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Utah Sheriff’s Sgt. Killed, Dep. Wounded in Rampage

Authorities say Sgt. Cory Wride of the Utah County Sheriff's Office was ambushed about 1 p.m. as he stopped to check on a vehicle abandoned on the side of Highway 73 between Eagle Mountain and Cedar Fort.

January 30, 2014

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Colo. Sgt. Killed on Motorcycle in Head-on Collision

A motorcycle officer with the Jefferson County (Colo.) Sheriff's Office was killed while on patrol Sunday at 10:05 a.m., after being struck by a car that crossed double yellow lines to illegally pass. Sgt. David Baldwin was a military veteran in the U.S. Air Force as well as a highly decorated 27-year veteran of the agency.

January 27, 2014

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Video: 2 Okla. Officers, Suspect Killed in Vehicle Pursuit

The pursuit began around 9:40 Thursday morning when Undersheriff Beck tried to serve felony arrest warrants on Quentin Lee Johnson, 27, of Sentinel, Okla. Johnson, who was wanted on drug and weapons charges, fled in his pickup truck with Beck in hot pursuit.

January 23, 2014

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2 Okla. Officers, Suspect Killed in Vehicle Pursuit

Two officers were killed during a lengthy high-speed pursuit in Western Oklahoma Thursday. Vehicles driven by Washita County Undersheriff Brian Beck, 39, and Burns Flat Police Officer Kristian Willhight, 36, crashed head-on in a rural intersection near Dill City. Both Wilhight and Beck died at the scene. Read Full Story Here.

January 23, 2014

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Mexico Protests Texas Execution of Cop Killer

Tamayo, 46, was condemned for the January 1994 murder of Houston police officer Guy Gaddis, 24 (pictured above). Tamayo, who had been imprisoned in California for aggravated robbery, shot the officer three times with a pistol hidden in his clothing as he was being taken to jail.

January 22, 2014

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Friendly Fire Kills California Detective

The officer's weapon discharged Tuesday during a probation search at an apartment complex in the eastern Alameda County bedroom community of Dublin, Calif., killing 42-year-old Detective Sgt. Tom Smith.

January 21, 2014

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Thousands Attend Funeral of Slain San Antonio Officer

Minutes before, Chief William McManus instructed a dispatch officer to announce that Deckard's badge number, 0582, would be retired. San Antonio police officers received the message over their department radios.

January 5, 2014

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Tupelo Officer Wounded During Robbery Released from Hospital

Tupelo Police Officer Joseph Maher was released from North Mississippi Medical Center Tuesday morning, eight days after being critically wounded in a shootout.

January 1, 2014

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CBP Officer Dies at Texas Port

A Customs and Border Protection officer died Sunday while on the job at a Texas port.

January 1, 2014

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Ohio Enacts Law to Create LE Database of Mentally Ill Subjects

Three years after Clark County (Ohio) Deputy Sheriff Suzanne Hopper was ambushed and killed by a deranged man, a new rule went into effect Wednesday requiring courts to notify police about violent offenders with a mental illness.

January 1, 2014

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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.

December 25, 2013

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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.

December 25, 2013