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An Albuquerque police officer is recovering after a suspected drunk driver shot him in the torso during a traffic stop early Saturday morning. (KOAT 7)
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A correctional officer directs an offender through a gate at the Washington Corrections Center For Women in Gig Harbor, Wash., on Oct. 17, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Police officers arrive to the funeral of Officer Wenjian Liu in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2015. Liu and his partner, officer Rafael Ramos, were killed Dec. 20, 2014, as they sat in their patrol car on a Brooklyn street. The shooter, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, later killed himself. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) ** FILE **
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In this Dec. 30, 2014 photo, Shylo, a six-year-old pit bull, who is available for adoption, steals a kiss from Lexi Stringfellow, behavior coordinator at the Human Society of Utah, in Murray, Utah. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Steve Griffin) DESERET NEWS OUT; LOCAL TELEVISION OUT; MAGS OUT
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FILE - In this March 30, 2011 file photo, former White House press secretary James Brady, left, who was left paralyzed in the Reagan assassination attempt, looks at his wife Sarah Brady, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, marking the 30th anniversary of the shooting. Federal prosecutors say the man who shot President Ronald Reagan and three other people in 1981 won't face new charges in the death last summer of Reagan's former press secretary. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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Hurricane Charley roared through Port Charlotte, Florida, in 2004. FEMA paid out $177 million to Floridians in damages without checking the insurance status of claimants. (associated press photographs)
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Americans for Responsible Solutions PAC, the group founded by gunshot victim and former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, sent an email to supporters soliciting cash and guidance on how to advance its cause in the wake of repeated legislative and election defeats. (Associated Press)
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In a Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014 file photo, visitors line up to enter the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. Several cases from states that still ban gay marriage have advanced to the high court. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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The U.N. is seeking to bring to justice Joseph Kony in the rapes and deaths of thousands, many of them civilians.
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Sharon Helman, director of the Department of Veterans Affairs' Phoenix clinic, was fired from the VA, but only because she improperly took thousands of dollars in gifts. A personnel appeals judge last week rejected the VA's claim that she should also have been dismissed for overseeing the wait lists. (Associated Press)
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A prominent Cuban artist was arrested ahead of a planned protest in Havana's Plaza of the Revolution. (associated press)
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Isabel Rodriguez, left, hands coffee to his husband, Felipe Sousa-Rodriguez, right, at the Davie, Fla. home of Felipe’s sister. The two are longtime immigrant and LGBTQ activists who walked from Miami to Washington, in 2010, to call attention to the struggles of youths living in the United States illegally. (AP Photo)
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The pastor of Living Water Fellowship in Kissimmee, Florida, shot and critically wounded an employee in self-defense Tuesday morning, after the employee opened fire upon learning he was out of a job, police said. (FOX 35)
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Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell speaks at the Treasury Department in Washington in this July 28, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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After critics decried Ferguson, Missouri, police using Defense Department-donated heavy artillery against rioting protesters, some law enforcement agencies are returning military-grade weaponry back to the Pentagon. (Associated Press)
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This Friday, Dec. 26, 2014 booking photo provided by the Ozaukee County Sheriff shows Dustin Diamond. Diamond, who played Screech on the 1990s TV show "Saved by the Bell," has been charged with stabbing a man at a Wisconsin bar. (AP Photo/Ozaukee County Sheriff)
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In this Oct. 8, 2014 photo, Violesia, a survivor of sex trafficking, sits on a rocking chair at the faith-based Samaritan Women home in Baltimore. Local and federal law enforcement agencies are trying to do more to combat sex trafficking, but with an ever-increasing volume of survivors being collected, the patchwork of governmental, non-profit and faith-based organizations that provide care are scrambling to keep up. Samaritan Women has the capacity to house, clothe and feed 14 women for up to two years, and the mission to help women re-integrate into society. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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This Friday, Dec. 26, 2014 booking photo provided by the Ozaukee County Sheriff shows Dustin Diamond. Diamond, who played Screech on the 1990s TV show "Saved by the Bell," has been charged with stabbing a man at a Wisconsin bar. (AP Photo/Ozaukee County Sheriff)
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Police crime scene tape is stretched across a street in South Central Los Angles on Monday, Dec. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Nick Ut) ** FILE **
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A gun-carrying good Samaritan made a citizen's arrest Friday on a man he says attacked a female passenger at a Southlake, Texas intersection. (CBSDFW)
