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Seattle Cops Give Pot Dealers Warning Letters

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 3rd

SEATTLE (AP) - Seattle police are handing out warning letters to some marijuana dealers contacted by undercover narcotics detectives. Although Washington voters legalized the possession of a small amount of marijuana, it's still illegal to sell or use the drug in public. The

W.Va. sheriff shot to death, suspect in custody

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on April 3rd

By JOHN RABY and VICKI SMITHAssociated Press WILLIAMSON, W.Va. (AP) - A new sheriff who was cracking down on the drug trade in southern West Virginia's coalfields was shot to death Wednesday in the spot where he usually parked his car for lunch, and State Police said the suspect was in a

Palestinian leader clamps down on critics

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 31st

By KARIN LAUB and DALIA NAMMARIAssociated Press HUSSAN, West Bank (AP) - Mahmoud Abbas' government in the West Bank is getting tougher with critics, interrogating, prosecuting and even jailing several journalists and bloggers in recent months for allegedly "defaming" the Western-backed

Former Nev. lawmaker arrested after freeway chase

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 30th

By KEN RITTER and MICHELLE RINDELSThe Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) - Police chased a former lawmaker on a freeway between Las Vegas and Los Angeles and arrested him at gunpoint following a struggle, hours after he became the first person ever expelled from the Nevada Legislature. Steven Brooks

Kansas couple: Indoor gardening prompted pot raid

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 29th

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTHAssociated Press LEAWOOD, Kan. (AP) - Two former CIA employees whose Kansas home was fruitlessly searched for marijuana during a two-state drug sweep claim they were illegally targeted, possibly because they had bought indoor growing supplies to raise vegetables. Adlynn and

Freeway chase led to ex-Nev. lawmaker's arrest

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 29th

By KEN RITTER and MICHELLE RINDELSThe Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) - Hours after he became the first person in Nevada history to be kicked out of the state Legislature, an embattled former lawmaker led police on a chase on a freeway between Las Vegas and Los Angeles that ended with a violent

18-Year-Old Arrests After Allegedly Burglarizing The Same Home Twice

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 29th

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - Coeur d'Alene police officers are investigating two burglaries that happened days apart at the same residence. The home is in the 13 hundred block of North Fifth Street in Coeur D'Alene. Police arrested the grandson of the homeowner's ex wife

18-Year-Old Arrests After Allegedly Burglarizing The Same Home Twice

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 29th

Ex-Pa. state trooper kills wife, self in market

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 28th

By MARK SCOLFOROAssociated Press A former state trooper killed his estranged wife with a shotgun inside a central Pennsylvania supermarket Thursday and then killed himself, days after she filed for divorce and two months after he was accused of beating her, police said. Mark R. Miscavish, who

Dad told cops Loughner 'doesn't seem right lately'

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on March 27th

By The Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - Major findings on the Jan. 8, 2011, attack on former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords gleaned from about 2,700 pages of documents released Wednesday, including survivor accounts, police reports and interviews with friends and family of gunman Jared Loughner: