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Police beat ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Two gunmen rob Razorback Pizza Two men armed with handguns robbed Razorback Pizza in southwest Little Rock late Sunday, forcing people to the floor before taking money from the register, safe, employees and customers and firing shots randomly as they ran away. No one was injured. The men walked into the restaurant at 10900 Stagecoach Road not long after 9:30 p.m. showing their weapons, police said. They ordered customers and employees to put their personal belongings — wallets, cell phones and other items — into bags. The gunmen then forced the customers from the bar into...

In light of Obama's "America Is A Muslim Country & Apology" Tour... It goes without saying that Muslims are perhaps the least humorous folk on Earth; whereas Jews have learned to laugh at themselves, even turning that laughter into a business: Vaudeville. When I was growing up, my father never failed to tell me at least three jokes a day, most of them involving Jews and their eccentricities, customs, and travails. I'd like to continue that long tradition of Jews telling jokes, but with Muslims as the butt of the joke. You can't be civilized until you can laugh at...

Philadelphia police are searching for three gunmen who robbed an East Oak Lane Dunkin' Donuts Thursday. Police also believe one of the men may have filled out a job application at the shop and have a name and address on file that they are hoping will aid in their search ...

<p>RIVERDALE, Utah — The police chief in Riverdale accidentally shot himself in an ankle while demonstrating how to dislodge a jammed handgun.</p> <p>Chief Dave Hansen was taken to McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden for surgery.</p> <p>The 54-year-old chief accidentally fired a gun during a training exercise inside a conference room at Riverdale police headquarters.</p>

STUART — Police arrested a 28-year-old man Sunday on a cruelty to animals charge after he yelled an obscenity at a police dog in a patrol vehicle, according to an arrest affidavit. Moses Rogers Jr., of the 700 block of East Avenue, also faces a disorderly conduct charge in connection with the 2:24 a.m. incidents in the 2300 block of Southeast Federal Highway. Police say Rogers yelled an obscene statement in the window as he walked past a patrol vehicle that contained a patrol dog “causing (the dog’s) behavior to become overloaded, tormenting the dog,” the affidavit states.

Another no-knock warrant success story It was just after midnight on Dec. 16, and Yee Moua was unwinding in her spartan north Minneapolis home, watching TV. Such moments of solitude are hard to come by when you're trying to raise six children in a crime-plagued neighborhood. Her husband, who had recently lost his job as a machine operator, and their kids were asleep. So when one of her windows shattered, she knew it wasn't an accident. There were voices. Men were breaking into their home. She ran upstairs. Vang Khang had already removed his shotgun from a closet and was...

Prosecutors filed second-degree manslaughter charges Friday against two Noble police officers involved in the Aug. 3 accidental shooting that claimed the life of 5-year-old Austin Haley of Noble. Brad Rogers, 34, and Shawn Richardson, 29, are expected to turn themselves in to authorities next week, said Cleveland County District Attorney Greg Mashburn. Rogers, who had been on the Noble police force approximately one month, was the officer who reportedly twice fired a .357 semi-automatic handgun in a residential area, attempting to shoot a snake in a bird house. One of the two shots struck Austin Haley in the head while...

The "hot doughnut experience." That's the difference between Krispy Kreme and other large doughnut chains. Dunkin' Donuts may be bigger (at least in the East), but nothing stirs the soul like the neon "Hot Doughnuts Now" sign that lights up when Krispy Kreme's famous Original Glazeds come rolling off the line. If you've ever had a doughnut hot out of the fryer, you know how tough it is to stop at just one. Just what we need: an irresistible food that's made of sugarcoated white flour fried in trans-fat-laden oil. Doughnuts are a phenomenon. Fortune magazine recently named the rapidly...

FRANKLIN, Tenn. -- It's North versus South -- in the doughnut wars. Dunkin' Donuts is a tradition in the Northeast, but the South is Krispy Kreme territory. Now Dunkin' Donuts is testing the waters in the Nashville area with a dozen stores. Maine native Joe Rando said he's a lifelong Dunkin' fanatic, and missed his favorite coffee and doughnuts when he moved South. Now, he's signed on with Dunkin' and is in charge of the Nashville-area operation. He feels there's room for Dunkin' Donuts, Krispy Kreme and even more. He said employees of Starbucks are coming across the street to...

“Rush Limbaugh’s ignorance and willingness to divide Americans knows no bounds. His latest statement about Israel is beyond offensive to all of us who have fought to protect Israel in the face of enemies committed to its destruction.

An off-duty Los Angeles police officer was critically wounded when he was shot in the back by his 3-year-old son while their pickup was stopped at a traffic light, authorities said. Enrique Chavez, 35, of Anaheim was taken to UCI Medical Center for surgery, Anaheim police Sgt. Tim Schmidt said. ......... Chavez, a 10-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, had stopped his two-door Ford Ranger in traffic about 11:45 a.m. in the area of La Palma Avenue and Harbor Boulevard when his son, who was in a back seat, somehow managed to get the officer's 9 mm handgun...

Three Chicago Police officers ran away when a fellow officer was struggling for his life with an armed man in a Dominick's store on the South Side, officials said Wednesday. Two of the fleeing officers were about 10 months into their 18-month probationary period before they could have become full-fledged officers with union benefits. Those female officers -- called PPOs in cop parlance -- have been fired by police Supt. Phil Cline. "After reviewing the evidence, it was clear to me that the two PPOs didn't do what they were trained to do, and they put the officer in peril,"...

A Chicago Police officer is charged with passing counterfeit cash at a Northwest Indiana currency exchange after visiting a gambling boat. Officer Larry Hood was arrested after he allegedly exchanged $500 in fake $100 bills for a money order and a roll of quarters on May 24 in East Chicago. The bills looked like authentic $100s with a portrait of Benjamin Franklin on the front of each, police said. But when a cashier held them to the light, they bore the watermark of a $5 bill -- a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. A security strip on each bill read "USA...

"It's (expletive) over, son."For two hours, authorities say, that message would be pounded into Lester Eugene Siler’s head and body, reinforced with the barrel of a gun and echoed in threats of electrocution. Handcuffed and surrounded, Siler was now a prisoner of the war on drugs in Campbell County. Seven months later, five former Campbell County Sheriff’s Department lawmen are poised to plead guilty to federal charges they conspired to violate Siler’s civil rights by beating, threatening and torturing him.

NEW YORK -- Along a gritty stretch of Knickerbocker Avenue in Brooklyn, police this month quietly launched one of the nation's most ambitious plans to combat street crime and terrorism. And there were no cops in sight. Peering down from lamp posts about 30 feet above the sidewalk were three wireless video recorders, each emblazoned with "NYPD" and equipped with two zoom lenses. The cameras were the first installment of a high-tech surveillance program to place 500 cameras throughout the city at a cost of $9 million. Hundreds of additional cameras could follow if the city receives $81.5 million in...

Page A03 A former federal prosecutor and a State Department security officer were indicted yesterday on charges that they lied during a bungled terrorism trial in Detroit and then sought to cover up their deceptions once the case began to fall apart. Former assistant U.S. attorney Richard G. Convertino, 45, and State Department special agent Harry R. Smith III, 49, were charged with conspiracy, obstruction of justice and making false statements in connection with the 2003 prosecution, according to an indictment handed up by a federal grand jury in Detroit. ... Convertino led the prosecution of Karim Koubriti and three...

Forced to strip, ordered to perform sexual acts -- these are disturbing accusations involving a police officer accused of abusing women on his beat, 10News reported. 10News obtained the court documents in the shocking case of El Cajon police officer William Robert Taylor. The arrest warrant talks about terrified women who were forced into patrol cars and sexually compromised. Taylor faces eight felony counts -- five for bribery. He faces other felony counts for intimidation, sexual battery and penetration with a foreign object. These are offenses the district attorney said will not be tolerated. The arrest warrant details Taylor's alleged...

FORT WORTH — A Fort Worth police officer has been fired after he was unknowingly captured on his patrol car’s video and audio recorder using obscene language and racial slurs, racing another officer and neglecting his duties to tend to personal business, according to documents obtained by the Star-Telegram on Friday. Officer Trini Feggett, who was with the department two years, was indefinitely suspended effective March 10, according to a letter filed with the Civil Service Commission last week by Police Chief Ralph Mendoza. Feggett has appealed. His attorney, Richard Carter, of the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, said...

Gestapo-like tactics prompt outrage, complaints among owners, citizenry. In the ongoing effort to keep public places clear of intoxicated citizens and drunk drivers, some police agencies are using a controversial tactic – going directly into bars and restaurants to make arrests. Such is the situation in northern Virginia, where Fairfax County Police are targeting patrons suspected of having one too many. "[Officers] were talking to one of the guests, then physically pulled him off the barstool," Richie Prisco, general manager at Champps bar told the Reston Times. "They were really aggressive and nasty." According to the report, police are hauling...

Flying Cow Leaves Two Police Cars in Flames LAST UPDATE: 3/17/2006 5:06:56 PM Posted By: Mandi Bishop This story is available on your cell phone at mobile.woai.com. Watch this story... Talk about a wild night near Seguin. A cow came flying out of its trailer, sent DPS and police scrambling, and left two police cars going up in flames. "It was almost hard to believe," said Detective Sergeant Maureen Watson. She has been in law enforcement for 15 years, and says she "never had a day like this. I mean the best way to characterize this it, is it's bizarre....

Officer In Court Over Gun Seizure Charges A Cincinnati Police officer was in a Hamilton County courtroom Thursday morning on allegations he was on the wrong side of the law. Officer Edsel England is accused of seizing guns from a city home last year. Instead of turning them in, he allegedly took them home. On Thursday, an officer with the department's internal affairs at the time of the investigation took the stand and recalled serving a warrant on England's home. "I spoke to his wife, explained to her why we were there, told her we had search warrants for specific...

IRVING, Texas -- The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission has taken its fight against drunken driving to a new level. TABC agents, along with Irving police, targeted 36 bars and clubs Friday, arresting some allegedly intoxicated patrons before they departed the businesses. The officers and agents also kept watch on bartenders who might have over-served patrons. Agents arrested 30 people Friday night. Most of the suspects now face charges of public intoxication. The agents and Irving police officers traveled from bar to bar and worked undercover, according to an NBC 5 report. The report also said that some agents shared tables...

The 21-year-old Iraq war veteran seen in a video being shot by a sheriff's deputy says in a recorded statement that he has difficulty walking. Senior Airman Elio Carrion released a videotaped statement through his attorney Thursday, a day after San Bernardino County sheriff's Deputy Ivory J. Webb pleaded not guilty to attempted voluntary manslaughter and was released on $100,000 bail. "My physical therapy continues to progress and I still have difficulties walking," Carrion says, looking into the video camera. "I'm sorry I haven't been able to speak publicly, but right now I'm focused on my physical therapy and healing."...

Five former lawmen among those arrested for alleged home invasion Posted: 3/2/2006 1:53:06 PM LOS ANGELES (AP) - Law enforcement officials report 19 people, including five former lawmen, have been arrested for allegedly taking part in a home invasion robbery ring in which some members posed as police officers during raids at drug houses. One official familiar with the case identifies the alleged gang leader as former Los Angeles police Officer Ruben Palomares. The U-S attorney's office says two former L-A-P-D officers, a former Long Beach police officer and a former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy also have been arrested....

SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. -- Undercover sex is getting the OK from a Virginia sheriff. Spotsylvania County Sheriff Howard Smith said he stands by the practice of allowing detectives to receive sexual services in the course of their investigations so they can catch suspects in the act. Court documents show that four times last month, county detectives allowed women at a massage parlor to perform sex acts on them. In one case, a lawman left a $350 tip. Smith acknowledged the practice is not new. Smith told The Washington Post that only unmarried detectives are allowed to do the under-the-covers work. He...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The wife of an unarmed Air Force security officer who was shot by a San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy said Wednesday her husband was kicked in the head, handcuffed and dragged after the shooting. A resident captured the shooting on video. But Mariela Carrion said in an interview on NBC's "Today" show that the kicking and dragging by the deputy took place after the recording stopped. "He kicked him on the head, and after he kicked him on the head, he handcuffed him, and after he handcuffed him, he dragged him like if he was an...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Friends and family described a San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy caught on tape shooting an Air Force policeman at the end of a brief car chase as levelheaded and "by-the-book," while the airman's family planned to speak with reporters Friday. Sheriff's Deputy Ivory J. Webb, 45, has been on paid administrative leave since Sunday night's shooting in Chino, about 35 miles east of Los Angeles. Senior Airman Elio Carrion, who was a passenger in the car, has been hospitalized in good condition with multiple gunshot wounds. An attorney for the Carrion family said a news conference...

The lineups and the media buzz are gone, and so are most of its stores. Krispy Kreme, which entered Canada with a bang, has shrivelled to a half-dozen doughnut stores. KremeKo Inc., which has exclusive franchise in every province except British Columbia, filed for protection from its creditors on April 15. It tried to find a suitable buyer this summer but was unsuccessful. KremeKo hopes that it can salvage its six remaining stores. "Although the company has closed six of the twelve stores operating since the granting of (bankruptcy protection), management believes that the remaining six stores represent a suitable...

Wanted: Stolen car. Make and model: Ford Crown Victoria. Owner: D.C. Police Department. Reported stolen by: Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey. So goes the saga of car theft in the District, where even the police chief's department-issued car can get swiped just a block from his home. "There is not a whole lot to add to it," Ramsey said. "The car was taken and there was nothing of real value in it . . . Cars are getting stolen everyday." Police officials said that Ramsey's black unmarked car was stolen sometime between Friday night and Sunday morning from a Southwest...

MORRISTOWN, N.J. -- A retired Chatham police chief admitted trying to enlist a prostitute's help in opening a brothel, but was spared jail time under a plea deal with prosecutors. Thomas Ramsey, 55, of Mansfield, admitted Tuesday in state Superior Court that he proposed running a brothel and using a massage parlor as a front while speaking to a prostitute in a Mount Olive motel last year. During the conversation, Ramsey acknowledged, he encouraged the woman to continue working as a prostitute. The plan would have included a third person, and Ramsey would have used his law enforcement knowledge and...

Ex-Lansing detective admits drug theft 3/31/2005, 12:14 p.m. ET The Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A former city police detective admitted in court that he stole prescription painkillers from an acquaintance's house last fall. Darren Duso, 42, pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking the OxyContin in return for a dismissal of more serious charges. He faces up to two years in prison when Ingham County Circuit Judge Paula Manderfield sentences him on May 4. The 15-year Lansing Police Department veteran resigned in November, one month after county sheriff's officials arrested him on charges of stealing drugs from the Dansville house....

Jury probes effort to smear GOP Testimony focuses on State Police files and McGreevey's campaign A state grand jury is hearing testimony into allegations that former State Police officials and a former state senator conducted a covert operation that used confidential files in an effort to smear Republicans and help James E. McGreevey run for governor four years ago. ...A key witness in the investigation, retired State Police Lt. Vincent Bellaran, said in an interview this week he has testified three times before the grand jury in Trenton. In return for his testimony, Bellaran said, prosecutors who report to state...

Policeman Resigns After Photos Found 1 hour, 48 minutes ago Strange News - AP COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A policeman has resigned after 100 photos of barely clad men were found in his home. An investigation of former patrolman Charles Broshous was begun after a gay dancer reported being arrested and forced to strip to a "satin leopard G-string" while Broshous photographed him. Broshous, 36, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor official misconduct Nov. 24 and resigned from the force that day. His departure was disclosed this week under a freedom of information request by The Gazette. During the Police Department's three-month...

Little Emily didn't let stalker win Brave 10-year-old: 'Some kids disappear and never come back' Brooklynite Jose Laboy (below) kept trying to lure or grab Emily Garcia, she says. Fifth-grader (above) describes terrifying, months-long ordeal. A 10-year-old girl stalked for months by a Brooklyn sicko helped catch her tormentor this week - after he brazenly tried to snatch her off the street, police said. "I thought he might grab me and push me into the car and take me away," a shaken Emily Garcia told the Daily News. "Some kids disappear and never come back." But Emily wasn't going...

Police will notify parents about teen traffic tickets MIDDLETOWN — Police Chief John Pollinger has begun to notify parents of drivers under the age of 18 when they’re found driving at a reckless speed. “What brought it to a head was on Jan. 1, I pulled over a kid on Navesink River Road doing 85 mph in 40 mph zone, 100 yards before McClees Creek,” said Pollinger. “The kid wouldn’t have survived going over the hump at 85. He would’ve been killed.” A year previous, two teens were killed at the same location. Police estimated that the driver was operating...

Speed camera catches wrong man A man faces a court appearance for speeding - despite the roadside camera showing a man in his 20s at the wheel. Laurie Motherby, 77, wrote to police saying he had sold the Toyota Corolla in the photo - and it was clearly not him pictured. But he still has to appear before JPs at Beverley, East Yorkshire reports The Sun. He said: "It's ridiculous." Wife Doreen, 71, added: "The snap says it all." Police say the car was still registered to Laurie when snapped at 45mph in a 30mph limit.

OCALA, Fla. -- Two boys, ages 9 and 10, were charged with felonies and taken away from school in handcuffs, accused of making violent drawings of stick figures. The special education students used pencil and red crayon to draw primitive stick figure scenes on scrap paper that showed a 10-year-old classmate being stabbed and hung, police said. "The officer found they were drawing these pictures for the sole purpose of intimidating and scaring the victim," said Ocala Police Sgt. Russ Kern. The boy depicted in the drawings told his teacher, who took the sketches and contacted the school dean, Marty...

Trantino beginning transition to normal life Sunday, January 28, 2001 By RANDY DIAMOND Trenton Bureau There are no bars on the windows of the four-story house in a residential section near Newark's downtown. The front door isn't locked. But the wiring on the windows, which is connected to an alarm system, is a reminder to the 90 men who live in this building and several adjoining brownstones that they are not yet entirely free. They are state prisoners living in a halfway house. And before they can shed the role of inmate, they must complete an intense, rule-oriented, therapeutic six- ...

It doesn't take much to become a Big Man On Campus these days. At Rutg ers University, all you have to do is murder cops. Thomas Trantino — who should have gone to the chair 40 years ago — will be a guest panelist there today, lecturing his bleeding-heart audience on "How to Survive Probation and Parole," at the New Jersey college's Camden campus. The forum is co-sponsored by the school's department of sociology, anthropology and criminal justice — whose bizarre notion of criminal justice apparently includes welcoming a cop-killer. Better today's audience should hear from the families of...

JONESBORO, Ga. (AP) - On his first day on the job, the new sheriff called 27 employees into his office, stripped them of their badges, fired them, and had rooftop snipers stand guard as they were escorted out the door. The move Monday by Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill provoked an angry reaction and prompted a judge to order him to rehire the employees. "It appears ... that employees of the Sheriff were terminated without cause" and in violation of the county's civil service rules, Judge Stephen Boswell wrote in granting a 30-day restraining order. Hill, 39, defended the firings...

Broad Street School was evacuated Thursday morning for the third time in just eight days when a kindergarten teacher discovered a fuseless stick of dynamite in her classroom, city police said. Police determined the Salem County Sheriff's Department K-9 Unit accidentally left the dynamite in the school last Friday following a training exercise, according to Lt. Burl Kimble. Typically, K-9 handlers will hide fuseless sticks of dynamite or other devices inside already-cleared buildings as a reinforcement training aid for bomb-sniffing dogs, according to officials. "Whenever they search a building like that, they have to put something out there for the...

Bursting into a New Brunswick apartment armed with a gun and boxcutters, four masked men had robbery on their minds, expecting a group of Rutgers University students would be easy pickings for cash and marijuana, a prosecuting attorney told a jury in Middlesex County yesterday.Screaming obscenities and ordering their victims to lie face- down on the living room floor, the men quickly turned the break-in into an opportunity to sexually assault three of their sobbing victims, First Assistant Middlesex County Prosecutor William Lamb said.One woman was attacked as her friends watched in terror, and the other two were led into...

PHILADELPHIA -- The police chief and the head of the city's schools apologized Monday to the mother of a 10-year-old girl who was arrested and handcuffed after she brought a pair of scissors to school in her backpack. Although officers were following protocol when they drove the girl to a police station with her hands cuffed in front of her, discretion will be used in future cases involving young children, Police Chief Sylvester Johnson said. Johnson said he told Rose Jackson that the arrest of her daughter, Porsche Brown, was "extremely unfortunate" and apologized for "any trauma that her daughter...

A federal air marshal reported his badge, gun license and government-issued cell phone were lifted at the Olde Magoun's Saloon Sunday. The marshal, whose name was not released by Somerville Police, said several other items of his were stolen while he was at the saloon at 518 Medford St. at 10:25 p.m., including his wallet, credit cards, keys and identification, police record stated. Federal air marshals respond to criminal incidents on U.S. air carriers and are authorized to carry firearms, according to the Federal Aviation Administration Web site.

A 10-year-old girl was placed in handcuffs and taken to a police station because she took a pair of scissors to her elementary school. School district officials said the fourth-grade student did not threaten anyone with the 8-inch shears, but violated a rule that considers scissors to be potential weapons. Administrators said they were following state law when they called police Thursday, and police said they were following department rules when they handcuffed Porsche Brown and took her away in a patrol wagon. "My daughter cried and cried," said her mother, Rose Jackson. "She had no idea what she did...

WATERBURY -- It never dawned on William Bechard that the two old Smith & Wesson revolvers he found for sale earlier this year in the Bargain News would get him arrested. The classified advertisement newspaper led Bechard, 52, to a man in Hartford who was selling a .32-caliber revolver and a .38-caliber revolver. Bechard, of Waterbury, is an avid gun collector and trader who owns nearly 100 rifles and handguns, nearly all of them more than 50 years old. Bechard said he bought the two revolvers in April for about $300. The man Bechard bought the guns from called about...

New Jersey--Daytime Curfew Bill Scheduled for Vote Monday Dear HSLDA members and friends: A daytime curfew bill that has already passed the Senate may have an impact on homeschoolers. The Assembly will probably vote on S155 on Monday, and it is very unlikely it will be defeated. Therefore HSLDA is prepared to help homeschoolers at the local level if problems arise from this legislation. As it is written, it authorizes municipalities to adopt curfew ordinances forbidding public and private school students--but not homeschool students--from being in public places during the hours their school is in session. If the bill...

KAILUA-KONA » Two Kona medical marijuana users have received $30,000 from Hawaii County in a settlement of their lawsuit for wrongful arrest. Jack Schweigert, attorney for Rhonda and John Robison, received a check yesterday following court and County Council approval of the settlement, Rhonda Robison said. The Robisons, along with their house guest, Kealoha Wells, were arrested July 8, 2002, at their home after they showed police a small greenhouse where they grew marijuana. John Robison uses marijuana as follow-up treatment for leukemia. Rhonda Robison uses it for a form of muscular dystrophy. Wells used it while under treatment for...

CAMDEN -- A mother, a sister, an ex-wife and a daughter agreed Friday that William L. Hamilton Sr. should not have been in the back yard of Robert J. Clark Jr.'s home seven months ago. But Hamilton, who was black and who authorities say was trying to steal an all-terrain vehicle from a shed, did not deserve to be fatally shot by Clark, they said. A month after a grand jury declined to indict Clark, the four women said Friday they believe had Hamilton been the shooter, their father, son, ex-husband and brother would be in jail. "If a white...