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Newsby Staff WriterApril 24, 2008

New Orleans Implements High-Tech Parking Enforcement

The city has outfitted two parking-enforcement vans with cameras emitting yellow strobe lights that can scan both sides of the street, taking a digital image of license plates on parked cars and instantly checking the tag numbers against a database of vehicle owners with long-overdue parking fines.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 22, 2008

LAPD Chopper Makes Emergency Landing

A Los Angeles police helicopter made an emergency landing on a West Hollywood street Sunday when a warning alarm indicated a possible engine problem. No one was injured.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 21, 2008

Police Say S.C. Kid Planned to Columbine His School

A teenager in a small South Carolina town planned to conduct a Columbine-like attack this week, the ninth anniversary of the Colorado school shootings, authorities said Sunday.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 21, 2008

Feds Allege Georgia Firm Sold Faulty Flash-Bangs

A Georgia military contractor tricked law enforcement agencies into buying faulty stun grenades, ultimately leaving three FBI agents injured, federal prosecutors allege in a Monday indictment.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 14, 2008

Two Southern California Officers Stable After Shooting in Theater

Two El Segundo, Calif., police officers were reported in stable condition at a hospital Saturday after a shootout inside a movie theater that left a 24-year-old man dead and a bystander injured, police and city officials said.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 13, 2008

New York-Area Police Honored for Water Rescues

The Life Saving Benevolent Association (LSBA) has honored New York-area police officers for their heroic lifesaving water rescues.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 12, 2008

California Investigators Identify Victim of 1964 Homicide

In an extraordinary example of old-fashioned sleuthing and state-of-the-art genetic testing, investigators have solved the case of a Mill Valley, Calif., woman missing since 1964, concluding from bones recently found in a makeshift grave that she was probably a homicide victim.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 8, 2008

Gary, Ind., Police Officer Suspected In Drive-By Shooting

A Gary, Ind., police detective turned in his gun, badge and radio Thursday afternoon after Portage police identified him as a suspect in a drive-by shooting in their city last month.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 4, 2008

Denver Detective Says He Lacked Child Interrogation Skills for Abuse Investigation

The Denver detective assigned to find out from 6-year-old Chandler Grafner whether he had been abused testified Wednesday that, at the time, he had no forensic training in how to interview a child.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 3, 2008

N.C. Probation Office Slammed for Releasing Murder Suspects

One after another, the mistakes mounted in the probation offices handling the cases of the men charged with murdering UNC-Chapel Hil student body president Eve Carson. Demario Atwater, 21, had not received as much as a phone call from his probation officer for more than a year. Laurence Alvin Lovette, 17, had a probation officer who, after seven months on the job, still had not received basic training or met the teenager.

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