By Andy Sher Chattanooga Times/Free Press NASHVILLE — State officials figure they can save nearly $300,000 a year on Tennessee's distinctive black-and-cream colored Highway Patrol vehicles. And no, they're not doing away with the decades-old color scheme. They're simply getting rid of the paint. The same effect can be achieved by applying adhesive vinyl instead […]

Associated Press ELLWOOD CITY, Pa. — A Pennsylvania police officer is following in his retired father's footsteps — all four of them. The New Castle News says a 3-year-old German shepherd named Ranger is picking up where his father, 11-year-old Jozek, left off. Ranger will be a K-9 officer with the police department in Ellwood […]

Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — It was a dramatic tale: A man was attacked on the side of a road and badly wounded the day before he was to report to prison in an Oregon mortgage fraud scheme. Shannon Egeland told police he had stopped to help a pregnant motorist when he was hit in […]