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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 13, 2013

SWAT Deputies Used Hot Gas on Dorner

When cold gas failed to flush Chris Dorner out of a remote cabin, San Bernardino County (Calif.) Sheriff's SWAT deputies used hot gas, an incendiary tool that could have caused the fire that engulfed the cabin.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 13, 2013

Md. Cop Shot In Head In Training Exercise

The Baltimore Police commissioner shut down police training indefinitely after a University of Maryland police officer was shot in the head during an exercise at a closed psychiatric hospital.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 13, 2013

Video: Gunfight with Chris Dorner Captured by CBS

A CBS news crew captured video footage of the intense gun battle between San Bernardino County (Calif.) Sheriff's deputies and fugitive ex-LAPD cop Chris Dorner.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 12, 2013

Deputy Killed In Gunfight with Dorner

Fugitive ex-LAPD cop Chris Dorner fatally shot a San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputy during a Tuesday shootout, before barricading himself in a remote cabin.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 12, 2013

Dorner Cornered, Cabin Burns

Law enforcement personnel surrounded the remote cabin and watched it burn to the ground, while trying to confirm whether Dorner died in the fire. A San Bernardino County Sheriff's spokesman said gunfire was heard before the fire started.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 12, 2013

Video: Fort Hood Massacre Hero Says Obama Betrayed Victims

The former police sergeant who helped stop the Fort Hood rampage tells ABC News that President Obama has betrayed the victims of the attack. Kim Munley and other victims also say the attack should be classified as a terrorist attack rather than "workplace violence."

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Videosby Staff WriterFebruary 11, 2013

NYPD Rescues Kayaker In Icy Water

This NYPD video shows ESU officers transporting a 32-year-old man to a waiting ambulance at the agency's aviation base at Floyd Bennett Field on Saturday. Detective Brian Singer and Officer Marian Kopystianskyj, two divers assigned to the Harbor Unit, entered the icy water of Jamaica Bay to save the man.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 11, 2013

Steven Seagal Helps Train Ariz. Posse for School Shooters

Maricopa County (Ariz.) Sheriff Joe Arpaio and actor Steven Seagal teamed up Saturday to provide active-shooter response training to the civilian posse that has begun guarding Phoenix-area schools.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 11, 2013

3 Killed, 2 Officers Wounded at Del. Courthouse

A gunman killed three people, including his wife, and wounded two officers at the New Castle County Courthouse in Wilmington on Monday morning.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 7, 2013

L.A. Sheriff Moves to Fire Elite Gang Officers

Seven Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies in an elite gang-enforcement unit have been notified the department intends to fire them for celebrating shootings and getting matching tattoos.

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