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Tale of the dog
The Anchorage Police Department in March accepted a $50,000 donation to its K-9 unit from a late member of the Pythian Sisters, a fraternal group that has raised more than twice that amount for the unit over the years by selling crafts, plants and sock monkeys. In her will, 94-year-old Alexis Buskirk left the police department $45,000 to help buy and train dogs, according to her friends, who also presented Chief Walt Monegan with an additional check for $5,000....
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Playing catch-up
Although Ray Schultz is still catching up on what he missed during the 14 months he was retired from the Albuquerque Police Department, the agency’s new chief has still made a number of policy decisions since assuming command in April. Schultz, 44, left the department as a deputy chief in 2003. He returned as the top cop after Gil Gallegos, a popular chief and former police union leader, retired amid allegations that he failed to take immediate action regarding allegations that employees were pilfering the department’s evidence room....
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There ought to be a law
A plan by a British college student to break some of the weirder local laws in the United States — like not falling asleep in a South Dakota cheese factory — is the kind of idea that is so bad, it could turn out just great. Richard Smith, 23, said he became interested in some of our nation’s stranger prohibitions while playing the board game Balderdash with a 12-year-old neighbor. Included in the game were details of a Florida law that forbids widows from going parachuting on Sundays....
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Swords into plowshares
Newly retired as police chief of Moon Township, Pa., Tom Krance says he is going to put down his gun, pick up his Bible and see where the Lord takes him. For the past four years, his destination has been the impoverished Central African nation of Uganda. Members of Christ Church at Grove Farm in Sewickly, Krance and his wife joined 40 other members of the congregation last month for a three-week missionary trip. The church has made a 10-year commitment to Hoima, a western province that sits on the equator....
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Going, gone. . .
The first time East St. Louis, Ill., Acting Police Chief Marion Hubbard retired last month, it was because he said he had done everything that he had set out to do during a 27-year career in law enforcement. The second time it was to prevent Mayor Carl E. Officer from demoting him. Hubbard has served as chief since Jan. 21, when then-Chief Ronald Matthews was charged with obstruction of justice and perjury charges. Matthews, 55, allegedly helped an auxiliary officer with a felony record get back a pistol that was taken from him, and lied to federal agents. He faces a 30-year sentence if convicted....
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