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Two people are dead following a shooting at a business in Arlington Thursday morning in what police believe was an isolated incident between individuals who knew each other.
Four experienced patrolmen were officially promoted to the rank of sergeant in a Tuesday ceremony in City Hall. The new police supervisors are: Matthew Longo, an officer since 2007; Dillon Springer, who became a police officer in 2018;
An effigy of a boat containing mannequins of migrants was set alight in the village of Moygashel on Thursday, in an incident condemned by political and religious leaders as racist and threatening.
Mary Dulacki, who has been a city employee for 17 years, has claimed the firing was retaliation after she filed a gender-discrimination complaint with the Colorado Division of Civil Rights.
A 17-year-old shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy on a New Mexico highway last summer was one in a growing number of cases.
A McDonald's manager was stabbed to death at work by an employee after an argument at a Detroit-area restaurant on Thursday, police have said. The victim has been named as Jennifer Harris, a 36-year-old mother-of-six who had worked at the Eastpointe McDonald's, on 9 Mile and Schroeder Avenue, for 15 years.
While the Westfield Police Department has operated two drones for several years, the department only recently completed training three patrol officers to use it daily and outfitted a cruiser to carry it and the peripheral equipment needed to make it a mobile flight deck.
A sinking boat is saved, a man in a pickle costume gives an impromptu concert, and other odd tales from local police and fire departments.