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Why the United States is awesome

Posted on June 12, 2008
Adam Liptak at the New York Times has another entry in his terrific "American Exception" series, looking at how the U.S. legal system is different from other countries. Today's entry: The Mother-Loving First Amendment. Our country doesn't let government officials...

This crack house is not a home

Posted on June 12, 2008
Many thanks to Madison's Capital Times, which has a photo gallery of an alleged crack house. My dad does property management, and these photos gave me flashbacks to some of the worst apartments we had to clean out when I...

Colorado man shot coworker 15 to 20 times with nail gun, police say

Posted on June 12, 2008
The most shocking part? In the affidavit, McDaniel said he was shot in the chest ?15 to 20 times,? and one nail hit him near the nose and left a scratch. The other nails bounced off his chest. Oops! Sorry...

TX man survives 2-hour bee attack

Posted on June 12, 2008
I especially liked this transcript of the 911 call. Dunsworth: These bees are covering me up! Killer bees! Dispatcher: Have you been stung? Dunsworth: All over! They're all over me! "Had he been stung?" No, they were giving him a...

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Do you know this woman?

Posted on June 12, 2008
Raytown police are trying to find the woman in the photos above. Someone's wallet was reported stolen on June 1, and police suspect this woman might have used the victim's credit card and checkbook. Anyone with information is asked to...

Shawnee releases Click It or Ticket totals

Posted on June 12, 2008
From Shawnee PD: During the Click It or Ticket Campaign (May 19 through June 2) just completed, the Shawnee Police Department conducted overtime saturation patrols to aggressively enforce Kansas occupant protection, impaired driving, and other traffic laws...

Should this judge be removed from obscenity case?

Posted on June 12, 2008
In California, they're having another trial that asks the immortal question, "Is pee and poop porn obscene?" The judge in that case, though, is getting some scrutiny because he had a family Web site that included "a video of a...

Where is Amanda Bailey?

Posted on June 12, 2008
From KCK PD: The Kansas City, Kansas Police Department is investigating the disappearance of Amanda Bailey. Amanda is described as a white female, age 14, DOB 11-05-1993, 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighing about 120 pounds with brown hair and...

If you see a person tied up in duct tape, you should probably pull over

Posted on June 12, 2008
When burglars tied up a Georgia woman during a home invasion, she still managed to escape the house and hop to a nearby road, even though she was duct-taped to a chair. According to one witness: "There was this lady...

Gitmo detainees have a right to be heard in federal court, Supremes say

Posted on June 12, 2008
Well, five of the Supremes say that. They argue that enemy combatants have a right to file challenges in the federal court system, not the trial system set up by the White House and Congress. The other Supremes -- including...

KCPD releases Click It or Ticket results

Posted on June 12, 2008
From KCPD: The Kansas City, Missouri Police Department participated in the national Click It or Ticket mobilization conducted May 19th through June 1st. During the enforcement effort, officers issued 433 traffic tickets including: 105 safety belt tickets, 287 speeding tickets...

Marijuana potency hit record "high" in 2007

Posted on June 12, 2008
The White House made this public to warn people away from trying pot, but I think their cunning plan is going to backfire.

Will kiddie-porn deal hurt non-perverts, too?

Posted on June 12, 2008
A couple of days ago, we had a story about Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner agreeing to block access to some Internet channels known to distribute child pornography. What we didn't know then: The deal calls for the ISPs to...

"Not hating this woman takes tremendous courage"

Posted on June 12, 2008
CrimeRant has a post here about Tiffany Hall, an East St. Louis woman who beat her friend to death, cut the fetus from the friend's wound and then drowned the friend's three children. Hall pleaded guilty this week and received...

Switzerland considers pardon for witch beheaded in 1782

Posted on June 12, 2008
Wherever she is, I'm sure she appreciates it. Probably not as much as she would have appreciated a fair trial and not being murdered, but still. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Keith G in PV!

Richard Davis

Posted on June 12, 2008
Remember Richard Davis? Along with his girlfriend, Davis is accused of luring two women into threesomes, then killing them. The trial is supposed to start next month. Kevin Hoffmann reports that Davis' defense wanted to throw out almost all of...

KC man gets 3 life sentences for drug murders

Posted on June 12, 2008
From Mark Morris: Michael L. Dale, 34, declined to address U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple before hearing his sentence. His lawyer, Brian Gaddy, said he would appeal. In December, a jury convicted Dale and co-defendant Dyshawn L. Johnson, also of...

UPDATE: 2 Oklahoma girls shot, killed while walking

Posted on June 12, 2008
This is the case where two young girls went for a walk in rural OK and were found a short time later, shot to death in a ditch. Authorities are still stumped for a motive. The latest development? Two different...

FBI investigates "plot" to mass-murder minks

Posted on June 11, 2008
Lovely story from Utah, where a man named Andy Hart went to the FBI with news of a horrible plan: His friends were planning to, and I quote, "firebomb a mink farm." This led to the FBI arranging an undercover...

Expert: We need crime stats faster!

Posted on June 11, 2008
The FBI released its preliminary Uniform Crime Report on Monday, but experts say the data -- which is from 2007 -- is too old to really help police and elected officials react to crime spikes, the Post-Dispatch reports. One solution?...

No, sir, we do NOT sell bongs

Posted on June 11, 2008
We sell water-pourers ...

Open Thread ... Wednesday

Posted on June 11, 2008
The Open Thread, our blog's spot for off-topic comments and discussion, is up and running on a lovely Wednesday morning. If you've seen an interesting story somewhere else, feel free to post a link below. Please sign your comments, and...

$2 million jewelry burglary includes Super Bowl rings

Posted on June 11, 2008
Story is from Massachusetts, though the rings -- priced at $25K apiece -- were intended for New York Giants staff members. (The players and coaches already have theirs, whew.) The crooks apparently cut a hole in the roof and somehow...

KS man accused of beating ex's 4 kittens to death

Posted on June 11, 2008
With a hammer. He's facing a felony animal cruelty charge. I forget, if he's convicted, will he actually do time? For the longest while, killing somebody's beloved pet was a "pretend crime" -- oh, we'll arrest you and have a...

Seriously, don't #$%^ with the ice-cream man

Posted on June 11, 2008
In Wichita, the driver of an ice-cream truck was able to grab a robber's gun -- EVEN THOUGH IT WAS PRESSED AGAINST HIS HEAD -- and wrestle it away from the little jerk. He is 67 years awesome. The perps...

The Great Escape from El Dorado!

Posted on June 11, 2008
Remember our old friend Amber Lynn Goff, a prison guard who helped two inmates escape from the El Dorado prison last year? (Distressingly, the exact opposite of what a prison guard is supposed to do.) She's getting five years in...

DUI convict walks 25 miles to get to sentencing

Posted on June 11, 2008
It took him all day, and he had to go to the hospital at some point because he'd been traveling in 90-degree heat. The judge asked him to come back next month ...

Midtown Miscreant just can't sleep

Posted on June 11, 2008
Double-M takes a night drive through the harrowing city streets -- including this encounter near the heart of darkness, Loose Park: I kept going south on Main, cutting over to Wornall. I got as far as the stoplight on the...

Section 8 and Crime

Posted on June 11, 2008
The Atlantic has a long, but interesting about the growth of crime rates in small cities and suburban communities. One reason? A few years ago, the government decided to tear down several large housing complexes in larger cities. So many...

OK man hangs neighbor's dog after it wanders onto his land, police say

Posted on June 11, 2008
I don't really care for animals, to be honest, but stuff like this makes me sick -- not just for the pain done to the animals, but to the pet owners as well. Most dog owners love their pets as...

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