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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The latest on a Philadelphia police officer shot while sitting in a police cruiser (all times local): 1:15 p.m. Police say the suspect in the shooting of a Philadelphia police officer told investigators that he shot the officer in the name of Islam and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group. They also say the man, who has addresses in Philadelphia and the suburb of Yeadon, used a stolen police gun in the crime. Police officials say the gun was reported stolen from an officer's home in October 2013 but they don't know how many hands it...

SEATTLE -- A convicted cop shooter is set to be back on the streets in just one week. But his victim says that's repeating the mistakes that led to the murders of four Lakewood police officers. The attack rocked the Tri-Cities, especially since Lain was a parole violator from Iowa. Lain was convicted and sentenced to life after the attack on Fitzpatrick. But now, after 28 years behind bars, the Sentencing Review Board has decided to release Lain. "We feel like 28 years, in this case is, we hope, enough time that he will be able to successfully reintegrate back...

The suspected drug dealer accused of shooting a Bernalillo County sheriff's deputy in the groin during a raid last month is getting out of jail for a day next week — unsupervised. During an arraignment in state District Court on Friday, Judge Kenneth Martinez agreed to allow 27-year-old William Westfall a one-day furlough on Tuesday to attend his brother's funeral, authorities said. Martinez also reduced Westfall's bond from $250,000 cash only to $150,000 cash or surety, meaning Westfall would be released if he can come up with 10 percent of the new amount. Westfall was indicted this week on 13...

4 Decades After Shooting, Effort to Make Punishment Fit the Crime By CATRIN EINHORN Published: February 23, 2008 CHICAGO — What punishment should be imposed on a man who shot a police officer almost 40 years ago and fled to Canada, but went on to live an upstanding life as a husband and father who worked in a library?**snip** In 2004, he was arrested, but fought extradition. Last month he gave up that fight, saying he was inspired by the new political climate he saw in Chicago, symbolized, he said, by the support of Mayor Richard M. Daley and other...

A suspected cop shooter set free on a technicality allegedly has assaulted another police officer just months after his release, the Daily News has learned. William Hodges, 32, will be arraigned Thursday in Queens Criminal Court on charges of biting 102nd Precinct cop Benedict Vitale during a melee in the emergency room at Jamaica Hospital last July. "I'll kick your f-----g ass," Hodges yelled as he shoved Vitale before kicking and biting the cop's left thigh, according to a criminal complaint filed by Queens prosecutors. Prosecutors said they conducted an exhaustive investigation before drafting an indictment this week. Hodges was...