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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 13, 2011

Minneapolis Woman Receives $1 Million for Flash-Bang Burns in SWAT Raid

Last week, Minneapolis officials called Russell's injuries an accident and said they were reviewing the incident. In a statement, City Attorney Susan Segal said that since the raid, "the manufacturer of the [device] has changed the design to reduce the risk that the device will roll after being deployed."

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 12, 2011

Radical Church to Picket Va. Tech Officer's Funeral

Six members of the WBC will be picketing, according to Fred Phelps Jr., son of WBC pastor Fred Phelps Sr. "The law enforcement across this nation has for years refused to do their duty and protect the people," Phelps Jr. said. "There is a price to be paid when you do that to God."

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 12, 2011

Thousands Attend Fallen Va. Tech Officer's Funeral

Thousands of police officers and sheriff's deputies from New York to Kentucky came to Virginia Tech's Cassell Coliseum this afternoon to honor the memory of Deriek Crouse, the first Tech officer killed in the line of duty.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 9, 2011

Va. Tech Gunman Changed Clothes After Shooting Cop in Car

Va. Tech Officer Deriek Crouse had pulled over a car driven by a student and was stopped on a campus parking lot with that car in front of his cruiser when he was shot and killed. The student has been very helpful to investigators.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 9, 2011

Same Gun Killed Cop, Man at Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech Police officer Deriek Crouse, 39, of Christiansburg, was killed during a daytime traffic stop, officials said. Crouse was making what should have been a routine traffic stop around 12:30 p.m. Thursday when a gunman, seemingly out of the blue, took his life.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 8, 2011

Va. Tech Officer Shot, Killed On Campus

Virginia Tech University spokesman Mark Owczarski told the Associated Press a campus police officer stopped a vehicle shortly after noon today in the school's Coliseum parking lot, near McComas Hall.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 8, 2011

Slain Va. Tech Officer was Father of Five

Deriek W. Crouse, an Army veteran and married father of five, was killed Thursday after pulling a driver over in a school parking lot. Police said the gunman walked up, shot the officer and then fled on foot before he apparently killed himself nearby. The deceased suspect was not involved in the traffic stop.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 7, 2011

UC Berkeley Shooting Probably ‘Suicide by Cop’

The fatal shooting of a student at the University of California, Berkeley, last month was most likely suicidal, the UC Berkeley Police Department has announced.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 7, 2011

Teen Threatened 'Columbine-Style' Attack at Illinois High School

A Metea Valley High School student must undergo a psychological evaluation after threatening to commit a 'Columbine-style' attack at the campus.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 6, 2011

N.Y. Sheriff's K-9 Dies In Building Search

Niagara County Sheriff's Deputy Craig Beiter and Rocky were searching St. Mary's Hospital in Niagara Falls on Sunday, when Rocky jumped over a over a three-foot retaining wall and fell about 60 feet to his death.

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