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KTVT-TV
A hefty stash of marijuana was discovered during a traffic stop Tuesday on Interstate 20 near Canton. A Van Zandt County sheriff's deputy stopped the vehicle and, with help from canine partner Rico, found 220 pounds of marijuana stashed in the vehicle.
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KXAN-TV
A former teacher in Leander Independent School District was arrested Tuesday on charges of having an improper relationship with a Vandegrift High School student whom she met at a church where she volunteered. At the end of October, the Williamson County Sheriff's Office began investigating an alleged sexual assault and improper relationship involving Cedar Park Middle School's sixth-grade teacher Nicole Marie Faires Andrews. She was arrested on Dec. 12 after authorities said she had an ongoing romantic relationship with a 16-year-old boy she met at The Church at Canyon Creek, where she was a volunteer youth administrator.
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Denton Record-Chronicle
After being involved in the Denton community since 1970, 81-year-old Lloyd Fitzpatrick retired Friday from his duties volunteering with the Denton County Sheriff's Office as commander of its Operations Support Unit. Fitzpatrick began teaching undergraduate and graduate students in biology at what was then North Texas State University in 1970, retired from UNT 44 years later. In 1990, the professor began volunteering with the sheriff's office. Almost three decades later, he has stepped down from his volunteer work.
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Laredo Morning Times
As residents around the country buy their Christmas presents online, they traditionally have to run the risk of having packages sit on their doorsteps for hours — exposed to would-be thieves — before they can pick it up. That's why one Central Texas police force is allowing its headquarters to be the front porch for its residents. In December, the Round Rock Police Department kicked off "Operation Front Porch," which allows residents to send their packages to the police department for safekeeping until they can pick it up.
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KWTX-TV
A jury has returned a guilty verdict against Randall Townsend, 48, of Hamilton who was arrested in May on retaliation charges stemming from attempts to file liens on the homes of two law enforcement officers. The Hamilton County jury was hearing testimony in the punishment phase of the trial Wednesday. Townsend, whom authorities described as a self-proclaimed "sovereign citizen," was named in indictments charging two counts of obstruction and retaliation.
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Critical task model policies available to all county law enforcement operations through the TAC Risk Management Pool help reduce liability risks and lower claims exposure. MORE
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By Bambi Majumdar
 In September, the FBI released its annual report on national crime statistics in 2016, showing violent crime has increased for the second consecutive year by 4.1 percent. The report unleashed a barrage of criticism from different parties for omissions and a lack of details. But law enforcement agencies nationwide are transitioning to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). And NIBRS just released details on more than 6.1 million criminal offenses for 2016.
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WFAA-TV
Police in Cleburne are investigating the theft of multiple drones and other expensive camera equipment used by law enforcement. The gear was stolen late last week from Johnson County Emergency Management Director Jamie Moore's vehicle, which was parked at his Cleburne home in his driveway overnight.
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KDFW-TV
With the Dallas Police Department working to make up for a shortage of police officers, Chief Renee Hall told city council members on Monday, Dec. 11, about some new strategies to fill jobs. Hall is looking at everything from rewarding officers who recruit candidates to eliminating some of the automatic disqualifiers, like minor drug use from someone's past. Both the Dallas Police Department and Dallas Fire-Rescue are struggling to find people who want to protect and serve. Both chiefs told city council members that recruiting millennials has posed as a challenge.
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By Lynn Hetzler
 Firearm injuries have become more severe over the past 20 years, according to the results of a new study. Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine used hospitalization data from 44 states between 1993 and 2013 to measure trends in injuries from firearms. The results showed that the severity of firearm injuries rose each year. The researchers presented their findings recently at the American Public Health Association's 2017 Annual Meeting and Expo.
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PoliceOne.com
As we consider the major terror attacks in western nations in 2017, one notable trend highlights the ever-changing nature of modern terrorism, and the difficulty of protecting the public from its ravages.
This year, there was a marked increase in the use of vehicles and knives as primary weapons in attacks on soft targets in western nations. Some of the years’ notable vehicular and/or knife attacks included the following.
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By Michelle R. Matisons
 The U.S. prison industry currently holds 2.2 million people behind bars. Of that number, an estimated 700,000 people sit in jails awaiting trials. They are locked up because they are unable to post bail. As more and more Americans get ensnared in some aspect of mass incarceration, different projects seek to rectify these hardships. A popular new app, Appolition, aims to direct users' spare change toward raising bail.
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