Officer wounded in city shooting
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An off-duty police officer is seriously wounded after a shooting in Londonderry.
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City officials were on alert Wednesday and extra officers were on standby in anticipation of a decision by a grand jury on the blaze of police gunfire that killed an unarmed man on his wedding day and wounded two of his friends.
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Five people were fatally shot and two others wounded after a man opened fire at a City Council meeting in Kirkwood, Mo., a generally placid suburb of St. Louis.
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A city police officer was attacked by a man with a baseball bat early this morning in the 115th precinct in Queens, police said. The uniformed police officer, who is on an impact post, was patrolling on foot at about 1:20 a.m. at 102nd Street and 39th Ave., about a mile west of Shea Stadium in the Corona neighborhood. He was approached by a man with a baseball bat, who struck the officer in the head with the bat and stole his gun. A second police officer saw the commotion from a distance, unaware that it was a fellow officer who had been attacked, police said. He chased the bat-wielding man, capturing him and recovering the gun before making an arrest.
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Three policemen were wounded in an anti-terror operation in The Hague. âTwo of the wounded received serious, but not life-threatening, injuries when a hand grenade was thrown at themâ, authorities said.
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_ A pitcher for the Cleveland Indians is hospitalized in Kansas City after being shot in the leg on the team bus after last night&#39;s game.
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A man was killed and two people wounded in a shooting in the centre of Australia&#39;s second biggest city Melbourne during rush-hour on Monday, police said.
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A Pentagon police officer was struck and seriously injured Tuesday when he tried to halt a carjacking suspect in a Pentagon parking lot, authorities said. The suspect was shot and wounded.
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A Palestinian news photographer was shot and seriously wounded Saturday night by a stray bullet from local protesters as he stood at the window of his home in downtown Ramallah, Palestinian security officials said.
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A US embassy official was wounded in a gun attack which killed an embassy driver in the Sudanese capital, the embassy said Tuesday.
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A Prince George's County sheriff's deputy was shot and seriously wounded early yesterday in a motel room in the Laurel area by a man who had shot a D.C. police officer in the face Friday, authorities said.
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Dozens of Liberian police officers are wounded in clashes rival groups at Monrovia's port.
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A police officer dies in hospital after being stabbed during an incident in which two other people suffered knife wounds.
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Two police officers are hurt in a shooting during an attempted armed robbery at a Barclays bank.
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For the second year in a row, city officials are being asked how police officers responding to celebratory New Year's Eve gunfire ended up shooting innocent bystanders.
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Two police officers responding to a domestic disturbance were killed and a third was critically wounded by a gunman who led Texas authorities on an hours-long standoff, authorities said.
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A senior officer with the African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur in western Sudan was attacked by gunmen who seriously wounded his driver, the mission said on Sunday.