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Updated 4 hours ago Wandering Police Officers Big Impediment To Reform: Report A 2020 study showed officers who move to other police departments often run into disciplinary problems after they are rehired. William H. Freivogel and Paul Wagman/Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting ST. LOUIS (AP) — Timothy Loehmann wanted to be a police officer like his father. He got a job in Independence, Ohio, but it didn’t go well. His supervisors allowed him to quit after he suffered a “dangerous lack of composure” during firearms training. The department concluded he would “not be able to cope or ...

Apr 28, 2021 4:56 PM EDT ST. LOUIS (AP) — Timothy Loehmann wanted to be a police officer like his father. He got a job in Independence, Ohio, but his supervisors allowed him to quit after he suffered a “dangerous lack of composure” during firearms training. Cleveland Police didn’t check on Loehmann’s history. So it was Loehmann who responded in the fall of 2014 to the Cleveland park where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was playing with what turned out to be a toy gun. Loehmann shot him dead. “Wandering cops” who lose their jobs in one place only to be reh...

2021/04/28 22:09 FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020 file photo, police hold their clubs as they form a line in front of supporters of President Donald Trump on Elect... FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020 file photo, police hold their clubs as they form a line in front of supporters of President Donald Trump on Election Day in Beverly Hills, Calif. Red states such as Florida and Georgia lead the way in decertifying officers with past problems, while there is no decertification in two of the bluest and biggest in the country – California and New Jersey. (AP Ph...

F-15EX no. 1 performs a “Viking” take-off to kick-start the type’s test campaign. (Photo: Boeing) Boeing has flown the first example of the new F-15EX Eagle fighter. The 90-minute flight on February 2 was conducted by F-15 chief test pilot Matt Giese from the company’s plant at Lambert Field in St. Louis, Missouri. The sortie began with a “Viking” near-vertical climb-out, and went on to check out the aircraft’s new systems and software, with data being relayed in real-time to a test team on the ground. The aircraft performed as planned. The F-15EX’s first flight comes nearly...

The massive expansion project of the Monett Regional Airport is nearing the halfway point of the first phase of the approximately $9.2 million undertaking. Rivaling the new Cox Monett Hospital in its...