Lakewood police officer Mark Eakes is the first to place an order at the Forza Coffee Company drive thru in Parkland, Wash., which reopened at 8:14 a.m. Saturday, 13 days after four Lakewood police officers were fatally shot. A bagpiper played as the Forza Coffee shop opened its doors at [...]
Retired police officer Rich Townson stands with his girlfriend Denise Raymond and the Ruby Tuesday restaurant sirloin steak he thought was smaller than the advertised weight of nine ounces at their home in Swansea, Mass., Saturday. After Townson filed a complaint with Massachusetts consumer officials, Ruby Tuesdays was fined $700. [...]
Today at 9 am, around 40 people, including the family of fallen Seattle Police officer Timothy Brenton, packed solemnly into King County Courthouse room 1201 for the arraignment of Christopher Monfort, charged with the Halloween murder of Officer Brenton. After the charges were read - one count of arson, three [...]
A police honor guard salutes the casket during a memorial service for Lakewood, Wash. police Sgt. Mark Renninger at Lehigh University's Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, Pa, this morning. Renninger, who was raised in Pennsylvania, and three other Lakeland police officers were gunned down by Maurice Clemmons as they worked inside [...]
Nicholas Renninger, 3, walks in front of his father's casket, Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39, as he is escorted by an unidentified police officer toward a NASCAR racing car on display at a memorial service for four slain Lakewood police officers Tuesday at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma. The memorial honored [...]
Spokane County sheriffs deputies enter the Tacoma Dome during the memorial service for four Lakewood, Wash. police officers that were killed last week Tuesday. (AP Photo/Cliff DesPeaux, The Seattle Times)
[...]Officers move into position to stand watch at the caskets of four slain Lakewood police officers before a memorial service Tuesday at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Wash. The memorial is being held a week after the officers were gunned down in a coffee shop before the start of their [...]
A procession of police vehicles passes the Lakewood, Wash. police headquarters heading to the Tacoma Dome for a memorial service oday for four Lakewood police officers who were killed in late November while they worked on computers in a coffee shop. Hundreds of emergency vehicles and thousands of law enforcement [...]
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The Story So Far: A detailed history of Maurice Clemmons, who allegedly killed four Lakewood police officers last week.
Today in Trains: A grain train passing through Sumner struck a car; a body was found nearby.
One of Us: Elliott Bay Books owner Peter Aaron [...]
A retired police officer from Lewiston who was given a $75 speeding ticket two years ago has had the citation thrown out in court. David Estes fought the speeding ticket all the way to the Idaho Court of Appeals. The Lewiston Tribune reports that the court decided to reverse his [...]
Getting a $75 speeding ticket thrown out may have taken two years, but it didn't cost David M. Estes a penny. The Lewiston man and retired police officer fought a 2007 conviction for driving 10 mph over the limit all the way to the Idaho Court of Appeals.' [...]
Darcus Allen, left, who is accused of driving Maurice Clemmons away from the coffee shop where Clemmons is suspected of killing four Lakewood, Wash., police officers Sunday, appears in Pierce County Superior Court, Wednesday in Tacoma, Wash. Public defender Jack McNeish is at right. See story below. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
[...]There are several things about this tragic loss of human lives, however, which bear close scrutiny and further introspection. I am already sick to death of hearing the comparisons between the deaths of both the four police officers and Maurice Clemmons as having any association whatsoever with the death of [...]
The Tacoma News Tribune has chronicled the hours after Maurice Clemmons allegedly shot four Lakewood Police officers on Sunday, managing to get friends and relatives to give him rides and a cell phone.
After shooting the officers and struggling with one in the doorway of the coffee shop, Clemmons walked [...]
I found it hard to hold back tears every time I watched another news story regarding the senseless murders of the four Lakewood, Wash., police officers. With all the horrific things that we hear about and watch every day on the news, it would seem that we'd get' [...]
Police and fire officials salute as the bodies of four slain Lakewood Police officers arrive in a procession at the Mountain View Funeral Home Tuesday in Lakewood, Wash. The four Lakewood Police officers were killed Sunday as they sat in a coffee shop in Parkland, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
[...]Seattle police cordon off an area where the manhunt for Maurice Clemmons ended Tuesday. The man, suspected in the slaying four Lakewood police officers, was killed by a lone patrolman investigating a stolen car early Tuesday. Seattle Times story here. (AP Photo/Peter Haley / The News Tribune)
[...]Maurice Clemmons, the suspect wanted in the slaying of four Lakewood police officers, was shot and killed by a Seattle police officer in South Seattle early this morning. Clemmons, who was armed with a handgun taken from one of the officers he is accused of killing, was standing outside in [...]
NYT:
Mr. Huckabee, now a Fox News talk-show host, has been leading the pack of possible Republican contenders for president in 2012. But the killings of the police officers are focusing renewed attention on his long-contentious record of pardoning convicts or commuting their sentences. In a decade as governor beginning [...]
For all the drama of yesterday’s manhunt, in the end, suspected cop-killer Maurice Clemmons was shot and killed by a lone police officer on routine patrol in South Seattle.
Assistant Chief Jim Pugel said a Seattle police officer “was patrolling this area when he came across an unoccupied stolen vehicle. [...]
Police from around the region briefed press in South Seattle about how a lone officer stopped and killed Maurice Clemmons, who police suspect of killing four Lakewood police officers on Sunday morning. Clemmons, who was carrying a gun stolen from one of the officers, was spotted near a stolen silver [...]
CNN:
Investigators searching for the suspected killer of four Seattle-area police officers have rounded up several of his relatives and friends to keep them from helping him escape, a sheriff's spokesman said Monday.
Police have brought in five or six relatives and other acquaintances of Maurice Clemmons, "and we expect that" [...]
The family of Seattle Police Officer Timothy Brenton, who was shot dead on Halloween, has issued a statement about the Lakewood murder: "Our hearts ache for the families of Sergeant Mark Renninger, Officer Tina Griswold, Officer Ronald Owens and Officer Gregory Richards. We pray that they will be granted strength" [...]
