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Jeff VanPatten officially has hung up his gear, bringing a likely end to his family's four generations of Antioch firefighters.

  PRINCE ALBERT -- A partnership between Prince Albert police, Parkland Ambulance and the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is offering addictions treatment to people incarcerated in police cells. A senior police officer and paramedic will oversee the cells between 7:30 p.m. and 7:30 a.m. daily. According to an SHA news release, this will allow patients to be assessed, treated and taken to hospital in a timely manner, if needed. Police Chief Jon Bergen said he hopes the project will help to lower the city’s overall crime rate. "People that do suffer from different addictions will be...

The St. Louis County Board of Police Commissioners' bungling doesn't get enough attention. The best defense for beleaguered St. Louis County Police Chief Mary Barton is that she had nothing to do with hiring Police Chief Mary Barton. On the job for slightly more than ten months, Barton’s tenure can charitably be described as a no-good, dirty-rotten experience for all concerned. But it’s the St. Louis County Board of Police Commissioners — not Barton — that owns the curious decision to miscast her in a role for which she’s so obviously ill suited. Last spring, the board inexplicably ...

Since July, four attacks on Bay Area residents have involved the same coyote, according to DNA taken from the victims’ bite wounds and clothing.

St. Louis police Lt. Col. Troy Doyle (left) and County Executive Sam Page. I could not serve as an impartial juror in police Lt. Col. Troy Doyle's race discrimination lawsuit against St. Louis County. The searing allegations put forth in the suit released last week by attorney Jerome Dobson are just that — allegations — and the absence of the defendants' response isn't an implied concession. That's why there's a judicial system. But if you know lots of the players and background — either personally or through the news — it's impossible to pretend to have an unbiased view. What happene...