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U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 28, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- A San Francisco police officer shot and critically injured a man who fled to avoid a panhandling citation, then pulled out a knife and lunged at one of three officers pursuing him Sunday, a Police Department spokesman said. The man, believed to be in h.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jul 5, 2007 @ 9:12am neoform

Yahoo News -- A man was acquitted Tuesday after being arrested for refusing to heed a police officer's command he stop singing in a public park. A judge found Anthony Riley not guilty of disorderly conduct, saying "This is America, not Afghanistan." Riley, 20, had f.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 28, 2007 @ 1:49pm neoform

Yahoo News -- An officer who ordered two women to put on a "sex show" in a jail cell will be fired. Norberto Cappas, 32, was found guilty by a police tribunal of conduct unbecoming an officer and lying during a departmental investigation, the department said Tuesday.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

FOX News -- A customer at an Arby's wrestled a gun away from a prison inmate Monday, about an hour after the escapee used it to kill a corrections officer during a medical appointment, authorities said. Curtis Allgier, whose heavily tattooed face has a swastika an.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 12, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

FOX News -- A former New Orleans police officer accused of beating a retired schoolteacher on Bourbon Street shortly after Hurricane Katrina was found dead of a gunshot wound Sunday night in an apparent suicide. The body of Lance Schilling, 30, was found at a home.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 24, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

FOX News -- It was just a little stun gun fun, but a police officer who demonstrated his Taser by zapping a willing subject in the genitals has drawn a warning from his bosses. Officer Randy Reynolds ran into trouble when video of the incident last spring was post.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon May 21, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

Washington Post -- A sniper sprayed dozens of bullets at a courthouse, killing a police officer and wounding a sheriff's deputy and a civilian, then apparently killed a caretaker and himself Sunday in a nearby church, police said. Investigators think the gunman deliberat.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu May 17, 2007 @ 8:52pm neoform

FOX News -- South Carolina police think a shootout occurred before constable Robert Lee Bailey may have been taken somewhere against his will earlier this week, police told FOX News Thursday. Children unwrapping an abandoned wad of burned rags on Wednesday discove.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed May 16, 2007 @ 5:00pm neoform

CNN -- A police officer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to beating a female bartender, and to threatening to arrest bar employees in a failed attempt to suppress a video of the attack that has been viewed around the world. In a brief hearing, Anthony Abbate's at.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 10:25am neoform

Reuters -- Two Secret Service officers were injured on Tuesday after a gun held by another Secret Service officer accidentally fired inside the White House gate, according to a spokesman, Darrin Blackford. Their injuries are non-life threatening, the spokesman sa.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Tue Mar 20, 2007 @ 12:53am neoform

Alter Net -- The attorney for the NYC police officer accused of killing Sean Bell believes his client will be acquitted. This is not typical attorney bluster; the odds are that he is right. New York Attorney Phillip Karasyk minced no words when a reporter asked abo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 16, 2007 @ 11:43am neoform

www.daily-tribune.com -- A Bartow County couple will go before a magistrate judge today to see if they will be arrested for allegedly stalking a Kennesaw police officer by installing cameras to track neighborhood speeders. Lee and Teresa Sipple spent $1,200 mounting three vide.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 8, 2007 @ 10:18am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- The court martial against a US army officer who refused to fight in Iraq because he said the war was illegal ended unexpectedly Wednesday in a mistrial... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 7, 2007 @ 4:54pm neoform

Yahoo News -- The court-martial of a U.S. Army officer, who publicly refused to fight in Iraq and criticized the war, could end in a mistrial, the presiding military judge said on Wednesday... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 21, 2006 @ 10:20am mrmdc

Los Angeles Times -- The UCLA police officer videotaped last week using a Taser gun on a student also shot a homeless man at a campus study hall room three years ago and was earlier recommended for dismissal in connection with an alleged assault on fraternity row, authorities.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Apr 16, 2008 @ 8:10am neoform

SF Gate -- A San Francisco police officer put on desk duty after she was involved in a fatal shooting of an unarmed trespassing suspect in 2006 pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of stealing confiscated cash and trying to cover it up. Officer Michelle Alvis, 3.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 20, 2008 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- The family of a 51-year-old Berkeley woman fatally shot by a police officer just outside her apartment Saturday night has hired Oakland attorney John Burris with the intention of filing a wrongful-death lawsuit, the lawyer said Tuesday. Berkeley police.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 6, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- The military's top uniformed officer says U.S. forces are "significantly stressed" by fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan while simultaneously trying to stem the tide of violent extremism elsewhere. "The pace of ongoing operations has prevented our forces.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 16, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- A fugitive accused of raping a 3-year-old girl on videotape was arrested quietly during a traffic stop, telling the officer, "I'm tired of running," police said. Chester "Chet" Arthur Stiles, 37, was pulled over late Monday in Henderson for not having.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Oct 7, 2007 @ 10:02pm neoform

BBC News -- Six young people have died after a part-time police officer opened fire at a house in the Midwestern US state of Wisconsin early on Sunday. The shootings took place in the town of Crandon, in the north of the state. The suspect, who was employed by.. Read More