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The county police department is going through public parks and search vehicles to give them a report card on how safe their vehicle is and vulnerable to theft.

An attempt to locate a bank robbery suspect is costing the city of Aurora $325,000. The city agreed to settle a lawsuit brought forth by people who were detained at an intersection while police tried to find a man who robbed a nearby bank. Some motorists were approached at gunpoint by police following the robbery, handcuffed and made to wait two hours before the scene was cleared. Stacks of money stolen from the bank contained a GPS tracking device that led police to the intersection. When police arrived in the area, they weren't able to use GPS to specifically pinpoint...

"The boy was questioned by the principal and a sheriff's deputy, who also wanted to search the family home without a warrant, Henkelman said. "He started asking me questions about if I have firearms, and [the deputy said] he's going to have to search my house. Search my house? I just wanted to know what happened."

A Pennsylvania teen who stored intimate photos of herself on her cell phone — but never e-mailed or shared them with anyone other than her longtime boyfriend — settled her federal privacy case against high school officials who had seized the phone without a warrant and turned it over to prosecutors. Still unsettled, however, is the question of how far educators can go when it comes to fulfilling their obligation to keep sexually explicit images, audio and text from reaching the eyes and ears of minors while on school grounds. "I hope this settlement will lead school officials in the...

This is just my opinion. If a thread I post is pulled, I would appreciate an explanation, so I know what it is that required it to be pulled, as to not do it again. I'd rather play by the rules than waste my time. I posted an excerpt of an opinion piece by Peggy Noonan from WSJ "A Separate Peace - America is in trouble - and our elites are merely resigned. " which disapeared without explanation. I didn't think I violated the "terms of use" or "privacy policy" within WSJ. If I am incorrect, please let me know....