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THE surviving Family of slain SPO4 Asterio Butron would receive a total of P1.4 million in benefits from the Philippine National Police (PNP), aside from a monthly pension for his wife and a scholarship program for his three children.
Chief Supt. Ronald Roderos personally informed Butron’s family of the benefits when he visited the policeman’s wake [...]

By Loucoumane Coulibaly ABIDJAN, April 1 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast slashed taxes on key food imports on Tuesday, bowing to protests by housewives and youths in which residents said one young man was killed. Protesters blocked roads with barricades and burning tyres for a second day as violent demonstrations over [...]

MERRITT, B.C.%26ndash;A father who is the prime suspect in the murders of his three young children told a justice of the peace days before the killings that he was having difficulty with the separation of his family. Allan Schoenborn, who hasn’t been [...]

%26quot;It was horrible,%26quot; Vancouver native Scott Morrison told Canwest News Service Thursday. %26quot;You know you can’t fall asleep at any time. The police were pulling guys in and out of the jail. You don’t know who’s in there for what. It was the most scary thing.%26quot; Morrison, 22, was arrested early Sunday, along with his [...]

History will record June 2, 2006 as the day when police arrested members of what they claimed was Canada’s first homegrown Islamic terrorist conspiracy. But in a modest middle-class section of Oakville, Rukhsana Gaya – then a department store cosmetics manager – remembers that day as the moment her family’s life was shattered.%26quot;The phone rang [...]

When she told the driver, a big guy in his early 20s, that she was going to impound his car, she realized the danger of her situation, she recalled recently. %26#8220;He was out of his car, and he was really mad. His fists were clenched and his nostrils were flaring, and I thought, %26#8216;He%26#8217;s [...]

Ontario’s newest university is fighting online crime.The University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa has announced plans to open a unique Centre for Cybercrime Research this fall, bringing together experts from different fields to look at ways to combat identity theft, e-theft, cyberbullying and child exploitation on the Internet.Paul Gillespie, a former Toronto police [...]

The Vietnam vets, spurred on by the court martial of Lt William Calley, who
had ordered the infamous My Lai massacre, wanted to turn a tide too
against public opinion, to demonstrate that the execution of hundreds of
innocent villagers in 1968 was not an isolated incident as so many believed.
The Winter Soldier event received little coverage in [...]

The IPCC was set up four years ago this month to replace a discredited Police
Complaints Authority. %26ldquo;Investigation of police officers by their own or
another police service is widely regarded as unjust and does not inspire
public confidence,%26rdquo; Sir William Macpherson wrote in his inquiry into the
killing of Stephen Lawrence.
The IPCC has been under fire since the [...]

The mother of an 11-year-old girl who died of untreated diabetes said Wednesday that she did not know her daughter was terminally ill as she prayed for her to get better.
Madeline Neumann died Sunday from an undiagnosed and treatable form of diabetes.
Her mother, Leilani Neumann, told The Associated Press she never expected her daughter, whom [...]