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Waitress Gets Fired for Insulting Police on Facebook
Looks like someone didn't get the memo that what you post on Facebook can be seen by lots of people—and some of them may not like it very much.
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Woman Slaps Cop So She’ll Go to Jail and Stop Smoking in Most Hair-Brained Scheme Ever
A woman in Sacramento, California is about to become the cigarette butt of many jokes.
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Three Connected to Bombing Suspect Questioned in New Bedford
The investigation into the Boston Marathon bombing seeped into New Bedford, Mass. on Friday evening withe the questioning of several people who knew suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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Major Police Operation Underway in Boston Suburb [UPDATED]
6:55 AM ET: The AP is reporting that the suspects are from Chechnya, and have lived in the US for at least one year. The surviving Boston bomb suspect has been identified as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Ma. NBC News is reporting that both suspects are brothers. Sources say that the men may have military experience, according to law enforcement officials.
6:30 AM ET: CNN is reporting that officials are worried that the suspect who remains at large could have explosives on his body. An official tells the network that the suspect killed overnight had explosives on his body. As a result, city officials have suspended all public transportation for the time being. Those in Watertown and the surrounding neighborhoods are being urged to shelter in place until further notice. Many colleges have cancelled classes for the day. Businesses are being told not to open.
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Police Shoot, Kill Kurt Myers, Ending Standoff in Herkimer, New York
State Police have shot and killed Kurt Myers, the suspect in shootings that killed four people and injured two others in Herkimer and Mohawk, New York.
Shortly before 8 a.m. Thursday, State Police, FBI and a K-9 unit entered the former Glory Days bar in Herkimer where Myers had been in hiding for nearly 16 hours and had at times exchanged fire with police.
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Man Arrested After Breaking Into Restaurant, Eating 16 Slices of Pie and Falling Asleep
A man broke into a Baltimore fast-food restaurant last month and ate 16 slices of pie before falling asleep and being captured, police say. Baltimore police responded to a break-in at a Popeye's chicken restaurant on Feb. 19, whereupon they found a 62-year-old man asleep on the floor of the establishme
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Drunk Man Pees in Cop Car, But Don’t Worry — He Was Wearing a Diaper
We're no experts, but we imagine that dealing with drunken idiots is every cop's least favorite part of the job, especially guys like the dude about at Oktoberfest, or the Seattle man who recently peed in the back of a patrol car on Sunday while being transported to jail. Hey, can you blame him? At least he was wearing a diaper at the time.
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Parents Sue Police After 7-Year-Old Is Cuffed For 10 Hours
An elementary school tussle turned into an all day police station ordeal for seven-year old Wilson Reyes, according to a $250 million lawsuit his parents have filed against the NYPD.
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High Speed Police Chase Takes Surprising Turn
We sat through this whole thing video of a high-speed police pursuit in Inglewood, Calif., waiting for something horrible to happen, because it's the internet. Magically, nothing horrible does happen
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Cops Make Teen Troublemakers Do Push-Ups
Last Friday police in North Providence, Rhode Island were called by a woman who had spotted a group of teenagers damaging her mailbox. The cops quickly located the yellow sports car which had been at the crime scene and apprehended the suspects.
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Beaverton Police Take Hamster Into Protective Custody
Pulling over a driver suspected of being impaired is unfortunately far too common for most police officers.
Having to take a hamster into protective custody, on the other hand, is somewhat outside the usual scope of police duty. And yet, in Beaverton, OR, they were called on to do just that.
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Cut-Rate Batman Goes to Jail for Obstructing Police
A manhunt for a hit-and-run driver in upper Michigan over the weekend turned into a full-blown Gotham city sideshow as state police say they were forced to arrest a man who showed up at the crime scene dressed like Batman.