31.   As the officer approached his car, Lapoint fired with a rifle, missing the officer, and then raced off, state police said.

32.   But she fled when officers approached, backing into another vehicle.

33.   Cobb also said one officer approached him with his hand on his weapon, leaned in the car and then spit on a female passenger, according to Dunbar.

34.   He was blocking traffic when an officer approached, she said.

35.   He was sober and cooperative, but fainted briefly after officers approached him, Gill said.

36.   Henry County officers approached the boys at the truck stop early Monday morning and began questioning them.

37.   Janikowski said that he had been drinking that night and that when the officer approached, he thought that he might have been a fan seeking an autograph.

38.   Karen Somerville, a spokeswoman with Burnt Church, said natives were hauling in traps when they were approached by Fisheries officers.

39.   One of the men threw an object on the ground when officers approached.

40.   Prosecutor Stephen Holt said the traffic officer approached Walters, who was sitting in his Peugeot with his girlfriend, because he was parked at an expired meter.