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By Frank R. Myers
 The holiday season usually sees a spike in alarms. There is no doubt some calls are the result of more people visiting families. However, the holidays also bring on the blues for some people. It can be a time of sadness because of too much holiday-related stress or too few family members with whom to connect. This is where first responders need to learn and use some of those other skills they don't usually practice on a daily basis.
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The Associated Press via KXAN-TV
A San Antonio-area deputy who died this week after her vehicle plunged into a water-filled sinkhole is being remembered as a caring and giving person.
The San Antonio Express-News reports (http://bit.ly/2hdJJ8A ) a funeral service was held Friday night for Deputy Dora Linda Nishihara (nee-shee-HAR'-uh). The 68-year-old Nishihara was a Bexar County Sheriff's Office deputy who worked as a courthouse bailiff. In her law enforcement career, she had also worked for the FBI and the San Antonio Police Department.
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PoliceOne.com
A Texas sheriff is retiring from duty after 45 years in law enforcement. Sheriff Terry Box, 64, started as dispatch in 1968. In 1971, he was the ninth officer to be hired in Plano, according to WFAA-TV. When Box moved to the Collin County Sheriff's Office, where he has remained ever since, the agency had a total of 40 employees. Today, he manages 500 employees.
Box has spent 35 years with the sheriff's office, longer than any of his 37 predecessors, according to The Dallas Morning News. He will retire with over 45 years of law enforcement experience under his belt.
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KWTX-TV
The Grimes County Sheriff's Office is currently investigating a homicide after officials say a woman walked into the College Station Police Department Sunday evening and confessed to shooting and killing her boyfriend in rural Grimes County. CSPD conducted an investigation and found the body of Fransisco Silva, 22, near the community of Iola. The woman, Kelsie Lee Fowler-Rodriguez, 20, was arrested and was being booked into the Grimes County jail.
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram
They're calling it "Uber for 911," and a Tarrant County dispatch center is the first in the U.S. to use the tool that could save thousands of lives in one year nationwide. Keller is launching the SirenGPS mobile app, which will give dispatchers and emergency responders a much better location for emergency calls, according to a Keller news release.
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ABC News
If President-elect Donald Trump keeps his promise, surplus military grenade launchers, bayonets, tracked armored vehicles and high-powered firearms and ammunition will once again be available to all local law enforcement agencies.
National law enforcement organizations say they'll hold Trump to that promise.
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By Bambi Majumdar
 AT&T's Hemisphere Project first came to the public eye in 2013, but a new report details the massive scope of the program in what some have declared as "even worse than the Snowden revelations." Operated by AT&T — for profit — on behalf of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, Hemisphere is a secret telephone record surveillance program that has been in effect since 1987. Trillions of phone call records have been monitored and stored to aid in law enforcement activities.
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Officer.com
With racially charged police shootings causing outrage across the country, law enforcement experts believe the deadly encounters can be prevented with a new type of training.
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