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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 26, 2013

Fla. Officers Gave Christmas Speeders Lottery Scratchers

By 1 p.m. Christmas Day, more than 30 scratch-off game tickets were handed out to speeders and other traffic violators in a bid to spread holiday cheer while keeping the roads safe, police say.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 26, 2013

Police: Ore. Meth User Masturbates in Bar, Fights Off Officers

It took a TASER and more than a dozen officers on Sunday to finally subdue Andrew Frey inside Iggy's Bar & Grill on Portland Road Northeast, the Marion County Sheriff's Office said.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 26, 2013

Video: Texas Officers Wounded, Suspect Killed in Christmas Shootout

A Mansfield, Texas, teen who led Grand Prairie police on a nearly 10-hour manhunt after shooting at an officer at a traffic stop early Wednesday morning was pronounced dead after he was shot while walking into a neighborhood Christmas afternoon, police said.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 26, 2013

ATF Source: FBI Operation Led to Border Agent Terry's Murder

A federal agent who exposed the Justice Department’s flawed gun-trafficking investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious says the FBI played a key role in events leading to the 2010 murder near Nogales, Ariz., of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 26, 2013

California Dep. Killed in Prisoner Transport Van Crash

A Tulare County (Calif.) Sheriff's deputy was killed early Tuesday in a single-vehicle crash while he was transporting prisoners, the department reported.

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Videosby Staff WriterDecember 26, 2013

Texas Officers Wounded, Suspect Killed in Christmas Shootout

A Mansfield, Texas, teen who led Grand Prairie police on a nearly 10-hour manhunt after shooting at an officer at a traffic stop early Wednesday morning was pronounced dead after he was shot while walking into a neighborhood Christmas afternoon, police said. Read Full Story Here.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 23, 2013

L.A. Paramedics to Now Enter Active Shooter Zones to Aid Victims

The new goal is to have Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics and firefighters, protected by armed law enforcement teams, rapidly enter potentially dangerous areas during active shooting incidents to treat victims and get them en route to hospital trauma centers.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 23, 2013

San Antonio Officer Shot Two Weeks Ago Dies

Officer Robert Deckard of the San Antonio Police Department who was shot two weeks ago pursuing armed robbery suspects died Friday morning.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 23, 2013

Video: 19-Hour Ky. Barricade Incident Ends with Suspect Surrender

An Army veteran who held Covington, Ky., police at bay for more than 19 hours, set fire to the house he had barricaded himself in, and exchanged gunfire with officers was taken into custody Sunday afternoon.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 23, 2013

Video: Suspects Arrested in Slaying of Ill. Investigator

Two Bellwood, Ill., men in their 20s have been charged with gunning down a Cook County sheriff's investigator as he tried to stop them from robbing his daughter and her boyfriend outside a holiday party at a VFW hall.

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