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Arizona sheriffs and the state’s attorney generals are pushing controversial programs to allow school officials and volunteers to carry guns in the wake of the shootings at a Connecticut school that left 20 children dead.

Sheriff's deputies shot nearly 50 wild animals - including 18 rare Bengal tigers and 17 lions - in a big-game hunt across the Ohio countryside Wednesday after the owner of an exotic-animal park threw their cages open and committed suicide in what appeared to be one last act of spite against his neighbors and police.

Riverside County sheriff's investigators are asking for the public's help in finding a suspect who pistol-whipped a 93-year-old woman and her caretaker during a home-invasion robbery in the small town of Nuevo.

An Indiana sheriff says a 4-year-old boy who was fatally shot while out fishing with his father was struck in the head. Wells County Sheriff Monte Fisher told The Associated Press on Sunday that Jacob Michuda was shot in the head late Friday night while he and his father were fishing from a pier at a pond outside Ossian.

Ventura County Sheriff's officials announced Monday they had found the largest single seizure of marijuana plants in their jurisdiction from an outdoor grow operation in the Pine Mountain area of Los Padres National Forest.

Sheriff says he will cut costs at Florida jail by $45,000 a year by charging prisoners a fee for underwear... “For those who want underwear, they can buy underwear. For those who don’t, they can let the breeze blow up one leg and down the other,” he told reporters.

The Philippine authorities are investigating an attack by a city mayor on a sheriff during the demolition of a slum area.

A drunken Ohio woman was arrested Saturday after she allegedly sprayed sheriff’s deputies with breast milk, the Delaware County Sheriff's Office said.

A sheriff's deputy in New York died Tuesday after being shot at the end of a standoff, and his wife went into labor with their second child upon hearing the news, local media reported.

A county sheriff's deputy killed his ex-wife in a convenience store parking lot Monday, then shot a Virginia state trooper before being gunned down himself, police said.