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• 72 law enforcement officers were slain last year

  November 19, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI says that 72 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty last year, up from 56 the year before. An additional 53 officers …

• Shirtless photo of FBI agent silly not scandalous

  November 15, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — A newspaper report describes a photograph of a shirtless FBI agent in the case that forced CIA Director David Petraeus to resign abruptly as silly but not …

• Border Patrol under scrutiny for deadly force

  November 14, 2012 in Nation/World NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) — A pair of Mexican drug smugglers in camouflage pants, bundles of marijuana strapped to their backs, scaled a 25 foot-high fence in the middle of the …

• FBI says agents at the home of Petraeus lover

  November 12, 2012 in Nation/World CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — FBI agents on Monday night searched the North Carolina home of the woman whose affair with retired Gen. David Petraeus led to his resignation as CIA …

• Motive behind Michigan police HQ shooting unclear

  November 12, 2012 in Nation/World SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) — Police are investigating what prompted a 64-year-old military veteran to stride into a suburban Detroit police station then open fire on officers, leading to an exchange …

• Congress wants answers from FBI, CIA on Petraeus

  November 11, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The career of David Petraeus, the CIA director and renowned general, was derailed by allegedly vicious emails his paramour sent to another woman. Now the CIA, FBI … 2

• Fear of looting grips NYC as new storm threatens

  November 6, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Richard Chan prowled around his cold, dark Staten Island home with knives and a sword to protect it from thieves, standing his ground as another East …

• Atlanta police ID officers killed in chopper crash

  November 4, 2012 in Nation/World ATLANTA (AP) — The two Atlanta police officers killed in a weekend helicopter crash are being remembered as public servants who died honorably as they searched for a missing 9-year-old …

• Atlanta police helicopter crash kills 2 officers

  November 4, 2012 in Nation/World ATLANTA (AP) — A low-flying police helicopter scanning a bustling neighborhood not far from downtown Atlanta for a runaway 9-year-old boy suddenly plummeted to the ground and exploded, killing both …

• Border agents in contact before deadly shooting

  November 3, 2012 in Nation/World PHOENIX (AP) — A new report into a shooting that left a U.S. Border Patrol agent dead says three agents responding to an alarm were apparently in radio contact as …

• Border agents in fatal shooting had radio contact

  November 2, 2012 in Nation/World PHOENIX (AP) — Three U.S. Border Patrol agents responding to an alarm from an underground sensor were apparently in radio contact as they approached from opposite directions before opening fire …

• Secret Service agent who hid affair kills himself

  November 2, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — For nearly six years, a senior Secret Service agent kept his extramarital affair with a Mexican woman a secret from the agency responsible for protecting the president. …

• Secret Service agent kills self amid affair probe

  November 1, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Secret Service agent who was being investigated by the government for failing to disclose a long-standing relationship with a foreign citizen killed himself last week …

• Attorneys say Iowa detectives framed Nebraska men

  November 1, 2012 in Nation/World DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lawyers for two black men wrongly convicted in the 1977 murder of a retired white Iowa police officer told jurors in a civil trial Thursday …

• Justices hear arguments over police dog use

  October 31, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday considered curbing police use of drug-sniffing dogs as lawyers argued that using a dog’s hypersensitive nose outside a home to indicate the …

• Mother: Execution brings relief, not closure

  October 31, 2012 in Nation/World SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Tina Curl was so eager to see her 9-year-old daughter’s killer executed Tuesday night that she couldn’t even take her seat in the witness room. …

• SD executes man for rape, death of 9-year-old girl

  October 30, 2012 in Nation/World SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota inmate was executed Tuesday night for the 1990 rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl who disappeared after leaving her home to …

• FBI: Crime reported to police fell last year

  October 29, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of violent crimes reported to police decreased 3.8 percent last year to 1.2 million, the fifth straight year of declines, the FBI announced Monday. Meanwhile, … 7

• 2 off-duty Fla. officers fatally shoot naked woman

  October 20, 2012 in Nation/World TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Two off-duty Florida law-enforcement officers fatally shot an armed, naked woman who confronted them at a social gathering Saturday, authorities said. The shooting occurred at about …

• Judge stops LAPD warrant for Manson follower tapes

  October 18, 2012 in Nation/World DALLAS (AP) — A federal judge in Texas has blocked an attempt by the Los Angeles Police Department to use a search warrant to obtain decades-old tapes of conversations between …

• Armed posse patrols timber land in sheriff’s place

  October 17, 2012 in Nation/World O’BRIEN, Ore. (AP) — There’s no room in the county jail for burglars and thieves. And the sheriff’s department in a vast, rural corner of southwest Oregon has been reduced …

• Release of names in prostitution case stirs debate

  October 17, 2012 in Nation/World KENNEBUNK, Maine (AP) — The first batch of men charged with being clients of a woman accused of turning her Zumba dance studio into a brothel included a former mayor …

• For dollars’ worth of copper farmers out thousands

  October 14, 2012 in Nation/World DOS PALOS, Calif. (AP) — Cannon Michael is a folk hero across California’s agriculture heartland, where these days the price of scrap metal influences a farmer’s bottom line as much … 1

• Mexican mayor says boy shot by US agent 7 times

  October 12, 2012 in Nation/World PHOENIX (AP) — A teenage boy apparently killed this week by a U.S. Border Patrol agent was hit seven times by gunfire and died on a sidewalk just across the …

• Secret Service officer arrested after passing out

  October 12, 2012 in Nation/World MIAMI (AP) — In the latest embarrassing spectacle for the Secret Service, one of its officers was found passed out and apparently drunk on a Miami street corner less than … 1

• Secret Service officer arrested after Obama trip

  October 12, 2012 in Nation/World MIAMI (AP) — A Secret Service officer was arrested early Friday after being found passed out and apparently drunk on a Miami street corner several hours after President Barack Obama …

• Source: Mexican teen killed by US BP agent

  October 11, 2012 in Nation/World PHOENIX (AP) — A U.S. Border Patrol agent opened fire on a group of people throwing rocks from across the Mexican border, killing a teenage boy and eliciting outrage from … 1

• 21 accused in NYC of selling meds on Craigslist

  October 11, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — The Craigslist ad offered black-market Percocet pills for sale but warned potential customers: “No LE please.” Meaning: No law enforcement. Like that made a difference.

• AP IMPACT: Cartels flood US with cheap meth

  October 11, 2012 in Nation/World ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mexican drug cartels are quietly filling the void in the nation’s drug market created by the long effort to crack down on American-made methamphetamine, flooding U.S. …

• Down economy exacerbating US town dissolutions

  October 10, 2012 in Nation/World Carmen Wilkerson ran for mayor of St. George with one clear goal in mind for the tiny Missouri town: Get rid of it. Like many of St. George’s 1,200 residents, …

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