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Here's a lesson for government employees: If you're found slacking, not only can it be really embarrassing when taxpayers find out, it may land you in the unemployment line. At least that's what happened in a Florida case involving six lawmen in the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office; their names were ...

A long-serving sheriff's deputy in Louisiana who allegedly told his supervisor that he had planted a recording device in his ex-girlfriend's bedroom has been fired and arrested, following a brief investigation. As The (Baton Rouge) Advocate reports, David Pizzolato Jr. went inside his ex-girlfriend's ...

BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- A records clerk for an Illinois sheriff's office admits she goofed when she mistakenly faxed a request to have a deputy's son's speeding ticket fixed to the local newspaper. Joann Reed tried to use a St. Clair County Sheriff's Department fax machine to send a copy of the ticket issued ...