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Around 5 p.m. Thursday, Brandon Robertson, of Tyler, was found hiding out in a heavily wooded area of Cass County and once surrounded, turned a gun on himself. He was wanted for allegedly killing Trooper Scott Burns Tuesday at Lake Of The Pines. Now, in a twist to this story, Robertson's girlfriend, 36 year old Jennifer Petrick, was arrested at the same place Robertson was found. KLTV 7's Courtney Lane just returned from the scene and brings us the latest, as details continue to unfold.

The man who is the subject of a regionwide manhunt after allegedly killing a Texas state trooper was once a peace officer himself. Records with the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education show the man wanted for the shooting death of trooper James Scott Burns, 39, of Linden during a high speed chase Tuesday night is a former lawman in Rusk County.

If you're a woman who's ever been stopped by former Trooper James Randy Moss, the Tennessee Highway Patrol wants to talk to you. Moss, 40, resigned from the THP last month after being accused of receiving oral sex from Knoxville porn actress Barbie Cummings during a traffic stop in Middle Tennessee. The resulting investigation has expanded to cover more than 25 previous traffic stops by Moss, all involving women drivers, said Tommy Thompson, 15th Judicial District attorney general.

By LEWIS SNYDER 9/8/2006 - A trooper died this week. A young, useful, productive member of society — one sworn to help and protect the citizens of New York — died as the result of a gunshot wound. The shooting was very likely the cowardly deed of one Ralph Phillips — an individual who has never done anything useful in his entire life for society. An individual who, in fact, has been nothing but a drain on society since his first arrest all those years ago. I have some questions I would like to ask. To all those who thought...

FREDONIA, N.Y. - A state police official said Monday that "the noose is tightening" in the manhunt for an escaped inmate accused of a deadly police ambush, and warned hunters to stay out of the woods where the fugitive may be hiding. Hunters in rural and wooded Chautauqua County are "interfering" with the search and face danger from Ralph "Bucky" Phillips and authorities pursuing him, State Police Maj. Michael Manning said. "They can certainly be mistaken for the wrong individual," Manning said. Many officers are scouring the western New York woods for Phillips, the prime suspect in Thursday's ambush of...

On Friday, 102 men and women are expected to walk across the stage at the State Police training academy in Sea Girt, collect their badges and join the ranks of New Jersey's top law enforcement agency. This latest batch of graduating troopers looks like many of the previous classes, but less and less like the state they will serve. Seventy-nine of the 102 are white men. Seven years and millions of dollars after the State Police conceded their minority recruiting efforts were "significantly flawed" and pledged improvement, the race and gender makeup of the rank and file remains effectively unchanged....

EWING, N.J. (AP) - Wayne Gretzky's wife and about a half-dozen NHL players placed bets - but not on hockey - with a nationwide sports gambling ring financed by Phoenix Coyotes assistant coach Rick Tocchet, authorities said Tuesday. Gretzky, hockey's greatest player, is in his first season coaching the Coyotes and is a part-owner of the team. Actress-wife Janet Jones was among those implicated, two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because no bettors have been publicly identified.

State Trooper Shot and Killed During Traffic Stop In Carnegie Pennsylvania A Pennsylvania state trooper was shot to death near Carnegie overnight. It happened around 2 this morning at the Roslyn Farms interchange on the Parkway West. Details are just coming in, but what's known is a Carnegie cop spotted a state cruiser off to the side of the highway. Inside he found a state trooper slumped over the wheel. Apparntly he was shot to death while making a traffic stop. An all points builletin is out for at least four suspects...all said to be black men who were last...

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...

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 6:42 p.m. ET PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A man says a traffic ticket a state trooper gave him is for the birds -- or at least for flipping the bird. Stephen Corey, 42, filed a federal lawsuit because he says he had a First Amendment right to flip his middle finger at the trooper in July. Trooper Samuel Nassan III gave Corey, a flight attendant from Pittsburgh, a ticket for following another vehicle too closely, then wrote him up for giving ``an improper hand signal while passing my patrol car, namely middle finger up,'' according...

Condolences to the family of this Trooper. Another one of our Finest gone. Radio reports state that the suspect was apprehended. Guess he will get 15 to 20 and be back out as a 40 something year old felon, according to NJ law!

<p>BOWLING GREEN - Donna Lee Blanton, the widow of slain Virginia State Police 1st Sgt. Taylor V. Blanton, today was arrested at her Caroline County home and charged with first-degree murder in her husband's death.</p> <p>Donna Blanton had told investigators that her husband had been shot to death by an intruder about 6 a.m. last Thursday and that she picked up the gun used in the shooting and fired at the fleeing intruder.</p>

The anti–racial profiling juggernaut has finally met its nemesis: the truth. According to a new study, black drivers on the New Jersey Turnpike are twice as likely to speed as white drivers, and are even more dominant among drivers breaking 90 miles per hour. This finding demolishes the myth of racial profiling. Precisely for that reason, the Bush Justice Department tried to bury the report so the profiling juggernaut could continue its destructive campaign against law enforcement. Rest of article

<p>TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - The New Jersey attorney general's office has opened an investigation into allegations that a secret society of rogue state troopers has harassed minorities and women among their ranks. First Assistant Attorney General Peter Harvey said investigators and prosecutors from his office and the state police will do everything possible to the determine the truth about the Lords of Discipline.</p>

<p>A Vermont state trooper killed by a hit-and-run driver on Father's Day will be eulogized today in a service expected to draw hundreds of law-enforcement officers from across the state.</p> <p>Sgt. Michael Johnson, a native of Newark, N.J., was struck shortly after laying tire spikes meant to stop a car that had fled a traffic stop. The driver, Eric Daley, 23, escaped but was arrested Tuesday on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania.</p>

Monday, May 20, 2002 By MIKE ROARKE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Ronal Serpas sensed something was wrong in Enumclaw. Why did state troopers hand out tickets in only 40 percent of the crashes they investigated there during March? Shouldn't they have ticketed more? "What's goin' on, you think?" the Washington State Patrol chief asked Capt. Leslie Young, the Bellevue-area commander who sat in front of him at a captains' meeting May 2. The patrol offices in Tacoma grew hushed, except for the fans stirring air around 50 of the agency's top brass, who all held big books of numbers summarizing tickets,...