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A Shelby Township police officer has been discharged from the force amid allegations that he assaulted his wife in April.
Shelby Township Police Chief Robert Leman officially notified David Essad of his termination via a memo dated June 26. The termination was the result of an administrative investigation conducted by Leman and Shelby Township Police Capt. […]

CHICAGO — East Chicago police officer Xavier Herrera, arrested while allegedly trying to buy 3 kilograms of cocaine during a federal drug sting last week, was released from custody Friday after posting his house as bond.
Herrera had negotiated his release with prosecutors following a hearing Tuesday. Magistrate Judge Susan Cox set bond at $60,000.
Herrera and […]

IRMA MARQUEZ, a 44-year-old home-care aide, wanted to entertain her niece, who was visiting from Boston, and so she invited her for a nightcap at a local restaurant, La Fonda.
There, early on the morning of March 3, 2007, the niece, Anna Jacquez, shot pool and flirted with a young man. She somehow angered the man’s […]

JOHNSTOWN, N.Y. - A retired upstate police officer who served as a local Drug Abuse Resistance Education program officer is charged with 23 counts of child pornography possession.
Warren Maas of Johnston was arrested in January by state police. Two videos and 21 still images were found in his computer files. Authorities say all the children […]

NEEDHAM, M.A. — A fuel tanker rollover and explosion on Route 128 south in Needham has forced police to shut down the road. There were no immediate reports of injuries in the crash, which happened Saturday morning at about 5:30 a.m.
The tanker was carrying about 11,000 gallons of gasoline, all of which spilled or burned […]

Police fired a Taser stun gun at a sword-wielding Hastings man Thursday night but it didn’t stop him. As he continued toward the four officers, ignoring commands to drop his 3-foot Samurai-style sword, an officer shot him, authorities said.
The 23-year-old man, who died Friday at a St. Paul hospital, was identified as Brandon Lee Rodriguez […]

A woman who died unnoticed on a hospital floor in a scene recorded by security cameras was killed by blood clots caused by a long period of physical inactivity, according to the city’s medical examiner.
Esmin Green, 49, had been sitting in a waiting room at the city-owned Kings County Hospital Center for nearly 24 hours […]

U.S. Capitol Police closed off a swath of territory in front of the U.S. Capitol late Friday after some 30 birds and ducks were discovered dead in the reflecting pool in front of the Capitol.
Capitol Police Chief Phil Morse told FOX News it appears the water in the reflecting pool was somehow over-chlorinated.
Tests were being […]