Philadelphia police are investigating a possible murder-suicide in the city's Summerdale section. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WTXF FOX 29 Philadelphia,]
For those who do not live in the Rio Grande valley, the river with the same name, is just a water barrier with Mexico; but for small town police officers like Joe Cantu of La Joya, Texas, the Rio Grande is also a last line of protection. [www.clipsyndicate.com | FOX KRIV Houston, TX]
Police in Bucks County report searching for a hunter who was last since Monday afternoon. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WTXF FOX 29 Philadelphia,]
Audio tapes of a woman plotting to have her stepmother killed sent chills through a Minneapolis courtroom Monday. Emily Roitenberg admitted to hiring a hit man to kill her stepmother back in March. What Roitenberg didn’t know was she was planning the killing with an undercover police officer. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KMSP FOX 9 Minneapolis]
Detroit Police are doing some extra detective work as they search for a missing unmarked cruiser. Someone stole the undercover vehicle overnight. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WJBK FOX 2 Detroit, MI]
A driver may face vehicular manslaughter charges after a weekend crash on a rural El Dorado County road left two teenagers and a man dead, police said. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KCRA NBC 3 Sacramento CA]
Police said three people were shot, one fatally, in southwest Atlanta Monday night. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WAGA FOX 5 Atlanta, GA ]
Ambrose Greaves charged in wife's death [www.clipsyndicate.com | WLUK FOX 11 Green Bay]
Buffalo Police have released surveillance pictures from last Wednesday's armed robbery at an east side Auto Zone store. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WNLO CW 23 Buffalo]
One person is dead after a Colchester house fire, Monday. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WTNH ABC 8 New Haven]
Man shot while sitting in car [www.clipsyndicate.com | WNDY 23 Indianapolis]
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convicted rapist [www.clipsyndicate.com | WLFI CBS 18 Lafayette]
Police wouldn't say which murders they believe the suspect is linked to, but 12 News learned one of those killings dates back to this past July. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WISN ABC 12 Milwaukee WI]
Bernalillo County commissioners have named Capt. Manuel Gonzales as the county’s new sheriff. The commission initially considered two other candidates Monday evening, but neither got enough votes. In a later vote, Gonzales received the required three votes from five of the commissioners, who then decided to make it a unanimous decision. Gonzales is a veteran deputy with the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office. He will take over for Darren White, who resigned as sheriff to become the City of Albuquerque’s Director of Public Safety. "I’m happy. I’m very happy. I want to go out there and start up right now. I just feel very fortunate… and I want to go out there and execute to the best of my ability," said Gonzales. Commissioners praised Gonzales not just for his law enforcement experience, but also for his administrative skills. Gonzales was sworn in Monday night shortly after his selection. He will oversee the department's force of 300 deputies in New Mexico’s most populous county. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KOB Albuquerque]
A group of New Mexico defense attorneys is pushing to change DWI laws after an Edgewood man was recently convicted for DWI even though he wasn’t driving. Fidencio Francia was convicted of DWI a few weeks ago after he was caught by police drunk and sleeping in his truck. Francia admits he drank, but he insists he did not drive. He lost the case anyway. That has many New Mexicans outraged. “People should be rewarded, to some degree, for acknowledging the fact that they should not be driving. Even if they made the initial mistake of starting to drive but they realize it,” said Ousama Rasheed of the New Mexico Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. Rasheed says Francia’s case is an example of someone who did the right thing but was convicted of DWI anyway. Rasheed now wants to propose a change to DWI laws that would make what Francia did a petty misdemeanor instead. He proposed a penalty of up to 90 days in jail, a $500 fine and attending a DWI school. However, you would not end up with a DWI on your record. “Had Dana Pabst slept in his vehicle instead of driving, had Gordon House slept in his vehicle instead of driving, had Lloyd Larson slept in his vehicle instead of driving, that would have been a lot of lives that would have been saved,” said Rasheed. But the DWI Resource Center is absolutely against the proposal. Officials say DWI laws need to stay exactly the way they are. “When someone’s passed out, sleeping in their vehicle, who has the crystal ball to say they’re not going to wake up and drive down the road still impaired,” said Linda Atkinson. Rasheed says he’s in the process of drafting a bill and finding a state legislator to sponsor it. He expects it to be introduced in the January legislative session. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KOB Albuquerque]
A man who claimed to hate Christmas shoved a Salvation Army bell ringer to the ground and swiped one of the charity's red kettles stuffed with hundreds of dollars, police said. (Nov. 30) [www.clipsyndicate.com | Associated Press]
The Bernalillo County Commission late Monday chose Manuel Gonzales to be the new sheriff of Bernalillo County. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KRQE CBS 13 Albuquerque]
Arson investigators are charging William Peyton Smith for the fire at AAA Limo two weeks ago. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KXAN NBC 36 Austin]
Police arrested two teens for a burglary at Widen Elementary School. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KXAN NBC 36 Austin]
A significant pot bust in North Austin. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KXAN NBC 36 Austin]
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