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Sirens & Gavels archive for Aug. 26, 2011

FRIDAY, AUG. 26, 2011

Crime Stoppers targets 2 drug suspects 

Crime Stoppers is offering rewards for tips that lead to the arrest of two accused drug dealers. Tysen R. Foster, 25, is charged with four drug felonies related to alleged cocaine transactions with confidential informants in February, March and April, and from a jail strip…

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$100k in jewelry found after safe heist

About $100,000 in stolen jewelry was recovered Thursday after police arrested a burglary suspect who claimed to be addicted to OxyContin. Cody Michael Sutton, 20, is accused of burglarizing a home in Veradale after the owner's 12-year-old son allowed him inside about 4 p.m. thinking…

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Citizen helps police find fleeing fugitive

A citizen helped officers find a fleeing fugitive early this morning in west Spokane, police said. Christopher A. Hill, 31, was wanted on suspicion of bank robbery in Pendleton, Ore., and on a $250,000 bail jumping charge related to a meth possession case in Benton…

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In a Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011 photo, a squirrel makes off with a flag from the Toledo Police Memorial in Toledo, Ohio. As police officer watched Wednesday, a squirrel quickly snatched a flag off its wooden dowel and ran off with it. They also spotted a squirrel's nest made of leaves and branches, and at least two of the little flags.  ((AP Photo/Toledo Blade via Toledo Police Dept, Lt. James Brown))

Squirrel blamed for flag thefts in Ohio

In a Wednesday, photo, a squirrel makes off with a flag from the Toledo Police Memorial in Toledo, Ohio. (AP Photo/Toledo Blade via Toledo Police Dept, Lt. James Brown) TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Police in Ohio have discovered that small flags being swiped from a…

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Hundreds of students, staff and friends gathered in Friendship Square in downtown Moscow Idaho to honor slain U/I grad student Katy Benoit on Thursday August 25, 2011.   (Christopher Anderson)

Victim's friends ID'd professor to 911

Hundreds of students, staff and friends gathered in Friendship Square in downtown Moscow Idaho to honor slain U/I grad student Katy Benoit on Thursday. (SR photo/Christopher Anderson) By JESSIE L. BONNER,Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — In the immediate aftermath of a brutal killing on…

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