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• Moody's Cuts Ferguson Credit Rating to 'Junk' Status

  18-09-2015 23:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  Moody's Investors Service cut the credit rating of Ferguson, Mo., to "junk" status on Thursday, citing the city's sharply deteriorating finances, reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.The rating agency said the seven-notch downgrade of Ferguson's general obligation rating — to Ba1 from Aa3 — was due to a "severe and rapid" financial deterioration that could lead to insolvency by the end of its fiscal 2017."Key drivers of this precipitous drop are declining key revenues, unbudgeted expe
  
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• Vermont Trooper Collapses During Training, Dies At Hospital

  18-09-2015 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Vermont State Trooper Kyle D. Young, 28, who was assigned to the New Haven barracks, has been identified as the police officer who died Thursday after experiencing a medical incident during training at a Jericho firing range, reports the Burlington Free Press.Young, of Monkton, joined the Vermont State Police in January 2014.The cause of his death has yet to be disclosed.Young collapsed at about 2 p.m. Thursday while trying out for the state police tactical team at the Ethan Allen Firing Range i
  
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• New York Sergeant Dies Searching for Pot Growing Operation

  18-09-2015 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Well-respected Crawford (N.Y.) Police Department Sgt. Eric Meier died Thursday afternoon after suffering a medical emergency on the job, state police said, reports the Times Herald-Record.Meier, 51, and a fellow Crawford officer were investigating a tip that someone was growing marijuana back in a section of fields and woods on old farmland accessible only by a dirt road when he fell ill, said State Police Senior Investigator Patrick Beyea.Meier's partner called 911, but he was pronounced dead a
  
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• Firing Recommended for Chicago Officer's Off-Duty Shooting

  18-09-2015 00:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The city agency that investigates the most serious allegations against Chicago police officers has recommended that a detective be fired for the fatal off-duty shooting of a 22-year-old woman, reports the Chicago Tribune.The decision from the Independent Police Review Authority comes almost five months after the detective was acquitted in Cook County criminal court on involuntary manslaughter charges in the killing of Rekia Boyd. Boyd was shot and killed in an alleyway when the detective fired o
  
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