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Police Scanner: May highlights, installation No. 2

Posted on May 30, 2008
More highlights/lowlights from the evening shift. Watch for final installation for May tomorrow morning. May 13: Johnson County Sheriff's communications said a resident called 911 to report some ditchweed growing by the side of the road. Deputies responded to the...

Second person dies after NYC crane collapse

Posted on May 30, 2008
The New York Times has total coverage. | Sara Shepherd

While you were sleeping...

Posted on May 30, 2008
A bomb threat forced evacuation of a plane at KCI. Jackson County Sheriff's deputies are trying to find the owner of a dog that bit someone out there. A guy got shot, robbed and carjacked near 30th and Van Brunt....

Arizona 'Serial Shooter' wins quote-of-day award

Posted on May 30, 2008
Good court story, in which two of the defendents in Arizona's "Serial Shooters" case are each claiming the other was the killer -- they also seem displeased with the newspaper's coverage, and wrote in about it. The story's last two...

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Animals confiscated after sex tape (involving one of them) surfaces

Posted on May 30, 2008
It seems a little early in the morning for this kind of thing, but here goes: A Palm Beach Gardens man and his mother, a middle school science teacher, are permanently barred from owning or possessing animals, a judge ruled...

Jesus told me to

Posted on May 30, 2008
Long-shot defense of the day: A Marietta woman accused of killing her common-law husband told authorities her husband had used the Lord's name in vain too many times and that she shot him because "Jesus told me to do it."...

Texas high court: Sect children should be sent back home

Posted on May 29, 2008
From the AP: In a crushing blow to the state's massive seizure of children from a polygamist sect's ranch, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Thursday that child welfare officials overstepped their authority and the children should go back to their...

Four charged in Olathe carjacking

Posted on May 29, 2008
Police say three adults and a 17-year-old -- all from KCK -- were responsible for shooting a man in the head and face and taking his phone, wallet and Jeep last week in Olathe. | Sara Shepherd

No death penalty for killer of 14-year-old mother-to-be

Posted on May 29, 2008
For court junkies, here's a good trial story out of Wichita today, with a nifty sidebar. A jury spared the life of 51-year-old Ted Burnett, who was convicted of killing a 14-year-old girl. Everett Gentry, the father of the girl's...

Have you seen Bobbie Newton?

Posted on May 29, 2008
Police today released a new photo they hope will help find the Kansas City, Kan., man, who has been missing about a week. | Sara Shepherd

Peanuts banned from parts of STL stadium

Posted on May 29, 2008
The River City Rascals last night offered fans their first chance to sit in a peanut-free zone. And on July 21, Section 328 down the right field line in Busch Stadium will go peanut-free, allowing allergic Cardinals fans to watch...

Supermodel (yes, it was Naomi Campbell) charged in 'luggage rage' incident

Posted on May 29, 2008
Naomi should probably Simmer. Down. Now. She just got charged for her latest rampage: Naomi Campbell has been charged with assaulting two police officers during a "luggage rage" incident at Heathrow Airport, her lawyer and prosecutors said Thursday. | Sara...

Freight train maims sunbathing girls

Posted on May 29, 2008
The girls, 13 and 14, apparently fell asleep while sunbathing on some train tracks in New Hampshire. One lost half her leg, the other, her foot. | Sara Shepherd

Shovel attack du jour

Posted on May 29, 2008
Doesn't sound much like a friend to me. | Sara Shepherd

Most messed-up. Wedding pictures. Ever.

Posted on May 29, 2008
Nancy Grace takes on case photos that allegedly show polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs "deep kissing" child brides -- one of them is a 12-year-old. | Sara Shepherd

This just in: Burned, headless body found along I-70

Posted on May 29, 2008
UPDATE: We now have a few more details... The county sheriff?s department said it had received a call about 9 a.m. Wednesday after an area resident out repairing a fence found the body near Davis Road. Investigators say the nude...

KCK bar copes with bartender's murder

Posted on May 29, 2008
Nice read from Malcom Garcia, who paints a picture of the Gossip Inn after a popular longtime bartender was shot and killed when she refused to serve a young man without seeing his ID. There was never any trouble in...

Who killed Jeffrey Rogers?

Posted on May 29, 2008
Family and friends of Kansas City, Kan., homicide victim Jeffrey J. Rogers gathered Wednesday to urge anyone with information on his death to come forward. Rogers was shot multiple times after four men forced their way into his house in...

Good cop, bad cop

Posted on May 29, 2008
A hero-cop story from the always-dramatic New York Post: An off-duty Queens detective was slashed last night as he fended off two bottle-wielding thugs who attacked a woman in the lobby of a Chinatown condo - fatally shooting one and...

Police Scanner: May highlights, installation No. 1

Posted on May 29, 2008
Here are some of my favorite scanner dispatches from this month, overheard on the evening shift. May was pretty busy, what with all the folks taking off their clothes and solicitors dressing as the opposite sex. Watch for additional installments...

Houston wants cops to stay beardless

Posted on May 29, 2008
Houston is willing to spend $150,000 to defend itself against a lawsuit over its ban on police officers having beards. They want clean-cut cops, but some say the police discriminates against men with skin conditions. "...we're basically saying we want...

'Try Legal Weed'

Posted on May 29, 2008
From Weed, Calif., where a beer brewer is in a tussle with the fed's over his supposed-to-be-funny bottle-cap slogan. They say his packaging alludes to marijuana use. So maybe his brews do include Shastafarian Porter and Mountain High IPA. But...

Another DWI checkpoint -- tomorrow!

Posted on May 29, 2008
It's happening sometime Friday night through early Saturday morning somewhere in eastern Jackson County, according to a press release just sent out by the Jackson County Sheriff's Office. Officers from several agencies in the Jackson County Traffic Safety Task Force...

Overland Park DUI patrol results

Posted on May 29, 2008
Overland Park police arrested four people for driving under the influence during a weekend DUI saturation patrol. The patrol began at 11 p.m. Friday and lasted until 3 a.m. Officers stopped 12 vehicles and also issued four hazardous moving violations...

Drunk boaters arrested at Smithville Lake stakeout

Posted on May 29, 2008
Our new summer intern, Nathan Gill, has this from the water patrol: The Missouri State Water Patrol arrested three boaters for operating a boat while intoxicated, and gave 46 others warnings and citations during a Sunday stakeout on Smithville Lake.....

"Now The Hell Will Start"

Posted on May 29, 2008
There's a new book out, "Now The Hell Will Start," about the case of Herman Perry, an African-American soldier who shot and killed a white lieutenant during World War II -- and then escaped by fleeing into the Burmese jungle,...

Some headlines just write themselves

Posted on May 29, 2008
"Teen accused of biting butts at Wal-Mart" ... people butts, it should be noted. Via the always excellent QuizLaw!

The trouble with Homeland Security

Posted on May 29, 2008
Local LEOs are getting more and more annoyed with Homeland Security and the strings it attaches to emergency preparedness, the New York Times reports. Case in point: To get federal funding, states have to write up plans showing how they'd...

Moral of the story: Don't wait up

Posted on May 29, 2008
A Minneapolis man was waiting up for his daughter to get home from a concert when he fell asleep -- but was awakened when an SUV, fleeing police, rammed through the front of his house about 4 in the morning....

Open Thread ... Thursday

Posted on May 29, 2008
Hello everyone, and welcome to Thursday's Open Thread! This is our blog's arena for discussion and off-topic comments, as well as links to crime stories you've seen somewhere else. Remember to sign your comments and avoid profanity or racially and...

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