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The Case against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Posted on July 23, 2008Authorities are releasing most of the witness testimony from the grand jury hearings, about 58 years later.
UPDATE: RI man had .491 BAC, police say
Posted on July 23, 2008In case you wanted a look at this specimen ... Hat Tip: Many thanks, Golfer!
How many tickets under KC's new smoking ban?
Posted on July 23, 2008From Lynn Horsley: ... the Health Department has received about 50 complaints of alleged violations. Inspectors also are doing spot checks on their own, said Bert Malone, director of the environmental health division. Tickets so far have been issued to...
You might be a deadbeat if ...
Posted on July 23, 2008... you run out of gas while burglarizing a Goodwill store. Hat Tip: Many thanks to The Golfer!
UPDATE: Prisoner loses weight, escapes through jail's vent
Posted on July 23, 2008Sadly, they've caught him. He was discovered while swimming in a hotel pool ... Hat Tip: Many thanks, JUNGLE JIM!
Drug addiction is growing in Mexico
Posted on July 23, 2008That's according to a new report in USA Today. It's a result of stronger U.S. border enforcement and the Mexican government's war on the cartels. Experts say it's tougher to get drugs into the States, so more cartels are starting...
DUI suspect drinks Wite-Out before getting tested
Posted on July 23, 2008Terrific story from Todd Cooper at the Omaha World-Herald -- WITH VIDEO! There's some debate whether it was Wite-Out or Liquid Paper, but it apparently didn't help the suspect, who recorded a .28 BAC. Snip: Briceno takes a gulp, caps...
UPDATE: Man accused of shooting his pregnant girlfriend
Posted on July 23, 2008This is the case of Sedale Fox, who's accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend, Olivia Jackson, back in January in Leavenworth County. (The shooting followed a failed bombing attempt, police say.) A judge has found probable cause in Fox's case,...
Drew Peterson's friends say they taped talks
Posted on July 23, 2008Which allegedly caught Peterson making some "sensitive" comments. Snip: They also claim Peterson told them police would not find Stacy Peterson's remains, and claimed he said if police did find her body, he would be off the hook because he...
The most awesome thing you'll read today
Posted on July 23, 2008From the Salt Lake Tribune, via Fark. I don't want to spoil it for you, but here's the headline: Motorist's quip about 'Grey Poupon' met with cocked, black handgun
"It's just not real bright to commit a crime and then post it on the Internet"
Posted on July 23, 2008Should this policeman be charged with homicide?
Posted on July 23, 2008In Louisiana, authorities are trying to decide whether a former policeman should be charged with homicide after he used a Taser on a suspect nine times, CNN reports. (The suspect, who had been resisting arrest and wrestling with the cop,...
As gas prices rise, the number of traffic deaths drops
Posted on July 23, 2008That's according to The AP, which has a story here. (We had a similar story a few weeks ago, actually, pointing that Kansas and Missouri were already seeing fewer fatal crashes.) Snip: Preliminary figures obtained by The Associated Press show...
KC woman accused of beating boyfriend's little girls for eating, drinking water
Posted on July 23, 2008From Christine Vendel: Prosecutors on Tuesday accused Tanesha Anderson, 20, of beating and kicking her boyfriend?s preschool daughters because they were ?sneaking? food and water. A 3-year-old girl suffered a lacerated liver, a swollen spleen and kidneys, and bruises to...
Open Thread ... Tuesday
Posted on July 22, 2008The Open Thread, our blog's space for off-topic discussion, is up and running on a lovely Tuesday morning. This is also a good spot to share links, if you've seen an interesting story somewhere else. Please sign your comments, and...
Coplink
Posted on July 22, 2008Thirteen local police departments are signing onto Coplink, a new computer service that will them share huge amounts of suspect data -- not just lists of outstanding warrants, but specific details like past aliases, tattoos, previous addresses, etc. It'll all...
KCK mom charged with leaving kids alone at home
Posted on July 22, 2008From the WyCo DA: Wyandotte County District Attorney Jerome A. Gorman this afternoon charged Nancy E. Martinez, Hispanic Female, Kansas City, Kansas, DOB: 03-11-86, with four counts of Endangering a Child, class ?A? misdemeanors, in connection with leaving four children,...
Police use MySpace to find missing girl in Lawrence
Posted on July 22, 2008The girl is from Texas, and she'd been missing since April, the Journal-World reports. Authorities were watching her MySpace page, so when she logged in, they were able to track it to a Lawrence IP address. A man has been...
MO Supremes schedule execution for September
Posted on July 22, 2008From Tony Rizzo: The court previously stayed a scheduled July 30 execution for John Middleton, a northern Missouri drug dealer convicted of killing three people in two separate cases. On Friday, the court granted the state?s motion to reconsider the....
Kid Rock gets probation in Waffle House incident
Posted on July 22, 2008Praise the Lord that we will not be denied his musical genius. I'm reading "Hell's Angels" by Hunter Thompson right now, so I'm having a hard time taking Kid Rock very seriously as an outlaw. File Photo via AP ...
Trouble at Foxy Lady's
Posted on July 22, 2008From the Osage County Sheriff's Department: A search warrant was executed today at 10919 S. Topeka Boulevard, Carbondale, Osage County, Kansas, on a business known as ?Foxy Lady?s.? This business is located north of Carbondale on Old Highway 75 just....
UPDATE: 1 firefighter dead, 2 cops wounded near St. Louis
Posted on July 22, 2008Police think they've found the body of the shooter, the guy who owned the burned house, the Post-Dispatch reports. Apparently, he was a bit of a recluse. Authorities also believe he set the vehicle on fire, which lured firefighters to...
That's at least a technical, right?
Posted on July 22, 2008Referee shot during basketball league game in Philadelphia ...
Mother of The Year?
Posted on July 22, 2008Florida woman allegedly stabs a 12-year-old girl in the neck because the girl was fighting the woman's daughter, police say.
Human beings, not as rotten as suspected
Posted on July 22, 2008About a dozen people helped an elderly man who tripped as he left a bank -- right after he'd received thousands of dollars. The wind spread the bills, but the crowd helped him get back something like 96 percent of...
Grand jury still considering charges against FLDS
Posted on July 22, 2008Snip from The AP: Grand jury proceedings are supposed to be secret, but documents released as part of the separate child custody case involving the FLDS children have revealed some of the evidence collected by law enforcement during the weeklong...
Rhode Island man arrested with .491 BAC
Posted on July 22, 2008Authorities say it's the highest they've seen without the subject actually being dead. And since it involves a drunk guy from Rhode Island ...
Death is still an option for Edwin Hall, judge says
Posted on July 22, 2008From Diane Carroll: Johnson County prosecutors can still seek the death penalty against Edwin R. Hall even though there was a problem with the paperwork, a judge ruled today. Attorneys for Hall, who is charged in the 2007 murder of...
Should these dogs be put up for adoption?
Posted on July 22, 2008A while back, we had a story about two Oklahomans accused of crimes against nature: To wit, she had sex with dogs while he filmed the proceedings, authorities allege. Two of the dogs -- a mixed breed and a Labrador...
Lesbians win right to be called lesbians
Posted on July 22, 2008As you might know, the people of the Greek island Lesbos had filed a lawsuit to stop lesbians from referring to themselves as, well, lesbians. (They thought it gave people the wrong idea about their island.) A Greek court, though,...
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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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