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KS: Too many sexual predators, not enough room
Posted on September 19, 2008From The AP: The state expects to run out of space to treat sexual predators in Larned by 2012, and local officials are pushing a major expansion. Several officials are urging legislators to approve an expansion costing nearly $90 million....
WORLD'S ROWDIEST BABY SHOWER
Posted on September 19, 2008Unless you knocked a lady unconscious with a shovel, and a dude threatened the crowd with a shotgun, then I'm sorry, your baby shower just doesn't measure up. Story is from Utah.
"A highly provoking act"
Posted on September 19, 2008In Colorado, a man named Allen Andrade is on trial for allegedly killing a transgendered woman (though biologically still male) who had given him oral sex the night before, the Denver Post reports. Snip: Only when Andrade grabbed at Zapata's...
Wisconsin man gets 6 years for stealing piggy bank
Posted on September 19, 2008His haul? About $20.
What killed Ronnie L. White?
Posted on September 19, 2008Interesting story from suburban DC, where authorities are still debating whether White, a 19-year-old who allegedly killed a police officer and then was found dead in his cell two days later, killed himself. That's the theory favored by police and...
Baseball Cops
Posted on September 19, 2008What a cool job! Major League Baseball hires off-duty and retired cops to attend its games and "authenticate" balls, bats, etc., and other items that might be sold on the memorabilia market. (After a ball gets used, the "baseball cops"...
Lawsuit claims Playboy Radio is a sexually hostile environment
Posted on September 19, 2008Snip: (Producer) Terri Hughes claims that during a live, three-hour broadcast, she was repeatedly asked to enter the studio and wax the buttocks of co-host Christy Canyon. On the one hand, I really feel for her. If somebody at The...
K-State player suspended over child-abuse allegation
Posted on September 19, 2008From Jeffrey Martin: Leon Patton, a junior running back at Kansas State serving an indefinite suspension, was arrested Thursday afternoon by Riley County Police on a warrant for child abuse. Friday morning, K-State announced Patton had been dismissed from the...
MO teen says he was abducted at gunpoint, forced to drive 200 miles
Posted on September 19, 2008And only escaped because he crashed his truck into a pile of logs. The story -- which is pretty wild -- starts in Leadington, a small town south of St. Louis, and ends near Macon in north-central Missouri.
KS man reenacts "Goldilocks" in Topeka home
Posted on September 19, 2008It's just like "Goldilocks," if police had Tasered her at the end.
Lori Drew is moving
Posted on September 19, 2008Drew is the woman facing federal charges in the MySpace-Megan Meier case. She's accused of harassing a teenage neighbor over the social networking site -- to such a degree, authorities allege, the girl later killed herself. She goes to trial...
Have they really caught the Boonie Hat Bandit?
Posted on September 19, 2008BHB, as his peeps call him, is responsible for something like 11 bank robberies around the St. Louis area. Authorities believe that a suspect picked up after a Commerce Bank stickup might be the same gent involved in the other...
FBI, Secret Service investigate Palin email theft
Posted on September 19, 2008Missed this from the other day, but a group of hackers broke into vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account and posted the text onto Wikileaks. (The BBC has more about the "how" behind the attack.) And now there's...
Three strikes
Posted on September 19, 2008Wichita man carries gun in his pocket -- it goes off, shooting him in the leg. When he tries to pull the gun out, he SHOOTS HIMSELF AGAIN. Best Part: Police plan to arrest him because he's a felon carrying...
Do you really think this will work?
Posted on September 19, 2008Homeland Security is showing off an early prototype of a machine that, by measuring heart rate and breathing, can sense when an airline passenger is really nervous -- which, obviously, would be a clear sign they're a suicide bomber, right?...
KMBC: Missing monkeys recovered in Buchanan County
Posted on September 19, 2008These are the macaques that were taken from the Monkey Island sanctuary in Jackson County almost a year ago, KMBC says. Buchanan County authorities found them while attending to a domestic-disturbance call near Agency, Mo. A Monkey Island volunteer was...
Remember this moment
Posted on September 19, 2008If O.J. Simpson walks -- and he might just -- this is probably what set him free. Snip from AP: Jurors who have been told to refrain from judging O.J. Simpson on his past heard a recording Thursday of a...
Feds sue woman over spilled Diet Coke
Posted on September 18, 2008Story is from Idaho, though it sounds like something from Bizarro World ... Woman takes her dad to the VA for treatment. She goes to the cafeteria, fills her travel mug with Diet Coke and goes to the counter, expecting...
Fight for your right to Segway
Posted on September 18, 2008The executive director of the Kansas State Gaming Agency, who has a heart condition, has won a lawsuit allowing him to use his Segway at the mall in Topeka. The mall wanted him to sign an agreement to promise to...
Was the thief named Bugs Meany?
Posted on September 18, 2008Boy detective tracks down stolen bicycle.
DarkMarket
Posted on September 18, 2008Wired's ThreatLevel blog has an interesting piece here about DarkMarket, a Web site devoted to buying and selling fake IDs, credit card info, ATM skimmers -- pretty much everything you need to commit cybercrime. The authorities have arrested one of...
MO man accused of stealing $25K from blind charity
Posted on September 18, 2008Story is from Springfield. The suspect is the executive director of the Springfield Association of the Blind.
Where is Johnny Ray Kincaid?
Posted on September 18, 2008Melissa Kincaid says Monday will mark a full month since her husband, Johnny Ray, disappeared after dropping his wife at work. A laborer who worked in landscaping, he'd been picking up cars for scrap metal as a way to make...
The Thin Green Line
Posted on September 18, 2008KCPD now has a committee looking to make the department more environmentally-conscious. Snip from the official release: The Kansas City Missouri Police Department has launched a Green Team to reduce the department?s negative impact on the environment...
Open Thread ... Thursday (Friday Eve)
Posted on September 18, 2008The Open Thread, our blog's space for off-topic comments and discussion, is up and running on a lovely Thursday. This is also a good spot for sharing links, if you've seen a compelling (or hilarious) story somewhere else. Please sign...
If you're going to fake your death ...
Posted on September 18, 2008... make sure your fingerprints aren't on your death certificate. Hat Tip: Saw this via QuizLaw!
Some Seattle cops are surprisingly unhappy about having their every action captured on video
Posted on September 18, 2008Hey, remember those tiny cameras that Seattle police were starting to wear during their shifts, the ones that recorded pretty much everything they did? Well, to paraphrase the police guild, #$^% that noise. The cameras won't be worn again until...
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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...
If I pay restitution, can I still be charged with a crime?
It sounds like the law in your area is treating it as a civil matter. That being...
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