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Andrea Noble

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Andrea Noble was a crime and public safety reporter for The Washington Times.

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Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon delivers the annual State of the State address to a joint session of the House and Senate in Jefferson City, Mo., on Jan. 20, 2016. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Jay Nixon, Missouri governor, ordered to be public defender

The head of Missouri's public defender system has a novel idea to cope with chronic underfunding that he said has left his attorneys overburdened with high caseloads -- he's assigned Gov. Jay Nixon to provide legal aid to the state's poorest criminal defendants.

August 4, 2016
The legal challenge comes after stun gun bans were thrust into the spotlight in March, when the U.S. Supreme Court threw out a Massachusetts court ruling that had upheld a woman's criminal conviction of carrying a stun gun in violation of a state ban. (Associated Press)

D.C. gun advocates fight to legalize Tasers

Second Amendment advocates are broadening attacks on laws that limit self-defense options, with three D.C. residents suing the District over the city's ban on the possession of stun guns and Tasers.

August 2, 2016
New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton (left) speaks during a news conference in New York's City Hall on Jan. 12, 2016, as New York Mayor Bill de Blasio listens. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Bill Bratton, NYPD commissioner, to resign

New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton announced Tuesday that he will step down from the nation's largest municipal police department in September to take a private sector job -- ending a 45-year career in public service in which he also led police departments in Los Angeles and Boston.

August 2, 2016
The majority of the 129 officers gunned down were fatally shot by suspects with handguns as they responded to a call or self-deployed, but 27 officers were killed by a rifle, according to a study conducted by the Justice Department's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services and the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. (Associated Press)

Police shootings drive hunt for better armor

About 21 percent of the U.S. law enforcement officers fatally shot in the line of duty were killed with high-powered rifles, according to a recent study of officer deaths over a five-year period, bolstering police officials' arguments that officers should be outfitted with equipment like heavy-grade body armor, ballistic shields and helmets that can withstand rifle fire.

August 1, 2016
FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2003 file photo, John Hinckley Jr. arrives at U.S. District Court in Washington. A judge says Hinckley, who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan will be allowed to leave a Washington mental hospital and live full-time in Virginia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

John Hinckley, Reagan shooter, can leave hospital to live in Virginia: Judge

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered that John Hinckley Jr. is no longer a danger 35 years after he tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, and can be granted full-time release from the Southeast Washington psychiatric hospital where he has been treated for the last three decades.

July 27, 2016
Gunfire erupted Monday at Club Blu in Fort Myers, Florida, killing two and wounding 20 others a month after a gun massacre in Orlando. (Associated Press photographs)

Fort Myers club shooting not terror, police say

Adolescents as young as 12 had gathered at a Fort Myers, Florida, nightclub for a swimsuit-themed party Sunday night at what was billed as a safe event for teens with plenty of security.

July 25, 2016
FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, left, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch, listen during a news conference, Wednesday, July 20, 2016, at the Justice Department in Washington, announcing that the U.S. government is seeking the forfeiture of more than $1 billion in assets that federal officials say were misappropriated from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund. The Justice Department says the funds that were laundered into the U.S. were used for various assets, including real estate and hotel properties, a jet aircraft, fancy artwork and the production of the Oscar-nominated movie, The Wolf of Wall Street. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

DOJ targets $1B in assets linked to Malaysian fund, including ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ proceeds

The Justice Department moved Wednesday to seize $1 billion in assets that officials say were stolen from an investment fund founded by the Malaysian government and instead used to pay for production of the 2013 movie "The Wolf of Wall Street" and purchase luxury items such as artwork by Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet, a $35 million jet, and high-end real estate.

July 20, 2016