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Deputy, firefighter had own set of rules Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:52 AM I respond to the May 3 Dispatch article "Deputy fired for not taking firefighter's keys." I must have missed something. I always thought that when you are stopped for drinking and driving that you go to jail. If Muskingum County deputy sheriff Phillip Michel had done his job and taken the firefighter to jail, the firefighter would still be here today. I guess that people such as firefighters, judges and police have their own set of laws that they abide by, which is a lot different from...

Scottsdale made a deal with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office and the Arizona Department of Public Safety in January to ignore their own speed violations snapped by the city’s pilot Loop 101 photo enforcement system. The arrangement meant sheriff’s office and DPS vehicles exceeding the posted 65 mph speed limit on Loop 101 received a free pass, even though in some cases police officials admitted the speeding might not have been justified. Some of the speeds recorded were significant, up to 117 mph. Since the high-profile camera system was turned on Jan. 22, city records show that 16 emergency vehicles...

BOGOTA — Nine environmentalists were released Sunday by their rebel captors after they disappeared mysteriously days earlier while conducting research in northern Colombia, the military said. The researchers work for Corpocesar, an environmental office in the government of the province of Cesar, which has partnerships with Conservation International. They had been researching in the Sierra de Perija, some 600 kilometres north of the capital of Bogota and did not return Thursday as expected. Cesar province is home to leftist rebels and far-right paramilitaries locked in a four-decade civil war. Given that Colombia has one of the highest kidnapping rates in...

Since you can't post anything from the Des Moines Register, here's a link to the article. Unbelievable!!! http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060303/NEWS01/603030387&SearchID=73237551850783

The law requires everyone to follow the speed limit and other traffic regulations, but in Suffolk County, exceptions should be made for cops and their families, police union officials say. Police Benevolent Association president Jeff Frayler said Thursday it has been union policy to discourage Suffolk police officers from issuing tickets to fellow officers, regardless of where they work.