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TX woman embezzles $1 million, gets no prison time

Posted on July 28, 2008
Yep, it's from Texas. I even doublechecked. You'd think they would have beaten her to death with shovels or something.

TX man killed wife "to end lifetime of ridicule"

Posted on July 28, 2008
The defendant, a 68-year-old retired ironworker, is getting 30 years, though he wanted to withdraw his guilty plea. Snip: In the 911 call, after the dispatcher asked whether his wife was still alive, Mr. Willhite can be heard yelling, ?Are...

KSHB: Man robs TGI Friday's in OP

Posted on July 28, 2008
Happened earlier today near the 11800 block of West 95th Street, the station reports. The bad guy reportedly hustled two employees into a cooler before he fled.

UPDATE on "Ticked-off techie allegedly hijacks SF computer system"

Posted on July 28, 2008
The San Francisco Chronicle has a great profile on Terry Childs, the IT guy -- and former Kansan -- who's accused of hijacking most of that city's municipal computer network. Childs is interesting because he overcame a rough youth, including...

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It's one thing to drive drunk ...

Posted on July 28, 2008
... it's another to do so while your wife rides on the car's roof.

UPDATE: LA cop Tasered suspect 9 times

Posted on July 28, 2008
This is a followup to a story we had last week about a Louisiana policeman -- since fired -- who allegedly Tasered a suspect nine times. The suspect reportedly resisted arrest and wrestled with officers -- and he ended up...

UPDATE: Bob Novak has a brain tumor

Posted on July 28, 2008
Could this explain why he ran over that pedestrian last week?

Taylor Marquez pleads guilty

Posted on July 28, 2008
He's getting a different deal than Eddie George, though -- Marquez will be eligible for parole after 25 years. More here.

"It's like screwing around with the ecosystem"

Posted on July 28, 2008
In California, the prison system is going to start integrating its prison cells -- for years, inmate housing has been segregated along racial lines. An inmate sued, though, getting all the way to the Supreme Court. As part of a...

Police shoot man who was bayoneting woman

Posted on July 28, 2008
Amazingly enough, she survived.

RI man accused of killing parents, hiding bodies in cesspool

Posted on July 28, 2008
No word yet on a motive, but police say the murder weapon was a grub hoe. Hat Tip: Many thanks, sexy, Keith and Patty!

Dear Ladies: We are not male strippers ...

Posted on July 28, 2008
... we are policemen.

Dear Parents ...

Posted on July 28, 2008
if a stranger comes to your house and asks your 8-year-old daughter to model several pairs of underwear while he watches, please realize that he might not be an underwear researcher, as he claimed, but a PERVERT. Thank you. That...

Not guilty plea in pedestrian's death

Posted on July 28, 2008
From Tony Rizzo: A Mission Hills man was arraigned Monday on upgraded charges in the Mother?s Day hit-and-run killing of a pedestrian on Ward Parkway. Defense attorney J.R. Hobbs entered not guilty pleas on behalf of Curtis W. Mertensmeyer, who...

Suspect found hiding in garbage can

Posted on July 28, 2008
There's only one guy that works for. File Photo: NOT the suspect.

ACLU wants Columbia to form Taser task force

Posted on July 28, 2008
Columbia wants to essentially double the number of Tasers used by its officers, from 38 to 78. The ACLU is pointing to a situation last week where police got into a standoff with a guy who wanted to jump from...

The next battleground for gun rights

Posted on July 28, 2008
Looks like it's going to be "gun-free zones." Some states have loosened their rules on where guns, concealed or otherwise, can be banned. (Georgia, for example, has a new law letting licensed gun owners carry in state parks, on public...

Michael Jason Registe joins the FBI Top Ten

Posted on July 28, 2008
Registe is a Georgia man accused of killing two men in a execution-style homicide back on July 20, 2007. Here's his wanted poster. And here's more info from the FBI, which is offering $100K for information leading directly to his...

Knoxville gunman couldn't get job, hated liberals

Posted on July 28, 2008
So naturally he decided to shoot up a Unitarian church where a bunch of kids were performing "Annie Jr." Knoxville authorities are treating this as a hate crime. Police found 76 shotgun shells that he brought to the church. Apparently,...

What is this Joker's problem?

Posted on July 28, 2008
A Michigan man is accused of dressing up like the Joker and trying to steal Batman memorabilia during a midnight showing of "The Dark Knight." Hat Tip: Many thanks, JUNGLE JIM!

Study: Kansas laws for teen drivers stink

Posted on July 28, 2008
That's according to Reader's Digest. Snip from The Eagle: Allowing teens to drive at a young age and not having a graduated driver licensing program were key factors in Kansas' poor rating, said Andrea Barbalich, deputy editor at Reader's Digest....

It's all fun and games until somebody calls the po-po

Posted on July 27, 2008
This time, it's the Liberty school board asking the police to investigate allegations of financial mismanagement.

Mass shooting at Knoxville, TN church

Posted on July 27, 2008
One man is dead, and the shooter is in custody, the Knoxville News Sentinel reports. Greg McKendry reportedly confronted the gunman while the children's group presented a musical, "Annie Jr." Seven other people were injured, and several are critical. More...

Man shoots lawnmower for refusing to start, police say

Posted on July 26, 2008
Not only was he arrested, but he could get more than six years in prison, which seems a little much. There is also a terrific mugshot after the jump ... Hat Tip: Many thanks, Anon!

Guilty plea in $11K pharmacy burglary in Northland

Posted on July 26, 2008
From the Platte County Prosecutor: A 25-year-old man pled guilty July 24 in separate cases to illegally possessing oxycodone and then breaking into a pharmacy to steal drugs. Matthew L. Burns, of Rayville, Mo., admitted that he and another man...

It wasn't so much a "beer run" as a "beer police pursuit"

Posted on July 26, 2008
Lovely story from Arizona where a beer thief hopped into a getaway car, which clipped the c-store owner, led police on a chase and finally crashed into a building. Hope that Blue Ribbon was worth it, you jokers. Hat Tip:...

But he brought enough for everybody ...

Posted on July 26, 2008
Man caught with 14K hits of acid at music festival, police say Hat Tip: Many thanks, Ash!

14 DUI arrests during KCPD sobriety checkpoint

Posted on July 26, 2008
From KCPD: The Kansas City Missouri Police Department conducted a Sobriety Checkpoint on July 25, 2008 from 2300 hours to 0400 hours at 7712 Wornall . South and Northbound traffic was checked with a total of 467 vehicles stopped. A...

Yeah there's a mummy in my bathtub, so what?

Posted on July 26, 2008
From sunny Phoenix, where police identified a man whose mummified remains were found covered with dirt and boarded over in the bathtub of the home where he lived. They think the guy has been dead six to eight years --...

Open Thread ... Weekend Edition

Posted on July 26, 2008
Happy Saturday (and Sunday)! Thanks for checking in to the Open Thread, this blog's spot for chit-chatting and off-topic discussions. Please remember to sign your comments and avoid profanity as well as sexually or racially abusive speech. James, who was...

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