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48 US law enforcement officers slain last year

Figure is up from 2008, but down from a high of 55 five years ago

October 19, 2010 05:43 AM

Texas officer accused of stealing wedding gift had previous suspensions

Has been suspended five times and received three written reprimands during his 18-year police career

October 15, 2010 04:36 AM

Police arrest man tied to false Texas conviction

After serving 10 years behind bars, Stephen Brodie’s lawyers asked the forensics lab to conduct DNA tests on the other “North Dallas Rapist” cases from two decades ago and found a match

October 14, 2010 02:22 AM

20 years after false confession, inmate goes free

Says he confessed to murders because of police torture

September 22, 2010 07:14 AM

After 57 years behind bars, a juvenile lifer speaks

Sentenced at 15, has spent time in four different prisons

September 22, 2010 06:28 AM

Ill. parolee not picked up after battery claim

Just weeks after a convicted burglar was freed under a secret Illinois early prison-release program last fall, his parole officer learned he was a suspect in a violent battery case

September 20, 2010 12:40 PM

Inmate found gulty of attacking CO with claw hammer

Terrance B. Davis, 52, struck the officer in the head with a claw hammer several times

September 20, 2010 06:30 AM

Ky. man claims caffeine insanity in killing of wife

The caffeine-intoxication strategy is unusual, but has succeeded in court at least once before

September 20, 2010 01:31 AM

Homeland Security

US fights order to release Guantanamo detainee

The prisoner is accused of recruiting Sept. 11 hijackers

September 17, 2010 06:09 AM

A common correctional forum despite differences

September 16, 2010 10:55 AM

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Gene Atherton