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• NC Major Dies of Apparent Heart Attack on Duty

  20-02-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A North Carolina police major died of an apparent heart attack Thursday after collapsing on duty.Maj. Jay Memmelaar, head of the Goldsboro Police Department's Support Services division, was 49 years old. 
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• Washington Trooper Saves Woman Having Stroke While Driving

  20-02-2017 20:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Washington State Patrol trooper saw a woman on the highway driving erratically — she was having a stroke.He stopped the out-of-control car by letting it crash into his, possibly saving the driver’s life.Trooper Lance Ramsay was heading north on I-405 on Feb. 10. An Acura sport utility vehicle was weaving in and out of the lane. He tried to pull over the vehicle.The lights and sirens prompted no response. The SUV pushed on.Ramsay drove up next to the Acura to try to determine why th
  
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• Video: 1 CA Officer Killed, 1 Wounded in Shootout

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  VIDEO: 1 CA Officer Killed, 1 Wounded in ShootoutA Whittier, CA, police officer was killed and a second officer was wounded in a shootout with a suspected gang member Monday morning, authorities said.A Whittier Police Department spokesman said the officers arrived on the scene responding to a call of a car crash.The suspect was asking passersby to help push what was reportedly a stolen car, according to police, and the suspect then opened fire on the officers with a handgun.Two officers wer
  
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• SC Deputy Turned Life Around, Now Shares Lessons with Teens

  20-02-2017 20:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lying in bed one night 12 years ago, having just been expelled from school, Brittany Jackamonis had a revelation about where her life was heading.“I cannot be this person,” Jackamonis, then 18, told herself. “There’s no way I can be this dropout from high school after all these years I’ve been in school, and I know there’s so much more I can do.”In addition to not finishing school, Jackamonis worried about possible removal from the Richland County Sherif
  
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• Ohio Officer Injured in Vehicle Pursuit Crash

  20-02-2017 20:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It happened just before 10:30 a.m. on Sunday on State Route 183.Officials say the officer was pursuing a vehicle that was speeding through the village when the police SUV and the another vehicle collided and went off the road. The officer’s vehicle rolled once and caught fire, the news release stated.Officials say the officer and the driver of the other vehicle were taken to a local hospital. Their conditions were not released.The suspect was arrested later Sunday, Fox 8 TV reports. No inf
  
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• Louisiana Woman Jumps on Attacker to Rescue Officer

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  Vickie Williams-Tillman was on her way to the store Sunday morning when she noticed a Baton Rouge police officer struggling with a man on the side of the road."I could see in his eyes he needed help," Williams-Tillman told the Advocate. "You don't have time to think about it … I did what God needed me to do."And what Williams-Tillman did — jumping on the attacker's back until more police arrived — has many in the community, including the mayor, hailing the 56-year-ol
  
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