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• Body of Murdered Woman Hanging from Fence Mistaken for Halloween Decoration

  16-10-2015 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An Ohio woman whose body was found hanging from a fence in what witnesses thought was a grisly Halloween prank was identified Wednesday and her alleged killer arrested, according to local media reports.Fencing contractors discovered a woman's body hanging by the sleeve from a fence on a residential street in Chillicothe, and initially thought the body was a Halloween decoration. Items of clothing belonging to the victim were found yards away, the Dayton Daily News reported.At a news conference W
  
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• Hardees Exec Apologizes to Minnesota Officer Who was Refused Service

  16-10-2015 23:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Hardee's restaurant executive has issued an apology after employees at a Milaca, MN, Hardee's refused service to a woman because she is a police officer.Jackie Minks, an officer with the Milaca Police Department, was allegedly denied service Tuesday at the restaurant. Minks posted on Facebook that "a cook ... refused to make food for me today because she doesn't like cops."The post continues: "When I talked to the manager about it she dismissed it as 'silly' and said she wasn't going to do any
  
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• Phalanx Defense Systems Develops "Iron Man" Armor

  16-10-2015 21:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Phalanx Defense Systems, LLC, a leader in the design, development and manufacturing of body armor and protective systems has announced its completion of an armor system called the Rhino Adaptable Armor System (Rhino) that it says is similar to an Iron Man suit."The Rhino is an articulated armor survivability system that provides the wearer reduced trauma associated to impacts from various handgun, shotgun, and rifle threats." Phalanx CEO James Coats says. "Being articulated and also incorporatin
  
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• Case Study: A Body in New Brunswick

  16-10-2015 21:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  David Tanasichuk, a resident of the small Canadian city of Miramichi, New Brunswick, called the police station in the midst of a blizzard in January 2003 to report his wife, Maria, missing.Tanasichuk told the dispatcher that he and Maria had been having marital problems, and decided to spend some time apart. She had gone to a nearby city to stay with a friend, saying she would be in touch with his family and they would know how to reach her. Two weeks had passed, he hadn't heard from her, and he
  
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• Two-Officer Cars: The Buddy System

  16-10-2015 20:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  His patrol car needed fuel. So Dep. Darren Goforth of the Harris County (Texas) Sheriff's Department did what he had done many other times during his law enforcement career. He selected a well-lit gas-and-go in what he considered a safe area of his jurisdiction and pulled up to the pump. But around 8:30 p.m. on the night of Friday Aug. 28, the Chevron on the corner of West and Telge road in a middle-class suburb northwest of Houston was anything but "safe."While Goforth pumped gas into his
  
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• Michigan State Police Upgrades Deepwater Capabilities with Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

  16-10-2015 18:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  OceanServer Technology recently delivered an Iver3-580 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to the Michigan State Police Underwater Recovery Unit. The AUV system operates at depths to 200 meters and includes EdgeTech’s 2205 high-resolution side scan sonar.OceanServer has sold more than a dozen systems to customers in the Great Lakes Region, including four systems to the University of Michigan and one Iver3 system shipped to Michigan Tech University in 2013.The Michigan State Police Underwat
  
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• Chicago Police Find $200K Worth of Drugs at Traffic Stop

  16-10-2015 18:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Chicago police found more than $200,000 worth of heroin, cocaine, and marijuana after a traffic stop in the South Loop, police said.Officers saw Louis Roy, 41, using a cellphone while stopped at a red light near the 1200 block of South Clinton Street at about 5:15 p.m. Thursday, police said.They pulled him over and smelled marijuana when he rolled down his window, the Chicago Tribune reports. He couldn’t produce a driver's license and was arrested, police said.The officers searched the veh
  
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• 2 San Francisco Officers Injured, Suspect Killed in Gun Grab Incident

  16-10-2015 18:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  A San Francisco police sergeant shot and killed a male suspect who allegedly tried to grab a gun from another sergeant in the mid-Market area early Thursday afternoon, Police Chief Greg Suhr has confirmed.The incident unfolded just after 12 p.m. when two sergeants driving south on Eighth Street were flagged down by a construction worker at the southeast corner of Eighth and Market streets, who reported a man was throwing bottles near a building site, Suhr said.The sergeants exited
  
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