Posts Tagged ‘police’

March 11 2010

NY man dies after police use stun gun on him

Police say they’re investigating the death of a 44-year-old New York man who died after a sheriff’s deputy used a stun gun to subdue him.

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March 11 2010

Drug arrests latest problem for R.I. police force

After three Providence police officers were arrested last week in a cocaine-peddling sting, Chief Dean Esserman called it a “hard day” for the department.

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March 9 2010

Retired NY police leader’s replacement now leaving

The replacement for the New York State Police superintendent who retired amid the scandal enveloping Gov. David Paterson announced his own retirement Tuesday after just a week in the top job.

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March 9 2010

Police search New Orleans for missing exec

Police scoured the French Quarter and checked with businesses for surveillance videotapes of a Texas energy executive who disappeared after walking out of a Bourbon Street bar.

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March 9 2010

Mexico police chief’s daughter, bodyguard killed

Gunmen opened fire on a police chief’s house in southern Mexico, killing his 23-year-old daughter and a bodyguard and wounding three others, police said Monday.

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March 7 2010

Police: 8 teens shot while leaving Indiana concert

Authorities say eight teenage boys were shot while leaving a Gary, Ind., skating rink where they were attending a concert.

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March 7 2010

Police: Mortars kill 3 as Iraq votes

An Iraqi Kurdish vendor sells candidate pins at his shop in the northern city of Sulaimaniyah on Saturday.Iraqi police say mortar fire has killed three people in northeastern Baghdad as voting was under way in parliamentary elections.


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March 6 2010

Muslim group: Police detained praying men

A Muslim advocacy organization contends police in Nevada  detained seven Muslim men  who were praying in a shopping center parking lot and told them they were acting suspiciously.

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March 5 2010

Parents of Pentagon gunman warned police

Pentagon police stand guard after two colleagues were shot in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.A California man killed in a shootout with Pentagon police officers had been behaving erratically, and his family feared in January that he had bought a gun.


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March 5 2010

Police: $800 robbery preceded Wis. slayings, fire

Two felons were charged Thursday with homicide and arson in the deaths of a mother, her two young children and a woman who also was the men’s alleged accomplice in a case that began with an $800 robbery.

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