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TAMPA, Fla. — A former Hillsborough County deputy accused of forcing a woman to perform oral sex on him in his patrol car has reportedly agreed to a plea deal that would require him to serve five years in prison. An attorney for 37-year-old Raymond Choy said Wednesday that his client has agreed to plead guilty to sexual battery and ...

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) - A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to driving his motorized La-Z-Boy chair while drunk. A criminal complaint says 62-year-old Dennis LeRoy Anderson told police he left a bar in the northern Minnesota town of Proctor on his chair after drinking eight or nine beers. [widget:news__wtop] Prosecutors say Anderson's blood alcohol content was 0.29, more than three times ...

A city firefighter pleaded guilty on Wednesday to running a large-scale pot factory in the basement of a "grow house" in Queens. Matthew Cody, 28, faces up to two years in prison when he's sentenced in January by Federal Judge John Gleeson. Cody's brother, Michael, 26, a city sanitation worker, also pleaded guilty Wednesday in Brooklyn Federal Court to possession of marijuana. ...

DETROIT - Tanya Friedly tearfully pleaded for mercy during her sentencing in Macomb County Circuit Court on Thursday, saying she was "sick and very sorry" for trying to kill her children with prescription drugs and then setting her house in Warren on fire last year. But her plea did not persuade Judge David Viviano. He sentenced her to 6 to 20 ...

      While she was "flying" down the road yesterday (10 miles over the limit), a woman passed over a bridge only to find a cop with a radar gun on the other side lying in wait. The cop pulled her over, walked up to the car, and with that classic patronizing smirk we all know and love, asked, "What's ...

Philippine remittance services have evolved significantly in the last 25 years. Arising from a need to send money home in a safe and reliable manner but held back by the high cost of transacting through banks, OFWs sought more economical means of sending money home.     The earliest and most common channel was the “padala” where money is sent ...

A man who fled from police by climbing onto the roof of a Walmart store claimed he had been stealing televisions to pay his court fees from a previous criminal case. .art_main_pic { width:250px; float:left; clear:left; } Click to enlarge GERALD LINWOOD HAYES III Buy photo ALACHUA COUNTY JAIL   Gerald Linwood "Tay Tay" Hayes III, ,28, of 1120 N. ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A burglar with a conscience returned a keepsake containing a boy's ashes to his Orlando mother after seeing the woman talk about it on television. The ashes were in a small vial that looks like a necklace. It, along with jewelry, money, a television and other things were swiped when Emely Santana's home was ransacked this week. ...

A Duke University Campus Police Officer has been arrested and charged with Rape 1st and Sodomy 1st by Houston County deputies.

MOBILE, Alabama - The Mobile Police Department is conducting an internal investigation after at least one officer fired shots at a runaway ambulance during a bizarre chase through downtown Mobile. Brent Becker, a Mobile firefighter, responded to a call on Forrest Circle around 4:30 Saturday morning. While Becker and his partner were inside a house tending to a patient, a woman ...

MOBILE, Ala. -- Federal agents this afternoon asked for the public's help in finding a preacher who has been charged with setting fire to his church in Clarke County, filing false tax returns and using another person's Social Security number.     The indictment handed down by a federal grand jury in Mobile charges Ron Bordelle Williams, 42, with nine criminal violations. ...

CLEARLAKE OAKS, Calif.—A Lake County man is being held on suspicion of fatally shooting his brother in a dispute over a trash fire that spread out of control. Lake County authorities say 24-year-old Alberto Montes was being held on $500,000 bail after his brother, 26-year-old Rafael Montes, was shot and killed Saturday night. [widget:news__fallen_firefighter__insurance] Sheriff's Capt. Jim Bauman says the shooting ...

Chicago convicted arsonist keeps firefighter pension By John Kass Chicago Tribune CHICAGO — How can we best honor the judge who granted a $50,000 yearly firefighter's pension to a convicted serial arsonist? Hear ye, hear ye, Cook County Judge LeRoy Martin Jr. You've just been inducted into the judicial wing of the Chicago Way Hall of Fame. Martin's ruling, handed down ...

PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD - A Prince George' County grand jury has indicted two firefighters on charges of arson in connection with a fire set at a vacant building in Riverdale in 2008, county State's Attorney Glenn F. Ivey announced Oct. 5. The firefighters are Jerome "Jerry" Engle, 46, of Bowie, a longtime volunteer firefighter with various volunteer departments in the ...

LA MARQUE, Texas (AP) - A man blamed a low-flying pelican and a dropped cell phone for his veering his million-dollar sports car off a road and into a salt marsh near Galveston. The accident happened about 3 p.m. Wednesday on the frontage road of Interstate 45 northbound in La Marque, about 35 miles southeast of Houston. [widget:news__wtop] The Lufkin, Texas, ...

LINCOLN, Nebraska — A simple Google search of Michal Preclik's name turns up an Interpol wanted poster from his native Czech Republic. So where was he arrested? In an American maximum-security prison, where he was not an inmate, but a guard. Preclik had worked at the prison in the central U.S. state of Nebraska for a year and his arrest came ...

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The food is bland. The smell is awful. And the neighbors are noisy - if not dangerous. This was the depressing world that Bernard Kerik found himself in Wednesday - his first full day at the Westchester County Jail in Valhalla. "People here live like animals," said 33-year-old Deidre Walters, whose boyfriend has been locked up there for three years. "When you're ...