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...eyes of much of the world, Sheriff Bush has become an outlaw cowboy. With a posse of American capitalists, Bush wants a bloody shootout and sizable heist that will ruffle petticoats across the global village...
...know who it might be." The culprit? "Emmanuel," the man who had helped repair their roof. Though investigators composed three sketches based on Mary Katherine's recollections, they did not release any of the drawings. As late as Feb. 12, Mitchell was arrested by the San Diego County sheriff's office for breaking a church window but was released after his name did not pop up on any national crime databases. On Feb. 15, America's Most Wanted first publicized Mitchell's identity...
...Hammoud case began innocuously enough in 1995. Local sheriff's detective Bob Fromme, working off-duty as a security guard at JR Tobacco Warehouse in Statesville, N.C., grew suspicious when he saw a group of Middle Eastern men repeatedly buying hundreds of cartons of cigarettes apiece. Local prosecutors in tobacco-friendly North Carolina weren't interested, but Fromme persuaded the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to investigate. Just as they were poised to bring charges, the FBI swooped in and took over - linking the smuggling operation to the Hizballah cell that Hammoud allegedly headed...
...Angeles Sheriff's Department used the FBI system to solve one of the city's most notorious crimes, the 1957 murders of two El Segundo policemen. Just before Christmas, LA detectives dusted off the case file and, for the first time, ran a single print left by the killer against the FBI database. To their astonishment, out came the name of Gerald F. Mason, a respected 68-year-old retired businessman living in Columbia, S.C. He was never one of the several hundred suspects in the case; his print dated from a 1956 South Carolina burglary arrest. Mason was handcuffed...
Still, it's hard not to get choked up when you see a sheriff recover a shaken but healthy baby--snatched out of her mother's arms by a tornado--from the mud outside what used to be her home. The scene captures weather news' appeal: it's scary and soothing at the same time. There are no bad guys, the sun will always come back eventually, and you don't have to question your faith in human goodness over a hurricane. As Storm Stories host Jim Cantore puts it, "People can accept that the weather can get nasty. They...