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Albuquerque police oversight system reformed eyed

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Albuquerque will hold town hall meetings on overhauling its police oversight system as New Mexico’s largest city faces a federal investigation over police excessive force cases.

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Pakistan: Gunmen attack polio team, kill policeman

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif addresses party workers in Lahore, Pakistan on Monday, May 20, 2013. Pakistan’s presumptive prime minister called for peace talks with Taliban militants at war with the government Monday, potentially charting a course that could put him at odds with the country’s powerful army. Sharif said terrorism was one of the most serious problems plaguing the country and any offer by the Pakistani Taliban to talk “should be taken seriously.” (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s presumptive prime minister called for peace talks with Taliban militants at war with the government Monday, potentially charting a course that could put him at odds with the country’s powerful army.

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Tribe’s police agency without permanent leader

FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — The Navajo Nation Police Department has gone five years without a permanent leader.

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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 Hofstra University student being held in a headlock at gunpoint by an intruder was accidently shot and killed by a police officer who had responded to the 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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