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Taylor Police Cpl . Matthew Edwards was killed while responding to a home invasion call in July 2010. A Westland man was sentenced last year to life in prison for the slaying. And a fellow officer is now charged with stealing Edwards' shotgun. (AP Photo | Handout) TAYLOR, MI -- A former police officer fired earlier this year for allegedly stealing the shotgun of a slain supervisor is now facing trial. A Taylor District Court Judge on Monday bound Andrew Voelkner over to circuit court on larceny of a firearm, receiving and concealing a stolen firearm and felony firearm charges , according to the Wayne County Prosecutor 's office. Taylor Police Cpl . Matthew Edwards, 31, was shot to death while responding to a home invasion at Coppertree Apartments near North Line and Telegraph roads on July 23, 2010. A Westland man was sentenced to life in prison without parole in the slaying. An internal investigation later found that Voelkner stole the shotgun that had been assigned to...

| Share | Share | Share | Share ST. LOUIS -- A man was shot and killed by St. Louis police after he stabbed an officer inside an apartment Tuesday morning , police say. The officer suffered a cut to his arm during the encounter, Interim Police Chief Lawrence O’Toole said. The injured officer was taken to a hospital and was expected to be treated and released. Officers went to the two-family flat in the 5200 block of Ridge Avenue, east of Union Boulevard in the Academy neighborhood, about 8 a.m. after getting two calls about a stabbing, O'Toole said. Officers arrived to find a stabbing victim, a man who had severe wounds. He told police the name of the person who stabbed him. The suspect was still in the flat. When officers tried to arrest the suspect, a 30-year-old man, he stabbed one of the officers with a large kitchen knife , police said. "The suspect flourished a knife and slashed at the officers, slicing the one officer on the arm," O'Toole said. The injure...

BARCELONA, Spain — The Latest on the Spain attacks (all times local): 5:15 a.m. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has asked people to pray for a young Australian boy who is missing after a vehicle attack on a popular Barcelona promenade that killed 13 people. Turnbull said Saturday that the boy's mother was badly injured and is in a hospital following Friday's attack at the Las Ramblas promenade . Turnbull says the boy's family is searching for him. He did not release the boy's name. Turnbull says: "All of us as parents know the anguish his father is going through, and his whole family is going through, as they rush to seek to find him in Barcelona." Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says four Australians were injured in the attack. ___ 2:35 a.m. Police in Catalonia say they have searched two buses in their hunt for violent extremists believed responsible for a pair of deadly attacks in the northwestern region of Spain. Police say on the...