Posts Tagged ‘Sheriff’

Sheriff: Food dispute led to Ohio murder-suicide (AP)

Paul Gilkey is seen in an undated photo provided by the Hocking County Sheriff's Office.The sheriff's department says Gilkey shot and killed two of his sisters-in-law and his son before killing himself at his home in Logan, Ohio on Monday night, Jan. 9, 2012.  Hocking County Sheriff Lanny North said that an argument over what Gilkey's terminally ill wife should be given to eat apparently triggered the shooting. (AP Photo/Hocking County Sheriff's Office)AP – A dispute over whether a terminally ill woman should have been given tea and toast or an orange apparently upset her husband so much that he shot and killed two of her sisters and his son before killing himself, a sheriff said Tuesday.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Feds issue scathing report against AZ sheriff (AP)

AP – A scathing U.S. Justice Department report released Thursday found that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office carried out a blatant pattern of discrimination against Latinos and held a “systematic disregard” for the Constitution amid a series of immigration crackdowns that have turned the lawman into a prominent national political figure.

View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Critics: ‘Tough’ sheriff botched sex-crime cases (AP)

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2011 file pool photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio testifies during the State Bar of Arizona's ongoing disciplinary hearings against former Maricopa County attorney Andrew Thomas and two assistants, at the Arizona Supreme Court in Phoenix. According to some current and former police officers, hundreds of sex-crimes investigations were allegedly mishandled by Arpaio's office. (AP Photo/Jack Kurtz, Pool, File)AP – The 13-year-old girl opened the door of her home in this small city on the edge of Phoenix to encounter a man who said that his car had broken down and he needed to use the phone. Once inside, the man pummeled the teen from behind, knocking her unconscious and sexually assaulting her.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Ex Colo. sheriff accused of offering meth for sex (AP)

Former Arapahoe County Sheriff Patrick Sullivan, right, with his attorney Jessica Schmidt, appears in Arapahoe County Court, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. Sullivan is suspected of offering methamphetamine in exchange for sex from a male acquaintance. Arapahoe County chief judge William Sylvester  the bond for  Sullivan. The judge also ordered Sullivan not to try to contact anyone who may be involved in the case. (AP Photo/RJ Sangosti, pool)AP – The ex-Colorado sheriff was known for his no-nonsense style, his heroism in saving two deputies and for his concern about teenage drug use. He was even named the nation’s sheriff of the year.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Sheriff: At least 1 dead in Kansas explosion (AP)

A Kansas State Trooper walks from his vehicle at the Bartlett Grain Co. elevator in Atchison, Kan., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. The explosion injured at least two people. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)AP – A Kansas sheriff says at least one person has died after a grain elevator explosion.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Ohio sheriff: 48 exotic animals killed in all (AP)

A sign warning motorists that exotic animals are on the loose rests on I-70 Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011, near Zanesville, Ohio. Police stalked one last monkey still on the loose Wednesday after authorities said a game-preserve owner apparently freed dozens of wild animals, including tigers and grizzly bears, and then killed himself.  (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)AP – Sheriff’s deputies shot nearly 50 lions, tigers and other beasts in a big-game hunt across the Ohio countryside Wednesday after the owner of a wild-animal park threw their cages open and committed suicide in what may have been one last act of vengeance against neighbors and police.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Ohio sheriff: Only 3 wild animals still loose (AP)

A dead lion lays by the fence on Terry Thompson's farm near Zanesville Ohio Tuesday Oct. 18, 2011. Police killed dozens of animals Tuesday that escaped from the wild-animal preserve where the owner's body later was found. Warning that more animals still were on the loose, officials expected up to four school districts to cancel classes as the remaining bears, big cats and other beasts from the Muskingum County Animal Farm were hunted down. (AP Photo/Heather Ellers and Dustin Burton)AP – A mountain lion, grizzly bear and monkey were the only animals still running loose after being set free from an exotic-animal preserve, an Ohio sheriff said Wednesday, as authorities tried to piece together why the preserve’s owner apparently released dozens of animals before committing suicide.


View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories

Amazon Free Clicks