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• Convicted Utah Cop Killer Sentenced to Life Plus 80 Years

  18-05-2017 23:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The man convicted of killing Millard County, UT, Deputy Josie Greathouse Fox in 2010 has been sentenced to a prison sentence of life plus 80 years, reports the Salt Lake Tribune.On Thursday, seven years and two trials after Fox was slain with an AK-47 and found in a pool of her own blood, U.S. District Judge David Nuffer sentenced Roberto Miramontes Roman to a prison sentence of life plus 80 years, the maximum punishment he was facing and the one prosecutors requested.The shortest sentence Roman
  
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• 1 Dead, Several Injured as Car Hits Pedestrians in Times Square

  18-05-2017 19:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One person was killed and at least a dozen were injured when a car struck pedestrians in New York’s Times Square on Thursday at about noon, according to the Fire Department, reports the New York Times.The driver appeared to have been either drunk or on drugs, a law enforcement official said. He has a history of DWI arrests, the official said.A New York Police Department spokesman said the driver of the car had been taken into custody. 
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• Tulsa Officer Acquitted of Manslaughter in Shooting of Terence Crutcher

  18-05-2017 16:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After nine hours of deliberations, a jury acquitted Tulsa (OK) Police Officer Betty Shelby of a first-degree manslaughter charge in the shooting death of Terence Crutcher.As soon as the judge finished reading the verdict Wednesday night, at least five jurors started crying. The judge's bailiff gave a woman in the front row a box of tissues. She took one and handed it to a woman behind her who was wiping tears away with her fingers. Then the bailiff went and got more tissues for two other women a
  
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• Police conducting search for suspect in Walpole - WCVB Boston

  18-05-2017 03:20 via wcvb.com
  
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  Police conducting search for suspect in Walpole
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  Walpole police Chief John Carmichael said the person they are looking for was involved in an incident that involved taking a person against their will. A state police air wing and other agencies are involved in the search for the suspect. Carmichael ...
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• Girl calls police for deplorable conditions at home; mother arrested - WPXI Pittsburgh

  18-05-2017 02:11 via wpxi.com
  
  WPXI Pittsburgh
  Girl calls police for deplorable conditions at home; mother arrested
  WPXI Pittsburgh
  A young girl called police on Tuesday to complain about the deplorable conditions in her home, leading to her mother's arrest. When Pittsburgh police arrived at the Overbrook home in the 2000 block of Dartmore Street, they spoke with the girl, a third ...and more »
  
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• Chicago Police Adopt New Limits on Use of Force - New York Times

  18-05-2017 02:00 via nytimes.com
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  Chicago Police Adopt New Limits on Use of Force
  New York Times
  The Chicago police superintendent, Eddie Johnson, last year. “We will aim to de-escalate situations peacefully, with the use of deadly force as a last resort,” he said on Wednesday. Credit Taylor Glascock for The New York Times. CHICAGO — The Chicago ...
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• Milwaukee Sheriff Clarke Says He's Accepted DHS Job

  18-05-2017 01:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Embed from Getty ImagesThe Department of Homeland Security has declined to confirm that Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke will be joining the agency, reports the Associated Press.Clarke said in an interview on WISN-AM on Wednesday that he had taken a job as assistant secretary and would start in June. Clarke says he would be serving as a liaison to state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies.DHS spokeswoman Jenny Burke says those appointments are made by the Homeland Security secretary
  
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