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• Oklahoma Deputy to Donate Kidney to a Stranger

  12-10-2015 23:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dep. Paul Tucker with the Rogers County (OK) Sheriff's Office is donating one of his kidneys to someone he had never met, and it all began with a Facebook post, reports KRMG Radio.Tucker responded to a Facebook post by a friend of his, asking for help for a man who needed a kidney but has a rare blood type. He messaged the friend, filled out an application, did a test, and found out he was a perfect match."She said, 'You guys are a six-for-six match,'" he said. "I didn't find this out until late
  
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• Fallen California Officer's Headstone Defaced

  12-10-2015 23:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  Officers are searching for a person who defaced a fallen Sacramento, CA, officer's headstone at a Colfax cemetery, reports KCRA.Deputies received a report of vandalism about 7:40 p.m. Thursday at the grave of Officer William Bean at the Colfax Cemetery. Someone noticed the vandalism while visiting family at the cemetery.At Bean's grave site, two monumental badges were forcibly removed from his headstone – and a note was left behind."It's an ongoing investigation at this time, so I can't di
  
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• Phoenix Police Rethinking Traditional Foot Pursuits

  12-10-2015 23:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In January 2014, Phoenix police asked ASU researchers to develop a plan for data collection on officer-involved shootings, to help identify patterns in what can be polarizing events for a community.The Phoenix Police Department has now joined a number of agencies around the country that are considering or have already penned a policy dictating how officers should react when faced with a fleeing suspect. The Phoenix department, like other Valley agencies, currently has no written guidelines of th
  
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• Video: Memphis Officer Killed at Home, Charges Filed

  12-10-2015 21:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Memphis Officer Killed at Home, Charges FiledA suspect was charged Monday morning in connection with the shooting death of an off-duty Memphis officer a day earlier, reports Fox News.Lorenzo Clark, 36, was charged with felony possession of a firearm in connection with Officer Terence Olridge's death. The men are neighbors in Cordova, a major retail center just east of Memphis.Police said Olridge was on his way to work Sunday at about 1 p.m. when he had an encounter with Clark outside his
  
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• Detroit Woman's Halloween Decoration Prompts Repeated Police Visits

  12-10-2015 21:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Larethia Haddon said Detroit police showed up to her home Tuesday, the first day she placed a dummy face down in her front yard as a Halloween decoration. Officer Jennifer Moreno told The Detroit News that officers came back to her house on Wednesday and Thursday, reports Fox News.By Friday the calls about what concerned citizens thought was a dead body finally ceased. "Just a dummy," said Officer Shanelle Williams.Haddon said she puts the dummy face down in a different location of her yard ever
  
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• Cop Block Blogger Sentenced to Prison for Threats Against Police

  12-10-2015 20:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  A former Texoma man has been sentenced to Federal prison in Las Vegas after making death threats to FBI agents and officers in Carter County, OK, and Colorado Springs, CO, on his anti-police Facebook page known as "Cop Block," reports KTEN.Dustin McCaskill, 33, was sentenced to 12 months in prison Thursday with three years of supervised release which will include restricted computer access, regular drug tests, and mental health evaluations.He was arrested in Las Vegas by the FBI in January and p
  
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• Man Found Guilty in Murder of Montana Deputy

  12-10-2015 19:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Adam Sanchez, Jr., has been found guilty of killing Cascade County (MT) Sheriff's Deputy Joseph Dunn by running him over during a high-speed car chase in August 2014, reports KRTV.The Billings jury returned the guilty verdict on Wednesday after more than two weeks of testimony. Sanchez was charged with five felonies and was found guilty of deliberate homicide, criminal endangerment, assault with a weapon, negligent criminal endangerment, and assault on a peace officer.Sentencing will occur in Ca
  
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