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U.S. / NEWS Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 9:19am neoform

SF Gate -- A 31-year-old man was arrested Tuesday by federal agents and sheriff's officials acting on a tip that the convicted burglar had a rocket launcher. Paul Henry Ledwik was arrested without incident on a felon in possession of firearms warrant issued by a.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Sep 10, 2007 @ 10:56am neoform

www.kptv.com -- The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office has launched an investigation into allegations that a local corrections deputy bragged about using a Taser gun on people in an Internet chat room. FOX 12’s news partner, the Portland Tribune, was the first to b.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 6, 2007 @ 1:59pm neoform

FOX News -- Sheriff's officials in Yuma County are asking for felony charges against a female inmate who allegedly had sex with three sheriff's detention officers. The detention officers were arrested last month and have been charged with felonies for alleged inci.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 6:12pm neoform

ABC News -- Bernalillo County sheriff's deputies have arrested a man on suspicion of driving while intoxicated, marking his 28th such offense. Joseph Brill, 53, was driving on a revoked license when deputies saw him park in a driveway in a northeast Albuquerque neigh.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Jan 20, 2007 @ 3:42pm neoform

CNN -- A charter school alerted authorities to a 29-year-old sex offender who tried to enroll there, pretending he was just 12, in what sheriff's officials said Friday may have been an attempt to lure children into sexual abuse... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 4, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- The Alameda County sheriff's office released a picture today of a man who they say may help them solve the 1991 slaying of an Oakland woman. Israel Zelaya, 43, is not a suspect in the beating death of 24-year-old Vicenta Sanchez-Orellana but may have i.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Nov 21, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

SF Gate -- Contra Costa County sheriff's deputies found the dead body of a 22-year-old woman Monday afternoon after they were called to a rural home in the county's Knightsen area, authorities said. Police do not know how the woman died, said sheriff's spokesman.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Nov 13, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- Seven people were shot in North Richmond on Monday evening, according to the Contra Costa County sheriff's office. A sheriff patrolling the unincorporated area heard gunshots at 4:50 p.m. and found one person shot at the intersection of Fifth and Marke.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Nov 7, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey was walloping a deputy seeking to oust him from his job in early returns Tuesday night, making the incumbent likely to cruise to a record eighth term in office. Hennessey was leading Deputy Sheriff David Wong by.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Oct 31, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- A boy playing with matches started a Southern California wildfire that scorched more than 38,000 acres, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Tuesday. The Buckweed Fire, which destroyed 21 homes on its rampage, began October 21 in the Agua Dulc.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Oct 15, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- While the public clamors for safer streets and a crackdown on quality-of-life crimes, San Francisco Sheriff Michael Hennessey is quietly allowing scores of drug users and petty thieves to walk out of jail early so they don't have to sleep on the floor... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 27, 2007 @ 8:28am neoform

CBS News -- Authorities found the bodies of four people in a home northwest of Austin Sunday evening, a sheriff's spokesman said. Travis County Sheriff's spokesman Roger Wade said the cause of death had not been determined but was believed to be "homicide times fo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 6, 2007 @ 4:39pm neoform

FOX News -- An undercover deputy was shot in the head by a motorcyclist Monday morning in Halladale Beach, Fla., a local FOX television station reported. The suspected shooter is in police custody, and the injured officer has been transferred to Memorial Regional.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 6, 2007 @ 4:38pm neoform

USA Today -- A motorcyclist shot a plainclothes Broward County sheriff's deputy who had pulled him over Monday, authorities said. The officer was in critical condition. The deputy, who was not identified, stopped the motorcyclist at about 11:50 a.m., but the suspec.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 6, 2007 @ 4:25pm neoform

SF Gate -- A motorcyclist shot a plainclothes Broward County sheriff's deputy who had pulled him over Monday, authorities said. The officer was in critical condition. The deputy, who was not identified, stopped the motorcyclist at about 11:50 a.m., but the suspec.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Aug 6, 2007 @ 4:18pm neoform

CNN -- Investigators need to begin removing debris from the Mississippi River to further the investigation of the I-35W bridge collapse and the search for missing motorists, Hennepin County Sheriff Richard Stanek said Monday. He said investigators have identifie.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jul 16, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

FOX News -- An Alabama woman died after she fell 15 feet from an apartment balcony, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office. Jessica Ashley Hawkins, 20, asked two friends to take her to the hospital after she struck the ground headfirst Thursday evening. H.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 25, 2007 @ 9:59am neoform

CNN -- A wind-driven wildfire destroyed at least 220 homes and other structures and scorched 750 acres just southwest of Lake Tahoe, a spokesman for the El Dorado County Sheriff's Department said Sunday. Sheriff's Lt. Kevin House told CNN that in addition to.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jun 22, 2007 @ 4:01pm neoform

CNN -- A baby left on a doorstep is not the daughter of a missing pregnant woman, the sheriff of Wayne County, Ohio, announced Friday afternoon. Sheriff Thomas Maurer said the baby is not that of Jessie Davis, 26, of nearby North Canton, who has not been hear.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 19, 2007 @ 8:26am neoform

FOX News -- A 15-year-old boy who had been arguing with his mother opened fire on two sheriff's deputies as they arrived at the family's home, fatally wounding one officer and leaving the other seriously hurt, authorities said. The teen was found dead inside. Floy.. Read More