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Family of Calif. woman shot by Border Patrol sues

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:01:16 -0400

SAN DIEGO - The family of a San Diego County woman is suing the U.S. Government and the Border Patrol agent who shot her after she hit him with her car.

Inslee signs undercover license law

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:21:22 -0400

OLYMPIA, Washington - Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday signed into law a measure giving legislative approval to a state program that has already issued hundreds of fake driver's licenses and license plates to law enforcement and government agencies.

2 FBI agents who died remembered for valor

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:00:04 -0400

NORFOLK, Virginia - FBI Director Robert Mueller on Tuesday praised two agents who died while training off the Virginia Beach coast last weekend for their "true and unerring valor."

Police defend officer who shot NY college student

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:03:10 -0400

MINEOLA, New York - The president of a New York police union defended an officer who accidentally killed a Hofstra University student during a standoff with an armed intruder, saying Tuesday the only person responsible for the woman's death was the gunman who held her hostage.

Sheriff's officials find 3 dead bodies in woods

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:14:13 -0400

HEPHZIBAH, Georgia - Authorities in Richmond County say three bodies have been recovered in a wooded area in Hephzibah.

Albuquerque police oversight system reform eyed

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:30:03 -0400

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico - Albuquerque will hold town hall meetings on overhauling its police oversight system as New Mexico's largest city faces a federal investigation over police excessive force cases.

Lawyer: Colorado parolee made woman turn over gun

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:29:53 -0400

CENTENNIAL, Colorado - The woman accused of providing the gun used to kill Colorado's prisons chief was forced by the "wicked" parolee Evan Ebel to turn over the weapon, her attorney said Tuesday.

NYC detective charged with computer hacking

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:02:19 -0400

NEW YORK - A New York City police detective has been charged with hacking into the email accounts of fellow officers.

Civil rights suit filed in Miami Beach shooting

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:09:01 -0400

MIAMI - The family of a 22-year-old man killed in a barrage of police gunfire during a hip-hop Urban Beach Week festival in 2011 filed a civil rights and negligence lawsuit Tuesday seeking damages for his death and hoping to figure out what happened.

Elbert County sheriff placing officers in schools

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:22:17 -0400

DENVER - Elbert County Sheriff Shayne Heap, who has fought anti-gun legislation in the state, plans to put armed reserve officers in some county schools for the upcoming school year.

2nd day of riots in Stockholm suburb shakes Sweden

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:13:54 -0400

HUSBY, Sweden - Some 200 youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze in a largely immigrant suburb of Stockholm on Tuesday, the second day of rioting triggered by the fatal police shooting of a man wielding a knife.

Sheriff investigating horse strangulation death

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:26:16 -0400

STEVENSVILLE, Montana - The Ravalli County sheriff's office is investigating after a horse was strangled to death in its corral northeast of Stevensville over the weekend.

Miami-Dade schools settle sex harass lawsuits

Tue, 21 May 2013 03:06:08 -0400

MIAMI - Two female police officers with the Miami-Dade County school system have settled lawsuits accusing the former police chief of sexually harassing them.

Wash. man convicted in Ore. motel shooting case

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:47:13 -0400

ASTORIA, Oregon - Jurors on Monday convicted a Washington state man of attempted aggravated murder and related counts stemming from a February 2012 encounter with police at an Astoria motel and his subsequent time in a county jail.

Neb. Patrol: Vandalism in Whiteclay 'concerning'

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:20:25 -0400

LINCOLN, Nebraska - State law enforcement officers were helping patrol a small Nebraska town Monday following the vandalism of two beer trucks earlier this month near a South Dakota Indian reservation where alcohol is banned.

Omaha task force probes 4 slayings 5 years apart

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:25:24 -0400

OMAHA, Nebraska - A federal, state and local task force is investigating the possibility that the killings of a Creighton University professor and his wife may be linked to the unsolved 2008 stabbing deaths of an 11-year-old boy and his family housekeeper, Omaha police announced Monday.

5 killed in crash in Ill.; van coming from Calif.

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:07:24 -0400

ST. LOUIS - A van carrying 11 men returning from a California religious gathering careened off of a southern Illinois freeway and overturned several times Monday, killing five of them and sending six others to hospitals, authorities said.

Police officer sentenced for misconduct

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:09:40 -0400

BALTIMORE - A former Baltimore City police officer will serve three years probation for providing false information in order to secure a search and seizure warrant

Driver who hit officer with car shot, killed

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:59:28 -0400

NORFOLK, Virginia - Norfolk police have shot and killed a man who struck an officer with his car.

Pakistan's presumptive PM calls for Taliban talks

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:16:03 -0400

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's presumptive prime minister called for peace talks with Taliban militants at war with the government Monday, potentially charting a course that could put him at odds with the country's powerful army.

Harford County deputy pleads guilty to bribery

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:29:40 -0400

BEL AIR, Maryland - A Harford County Sheriff's Office deputy has resigned after pleading guilty to accepting payments in exchange for providing unauthorized access to police databases.

Law enforcement backs NC attorney general on SBI

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:56:11 -0400

RALEIGH, North Carolina - North Carolina's Democratic attorney general is opposing a state Senate budget provision that moves much of an investigative unit from his department to one headed by an appointee of Republican Gov. Pat McCrory.

Cartel towns pose challenge for immigration reform

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:38:30 -0400

MATAMOROS, Mexico - Just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas, stands a dormitory-style shelter filled with people recently deported from the U.S. and other migrants waiting to cross the border.

New Peru police chief: Gender no factor in job

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:35:41 -0400

PERU, Indiana - Peru Police Chief Jonie Kennedy said as a kid she loved baseball, and the fact that it was a sport for boys didn't stop her from playing it.

Texas deputy killed in wreck, suspect detained

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:59:36 -0400

HOUSTON - An off-duty Harris County sheriff's deputy has been killed in a traffic accident that's led to another driver charged with intoxication manslaughter.