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Investigators have identified a former Utah state trooper as a suspect in a series of highway shootings in Dallas that left two motorists dead, police said. Brian Smith, 37, who now lives in Keller, shot himself early Tuesday during a standoff in Garland with a SWAT team. Smith was listed in critical condition at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. "We feel confident because of the ballistics tests that we have at this point that he (Smith) is responsible for the shootings, " said Sgt. Gil Cerda, police spokesman... Smith supervised about five patrolmen in the Salt Lake City area and...

Morehouse College’s chief of police, Vernon Worthy, has been charged with aggravated assault, false imprisonment and pointing a gun at someone after a hunting confrontation in Middle Georgia.

Wilmington, NC (AHN) - Five sheriff's deputies will be disciplined after two undercover deputies zapped a North Carolina man with a Taser while he was serving as a pall bearer at his father's funeral and loading the coffin into a hearse. Another pall bearer said the incident was so frightening that the other pall bearers nearly dropped the casket of 70-year-old Gladwyn Taft Russ Jr., who was being buried with military honors. New Hanover County Sheriff's deputies were trying to serve a warrant on the dead man's son, Gladwyn Taft Russ III, on charges of communicating a threat to his...

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) -- Two police officers were suspended indefinitely with pay Thursday as an investigation continued into their arrest of a pregnant woman who had a miscarriage a day after she was thrown in jail.The suspensions came two days after police released a videotape showing Sofia Salva telling officers during her arrest last year that she was three months pregnant, bleeding and needed to go to a hospital. The tape shows officers ignoring her pleas. After the ninth request, the tape shows, a female officer asked: "How is that my problem?" (Watch police arrest Salva Video) The officers'...

ATLANTA -- Three Atlanta police officers were shot and wounded and an elderly woman killed at a house in northwest Atlanta Tuesday night. The woman, identified by relatives as 92-year old Kathryn Johnston, opened fire on the officers from the narcotics division at a house at 933 Neal Street, according to officials. Atlanta Police Asst. Chief Alan Dreher said at a news conference Wednesday that an undercover officer made a drug purchase at Johnston’s address late Tuesday afternoon from a male suspect. Officers were able to obtain a search warrant after that. Asst. Chief Dreher said as they were executing...

A guard started a gunfight inside a federal prison Wednesday as FBI agents tried to arrest him and five others accused of trading alcohol and pot for sex with female inmates, officials said. When the shooting was over, two people were dead and another was wounded. The gunman and a Justice Department investigator were killed in the exchange of gunfire, and a prison employee helping with the arrest was hospitalized, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. The victims' names and the condition of the survivor were...

MUSKEGON -- Two officers are being disciplined for accidentally shooting at each other inside a Muskegon home. Officers responded April 1 to the home in the 700 block of McLaughlin Avenue for a report of a possible kidnapping. Three people were in the home’s basement when police burst through the front and rear doors. Investigators say one of the officers thought he was in danger from somebody with a gun. The second officer returned fire in the direction of where that shot came from. The Muskegon police chief says action has been taken against the officers involved, although he wouldn't...

Long Beach Police were attempting to serve a warrant on a kidnap suspect. Suspect fled in a mini-van and ended up on the Long Beach Freeway. Police stoped the car and have it sandwiched between two armored vehicles. Suspect is still in the car. Long Beach Freeway closed in both directions.

A pair of baby-faced Whitman boys, busted on a public street for illegal skateboarding, were arrested, booked and shackled before being hauled into a Brockton juvenile court to face charges, the children's irate parents said yesterday. ``It's absurd,'' mother Stephanie Saltzman said. ``My son is 12 years old and all he was doing is skateboarding. I mean, you gotta be kidding me.'' Saltzman's son, Josh, and 14-year-old neighbor, Ryan Maxwell, were arrested Aug. 3 when a Whitman police officer caught them skateboading on South Avenue. A town bylaw prohibits using skateboards or other devices to ``coast or slide'' along public...