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Mother said Josh Powell threatened her
CHATTAHOOCHEE HILLS, Ga., Feb. 16 (UPI) -- A Georgia police officer was gunned down while patrolling a sparsely populated area in Chattahoochee Hills, authorities said Tuesday.
Officer Mike Vogt was shot with a high-powered gun while driving his cruiser Monday. He was able to call for help, but was pronounced dead after a helicopter rushed him to a hospital, Col. Jeff Holmes of the Fulton County Sheriff's Department said.
"We will be turning up the heat and trying to find the perpetrators of this horrific crime," Holmes said at a news conference.
The suspects were two to three men in a late 1980s brown Chrysler and the driver of a blue pickup truck with a ladder in the back may have been involved as well, The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported Tuesday.
Police from numerous jurisdictions were helping search the back roads of Chattahoochee Hills, a newly incorporated city created in 2007 to oversee 33,000 acre of rural countryside, WSB-TV, Atlanta reported Tuesday.
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TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 9 (UPI) --
The mother of Josh Powell, who killed himself and his sons in a fire in Washington state, said in divorce papers he exhibited disturbing behavior as a teenager.
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Macaulay Culkin is in "perfectly good health," his publicist said after the former child star was photographed looking gaunt and disheveled in New York.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 9 (UPI) --
The Israeli government plans to build a floating liquefied natural gas terminal with a sea-based defense radar system off its Mediterranean coast while forming a naval force to protect its rich offshore gas fields against terrorist attack.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (UPI) --
A New York City subway passenger won a free monthly MetroCard Thursday for taking a picture of the subway's ugliest rat, officials said.
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