In the latest show of support for police, hundreds of firefighters and staff Tuesday started wearing Back the Blue T-shirts on duty. “It’s not only for our local Police Department but officers across the country,” Assistant Fire Chief Bill Murphy said Tuesday. North Texas law enforcement agencies have been flooded with cards, emails and food from residents showing their support for officers, starting in the hours after Dallas police were ambushed July 7, leaving five officers dead.
- PUB DATE: 8/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Fort Worth Star-Telegram

VIDEO - Police in Kentucky are looking for a man caught on surveillance video attempting to torch a barbershop -- and in the process lighting himself ablaze. Investigators in Madisonville -- located roughly 150 miles southwest of Louisville -- said two suspected arsonists in a white Ford minivan targeted the business Sunday morning.
- PUB DATE: 8/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WHAS-TV ABC 11 Louisville

Fire departments that service unincorporated areas of the county are requesting funds from potential future income tax revenues that largely would pay for more personnel. “Fire service, as a whole, outside the city limits is in dire need of personnel,” Ellettsville Fire Department Chief Mike Cornman told a committee of the Monroe County Income Tax Council on Monday night, speaking on behalf of Richland Township, which his department serves.
- PUB DATE: 8/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Firerescue1

Matthew A. Jurado told North Tonawanda police Thursday that he poured a bottle of lighter fluid on the couch in the apartment of Kenneth D. Walker, the city’s only African-American firefighter, and lit it. However, Jurado said he did it because he was angry about being suspended from the Fire Department – not because of Walker’s race.
- PUB DATE: 8/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Buffalo News

PHOTO - A woman somehow escaped injury after crashing her SUV up against a building at a Starbucks drive-through south of Puyallup, officials said. Police later said drugs were likely a factor in the crash. "This could have been a lot worse," the Pierce County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. The incident unfolded at about 11 a.
- PUB DATE: 8/10/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: komo news