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Sheriff: Fla. lottery winner's death a homicide
Feb 2nd, 2010 - Boston
, hillsborough county sheriff's spokeswoman debbie carter said in a news release. the body of the former truck driver's assistant who won $30 million in the lottery in 2006 was found thursday, buried behind a home beneath a concrete slab. shakespeare
Body found in search for missing lotto winner Abraham Shakespeare in Florida
Jan 30th, 2010 - NY Daily News
plant city, fla. — human remains have been found near a home where investigators were searching for the body of a missing man who won millions of dollars in the lottery nearly four years ago, florida sheriff's officials said. abraham shakespeare
Body found during search for missing lotto winner
Jan 29th, 2010 - Washington Post
plant city, fla. -- a florida sheriff says human remains have been found near a home where investigators were searching for the body of a missing lottery winner. hillsborough county sheriff david gee said at a news conference thursday
Dawn Teo: Protest Against America's Toughest Sheriff Turns Violent in Arizona
Jan 17th, 2010 - The Huffington Post
to protest the strict immigration enforcement practices of maricopa county sheriff joe arpaio. the protest was mostly peaceful as demonstrators marched more than 3 miles from a phoenix park to the famous "tent city" jail to protest arpaio who has become
Thousands protest sheriff's immigration efforts
Jan 16th, 2010 - AOL News
phoenix -thousands of immigrant rights advocates marched in front of a county jail in phoenix saturday in a protest that was aimed at maricopa county sheriff joe arpaio's immigration efforts and was marked by a clash between a small group
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Investigators continue to examine the circumstances surrounding a crash that killed an Ohio State Trooper killed iin a crash Thursday night. It happened just outside of Carey as Trooper Andrew Baldridge and his training officer, from the Bucyrus Post of the Highway Patrol, were responding to a call ...
County Sheriff from WikiPedia:
A sheriff is in principle a legal official with responsibility for a county. In practice, the specific combination of legal, political, and ceremonial duties of a sheriff varies greatly from country to country.
The word "sheriff" is a contraction of the term "shire reeve". The term, from the Old English sc?rgerefa, designated a royal official responsible for keeping the peace (a "reeve") throughout a shire or county on behalf of the king. The term was preserved in England not withstanding the Norman Conquest. From the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms the term spread to several other countries, at an early point to Scotland, latterly to Ireland and the United States.
The position of sheriff now exists in various countries:
Sheriffs are administrative legal officials (similar to bailiffs) in Ireland, Australia, and Canada.
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