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Video: Woman Talks About Shooting Man Attacking GA Sergeant

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VIDEO: Woman Talks About Shooting Man Attacking GA SergeantApril Adamson was preparing to get gas at a Dawsonville, GA, Chevron gas station Dec. 5, when she sensed something was wrong, she told the Channel 2 News.That’s when she saw Sgt. Randy Harkness fall to the ground and the suspect trying to take the sergeant's gun.She fired twice at the suspect, 30-year-old Justin Alan Foster, and hit him at least once, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.Foster had just received a cou

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Video: Good Samaritan Helps SC Officer Subdue Resisting Suspect

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VIDEO: Good Samaritan Helps SC Officer Subdue Resisting SuspectA man who allegedly assaulted a woman and threatened her and others with a knife at a Columbia, SC, gas station before resisting arrest was subdued with the help of a good Samaritan Tuesday.The incident was captured on cellphone video and posted to Facebook.Donald Songster Brown, 39, was charged with Attempted Murder, Armed Robbery, Kidnapping, Possession of a Weapon during the Commission of a Violent Crime and Resisting Arrest.Brown

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Recovery of Federal Agent Shot 5 Times Called "Christmas Miracle"

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Orange Park Medical Center trauma nurses call him a "Christmas Miracle." Drew Stokes, an agent with U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations in Jacksonville, was shot five times in September in Clay County -- targeted on his lunch break simply because he was dressed in his law enforcement uniform. "I immediately went to the ground, had my weapon out ,and was waiting for him to come back around, and then that's when somebody came back and told me the threat had

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PA K-9 Struck by Vehicle and Killed

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Rony, a Greencastle (PA) Police Department K-9, was struck and killed by a vehicle early Wednesday morning near his home.Rony was off duty when he left his handler's property and was hit.His death comes at a time when the Greencastle Borough Council is talking about eliminating the K-9 program amid budget concerns. At the instruction of Borough Council President Frank Webster, any action on the K-9 program has been removed from the agenda at council’s budget session Thursday evening, Dec.

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Louisiana Deputy Recovering from Patrol Vehicle Accident

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A Caddo Parish Sheriff's deputy, who was injured Tuesday when his patrol vehicle struck a tractor-trailer, is in good condition following surgery, Bill Strother, spokesman for University Health, said Thursday.Dep. Joseph Fourcade was driving to assist another deputy just after 6 p.m. He was headed south on Bert Kouns when Bryan James, 27 of Shreveport, the driver of the tractor-trailer headed north, turned left onto Julie Frances Drive.Fourcade's patrol car hit the tractor-trailer's rear ax

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