Word: sheriff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Burr headed back to his farm, a Johnson County deputy sheriff drove up behind him, siren blaring. Burr pulled off the road, while the officer waited in his car for reinforcements. When other deputies and state police arrived, they found Burr slumped in his truck, dead of two self-inflicted gunshot wounds. At the farm, authorities found the body of Emily Burr, along with a one-sentence note Burr had scrawled. According to a sheriff's deputy, "He said he couldn't manage his problems any more...
Overall, however, the city can proudly point to some solid accomplishments. Through a contract with the Los Angeles County sheriff, West Hollywood has beefed up police protection by about 20%, adding foot patrols, organizing neighborhood-watch groups and driving serious crime down by 18%. Meanwhile, without raising taxes, the city has amassed a budget surplus of more than $6 million: money that before cityhood was collected in West Hollywood but was spent elsewhere in Los Angeles County...
...those days of a generation ago, Tennessee has serious problems with its underfinanced and overcrowded penal system. In July there were riots at three prisons. In October a U.S. judge barred wardens from accepting any more inmates until the prison population was drastically cut. Last month a Memphis sheriff, with no room for a dozen felons, left them chained to a state prison fence...
...Dennis; of pneumonia precipitated by a stroke; in a New York City nursing home. For more than three decades she ran a salon for struggling artists, writers, self-styled radicals and, later, drifters. In 1964, unable to meet mortgage payments, she was evicted from her house, prompting a deputy sheriff on the case to remark, "She is an amazing woman . . . In an earlier time, she might have been a saint...
...practical man would have obeyed the custom of the territory and hanged the three right there. Some Dakotans were mystified by the course Roosevelt chose. He struggled on for ten more days, downriver and cross- country in brutal cold, standing guard through the nights, until he found a sheriff. He handed his prisoners over to the law. Much exertion over a rowboat. Much exertion, even manic bravado, in behalf of the idea of justice...