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Father of the Year?

Posted on August 01, 2008
An Indiana father has pleaded guilty to killing his kids' pet cat, Boots, though he'd really wanted the KIDS to kill the poor thing. Pop allegedly went so far as to hold a knife in his daughter's hand and forced...

"I want my story told"

Posted on August 01, 2008
In 2006, a 15-year-old named Eric Hainstock brought a gun to his Wisconsin high school and fatally shot his principal. He's now doing a life sentence in prison, and he won't eligible for parole until he's 47. Hainstock has written...

Teen nearly killed with medieval battle ax

Posted on August 01, 2008
Story is from Utah, and police think the attack -- allegedly carried out by two other young men -- was over a girl. The victim, who is in critical condition, was also stabbed 11 to 12 times. More on the...

OP, JoCo Sheriff arrest 35 during warrant sweep

Posted on August 01, 2008
From JoCo Sheriff: Deputies arrested 35 people during a warrant sweep last week. Over 30 deputies and police officers from Overland Park armed with over 290 warrants took to the streets looking to arrest as many people as they could...

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4 swimmers shot in Wisconsin by mystery gunman

Posted on August 01, 2008
Three are dead, one is wounded. They'd gotten together to go swimming in a river late Thursday when a middle-aged guy in camo emerged from the woods and fired an assault rifle at them. Happened near the town of Niagara,...

Pop quiz

Posted on July 31, 2008
If your girlfriend's ex-boyfriend douses himself in gasoline and threatens to kill himself, do you throw him a lighter and urge him to go through with it?

Open Thread ... Thursday (Friday Eve)

Posted on July 31, 2008
The Open Thread, our blog's space for off-topic comments, is up and running on a lovely Thursday. This is also a good spot to share links, if you've seen an interesting story somewhere else. Please sign your comments, and please...

Some headlines just write themselves

Posted on July 31, 2008
"Naked Swedish couple assaulted by drunken Aussie in Scotland" Saw this via Fark!

Bad Places to Masturbate, No. 301

Posted on July 31, 2008
In a DUI checkpoint lane. Hat Tip: Saw this via Weird Universe!

Richard Davis: Guilty

Posted on July 31, 2008
More to come! UPDATED: Kevin Hoffmann has filed his take here ... A jury this afternoon convicted Richard D. Davis on 25 of 26 counts in a case that riveted the metropolitan area because of elements of videotaped violent sex...

Buttman, Buttman, Buttman

Posted on July 31, 2008
A gentleman named Donald L. Buttman Jr. has pleaded guilty to his part in a ring that stole cars, chopped them for parts and then sold the material or traded it for drugs, U.S. Attorney John Wood's office reports.

I wished this happened to more thieves

Posted on July 31, 2008
Meet Gibson Cook, an alleged copper thief who spent about 12 hours trapped under a Dumpster. He was trying to lay hands on some ill-gotten recyclables at a South Carolina landfill, police allege. Snip from The AP: Break-ins at the...

TN woman denies she's a Black Widow

Posted on July 31, 2008
Raynella Dossett Leath of Knoxville, TN, has lost not one, but two husbands. The first -- Ed Dossett, the local DA -- was apparently trampled to death by cattle back in 1992. The second -- David Leath, a barber --...

UPDATE: Joplin teen accused of foiled school shooting

Posted on July 31, 2008
This is the story of Thomas White, now 15, who brought an assault rifle to his Joplin middle school back in 2006. White is being prosecuted as an adult -- he's accused of threatening teachers and students, and even trying...

It

Posted on July 31, 2008
That, Colorado police say, is how Allen Ray Andrade referred to Angie Zapata, a transgendered woman that he allegedly beat to death with a fire extinguisher. (Police say Andrade was furious after learning Zapata, who had given him oral sex...

Report: Driver who killed KS deputy was distracted by cellphone, devices

Posted on July 31, 2008
This is the case of Lt. David K. Dillon, an off-duty Douglas County deputy who was struck and killed while riding a bicycle back in late June. The Kansas Highway Patrol investigated the crash and issued the report, the Journal-World...

Ted Stevens pleads not guilty

Posted on July 31, 2008
Say what you will, but everybody thought R. Kelly was guilty, too.

MO man admits to killing coworker in Maryville

Posted on July 31, 2008
But only because the coworker was planning to kill him, the St. Joe paper reports.

Mom pleads not guilty in Amber Alert case

Posted on July 31, 2008
From Karen Uhlenhuth: Kassi Elliott pleaded not guilty this morning to a charge of interfering with custody for allegedly taking her infant son from her mother?s home in Independence. Jackson County Circuit Judge Vernon Scoville set a $50,000 cash-only bond...

The Saudis have completely lost it

Posted on July 31, 2008
The religious police have banned the sale of cats and dogs as pets. Also, Saudis can't walk their existing pets in public anymore. Because too many men were using them to hit on women, the religious police say. (AP Photo)

These are the people in your neighborhood

Posted on July 31, 2008
Local blogger Mark Forsythe recounts a trip to a Midtown Mickey D's, including a police bust. (My Mickey D's, actually!) Snip: I can't even imagine how I would react to a bunch of serious-looking dudes aiming assault rifles at me....

2nd conviction in Fat Tone homicide case

Posted on July 31, 2008
From the Las Vegas Review-Journal: A jury convicted Jason Mathis of killing rapper Anthony "Fat Tone" Watkins, 24, and his friend Jermaine "Cowboy" Akins, 22, in Las Vegas. Prosecutors said Mathis and another San Francisco rapper, Andre "Mac Minister" Dow,...

Awful Ways To Die, No. 123: Beheaded on a Greyhound bus

Posted on July 31, 2008
Story is from Canada, where an 18-year-old man was fatally stabbed, then beheaded by his seatmate, a stranger with a large, Rambo-style knife, passengers said. "I screamed 'stop the bus!' ... Everybody got the hell off, and people at the...

Mother of The Year?

Posted on July 31, 2008
In Nevada, a 1-year-old has tested positive for PCP. Here's why: Police say Keshia Lyles smoked cigarettes laced with PCP, and then let her son eat the cigarette butts. Police say the little boy was getting the butts out of...

Senior citizen foils robber, narrowly avoids death

Posted on July 31, 2008
Lovely story from Oregon, where Art Iwasaki, 88 years young, woke up from a nap to find a robber pointing a gun at him. I am absolutely shocked that Art didn't end up catching one in the pumpkin. That's because...

Innocent after all?

Posted on July 31, 2008
In Alabama, the state's Supreme Court has postponed the execution of Thomas Arthur, 66, who was convicted of murder-for-hire 26 years ago. Another inmate now claims he was the killer. But the dead man's wife, who hired the hit, says...

UPDATE: David Liberty

Posted on July 31, 2008
Liberty is facing several child-porn charges in Platte County, but prosecutors also asking the public if anyone has ever been molested or attacked by Liberty. They're asking anyone with information to call the Western Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force tip...

Springfield's new crime lab

Posted on July 31, 2008
The News-Leader has an update on that city's still-under-construction lab. They're starting to reach out to neighboring counties and ask if they'll help fund it. This is a good thing, not just for them, but the entire state. Once the...

Should inmates get free condoms?

Posted on July 31, 2008
California is trying out a program where inmates will have access to free condoms. The goal is to reduce the spread of STDs among the prison population. The guards aren't thrilled because (A) it's still illegal to have sex behind...

Murder in the Library

Posted on July 31, 2008
The Philly Inquirer has a really interesting story about the murder of Betsy Aardsma, a student who was fatally stabbed in Penn State's campus library almost 40 years ago. The case has never been solved, but it's attracted the attention...

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