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• Video: Police Respond to Report of Fight at Public Pool — Now Officers Are ... - TheBlaze.com

  16-06-2015 23:59 via theblaze.com
  
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  Police in Fairfield, Ohio, are the latest to face allegations of excessive force after officers responded to a report of a fight at a public pool. One of the women arrested in the incident is also alleging that race may have played a factor in how ...
  Family accuses Fairfield police of brutality in pool fightHamilton Journal News (subscription)
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• Police Tout Success in Unique Fight Against Drug Epidemic - ABC News

  16-06-2015 23:54 via abcnews.go.com
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  Police Tout Success in Unique Fight Against Drug Epidemic
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  A police chief in a New England town combating its drug epidemic through a unique program that allows drug users to turn over their drugs and get immediate treatment said Tuesday that there's been a strong early response. Gloucester Police Chief ...
  Nonprofit launched to help police departments save addict's livesWCVB Bostonall 31 news articles »
  
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• Police capture escaped inmate being transported to Jackson Co. correctional ... - fox4kc.com

  16-06-2015 23:13 via fox4kc.com
  
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  Police capture escaped inmate being transported to Jackson Co. correctional ...
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  KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Independence police say a man who escaped from police custody earlier Tuesday was apprehended around 4 p.m.. The person who escaped from police custody in KC, MO has been apprehended. KCPD located him in downtown KC.
  
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• Off-Duty New Jersey Police Officer Charged With Murdering Ex-Wife in Front of ... - NBC New York

  16-06-2015 23:12 via nbcnewyork.com
  
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  Off-Duty New Jersey Police Officer Charged With Murdering Ex-Wife in Front of ...
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  A veteran off-duty police officer allegedly chased his ex-wife in a vehicle to a Jersey Shore intersection where she crashed Tuesday, then walked up to her car and fired several gunshots, striking her multiple times and killing her as their 7-year-old ...
  
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• North Miami police conduct safe street sweep - Local 10

  16-06-2015 23:03 via local10.com
  
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  North Miami police conduct safe street sweep
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  Police in North Miami conducted a crime sweep across the city on Tuesday, trying to get fake guns that look real out of kids' hands and targeting those involved in everything from petty crimes to repeat offenders. During the sweep, police focused on ...and more »
  
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• Police Offer to Keep an Eye on Your Home While You're Away - wnep.com

  16-06-2015 22:21 via wnep.com
  
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  Police Offer to Keep an Eye on Your Home While You're Away
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  11406486_999594166719659_6996218832503695026_o WHITE HAVEN — It's no secret that summertime is the biggest vacation season of the year, but what you should try to keep secret is when you're taking that vacation. “During the summertime you get ...
  
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• Husbands of UK women feared to be in Syria plead for them to come home - CNN

  16-06-2015 21:36 via cnn.com
  
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  Husbands of UK women feared to be in Syria plead for them to come home
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  Bradford, England (CNN) The husbands of British sisters who have gone missing with their children pleaded tearfully Tuesday for their families to come home amid fears they have headed to Syria, which is ravaged by terrorism and war. "You know, Mariya ...
  UK police seek 3 sisters, 9 kids feared traveling to SyriaU.S. News & World Report
  Police 'knew of risk Bradford women would follow brother to Syria'The
  
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• Neptune police officer shot estranged wife; taken into custody - NJ.com

  16-06-2015 20:37 via nj.com
  
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  Neptune police officer shot estranged wife; taken into custody
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  UPDATE: Wife shot by Neptune police officer dies · ASBURY PARK — An off-duty Neptune Township police officer was arrested as the apparent shooter in a confrontation with his estranged wife on an Asbury Park street this morning, law enforcement ...
  Prosecutors: Off-duty police officer with young child in car chases, fatally ...Fox News
  Officials: Neptune police sergeant shot, killed ex-wifeNews 12 New Jersey
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• Group calls for Orlando police chief to resign over kicking video - CNN

  16-06-2015 19:34 via cnn.com
  
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  Group calls for Orlando police chief to resign over kicking video
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  (CNN) A Florida civil rights group is demanding the resignation of Orlando Chief of Police John Mina after a video was released two weeks ago showing a police officer kicking Noel Carter, who was sitting on a sidewalk. The president of the local ...
  Group wants Orlando police chief to resignKSPRall 20 news articles »
  
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• Police Search for Assailant in 4 Attacks on Asian Women - New York Times

  16-06-2015 19:13 via nytimes.com
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  Police Search for Assailant in 4 Attacks on Asian Women
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  The police are searching for a man in connection with four attacks on Asian women in Manhattan. In each case, the victim was struck with a blunt object carried in a bag, according to the police. Investigators are treating the crimes as bias attacks ...
  Man Targeting Asian Women Attacks Fourth Victim, Police SayDNAinfoall 123 news articles »
  
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• 6 dead, 7 injured in balcony collapse in California, police say - Fox News

  16-06-2015 19:11 via foxnews.com
  
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  6 dead, 7 injured in balcony collapse in California, police say
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  A balcony collapsed Tuesday at an apartment building in Berkeley, Calif., killing at least six Irish students and leaving seven others injured, authorities said. Police received a call about the incident shortly before 1 a.m. local time Tuesday, and ...
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  Berkeley balcony collapse: Police were called to birthday party an hour before ...Mirror.co.ukal
  
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• Parole officer shoots at charging pitbull, Linden police say - NJ.com

  16-06-2015 18:42 via nj.com
  
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  Parole officer shoots at charging pitbull, Linden police say
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  LINDEN — Police responded to reports of gunshots fired on Clinton Street just after 7 a.m today and found a state parole officer who said she fired at pitbull that was about to attack her. At 7:12 a.m. officers received reports of shots fired on the ...and more »
  
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• City places Beloit police chief, deputy chief on administrative leave - Gazettextra

  16-06-2015 18:08 via gazettextra.com
  
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  City places Beloit police chief, deputy chief on administrative leave
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  BELOIT--The city of Beloit has placed Police Chief Norm Jacobs and Deputy Chief Tom Dunkin on administrative leave effective immediately following a department review commissioned by the Beloit City Council, according to a news release from the city ...
  Beloit puts police chief, deputy chief on leave amid internal investigationMilwaukee Journal Sentinel
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• Funeral Today for Waterbury Deputy Police Chief Christopher Corbett - NBC Connecticut

  16-06-2015 16:49 via nbcconnecticut.com
  
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  Funeral Today for Waterbury Deputy Police Chief Christopher Corbett
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  Waterbury Deputy Police Chief Christopher Corbett is being laid to rest on Tuesday morning and hundreds of police officers are paying their final respects. Corbett, 40, died on Thursday morning and the medical examiner determined his death was a suicide.and more »
  
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• Video: Georgia Sheriff Killed in Vehicle Pursuit

  16-06-2015 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A vehicle pursuit in Montgomery County, Ga., ended in tragedy early Tuesday morning when Sheriff Ladson O'Connor crashed his patrol car into a tree after he lost control of his car.
  
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• Video: 9-Year-Old Louisiana Boy Hands Out "Police Lives Matter" Envelopes to Officers

  16-06-2015 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Always, always, his first Halloween costume, he was three. He wanted to be a police officer,” said Angelique Witsell.
  
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• South Carolina Town Reestablishes Police Department After 10 Years of Sheriff Patrol

  16-06-2015 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mayor Frank Crenshaw told Fox Carolina the reestablished police department will cost around $330,000. He said the department will have two officers and a chief.
  
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• Nashville Lieutenant Resigns Under Fire After Rescuing Dogs on Duty

  16-06-2015 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Field training officer Ryan Russell reported from the scene he could see an empty house full of dogs. There was an open window and police entered to search for the boy, but found dogs instead.
  
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• Federal Monitor Wants Seattle Officers to Wear Body Cameras

  16-06-2015 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The time for permanent use of on-officer cameras by all SPD officers is now,” the monitor, Merrick Bobb, writes in the fifth semiannual report since the city entered into a 2012 consent decree with the U.S. Justice Department to curtail excessive force and biased policing.
  
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• Baltimore Prosecutors Request Protective Order Blocking Release of Evidence in Freddie Gray Case

  16-06-2015 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby has asked for a protective order that would bar attorneys for six police officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray from publicly sharing Gray's autopsy and other evidence in the case.
  
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• Wounded man arrives at Hollywood Police Department, says he killed family - Local 10

  16-06-2015 15:36 via local10.com
  
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  Wounded man arrives at Hollywood Police Department, says he killed family
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  BREAKING NEWS OFF THE TOP AT NOON AN IMAGINE SHOWS UP AT THE HOLLYWOOD POLICE STATION CLAIMING HE KILLED HIS FAMILY. THIS HAPPENED WHEREIN THE LAST COUPLE OF HOURS. ERIC YUTZY IS JOINING US LIVE NOW ...
  No truth to man's claim that he harmed his family, Hollywood police saySun Sentinel
  Police: Stabbed man tells Hollywood Police he 'harmed his family'7Online WSVN-TVall 8 news articles&nbs
  
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• Man shot by police was 'Lost Boy' from Sudan - USA TODAY

  16-06-2015 06:25 via usatoday.com
  
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  Man shot by police was 'Lost Boy' from Sudan
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  LOUISVILLE — Fleeing violence and civil war in Sudan, Deng Manyoun came to the USA with the so-called "Lost Boys of Sudan," a group of orphaned and displaced ethnic youths, according to Louisville Sudanese community leaders and caseworkers.
  Video shows Kentucky police officer killing flagpole-wielding manWashington Post
  Police release video of shooting amid criticismThe Courier-Journal
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