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A mother's love
Posted on October 03, 2008A New York mother, pregnant no less, dies trying to protect her teenage son from an abusive husband, police say.
Judge: Actually, nobody is too fat to die
Posted on October 03, 2008A federal judge has rejected the argument of Richard Cooey, a condemned killer who says he's essentially too fat to be executed. (His veins are so well hidden by cellulite, he would unduly suffer as the nurse hunted for them,...
Addie Polk refuses to leave
Posted on October 03, 2008From the Akron Beacon-Journal: At the age of 90, Addie Polk found herself in foreclosure this week, about to be forced from the home she's lived in for nearly 40 years. So, with a gun in her hand, the Akron...
Russian could be jailed for eating ex-wife's passport
Posted on October 03, 2008Destroying official documents, don't you know. It reportedly happened during a fight over whether she could still live in his apartment, despite the divorce. He ate the page with the stamp that says she could.
Man down! Man down in the McDonald's drive-through!
Posted on October 03, 2008Lovely story from Memphis, where a man fell asleep in the Mickey D's drive-through, as he was trying to pay for his Big Mac. He even had the money is his hand. Luckily, the po-po showed up and helped him...
More than 900 charged with hurricane fraud, DOJ says
Posted on October 03, 2008And these are all cases from Katrina and Rita, not Ike, Gustav or the other latecomers. It's a real panoply of dirtbaggery: They've found cases of reconstruction bribes, people asking for money to repair undamaged houses and, of course, people...
2 BPU officials indicted -- expected to be booked this afternoon
Posted on October 03, 2008From Mark Wiebe: A high-ranking Board of Public Utilities official and a Kansas City, Kan., lawyer were indicted today in Wyandotte County District Court, each with at least one count of theft. Charged in the 57-count indictment were BPU chief...
Do you know this person?
Posted on October 03, 2008From KCPD: The KCMO Police Homicide Unit is requesting the public?s assistance in identifying the person in the attached photo. This person is considered a person of interest in the homicide that occurred on September 28, 2008 at about 5:00pm...
Your party might have gotten too wild ...
Posted on October 03, 2008... if people start torturing the rabbits and urinating on the carpet.
FL mom hides $60 worth of groceries under kid
Posted on October 03, 2008Or TRIED to hide them, since the police got involved. I'm just trying to work this one out in my head. How big is this kid? What could you hide under a typical 6-year-old that would reach the cash value...
$2200 reward in Randy Campbell homicide
Posted on October 03, 2008From Crime Stoppers: For the second time this week, the family of KCK murder victim Randy L. Campbell has added $600 to the reward available for information leading to an arrest in his death. On Monday, September 29th, the family...
Well, they found Ricardo Castro
Posted on October 03, 2008Castro, you might remember, was a suspect in a Florida murder case who was believed to be in the area after his car was discovered abandoned near Tonganoxie. That was back in late August. Last weekend, Castro's decomposed body was...
Man threatened to kill roommate over fantasy football, police say
Posted on October 03, 2008Story is from Florida ...
Group photo goes horribly, horribly wrong
Posted on October 03, 2008TJ Maxx shopper horrified to learn that a sex offender was trying to take a photo of her and his exposed genitals. Hat Tip: Many thanks, msj!
Timing is everything
Posted on October 03, 2008If you've just been released from jail on a burglary rap, maybe you shouldn't cruise the jail parking lot, looking for cars to break into, minutes after you were released.
Detroit worries that Devil's Night will make a comeback
Posted on October 03, 2008I didn't know this, but years ago, Detroit used to have a tradition called Devil's Night, where people would, well, burn down abandoned buildings on the night before Halloween. Hundreds of them. (Devil's Night used to be about relatively benign...
How did everybody behave at Arrowhead?
Posted on October 03, 2008KCPD Sgt. Rick Sticken says there were six ejections during Sunday's game against the Broncos, as well as six arrests for various offenses, including public intoxication and public urination.
You might be a bad mother if ...
Posted on October 03, 2008... you let your 3-year-old ride on the hood of a car, even if it was only for a few blocks and he asked to.
He might have lost perspective ...
Posted on October 02, 2008German man, 70, chops off cab driver's finger with a machete after arguing over the cabbie's parking, police say.
Fighting over Tasers in Columbia
Posted on October 02, 2008Columbia has doubled the number of Tasers carried by its officers, but it's still facing strong opposition from Grass Roots Organizing, a citizens group that dislikes the devices. (Especially since a suicidal man was Tasered, fell off an overpass and...
I'm almost positive O.J. is going to walk
Posted on October 02, 2008Yeah, sorry, I know a lot of people had their hopes up. (Including the cops, who got caught on tape bragging that they "got OJ.") But they almost had a mistrial on Wednesday. And the defense played a voice mail...
More cops, not light rail
Posted on October 02, 2008That is Midtown Miscreant's prescription for fighting crime: Light rail, huh, say what? Look light rail is not now, nor has it ever been anything other than the pipe dream of people who have no real grasp of what this...
Fact: Bulgarian strip clubs are bad for your health
Posted on October 02, 2008That's according to the State Department: The U.S. Embassy in Sofia issued a security alert Tuesday saying the city's "gentlemen's clubs" should be avoided after two bombings and a shooting seriously injured several people at strip parlors there in August...
More bike patrols from Lee's Summit PD?
Posted on October 02, 2008The department got a $6K MODOT grant to buy six new bicycles for officers, KMBC reports. The story says the PD will be putting more effort into this area because more people are commuting to work by bicycle.
AZ man accused of sitting on another man's head
Posted on October 02, 2008It was in no way consensual, either, the police say. The victim here is a man who was already handcuffed and sitting on the pavement. The suspect -- a guy who was out celebrating his birthday -- says he ACCIDENTALLY...
Bros before WHOOOOAAA!
Posted on October 02, 2008Utah man throws drinking buddy off third-story balcony.
Open Thread ... Thursday (Friday Eve)
Posted on October 02, 2008The Open Thread -- our blog's space for off-topic comments and discussion -- is up and running on a lovely Thursday. This is a good spot for linking to stories, if you've seen an interesting piece somewhere else! Please sign...
2 injured in KCPD-involved shooting
Posted on October 02, 2008From Christine Vendel: Kansas City police have shot at least two people near 28th Street and Euclid Avenue, authorities confirmed this afternoon. The shooting happened before 4 p.m. and may involve as many as three crime scenes in that general...
Man accused of Garden City, MO arsons
Posted on October 02, 2008From Cass County Sheriff: A Garden City man has been charged and arrested after a lengthy investigation into several fires in Garden City. Investigators from the Garden City Fire Department, Cass County Sheriff?s Office, Garden City Police, and Missouri State...
He was smoking ... and so was his car
Posted on October 02, 2008If you're going to smoke in your car, maybe you shouldn't keep your ARSENAL OF FIREWORKS directly under the cigarette.
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Do parents have the right to NOT turn in a sexual offender?
No. The offender should be turned in regardless of any disability (1), or reason...
Can someone detained in a search w/ warrant, be charged with a crime related to the search if they were not arrested at the time of the search?
The police have fairly wide discretion on when they can make an arrest so long a...
I was a bookkeeper for a recreation center. The Center Director left and a new director took over. I went to work one day and some of my files were missing. I called our computer tech and her restored the files (I had ma
In order for a crime to be established you need to conclusively prove that the D...
If I was detained by citizens unlawfully, and then the police showed up...is everything they charged me with in-admissable?
Probably depends on the law of the state in which you live. Many states allow fo...
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