DELRAY BEACH, Florida - July 4, 2010 - A man who tried to rob a convenience store at gunpoint ended up being killed by the store clerk Saturday night, according to police.

The apparent robber, who has not been identified, ran into the Community Food Market at 139 Northwest Fifth Ave. around 10 p.m. and tried to rob the store, according to a police report.

LONDON, England - July 4, 2010 - A controversial covert surveillance system that records the public's conversations is being used in Britain.

The technology, called Sigard, monitors movements and speech to detect signs of threatening behavior. Its designers claim the system can anticipate anti-social behavior and violence by analyzing the information picked up by its sensors.

LOS ANGELES, Kalifornia - July 3, 2010 - Three Los Angeles-area reporters who said they were physically assaulted by LAPD officers at a 2007 rally have won their day in court.

A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury has awarded one of the journalists, Fox camerawoman Patricia Ballaz, $1.7 million for lost earnings and medical expenses. Another reporter, NPR journalist Patricia Nazario, won $39,000 for medical and other expenses. The jury deadlocked on the award for a third reporter, Fox reporter Christina Gonzalez.

WASHINGTON - July 3, 2010 - As CNN is now reporting, the U.S. government has issued a new rule that would make it a felony crime for any journalist, reporter, blogger or photographer to approach any oil cleanup operation, equipment or vessel in the Gulf of Mexico. Anyone caught is subject to arrest, a $40,000 fine and prosecution for a federal felony crime.

RUTLAND, Vermont - July 2, 2010 - Rutland City and four of its police officers are being sued by a man who was shot multiple times with a crowd control device while he was shackled in police custody.

The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Rutland on Friday names former Rutland officer Michael Nesshoever as well as active officers Justin Souza, Seth Richardson and Kenneth Mosher as defendants along with Michael Miller, a deputy at the Rutland County Sheriff’s Department.

NEW YORK - July 2, 2010 - The day when you’ll be able to hold up your phone and identify a stranger through a viewfinder is getting closer.

Google’s Goggles, a mobile app for visual search, has a facial recognition version unreleased to the public, while Israeli startup Face.com’s technology can tag people’s faces in Facebook photos. Facebook even released a basic version of face detection last night, although it doesn’t have recognition.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (PNN) - June 30, 2010 - A former police officer has been sentenced on a lesser charge after he was accused of killing a pedestrian.

Former Fort Lauderdale Police officer Alexander Griss, 26, was found guilty Wednesday morning of reckless driving for hitting a woman with his police cruiser.