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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 30, 2009

Okla. Deputy Eulogized; Shooter Faces Two Murder Counts

Officers from across the state gathered to Wewoka, Okla., today to honor Seminole County Deputy Chase Whitebird.

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Newsby Staff WriterJuly 21, 2009

Aunt Argues Charlotte Cop Killing Suspect Mentally Unfit for Trial

The picture of a disturbed and occasionally violent Demeatrius Antonio Montgomery emerged during a hearing to determine whether he is mentally competent to stand trial in the 2007 shooting deaths of Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers Sean Clark and Jeff Shelton.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 28, 2009

Killer of Phoenix Officer Gets Death Penalty

A Maricopa County Superior Court jury deliberated barely three hours before agreeing to the death penalty for convicted cop killer Donald Delahanty on Wednesday. It might have been a foregone conclusion. Delahanty, 22, was found guilty May 5 of first-degree murder for the shooting death of Phoenix police Officer David Uribe during a traffic stop in May 2005.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 28, 2009

Mentally Disabled Man Convicted of Killing San Jose Cop

A mentally disabled man was convicted Wednesday of second-degree murder for fatally shooting a rookie San Jose police officer in 2001. DeShawn Campbell, 29, faces life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing Officer Jeffrey Fontana with a single shot to the head from a .45-caliber pistol during a traffic stop early Oct. 28, 2001, in San Jose's Almaden Valley neighborhood.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 23, 2009

Third Man Arrested in Murder of L.A. Sheriff's Deputy

A third suspected gang member has been arrested and charged with capital murder in the shooting of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Juan Abel Escalante outside his parents' Cypress Park home, authorities said Wednesday.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 16, 2009

Pa. Gov. Rendell Urges Ban on Assault Weapons in Wake of Pittsburgh Cop Killings

Surrounded by Pittsburgh officials such as Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and Police Chief Nate Harper, plus a dozen other mayors and state police officers, Gov. Ed Rendell urged Congress yesterday to re-enact a ban on the sale and possession of assault weapons, which criminals sometimes use to kill police.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 6, 2009

Supreme Court Rejects New Trial for Cop Killer Mumia

The Supreme Court said Monday it will not take up Abu-Jamal's claims that prosecutors improperly excluded blacks from the jury that convicted him of murdering Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 2, 2009

Lee Woods Sentenced to Life in Prison for Timoshenko Killing

A remorseless cop killer was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison plus 40 years for the execution of Officer Russel Timoshenko during a car stop in Brooklyn.

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Newsby Staff WriterMarch 12, 2009

San Francisco Police Union Accuses Bill Ayers in 1970 Bombing

Leaders of San Francisco's police officers union have accused Weather Underground co-founder Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, of taking part in the 1970 bombing of a city police station that killed a sergeant.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 13, 2009

Oceanside, Calif., Cop-Killer, 18, Gets Life Without Parole

Vista Superior Court, Penifoti Taeotui, 18, was sentenced to 56 years in prison for two counts of assault with a deadly weapon and a consecutive term of life without parole for one count of murder.

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