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• Video: Florida Sheriff Slams Media for Reports Deputies Let Girl Carjackers Drown After Crash

  27-04-2016 01:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Florida Sheriff Slams Media for Reports Deputies Let Girl Carjackers Drown After CrashWhen three Florida teenagers stole a car, crashed it into a cemetery pond and then drowned, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri talked about his frustration, about lives "needlessly lost," and how the vehicle became a death chamber for the three girls.Now, nearly a month after the tragedy, Gualtieri is angrily defending his agency against accusations that his officers didn't do enough to rescue the gir
  
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• Michigan Man Loses Legs Diving Under Train to Escape Police

  27-04-2016 01:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A 20-year-old Saginaw, MI, man lost both his legs after being dragged by a train Monday, April 25, after leading police on a short foot chase.Officers were initially dispatched at about 10 p.m. Monday to the 14th Street Market, at South 14th and Janes, for the report of an armed robbery at the store, Michigan State Police Lt. David Kaiser told MLive.While police were looking for the robber, officers saw a car in the area that failed to use its turn signal, Kaiser said. The car also had an&n
  
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• FBI Agent Wounded in Kansas Shootout Still in Hospital

  27-04-2016 01:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One of three federal agents injured during a fiery weekend shootout at a Kansas motel remained hospitalized Monday as investigators sought to identify the body found inside the suspect's charred motel room.Two deputy marshals were treated and released after sustaining gunshot wounds during the Saturday night confrontation in Topeka, said a spokeswoman for the U.S. Marshals Service's headquarters in Washington. An FBI agent was in good condition Monday at a hospital, said Bridget Patton, a spokes
  
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• Cleveland Police Union: Tamir Rice Settlement Money Should Help Educate Kids About Dangers of Replica Guns

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  The head of a Cleveland police union said the family of a 12-year-old black boy shot dead by a white police officer while playing with a pellet gun should use money from a $6 million settlement to educate children about the dangers of handling real and replica firearms, while an attorney representing the boy’s family blasted the comments.“Something positive must come from this tragic loss,” said Steve Loomis, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association. &ldq
  
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• 2 Boston Officers Injured in Confrontation with Library Patron

  27-04-2016 01:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Two police officers were injured Monday in a scuffle with a Boston Public Library patron who had refused to leave an exhibition hall at the institution’s central branch in Copley Square, officials said.The incident began in the McKim Exhibition Hall, a marble-floored room near the building’s main entrance that contains stacks of books, reading tables, and chairs along with windows that face the intersection of Dartmouth Street and Huntington Avenue.Police identified the suspect as Ke
  
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• Video: Texas Officer Shot Serving Murder Warrant

  27-04-2016 00:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Texas Officer Shot Serving Murder WarrantAn Arlington, TX, police officer was wounded as he and others tried to arrest a man wanted for murder.The shooting happened late Monday night at an apartment complex near the University of Texas at Arlington campus.The officer was part of a team that included officers from the Fort Worth suburb of Saginaw. They were trying to arrest 23-year-old Joel McCommon for the weekend murder of 17-year-old Jordan Miles.Police told Fox4 News McCommon opened th
  
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• Video: Investigators Suspect Drug Cartel Involved in Ohio Family Murders

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  VIDEO: Investigators Suspect Drug Cartel Involved in Ohio Family MurdersInvestigators have interviewed more than 60 people in their ongoing manhunt for whoever killed eight members of an Ohio family last weekInvestigators are looking at the possibility a Mexican drug cartel is behind the pre-planned execution of the family.A law enforcement source confirmed to CBS News that investigators found some 200 marijuana plants. They were inside an indoor grow operation that was found in some of the home
  
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