Posts Tagged Law enforcement agencies

Authorities: Hofstra student was killed by police

In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rubello is shown. Police said Rubello, a junior at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., was shot and killed Friday, May 17, 2013, during a break-in near the college campus. (AP Photo/Sleepy Hollow High School)

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A New York college student being held by an armed home intruder was shot and killed by a Nassau County police officer who had responded to a report of a home invasion at an off-campus home, police said Saturday.

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Police call fatal NYC shooting a hate crime

NEW YORK (AP) — A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man’s face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, a killing New York’s police commissioner called an “anti-gay” hate crime.

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DA clears Albuquerque officers in 2 shooting cases

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Two Albuquerque police officers who were involved in separate non-fatal shootings have been cleared by the Bernalillo County District Attorney’s Office.

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Freeze of Albuquerque oversight commission sought

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Operations of an appointed advisory commission that investigates citizen complaints against the Albuquerque Police Department would be suspended while the City Council considers the commission’s future.

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Albuquerque police dog sniffs out planeload of pot

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Albuquerque police say a pilot is facing felony charges after a drug-sniffing dog found a load of marijuana stashed on the man’s single-engine plane.

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