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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 9, 2009

BART Shooting Protest Organizer Devastated by Oakland Riot

When the marchers reached the Lake Merritt BART Station around 6:15 p.m., protest organizer Evan Shamar saw things start to go bad. Marchers began kicking newspaper stands and using papers to start fires. As he saw them throwing bottles and spitting on police cars, Shamar said he wept and returned to the Fruitvale Station.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 9, 2009

Officer Involved in BART Shooting Abruptly Resigns

The BART police officer who shot an unarmed man to death on a station platform early on New Year's Day quit the force Wednesday, avoiding an interview with police internal affairs investigators trying to get to the bottom of an incident that has prompted broad outrage.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 9, 2009

S.C. Officers Say Man Operated Meth Lab from His Vehicle

On Tuesday, officers say they saw the suspect breaking up pills and pouring chemicals while driving on U.S. 378, Lexington County Sheriff James R. Metts said.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 8, 2009

Ex-U.S. Drug Czar Warns of Mexican Border Rush Because of Cartel Violence

A failure by the Mexican political system to curtail lawlessness and violence could result (in) a surge of millions of refugees crossing the U.S. border to escape the domestic misery of violence, failed economic policy, poverty, hunger, joblessness, and the mindless cruelty and injustice of a criminal state," Barry McCaffrey said.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 8, 2009

Georgia Cold Case Squad Cracks First Case

The Gwinnett County Police Department’s newly minted cold case squad has cracked its first case — a 2007 fatal shooting of a Norcross teenager who was working at a gas station.

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ProductsJanuary 1, 2009

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Articlesby David GriffithJanuary 1, 2009

Mumbai: You Would Have Shot Back

American law enforcement would react faster, with more courage than its Indian counterparts and that would make it harder for terrorists to slaughter citizens.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 31, 2008

Anchorage Police Identify Large Number of Gang Members

Documented gangs in Anchorage continue to swell, even as anti-gang officials pledged Monday to continue their two-year-old effort to combat youth violence in south central Alaska.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 31, 2008

Mistrust Bedevils War on Mexican Drug Cartels

The U.S. has begun pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Mexico to help stanch the expansion of drug-fueled violence and corruption that has claimed more than 5,000 lives south of the border this year.

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