families of two civilians learned that for their loved ones, the state would stop at life in ...

DETROIT - In a courtroom wracked by sobs, with uniformed officers wall-to-wall, Jason Gibson was sentenced to life in prison without parole Thursday for the fatal shooting of Detroit Police Officer Brian Huff a year ago. "I don't know why you had to take my dad away," 11-year-old Blair Huff said as Gibson sat hunched over at the defense table not ...