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"I don't know what my family looks like anymore"

Posted on February 01, 2008
In Indiana, a 9-year-old boy testifies about a drunk driver who caused him to lose his sight at age 5.

Terry Blair won't face the death penalty

Posted on February 01, 2008
Terry Blair -- who's accused of killing several woman and leaving their bodies along the Prospect Avenue area -- won't face the death penalty if he's convicted. In exchange, he's agreed to trial by judge, not a jury. The prosecutors...

IN man jailed for making his own crosswalk

Posted on January 31, 2008
Whitney Stump said the city of Muncie wouldn't post a stop sign or paint a crosswalk on his street, so he did it himself. He got caught when he went back and tried to do a touchup. He spent 10...

PA nurse admits to harvesting body parts from 244 corpses

Posted on January 31, 2008
Lee Cruceta has admitted that he was part of a ring that removed organs and tissue from dead bodies (allegedly provided by funeral homes) and then sold them to tissue banks, who sold them to doctors and hospitals. Those stolen...

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JoCo grand jury wants Parenthood's patient records

Posted on January 31, 2008
The grand jury investigating Overland Park's Planned Parenthood has issued a subpoena for the medical records of 16 women who had abortions in 2003, Diane Carroll reports. And they want those records to have patient-identifying information -- which isn't perfectly...

Dear Police: What about YouTube?

Posted on January 31, 2008
I really wish our local police departments, whenever they release surveillance footage to the media, also made it available on YouTube. Don't get me wrong -- the media here all appreciate getting the footage. But putting this stuff on Google's...

SC legislator wants to lower drinking age for servicemembers

Posted on January 31, 2008
If you're in the military and under 21, you'd be able to buy and consume alcohol legally. But it may run into a very pricey roadblock. If South Carolina passes this bill, it would lose 10 percent of its federal...

The high cost of campaign security

Posted on January 31, 2008
Reuters has a great story about the high cost of presidential campaign visits. While the Secret Service does a lot of security work, local police have to help out, too -- which costs those cities money that doesn't get reimbursed....

Police: Man runs over girlfriend, uncle ... then puts them in his car

Posted on January 31, 2008
Weird story from Los Angeles, where a man reportedly got so angry with his girlfriend and his uncle that he told them to get out of his car ... and then ran them over. But he didn't leave them lying...

Teen runaway murdered after Monopoly game ends badly

Posted on January 31, 2008
Four people have been convicted of beating Alexandria Clouse-Desmond, 18, then stuffing her body in a microwave box. The defendants, who are all in their late teens or early 20s, were originally charged with murder, but charges were reduced because...

Alaska's struggle with sexual assaults

Posted on January 31, 2008
I didn't know this, but Alaska has higher rates of sexual assault than the rest of the country. This article from the Anchorage Daily News says that authorities are especially concerned because, in the state's rural areas, so many of...

Philly plans to add more cops, security cameras

Posted on January 31, 2008
When the new mayor took office in Philadelphia, he quickly declared a "crime emergency" because of the city's homicide rate, one of the highest among big cities. So police are going to add 200 more officers to patrols. And they're...

Open Thread ... Thursday

Posted on January 31, 2008
Howdy, friends -- hope you didn't get snowed in! The Open Thread -- our blog's space for off-topic comments and discussion -- is up and running on a lovely Thursday. If you've seen an interesting story elsewhere, feel free to...

KCPD officer loses fight to keep his job

Posted on January 31, 2008
The officer's name is Danny Holmes. And it all goes back to the Guy Coombs homicide from 2003 -- the victim was out-of-town businessman whose night on the town ended with him getting killed. Charges have been dropped against the...

Raytown PD investigates Taco Bell theft

Posted on January 31, 2008
From Crime Stoppers: On January 27th at about 10:30 a.m., the Taco Bell at 9021 E. 350 Highway in Raytown was held up by two men. No one was injured. The suspects (photos attached) entered the store about ten minutes...

Shooting at Van Horn High School

Posted on January 31, 2008
Just caught KMBC's report. It reportedly happened in the parking lot after a basketball game between Van Horn and Don Bosco. The victim is a teenager, shot in the back, and thank God, his injuries aren't life-threatening. They want to...

Greg Anderson: Guilty of Rape and Witness Intimidation

Posted on January 31, 2008
From Diane Carroll's report: A Johnson County jury heard two versions this week of what happened in 2004 after a man and woman played volleyball and had drinks in Westport. After deliberating almost 10 hours, the jury on Thursday found...

The police don't care how much your baby barfs ...

Posted on January 31, 2008
A Tampa woman got a ticket for pulling a U-turn after her 3-year-old kid vomited and Mom needed to stop and make things better. The AP notes how the woman has three kids and a husband who's in Iraq. The...

MO fire inspector accused of online enticement

Posted on January 31, 2008
Lee E. Johnson, 48, of Warrensburg is accused of trying to entice a minor and transferring obscene images to a minor over the Internet, U.S. Attorney John Wood's office reports. Johnson is a fire inspector with Missouri Department of Public...

Hiker's killer admits to the murder -- gets life with parole

Posted on January 31, 2008
Gary Michael Hilton has admitted that he killed a hiker, Meredith Emerson, earlier this month in the north Georgia mountains. His plea deal gives him life with the possibility of parole after 30 years. The judge said she was OK...

OP police investigate Crosspoint Bank robbery

Posted on January 31, 2008
From Overland Park PD: On January 31, 2008 at 2:10 pm, Overland Park Police responded to a bank robbery at Crosspoint Bank, 11200 College Blvd. Employees of the bank advised the officers a black male entered the bank, displayed a...

The Dog won't go down to Mexico

Posted on January 30, 2008
Duane "Dog" Chapman won't be extradited to Mexico, where prosecutors want to charge him for being a bounty hunter. (Something that's illegal there.) The court there said the authorities took too long to bring charges.

Open Thread ... Wednesday

Posted on January 30, 2008
The Open Thread is up and running on a lovely Wednesday morning. Thank you, kind sirs and ladies, for spending part of your day with us. This is our designated space for off-topic comments and discussion, but you're also welcome...

Was woman killed because Green Bay lost in the playoffs?

Posted on January 30, 2008
Recently, we had a story about a young Nebraska woman being shot with a high-powered rifle as she waited in a fast-food restaurant's drive-through. An Omaha station quotes unnamed sources (so take it with a grain of salt) that her...

Illegal immigration and the MO Highway Patrol

Posted on January 30, 2008
Last year, Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt told the highway patrol to check the immigration status of everyone it incarcerated. Between August and last week, the patrol has found 141 people who couldn't prove they were in the country legally, Lt....

WDAF: Big questions about school sale

Posted on January 30, 2008
Specifically, the old Faxon School at 37th and Paseo in the Kansas City School District. The station says the district accepted a bid of $76K for the building, even though it was offered much more by other bidders -- as...

Japanese man accused of calling directory assistance over 10K times

Posted on January 30, 2008
He was allegedly lonely, which is a decent excuse, I guess, even if it did bring the police to his door. "I would go into ecstasy when a lady scolded me," he reportedly told one reporter. Hat Tip: Many thanks,...

MO tax protesters experience "an ideological shift"

Posted on January 30, 2008
Two Branson residents pleaded guilty to tax evasion, and instead of doing prison time, they're getting three years of probation. Both went on a speaking tour and gave press interviews to warn people against getting involved in the tax-protest movement...

School shooter gets convicted on gun charge

Posted on January 30, 2008
An update on Mitchell Johnson, one of the Jonesboro school shooters. He was convicted yesterday of possessing a gun while being a drug user. (Pot, to be specific.) Why wasn't he convicted under Project Ceasefire, which prohibits felons from possessing...

Colorado mom set her 5 kids on fire, police say

Posted on January 30, 2008
Awful story from Colorado Springs, where a 25-year-old woman is accused of putting gasoline on her five kids and then setting them on fire. The baby, only 16 months old, died. The four older kids suffered critical burns. It sounds...

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