The La Vista Police Department is receiving the funding assistance because they have identified a need and desire in reducing traffic crashes, injuries and fatalities at hazardous locations within the community.

It's certainly something that we ought to look at, especially in lieu of what we've seen over the last four or five years, where we've gotten a number of vehicles in the 130 mph range on the interstate.

We want to make sure that the police department is not disbanded and that we have a continuity of police protection and safety for the town of Baldwin.

It has taken years and years and years of applying his talent and his mental desire to just get to the major leagues. And it just shows how fragile it is. You can blow it fairly easily.

In all these major cities, the police were all white, a big part of them living outside the central city, and they were about the only contact many African-Americans had with the dominant society. There was enormous hostility.

He told police he had an argument with his girlfriend, he was in despair, ... This defendant was trying to end his own life.