Officer at hospital, gunman down in shooting at Walter P. Taylor homes complex

KNOXVILLE - A Knoxville Police Department officer was shot this evening in an East Knoxville low-income housing complex. The suspected gunman also was shot, Police Chief Sterling V. Owen IV confirmed.

Panel to review health of injured Lynn cop

LYNN - The Retirement Board voted Tuesday to convene a medical panel to review police Officer Gregory Leblanc's health. It is the first step toward granting him a retirement pension that could pay him less than the $64,000 a year he has asked the City Council to approve.

Sanford man charged with tattooing underage girls

Police say 23-year-old Rayvon Freeman met the girls on the Internet and drove to South Portland to give them tattoos.

Disorganized Johnston police pensions are a mess

Retired officers, town and investment company all dispute just about every aspect of unusual plan

City, county administrators get big benefits cushions

Oxnard City Manager Ed Sotelo earned about $266,000 in 2009. Or maybe it was about $382,000. It depends what you count. Like many top government administrators, Sotelo receives a bevy of benefits — some taxed and some not — that boosts his actual compensation well beyond what’s reported as base salary, according to The Star’s ongoing examination of public-sector salaries and compensation.