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The Shiawassee County sheriff will stop releasing information to a newspaper after it published an article about a political blogger critical of the sheriff, the paper reported.
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By Jeff Hawkes  Kirchner charged with giving access to reporters  Lancaster County Coroner G.
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By Nicole Lee, The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind.  Sep. 12--Lawyers for a man held in Allen County jail last month filed suit Monday against Allen County Sheriff James Herman and a corrections officer identified only by his last name.   Devin W.
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By Hurst Laviana, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Dec. 16--The Sedgwick County sheriff's office is asking for the public's help in identifying some of an estimated $200,000 worth of property recovered with the break-up of a local burglary ring.
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By Ed Meyer, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Feb. 21--RAVENNA -- Portage County prosecutors have asked a judge to issue a gag order to Randy Resh, Bob Gondor and their defense lawyers before they get a new day in court in a decades-old murder case.
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GREELEY, Colo. - Inmates are suspected of using computers in the jail library to get Social Security numbers, salaries and other personal information on 1,000 Weld County employees, including the sheriff and several county commissioners.
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A county coroner was charged Monday with illegally giving newspaper reporters a password to access the emergency 911 system's confidential Web site.
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By Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Sep. 12--At last Thursday's public hearing on the Okaloosa County budget, as one citizen after another urged county commissioners to watch their spending and reduce property taxes, Commissioner Bill Roberts offered a terse reply.
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Sheriff's investigators denied they are the source of recent leaks to the media in the Michael Jackson child molestation case and added an investigation has been started to find who might be responsible.
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MONROE, La. - Jerry Wayne Till managed to get away from sheriff's deputies and elude them briefly - until he called them for help after he got lost in the woods.
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Sheriff's deputies in the Phoenix area on Thursday began asking drivers getting ticketed for certain traffic violations to provide their fingerprints, drawing criticism from civil rights activists.
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By Frank Michael Russell, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 18--Here's a quick rundown of news you may have missed last week, culled from reports by our staff and wire services.
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The former sheriff of a struggling, rural county was sentenced Tuesday to eight months in prison for lying to authorities about a scheme to resell drugs and guns seized from criminals.
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The state handed out millions in taxpayer dollars to community groups and local agencies without providing adequate oversight of how the money was spent, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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The sheriff presiding over a youth court pilot scheme is suspended pending an inquiry into his fitness for office.
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By Marni Pyke  mpyke@@dailyherald.com  DuPage County leaders hope to clear the air concerning long- standing questions about courthouse ventilation.
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State's top cop is gathering information about damage that may have been caused by covert attempts to unearth leaks to the media.