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Carlee Russell, who told police she was kidnapped after she went missing, was arrested and charged with two misdemeanors for making false statements to police. Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who told police she was kidnapped after she went missing for two days, was arrested on Friday and charged with two misdemeanors for making false statements to police, Hoover Police Department Chief Nicholas Derzis announced during a press conference on Friday. "The story open wounds for families whose loved ones really were victims of kidnappings," Derzis said. He added that he shares in the "frustration" that Russell was only charge d with misdemeanors and said that he is calling on state legislators to add an "enhancement" to the law "when somebody false ly reports kidnapping or another violent crime." "Existing laws only allowed the charges that were filed to be filed," he said. Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who told police she was kidnap...

Lt. Col. George Bivens said he's never witnessed a gunfight more intense than one over the weekend with a suspect who allegedly killed a trooper and wounded another. In his nearly 40 years as a member of the Pennsylvania State Police, Lt. Col. George Bivens said he's never witnessed a gunfight more intense than the one that erupted over the weekend with a suspect alleged to have ambushed and killed one trooper and critically wounded another. "What I witnessed .... was one of the most intense, unbelievable gunfights I have ever witnessed," Bivens said at a news conference on Sunday. The suspect, 38-year-old Brandon Stine, was fatally shot by police in the gunbattle on Saturday in which Bivens said "hundreds of rounds" were fired. State Police Commissioner Christopher L. Paris said Stine was armed with a high-powered .458 magnum rifle, which he said is normally used by large Game hunters. "This was as harrowing as it gets," Paris said of the gunfig...