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WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ga. – A Georgia prison inmate doused a correctional officer with pepper spray and then charged toward a second officer before he was fatally shot at a hospital Tuesday evening, according to authorities. Jacob Henson, 31, was identified as the deceased prison inmate. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation released the following details: The ..read more
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By Chief Joel F. Shults, Ed.D The recent solar eclipse, with a few exceptions, was regarded as a natural phenomenon happily explained by astronomers. We were assured that the sun was not being consumed by a cosmic dragon and that the moon’s shadow was not the dawn of the apocalypse. It is an interesting study how ..read more
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By Anthony Gockowski and Luke Sprinkel ST. PAUL, Minn. – Minnesota Senate Republicans filed an ethics complaint Wednesday against Democratic Sen. Nicole Mitchell, whose arrest this week on burglary charges has upended the legislative session that is scheduled to run for another month. Mitchell, a first-term senator from Woodbury, was not present in the Senate chambers Wednesday ..read more
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HORRY COUNTY, S.C. – A small town police chief in South Carolina was among 10 people arrested during a prostitution sting operation on Tuesday in Horry County, according to authorities. Quentin Robinson, 41, who has been the chief of the Atlantic Beach Police Department since 2017, was taken into custody and charged with first-offense soliciting ..read more
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. The City of Nashville, Tennessee, was ordered to turn over documents to a judge about the Metro Nashville Police Department’s investigation into the March 2023 mass murder at a Christian school by a transgender-identifying homicidal suspect, according to court filings obtained by the Daily Wire. The order is part of the ongoing battle ..read more
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Lawmakers in Tennessee passed a bill on Tuesday that will allow the teachers in the state to carry a concealed firearm at school. The bill was approved in a 68-28 vote in the Republican-dominated Tennessee House as protesters shouted their opposition from the gallery. The state’s Senate passed the bill earlier in the ..read more
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By Steve Pomper I’m not here to convince you who should or shouldn’t hold a political office. However, as a retired cop, I will tell you what public policies I consider better for public safety versus others I view as destructive of the criminal justice system. And I will use examples that we’ve written about here ..read more
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By Steve Pomper I’m not here to convince you who should or shouldn’t hold a political office. However, as a retired cop, I will tell you what public policies I consider better for public safety versus others I view as destructive of the criminal justice system. And I will use examples that we’ve written about here ..read more
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By Crime Watch MN WOODBURY, Minn. – A man was injured in an officer-involved shooting in Woodbury, Minn., Monday morning following a standoff in which the suspect was reported to be armed and had barricaded himself in a vehicle. The activity began just before 9:30 a.m. when police were alerted to a vehicle with a stolen license ..read more
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YUKON, Okla. — Law enforcement authorities in Oklahoma said a homicide investigation is underway after five people, including two children, were discovered dead Monday morning at a Yukon residence. A spokesman with the Oklahoma City Police Department said they were notified about 9:35 a.m. regarding five people dead at a home in the 2800 block ..read more