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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 16, 2012

Mich. Cop Killer Texted Wife: 'C U Other Side'

The documents shed additional light on what happened the night of Sept. 9, when Officer Patrick O'Rourke, 39, was killed, launching a 20-hour standoff that ended when Coley was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 10, 2012

Former Ala. Trooper Who Murdered Trooper Girlfriend Leaves Prison

A onetime Alabama trooper who fatally shot his trooper girlfriend as she sat in her patrol car left prison Sunday after serving a 25-year prison sentence for the crime.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 20, 2012

Court Upholds Ga. Cop Killer's Death Sentence

A convicted Georgia cop killer remains on death row, after a federal appeals court rejected his argument that he had ineffective counsel. Robert Wayne Holsey's lead attorney, Andrew Prince, drank a quart of vodka every day during trial.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 30, 2012

Killers of NYPD Cop Bid for Parole

Four men convicted in the 1988 killing a young New York City police officer will be coming up for parole for the first time in November.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 27, 2012

Second Suspect Arrested In Philly Cop's Killing

A second suspect in the murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Moses Walker Jr. was apprehended in Alabama on Sunday at the very hour when hundreds were gathering at a North Philadelphia church to pay their respects to the slain patrolman.

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Newsby Staff WriterAugust 13, 2012

'Onion Field' Cop Killer Dies In Prison

Gregory Powell, who kidnapped two Los Angeles Police officers and killed one of them, has died at a prison medical facility in Vacaville. Powell, 79, fatally shot Officer Ian Campbell on March 9, 1963 in what became known as the "Onion Field" case.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 31, 2012

Release of Ind. Cop Killer Outrages Community

A man once given the death penalty for fatally shooting an Indiana town marshal in the back left prison Sunday nearly 30 years after the crime. William Spranger was convicted of killing William Miner and had been given the death penalty.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 30, 2012

NYPD Cop's Killer Was Police Informant

One of the three killers of a New York Police Department officer was a registered police informant at the time of the shooting.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 27, 2012

Man Charged In Ala. Cop's 2002 Slaying

Birmingham (Ala.) Police this afternoon announced they have filed charges against a man in the 2002 shooting death of Birmingham Police Officer Joseph Jerome Daniels.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 26, 2012

Ark. Cop Killer Faces Death Penalty

An Arkansas man was convicted of capital murder Thursday for killing a police officer who begged him not to shoot. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

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