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A popular baby hippo at the Cincinnati Zoo will now be featured in a book about her life that will be targeted toward children. NBC affiliate WLWT reports zoo director Thane Maynard is writing about the experience of hand-raising the hippo, who was born 6 weeks premature and is the smallest known newborn hippo to survive.

Nashville’s sheriff has presented the Johnny Cash Museum proof that the late musician who famously cultivated an image as an outlaw was actually granted law enforcement authority four decades ago. This week, Nashville Sheriff Daron Hall gave a blown-up image of Cash’s September 1979 deputy sheriff commission card. It was issued by then-Davidson County Sheriff Fate Thomas and features Cash’s...

A Florida sheriff’s deputy killed three relatives, including a child, then got on the department’s radio to say he’d hurt his family before killing himself near a high school Wednesday morning, authorities said.

A Texas sheriff’s deputy is accused of sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl and threatening the child’s mother, an undocumented immigrant, with deportation if she reported him.

The Maine Department of Public Safety has announced that the manhunt for 29-year-old John Williams, who allegedly shot and killed Somerset County Cpl. Eugene Cole, is over. The suspect was reportedly captured alive and is in custody.

Lynda Carter, television’s Wonder Woman of the 1970s, received a star Tuesday on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Some days, it’s more like being a Hollywood star’s agent than a communications official for the zoo. That’s what happens when your prematurely born hippopotamus becomes a global celebrity. The Cincinnati Zoo has a day of festivities ready for Fiona’s first birthday party Saturday, and expect plenty more of Fiona in Year 2.

A Los Angeles County deputy sheriff who allegedly agreed on two occasions to oversee the delivery of narcotics and other contraband in exchange for cash payments was arrested Tuesday, along with three other men, on federal narcotics charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced.

The Cincinnati Zoo says its popular baby hippo will star in an internet video series called “The Fiona Show” starting next week. The zoo says the first video will be available on the show’s Facebook page on Tuesday. It’s not clear how many videos are planned or how regularly they will be produced. Fiona has already garnered millions of views...

It was after midnight when a gunman burst into the living room of a southern Mississippi home where young people were playing video games. Caleb Edwards, 15, said the man — whom he knows as Corey Godbolt — demanded to know where his cousin’s parents where. Jordan Blackwell, 18, said they were gone to another town. At that, Godbolt “just...

Cory Godbolt is accused of going on a horrific killing spree in rural Mississippi, leaving eight people dead including a sheriff’s deputy and two boys.

Authorities said that eight people, including a sheriff’s deputy, were fatally shot in rural Mississipppi, NBC News reported. The shooting spree began around 11:30 p.m. Saturday when authortieis received a domestic disturbance call in Bogue Chitto, according to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation. The Bureau added the vicitms were discovered in three separate locations in Lincoln County. The slain deputy...

A man suspected of gunning down an Arkansas sheriff’s deputy early Thursday and killing two other people surrendered after a five-hour standoff with police, authorities said. James Michael Bowden, 32, gave himself up about 30 minutes after releasing a woman he had apparently been holding hostage inside the home where two females were found dead, State Police spokesman Bill Sadler...

A fight between a sheriff’s deputy and a deputy jailer broke out in front of inmates at detention center in Kentucky.

A former Maryland judge who pleaded guilty to a civil rights violation for ordering a defendant to be physically shocked in his court was sentenced in federal court Thursday.

Robert Ram lost his leg at 12 years old after a battle with cancer, but he never lost his dream of becoming a sheriff’s deputy.

A Northern California sheriff’s deputy died Thursday while saving a friend in Lake Tahoe who had jumped into the water to save a friend, authorities said.