11.   County sheriffs and deputies across both Missouri and Kansas face the rise in violence.

12.   County sheriffs are already feeling pressure, and they want state inmates out of their jails.

13.   County sheriffs had complained that the jails were overcrowded because the state had no room in its prisons.

14.   Dozens of county sheriffs, in states as diverse as Texas, Indiana, Nebraska, Florida and Maine, are putting their inmates back in stripes.

15.   Hall, owner of five bonding companies, said generally the county sheriff decides the type of bond a defendant must post.

16.   He said the meeting will include county sheriffs, advocacy groups and city officials.

17.   High-profile Democrats have deserted MacKay in droves, including the state agriculture commissioner, dozens of county sheriffs and several key legislators.

18.   If the burglar is white, then a county sheriff might step in.

19.   In January of last year, a call unlike any he had ever received came into the office of Patrick Mahoney, the Suffolk county sheriff.

20.   In fact, the only elected officials who seemed to be speaking freely were the county sheriffs, whose jobs were abolished Tuesday through a statewide ballot referendum.