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- Marcus Wiggins, Plaintiff-Appellee, and Chicago Reader, Incorporated, John Conroy, Citizens Alert, Et Al., Intervenors-Appellees, v. Leroy Martin, Former Superintendent, Chicago Police Department, James O'Brien, Detective, # 8825, Anthony Maslanka, # 16161, Et Al., Defendants, and Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge No. 7, Intervenor-Appellant., 150 F.3d 671 (7th Cir. 1998)
G. Flint Taylor (argued), People's Law Office, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Lawrence Rosenthal, Benna R. Solomon, Susan S. Sher, Patricia T. ...
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LONDON (AP) -- A Polish man is suspected of killing his wife, their two children, his father-in-law and two family friends in a frenzied stabbing spree, the deadliest crime in memory on the Channel Island of Jersey, police and local residents said today.
Detective Superintendent Stewart Gull of Jersey Police said a man, two women and three young children stabbed to death yesterday came from two families, one of them Polish.
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Thomas Mann, Jr., Des Moines, Iowa, for appellant.
Elizabeth Gregg Kennedy, Des Moines, Iowa and J.M. Sullivan, Des Moines, Iowa, for appellees.
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DON'T YOU JUST LOVE Kyra Sedgwick on "The Closer"?
She has created a crime solver as fascinating as Peter Falk's Columbo, Tony Shalhoub's Monk and Helen Mirren's Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison of "Prime Suspect.
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Old school, that's Tennison," mutters one of her colleagues to another. "On the force, what, 30-35 years? Battered and burnt-out.
Job-related pressure and fatigue, off-hours loneliness: Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison has fought them all, as well as a succession of lawbreakers, during her long career with the London Metropolitan Police.
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He said Deputy Assistant Commissioner Allan Brown and Detective Chief Superintendent Mark Shield of the London-based Scotland Yard met with members of the Constabulary's top brass recently. Both men made a number of recommendations relating to homicides. However, the ACP said he will not get a final copy of the recommendations before today, as many of them had to be re-shaped.
One of the recommendations they made is that all bodies in relation to homicides should be X-rayed before a post-mortem is conducted," said ACP Gause. "So that if a bullet is lodged inside the body, it will show up when the body is X-rayed.
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LONDON -- Jack Slipper, the Scotland Yard detective who pursued one of the fugitives from Britain's "Great Train Robbery" across many years and two continents, died Wednesday at the age of 81, police said Wednesday.
The retired detective chief superintendent was known as "Slipper of the Yard.
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IPSWICH, England - Police hunting a suspected serial killer following the murders of five prostitutes in eastern England arrested a 37-year-old man today and cordoned off a group of houses.
The man was arrested at his home in Trimley St. Martin, near the port of Felixstowe, Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull said in a brief statement to reporters. He declined to say where the suspect was being held.
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The original sandstone for Portland's Pioneer Courthouse came from a quarry in Tenino, Wash. But when the time came to replace the building's crumbling rock, the same Tenino formation no longer matched.
To find a better match, officials at Cherokee Construction Services, the general contractor for the courthouse project, became part detective and part scientist, said Carl AfterBuffalo, the project superintendent. "We're not only matching the color, but the density and the mineral content," he said.
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JAY -- A cooperative venture between police and school officials will have students at the high school connecting with Jay police Detective Richard Caton IV.
The details of the plan are still being worked out, school Superintendent Robert Wall and police Chief Larry White Sr. said. Caton will either spend one full day or two half days a week at the school.