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Bucyrus Telegraph Forum
April 30, 2018
200 block of South Mulberry Street, Mansfield - Police responded to Western Avenue after a woman told police her friend was assaulted by her boyfriend. Police noted bruising around the the woman's eye and lip and a cut on her abdomen. An officer completed a domestic violence affidavit on the woman'sÃâà...
York Daily Record/Sunday News
April 30, 2018
One person is dead from self-inflicted injuries following a 6-hour police incident Sunday that involved Northern Regional Police and the county's Quick Response Team, according to York County Coroner Pam Gay. Eric Landis, 46, from Dover Township died on Sunday around 2 p.m. from what appeared toÃâà...
KMOV.com
April 30, 2018
St. Louis Police now say one person has died, after two men were shot inside Ballpark Village Sunday night. The shooting happened just past 8:00 p.m. on the rooftop of the sports-themed bar and venue. At a press conference, Major Mary Warnecke from the St. Louis City Police Department said anÃâà...
Science Magazine
April 30, 2018
Yaniv Erlich, a geneticist at Columbia University in New York City, was far from surprised at the news last week that police may have found a serial murderer and rapist, California's long-sought Golden State Killer, by tapping a public DNA database to match crime scene DNA: Erlich had cautioned in a JuneÃâà...
New York Times
April 30, 2018
The police officers who arrived at the home in Mamaroneck found a 2-year-old girl unconscious and tried unsuccessfully to revive her, the police said. The girl's mother, who was wielding a knife, attacked two of the responding officers as they searched the home, the authorities said. One of the officers shotÃâà...
NorthJersey.com
April 22, 2018
Prior to joining the Paterson police force, Yagan had been a volunteer firefighter in Prospect Park for six years, according to the borough's fire chief, Douglas Struyk. "He was a cop's cop," Police Director Jerry Speziale said of Yagan. "He's somebody who went above and beyond. He was a true communityÃâà...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
April 22, 2018
Faced with hundreds of demonstrators rallying against a crowd of neo-Nazis in Newnan, local and state authorities turned to a little-known Georgia law adopted in 1951 to combat the Ku Klux Klan. The law, which makes it illegal to wear a mask at most public events, was cited in several of the arrests ofÃâà...
TIME
April 22, 2018
(LARGO, Fla.) — Florida authorities went to a funeral home and used a dead man's finger to try to unlock his cellphone as part of their investigation. Thirty-year-old Linus Phillip was killed by a Largo police officer last month after authorities say he tried to drive away before an officer could search him.
The Detroit News
April 22, 2018
An off-duty Detroit police officer has been charged after he allegedly tussled with his girlfriend downtown Sunday and pulled out his gun when citizens tried to help the woman, police said. The officer has been charged with two counts of felonious assault, two counts of felony firearm and domestic violence.
AL.com
April 22, 2018
The Birmingham mayor's office on Sunday released the names of the three finalists for police chief. They are: * Malik Aziz - currently a division commander with the Dallas Police Department. He has more than 28 years law enforcement experience. According to the Dallas Observer, he was a finalist forÃâà...
CBS News
April 22, 2018
MEYERSDALE, Pa. -- State police say a man believed to have fired scores of rounds into a Pennsylvania hunting cabin before fleeing has been found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police in Somerset County said Donald Smodic, of Apollo, was drinking in the Larimer Township cabin with a friendÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
April 22, 2018
Police received a call about 6:25 p.m. Wednesday from a bystander who reported that a man, who was later identified as Jackson, was yelling and being disruptive on the promenade, according to a statement from the Ventura Police Department. Police said they used a pier security camera to monitor theÃâà...
Cincinnati.com
April 18, 2018
Cincinnati Police are looking for someone who stole a rare butterfly from Krohn Conservatory. Yes, you read that right. Police said District 1 is investigating a theft that took place on April 15 around 5 p.m. Krohn Conservatory, located at 1501 Eden Park Drive. The suspect entered the Butterfly Exhibit andÃâà...
Detroit Free Press
April 18, 2018
When it came time to confess, former Deputy Detroit Police Chief Celia Washington teared up and struggled to admit her guilt to bribery. It troubled the judge and irked the prosecutors, who say Washington did a lot more than pocket $4,000 in bribes from towing magnate Gasper Fiore, which she pleadedÃâà...
Salt Lake Tribune
April 18, 2018
A Unified Police Department officer shot and killed a man in Magna who was allegedly holding a woman hostage in his truck early Tuesday morning. ... The shooting occurred about 4:15 a.m., near the intersection of 2700 South and 8400 West, according to a tweet from the Unified Police Department (UPD)Ãâà...
CBS Boston / WBZ
April 18, 2018
YARMOUTH (CBS/AP) — Massachusetts is paying its final respects to a police officer who was killed in the line of duty. A wake for Yarmouth K-9 Officer Sean Gannon was held Tuesday evening at St. Pius X Roman Catholic church on Barbara Street in Yarmouth. A funeral Mass is scheduled forÃâà...
WTOP
April 18, 2018
The Fairfax County Police Department said a man was found dead on Colchester Road in Fairfax Station with upper-body trauma; detectives are on the ... WASHINGTON — Police in Fairfax County are investigating what they call an apparent homicide on Colchester Road in Fairfax Station on Wednesday.
Coindesk
April 18, 2018
Police in China's northwestern city of Xi'An have arrested the founders of a claimed nationwide cryptocurrency pyramid scheme that allegedly amassed 86 million yuan ($13 million) from over 13,000 people. According to a report from local media source Huashang News, Wednesday, the scheme launchedÃâà...
Page Six
April 18, 2018
LOS ANGELES — A Colorado man who was wearing a mask and had a knife in his car when he was arrested outside a Beverly Hills home owned by Taylor Swift was released from custody on Tuesday while police continued their investigation. Julius Sandrock, 38, was arrested Saturday on suspicion ofÃâà...
BBC News
April 18, 2018
A senior police officer who left top secret documents in the boot of his car for five days before they were stolen has been dismissed without notice. Assistant Chief Constable Marcus Beale was found guilty of gross misconduct by a disciplinary panel in February which recommended he should be dismissed.
KGO-TV
April 18, 2018
San Francisco police asked people to avoid the area of Larkin and Eddy Streets Tuesday afternoon after an officer was struck by a driver who fled the scene. Police say the officer was crossing Eddy Street at Larkin Street when a blue sedan turned from northbound Larkin to westbound Eddy Street, hittingÃâà...
CNN
April 18, 2018
Manila, Philippines (CNN) The Philippine government will deploy dozens of riot police to ensure that tourists don't interfere with a planned six-month cleanup of ... Following its closure on April 26, the government will deploy more than 600 police officers, on the order of President Rodrigo Duterte, adding aÃâà...
CNN
April 18, 2018
The ACLU has been collecting data about stop and frisk practices since 2011 when the ACLU and the city of Philadelphia reached a settlement in a lawsuit brought about by the ACLU regarding what it saw as illegal stop, question, frisk and search practices by the city's police. Over time, the ACLU'sÃâà...
AZCentral.com
April 18, 2018
A Phoenix police K-9 dog was killed as police moved in to arrest a suspect who led police on a pursuit through a wide area of the city before bailing from the vehicle and hiding in a house, officials said. A woman, who was in the car with the man, also was taken into custody earlier after he ditched the car,Ãâà...
Chicago Tribune
April 18, 2018
Philadelphia police released a recording of the call from the Starbucks employee that led to the arrests. In the recording, a woman is heard saying, "Hi, I have two gentlemen in my cafe that are refusing to make a purchase or leave." She gives the address of the Starbucks store, and the entire call lasts lessÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 18, 2018
Selorm Ohene, 21, was arrested Friday in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after police were called about a disturbance shortly after 9 p.m. Officers who arrived found him completely nude in the middle of Massachusetts Avenue and acting irrationally, police said in an arrest report and a statement. They saidÃâà...
WRTV Indianapolis
April 18, 2018
PLAINFIELD, Ind. -- Plainfield police say they have a suspect in custody following a robbery at a Chase Bank Tuesday afternoon. The robbery occurred around 2 p.m. at the Chase Bank location at 807 Southfield Drive, near the intersection of Quaker Boulevard and Stafford Road in Plainfield.
Boston Herald
April 13, 2018
BARNSTABLE, Mass. — A man described by authorities as a career criminal is heading to court to face a murder charge in the shooting death of a Massachusetts police officer. Prosecutors say 29-year-old Thomas Latanowich is scheduled to be arraigned Friday in Barnstable District Court in the death ofÃâà...
Toledo Blade
April 13, 2018
A local man and woman are dead after a police chase ended in a crash Friday morning in Northwood, according to Northwood Police Capt. Jeff Zahradnik. The crash occurred at the entrance of Menards on Lemoyne and Curtice roads, near the I-280 entrance. The vehicle nearly veered into the officer'sÃâà...
KPRC Click2Houston
April 13, 2018
HOUSTON - A Houston police officer is in critical condition after an accident at a golf course. Sources told KPRC2 that Officer Jerry Flores, 53, was at the Thin Blue Line Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club golf tournament, which helps injured officers and military members, when he fell off a golf cart and hitÃâà...
Poughkeepsie Journal
April 13, 2018
Thursday began with the discovery of a baby's death in North Carolina. It ended hundreds of miles away with the revelation that the father was suspected in the killing of two others before he took his own life in Dover. Police in three states were piecing together the series of events that began early ThursdayÃâà...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
April 13, 2018
Family members are remembering Bob Litolff as a hardworking father and devoted family man. The 81-year-old Greece man was killed outside his home last week during an early morning confrontation with a police officer. Greece Police Chief Patrick Phelan said officers were summoned to Litolff's BetwoodÃâà...
New York Times
April 13, 2018
LOS ANGELES — The Justice Department cannot require that local police departments help immigration agents in order to receive federal funding, a federal judge has ruled. The ruling is a significant victory for local governments that have opposed the Trump administration's stance on immigration andÃâà...
Detroit Free Press
April 13, 2018
As 15-year-old Damon Grimes lay dying in the middle of Rossini Drive last August, Michigan State Police Trooper Mark Bessner crouched over his body. “He's got a pulse, and he's breathing. He's unconscious,” Bessner said into his police radio, adding later, “He slowed down. We tased him, and heÃâà...
ABC News
April 13, 2018
The Kansas police officer who shot and killed a man on his front porch last December following a prank call will not be charged, the county's district attorney announced Thursday. Andrew Finch was killed after police responded to a 911 call that alleged someone at his Wichita, Kansas, address had shot hisÃâà...
The Boston Globe
April 13, 2018
Officer Sean Gannon was a well-known K-9 officer on Cape Cod who volunteered as a Big Brother and worked side-by-side with his furry partner, Nero. Prior to joining the Yarmouth Police Department, he worked for the Stonehill College Police Department and as a summer officer on Nantucket. GannonÃâà...
WSOC Charlotte
April 4, 2018
CHARLOTTE, NC - Dramatic police body camera video shows what happened when Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers shot a man holding a pregnant woman hostage September 26. The incident began around 10 p.m. when a 911 caller said a gunman had forced his way into a home on Holly Street.
CNN
April 4, 2018
Lizzie Buchen, a legislative advocate for the ACLU of California, which is pushing the measure, said the current law has long provided "legal cover" for police officers involved in fatal shootings. Under the law, use of force is permitted if officers have a reason to fear for their safety. "Clearly, the currentÃâà...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
April 4, 2018
Petaluma police shot a distraught man in the parking lot of a local apartment complex Tuesday afternoon after he pointed a gun at officers who had been trying to get him to surrender, police said. The incident started as a domestic dispute at a large apartment complex called The Vineyard, just south ofÃâà...
CBS News
April 4, 2018
Fort Worth, Texas, police on Tuesday released bodycam video that appears to show officers struggling to put a man under arrest. Police said Tuesday that officers used what are called "distraction strikes" against 35-year-old Forrest Curry while trying to arrest him, CBS News' David Begnaud reports.
NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
April 4, 2018
Fort Worth police on Tuesday released video from officers' body cameras that appeared to show a man was actively resisting as officers tried to handcuff him, shedding a different light on an incident that drew national attention. The department released the video to counter video from bystanders' cell phoneÃâà...
NPR
April 4, 2018
In a rare move, the city of Asheville, N.C., has released body camera footage of a police officer choking a man and punching him in the head multiple times — allegedly after the man was jaywalking. North Carolina state law does not normally allow the release of police videos without a court order; however,Ãâà...
Newsday
April 4, 2018
Nine people were injured — including two fatally — in a five-car crash early Wednesday on Nassau Expressway, police said. The drivers of two of the vehicles were charged with drunken driving, Nassau County police said. Police said the two people who died were passengers who became trapped in aÃâà...
ABC News
April 4, 2018
Relatives of the suspect in Tuesday's shooting at YouTube's headquarters in northern California said they told police about her vendetta against the company and warned them "she might do something." Nasim Najafi Aghdam of San Diego allegedly opened fire at the tech giant's main campus in San BrunoÃâà...
ABC News
April 4, 2018
This photo provided by Slidell, La., Police Department shows Zachary Brooks. Police say a 4-year-old New Orleans-area boy drowned in a filthy backyard swimming pool, and his father, Zachary Brooks, has been arrested on charges of cruelty and negligent homicide charges. Slidell Police said in a newsÃâà...
NBC Chicago
April 4, 2018
As police investigate reports of "zombie-like" raccoons in northeast Ohio, Cook County experts say such sightings are also unusually high in northern Illinois. The animals are believed to be suffering from a viral disease known as distemper. Donna Alexander, the aministrator for the Cook County Animal andÃâà...
CBS New York
April 4, 2018
Sources say police were responding to reports of a man with a gun around 4:45 pm when responding officers encountered the suspect, who sources say was holding a metal object near the corner of Montgomery and Utica Avenues in Crown Heights. Officers opened fire and struck the man at least once inÃâà...
Vox
April 4, 2018
The fatal police shooting of Stephon Clark in Sacramento last month reopened the national conversation about race, policing, and police violence. California lawmakers are now proposing legislation that would restrict when police officers can use lethal force. On Tuesday, state legislators announced thatÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
April 4, 2018
Shattered glass in a door remains following an officer-involved shooting on 54th Street between South Kimbark and South Woodlawn avenues in the Hyde Park neighborhood on April 4, 2018. A University of Chicago student was shot and wounded by a campus police officer Tuesday night. (ZbigniewÃâà...
NPR
April 4, 2018
Updated at 7:20 p.m. ET. Police questioned Nasim Aghdam in her car just hours before she opened fire on YouTube headquarters on Tuesday, wounding three people and apparently killing herself, the Associated Press reported. Over the course of a 20-minute interview, Aghdam calmly explained toÃâà...
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