An initiative that would abolish the death penalty in favor of life without parole has qualified for the November ballot in California.
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The FBI plans to add a "violent offender file" to its NCIC index in August to give field officers more information about the violent offenders who may attack them during a stop.
Read More →The former security guard suspected of gunning down the Stanislaus County (Calif.) Sheriff's deputy and locksmith who tried to evict him had planned an extended ambush of officers.
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More than 100 officers surrounded a Modesto, Calif., apartment complex, following the fatal shooting of a Stanislaus County Sheriff's deputy on Thursday.
Read More →A California Highway Patrol officer, charged with having a cache of illegal guns, explosives, drugs, and stolen drivers' licenses at his Anderson area home, pleaded not guilty on Monday in Shasta County Superior Court.
Read More →The FBI has launched a civil rights probe into the fatal officer-involved shooting of an unarmed Pasadena, Calif., teenager by officers who were told he was an armed robbery suspect.
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Actress Amanda Bynes, 26, was arrested early Friday for drunk driving after she struck the black-and-white patrol car of a Los Angeles Sheriff's Department deputy.
Read More →A Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department captain apparently took a convicted jewel thief out for golf tips.
Read More →A former student opened fire in a classroom at a small independent university in Oakland Monday morning, killing seven and wounding three others. The gunman was taken into custody by police in the parking lot of a shopping mall near Oikos University.
Read More →A San Bernardino (Calif.) County Sheriff's deputy fatally shot a rape and robbery suspect, and was wounded in the Thursday shootout.
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