sheriff
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The sheriff said those 20 recommendations were "comprehensive and wide-ranging", addressing all the ways in which railway safety could be improved in response to what happened.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
County Board of Supervisors took drastic measures to try to rein in Villanueva’s behavior while he was sheriff, including voting to investigate the department’s activities and freezing millions of dollars in funding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
A train derailment which resulted in the deaths of three men could have been avoided if a drain had been built correctly, a sheriff has concluded.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
Mark Lamb, formerly the sheriff of Pinal County, was once a celebrity sheriff as a regular on Live PD, the hugely popular show in which law enforcement officers broadcast live feeds of their work.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026
The sheriff and his deputies walk the slowest of all.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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County sheriffs requested assistance from the California Highway Patrol, the driver led a fleet of law enforcement vehicles on a 40-minute journey of South L.A.’s surface streets and highways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Five West Texas sheriffs likewise wrote to federal officials saying advanced surveillance technology would be better suited to stopping undocumented migration in the rugged terrain.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
And whether or not he knew it, it also made him a representative of the community of constitutional sheriffs.
From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026
I saw two officials in sheriffs uniforms, one of whom was from Nebraska.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Jackie had called the sheriffs office because she needed a copy of the police report from the accident to process Jim’s life insurance policy.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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