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• Video: More LE Officials Urging Licensed Owners to Carry Guns

  10-12-2015 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: More LE Officials Urging Licensed Owners to Carry Guns A Texas police chief who warns President Barack Obama in a social media video that trying to disarm Americans would "cause a revolution in this country" is the latest law enforcement official to urge citizens to arm themselves in the wake of mass shootings, reports the Associated Press.Randy Kennedy, longtime chief in the small East Texas town of Hughes Springs, about 120 miles east of Dallas, says in the video posted this week on his
  
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• Video: Maryland Officer Hit by Suspected Drunk Driver Dies at 24

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  VIDEO: Maryland Officer Hit by Suspected Drunk Driver Dies at 24A Montgomery County, MD, police officer who was hit by an alleged drunk driver while working a DUI task force has died, according to police. He was 24-years-old, reports WUSA.Officer Noah Leotta had a passion for trying to get drunk drivers off the road. He recently volunteered for the holiday DUI task force, and was working that detail the night of Dec. 3 when he stopped a car along Rockville Pike in Rockville. After he'd gotten ou
  
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• Armed Man Arrested at Arkansas State University

  10-12-2015 22:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  An armed man drove onto Arkansas State University on Thursday, sparking a campus lockdown before police took him into custody without any shots fired, a university spokesman said, reports the Associated Press.University spokesman Bill Smith said the man was taken into custody about an hour after the incident began. The campus remained on lockdown as police inspected the man’s truck, he said.The school sent an alert early Thursday afternoon urging the evacuation of the student union followi
  
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• Video: California Police Chief Buys Homeless Family a Car

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  VIDEO: California Police Chief Buys Homeless Family a CarA down-on-their-luck family will have a new car this holiday season thanks to the generosity of the head of the Marysville Police Department in Northern California.Chief Aaron Easton first learned that the struggling and homeless Conn family needed a vehicle through social media, KTLA sister station KTXL reported.Jessica Conn had posted about her family's misfortune recently on Facebook, writing that the transmission of their dying Saturn
  
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• Oklahoma City Police Recruit's Widow to Receive Benefits

  10-12-2015 20:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The federal government has reversed course and agreed to pay first-responder benefits for the widow and children of Kelley Chase, the Oklahoma City police recruit who died after a training accident, reports the Oklahoman.With the support of Oklahoma City's Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 123, Elke Meeus had appealed an earlier denial of the benefit, on behalf of herself and the couple's two young children."She cried" when she received word Thursday that her appeal had been granted, said Jim Moor
  
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• Video: Planned Parenthood Attack Suspect Says 'I Am Guilty'

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  VIDEO: Planned Parenthood Attack Suspect Says 'I Am Guilty'Robert Lewis Dear, the suspect in the Nov. 27 attack at Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs, yelled in court on Wednesday that he is guilty, reports CBS Denver."I am guilty; there will be no trial. I am a warrior for the babies," he said in an outburst in El Paso County District Court first reported by CBS4 reporter Rick Sallinger.The hearing on Wednesday was scheduled to be a formal filing of the 179 charges against Dear.Three people
  
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• FLIR and DJI Announce Collaboration for Commercial Drones with Thermal Imaging

  10-12-2015 20:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FLIR Systems, Inc. today announced a new technology collaboration with established drone industry company DJI Innovations. Under the strategic arrangement, the companies also announced plans to develop their first joint product, the DJI Zenmuse XT stabilized camera featuring FLIR's thermal imaging technology for DJI's Inspire 1 and Matrice aerial platforms.Combining DJI's Zenmuse stabilized micro-gimbal technology, which has become a common platform for demanding aerial cinematography, with FLIR
  
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• Video: South Carolina Deputy Shot in Head, Suspect Killed

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  VIDEO: South Carolina Deputy Shot in Head, Suspect KilledGreenville County, SC, Sheriff Steve Loftis said a deputy is expected to be OK after being shot in the head early Thursday morning while responding to a possible robbery at an apartment complex on Boling Road Extension in Taylors, reports WALB.Loftis said the 911 call came in around 1 a.m. from a woman who heard what may have been a gunshot from a nearby apartment and feared someone was hurt.Deputies arrived and identified themselves, but
  
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