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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 17, 2008

Police Say Oregon Bank Bombing a Father-Son Job

The bomb that ripped through a West Coast Bank branch in Woodburn on Friday and killed two police officers was the product of a plot that dates to at least November involving a father-and-son team, according to information released by authorities Tuesday.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 16, 2008

Salem Man to be Arraigned in Oregon Bombing That Killed Two Officers

A 32-year-old Salem man whose family has deep roots in the area is to be arraigned this morning on aggravated murder for the deaths of two police officers in Friday's bank bombing in Woodburn.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 16, 2008

Bomb Found at Paris Dept. Store

The French television station LCI said a group calling itself the Afghan Revolutionary Front claimed in a statement to AFP that it had planted the explosives. The statement said the group was demanding the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan, LCI said. France has about 3,000 troops deployed with the NATO-led force in Afghanistan.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 15, 2008

Arrest Made in Oregon Bank Bombing that Killed Two Officers

Authorities arrested a suspect in the Salem area Sunday evening in the Woodburn bank bombing that killed two police explosives experts and injured the town's police chief and a bank employee.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 12, 2008

Georgia Sheriff’s Office Cracks Down on Gangs, Wins IACP Award

Using an operational tattoo shop as a business front, the Richmond County, Ga., Sheriff’s Office Gang Task Force conducted undercover investigations to reduce gun sales by local street gangs.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 11, 2008

As Mexico's Drug War Rages, Military Takes Over for Police

Even for Mexicans accustomed to ghastly headlines chronicling the country's drug-related violence, the current level of killing in Tijuana causes consternation. Some 200 people have been slain in one month. Last weekend turned into one of the city's deadliest: nearly 40 were killed, four of whom were children, and nine of them beheaded.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 11, 2008

Body Count Climbs in Mexico's Bloody Drug War

So far this year in Mexico's drug war, 5,376 people have been killed, double the number of last year and more than all U.S. troops killed in Iraq.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 10, 2008

TREXPO West Announces Conference Topics

TREXPO West has announced topics to be featured in training sessions at the show in Long Beach, Calif., March 31–April 2, 2009.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 10, 2008

Federal Sentences Bust Up Violent Charlotte Gang

“This gang turned a nice neighborhood into a shooting gallery,” said U.S. District Judge Frank Whitney, admonishing the gang's reputed leader. “Your organization was responsible for at least three murders, maybe more. Those murders are just horrendous.”

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 8, 2008

N.C. Highway Patrol Scraps K-9 Program

The state Highway Patrol is disbanding its canine program and plans a new, better managed unit limited to the use of Labrador retrievers for drug searches, patrol officials announced today.

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