A police officer is stabbed while responding to an emergency call in the Kilwilkie estate in Lurgan.

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Police officer slashed with knife

The police officer was wounded while pursuing a man at a city housing project, the authorities said.

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Police Officer Is Shot in the Face At a Brooklyn Housing Project

One police officer was sacked and more than 150 faced disciplinary action over their behaviour on Facebook in a three-year period, figures show.

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150 officers warned over Facebook

PHILADELPHIA — An appeals court has overturned the attempted prostitution conviction of a Philadelphia woman who was accused of offering sexual favors for World Series tickets. Authorities had alleged that Susan Finkelstein posted a racy online ad, then met with an undercover Bensalem police officer in October 2009 and offered to perform sexual acts in exchange for tickets to see the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees. Read full article > >

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Pa. appeals court overturns woman’s conviction in World Series tickets-for-sex case

RICHMOND, Va. — The man who fatally ambushed a Virginia Tech police officer had legally purchased the handgun used in the shooting, Virginia State Police said Tuesday. Ross T. Ashely, 22, purchased the .40-caliber semiautomatic weapon used to gun down officer Derick Crouse in January from a licensed Virginia gun dealer, state police investigators said in a statement. The name of the dealer was not released. Read full article > >

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State Police: Virginia Tech gunman purchased handgun legally months before killing officer

Ending a case that attracted international attention, prosecutors dropped attempts to execute Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of killing a Philadelphia police officer in 1981.

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Execution Case Dropped Against Mumia Abu-Jamal in Officer’s Killing

A police officer who was sacked by his force after being jailed for throwing a woman on to a concrete cell floor wins his job back.

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Cell-shove officer wins job back

A police officer tells the trial of a woman accused of murdering her toddler son that the child’s body was found in a “horrendous” state.

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The murders of at least 10 people included immigrant shopkeepers and a police officer, German officials said Sunday. The group is also suspected in bank robberies and a bombing.

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Neo-Nazis Suspected in Wave of Crimes in Germany

Hours after a man and woman were fatally shot in the parking lot of Arundel Mills mall in Hanover, the suspected assailant was killed Saturday morning in Prince George’s County in an exchange of gunfire that also left one Prince George’s police officer wounded, authorities said. James Edward Coleman, 22, of District Heights was shot by police after officers from Prince George’s and Anne Arundel counties arrived at the single-family home he shared with his parents on Rydal Road, police said. Read full article > >

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Suspect in Arundel Mills shootings is killed by police

After a teenager was shot in Georgetown on Halloween night, two witnesses saw a man stuff something in his waistband and take off with a companion. The witnesses flagged down a police officer who captured one of the men, but the other got away. The account of what happened Monday night in the 2800 block of M St. NW was revealed in court papers Wednesday. The man arrested, 24-year-old Andre Coleman of the 4300 block of Gorman Terrace SE, has been charged with carrying a pistol without a license. Nobody has been charged in the shooting, which left the 17-year-old victim hospitalized Wednesday in critical condition. Read full article > >

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D.C. man faces gun charge after Georgetown chase on Halloween night

Suspect fired at police officer, still at large.

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SC Schools on Lockdown After Shootout

Suspect fired at police officer, still at large.

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SC Schools on Lockdown After Shootout

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani court on Saturday convicted and sentenced a police officer to death for the killing of a liberal governor earlier this year, a murder that led to fears the country was buckling under the weight of extremism. The January murder in broad daylight of Punjab provincial governor, Salman Taseer, by one of his police guards was alarming in itself, but what came afterward perhaps even more so: lawyers showered his killer, Mumtaz Qadri, with flowers, thousands demonstrated in his defense and even mainstream politicians didn’t loudly condemn the killing. Read full article > >

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Pakistani court convicts, sentences policeman to death for killing liberal governor

Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed in Georgia at 7 p.m. in the killing of a Savannah police officer 22 years ago.

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Request for Lie Detector Test for Davis Is Denied