Thomas Dodsworth News Today

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WAND) - Champaign County remembered their fallen officers and recognized their current employees in a series of events this week.

An honor guard, the playing of “Taps”, and a bagpiper playing “Amazing Grace” as he walked into the distance were features of two ceremonies in Champaign and Urbana Friday, remembering police officers who have died in the line of duty. The ceremonies were held as part of National Police Week observances. At the Police and Fire Memorial in Champaign’s West Side Park, a ceremony remembered the three Champaign police officers --- Christopher Oberheim, Robert Tatman and Thomas Dodsworth --...

Robert Tatman was a Champaign officer killed on duty with his own service revolver on Nov. 25, 1967. The case remains unsolved, and for 54 years, so was the question

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Zane Ziegler, a retired Champaign police officer, was curious...

Zane Ziegler found a long-lost piece of important Champaign police history by chance. The retired Champaign officer and police department historian was at a memorabilia show last month when he

Retired Champaign police officer Zane Ziegler bought the star of Robert Tatman from another vendor at the National Police Collector’s Show in St. Charles, Missouri last month.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Zane Ziegler, a retired Champaign police officer, was curious last month when a fellow exhibitor at a police memorabilia show said that he had a vintage