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Open Thread ... Wednesday

Posted on March 24, 2010
Welcome back to the Open Thread, our blog's space for off-topic comments and discussion. If you've seen an interesting story somewhere else, feel free to post a link below. As always, please follow our standard rules: Please sign your comments,...

Assault with a curling iron

Posted on March 24, 2010
In Joplin, a 27-year-old woman was arrested after she allegedly used a curling iron to attack her roommate, the Globe reports. The reason for the alleged fight? Text messages.

30 years for man who shot KC officer

Posted on March 24, 2010
That's 30 years in federal, not state, so he's going away for a while. Bryan K. Walker, who's now legally known as Ali Akbar Walker, shot and wounded Officer Paul Clark several times back in August 2007 near Gregory and...

Aim4Peace gets another $400K

Posted on March 24, 2010
Aim4Peace, a program that tries to prevent shootings and homicides in Kansas City, is going to get $300,000 from the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City, plus another $100,00 through a matching grant. When you add earlier donations, this...

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Slain clerk's family wants better security at 7-Eleven

Posted on March 24, 2010
KSHB has more reaction to news that KCPD arrested a suspect in the slaying of Tony Singh, a 7-Eleven clerk killed during his last shift. The family tells 41 they want the company to do a better job of protecting...

Wiccan killed man during sex in park, N.M. police say

Posted on March 24, 2010
In Albuquerque, police are accusing a practicing Wiccan of stabbing a man in the chest while they had sex in a park bathroom. (They were allegedly in the park for a ritual to welcome spring. The weapon was a knife...

Should Gilbert Arenas do jail time?

Posted on March 24, 2010
Arenas, a player for the Washington Wizards, got into trouble after he reportedly brought four guns into the locker room -- for what his lawyers call a prank, though prosecutors say it was for a confrontation with a teammate. The...

Irish bishop resigns over abuse scandal

Posted on March 24, 2010
John Magee allegedly failed to report two cases of priests accused of sexual misbehavior -- and failed to do so for something like eight years. The pope has just accepted his resignation, which was submitted a few weeks ago, the...

Beating victim in critical condition

Posted on March 24, 2010
From Christine Vendel: A 31-year-old man remained in critical condition this morning after he was repeatedly struck in the head with a baseball bat during a fight early today. The victim and a friend went to a woman?s apartment in...

Murderer found running wedding chapel

Posted on March 24, 2010
For 38 years, Frank Dryman -- who got life for killing a Montana man -- hid from the law after he absconded while on parole. On Tuesday, the 78-year-old was arrested at the wedding chapel / notary that he runs...

Mom denies leaving kids home alone

Posted on March 24, 2010
This is the case where KCPD officers say that six kids were left home alone almost two days in what they described as a filthy house. Mom is speaking out, saying that's not so.

Sketch released in Independence slaying

Posted on March 24, 2010
Independence police have released a sketch of a person-of-interest in the Beverly Crowl homicide from last Friday near 37th and Phelps. Crowl, a retired civilian employee of Indy PD, was found murdered in her home, the victim of an apparent...

Dead snakes, bags of rats left in home

Posted on March 24, 2010
About a hundred snakes were left behind after a Florida man's home entered foreclosure, and by the time cleaners came to the property, most of the reptiles were dead, police in Palm Bay report. Officers say they also found bags...

Man with sword was hunting CHUDs

Posted on March 24, 2010
Police confronted a shirtless man armed with a sword and throwing knives outside a building-supply store on Bainbridge Island, Wash. The man, who had been "stabbing objects in the parking lot," reportedly told officers that he was hunting CHUDs and...

Do strip clubs attract crime?

Posted on March 24, 2010
Kansas legislators are debating new restrictions on sexually oriented businesses, SOBs for short, David Klepper reports. A lot of cities have rules, but the bill would make them statewide. Among the restrictions? No more fully nude dancing. (Or nude waitressing!)...

Thrown baby fails to stop repo man

Posted on March 24, 2010
When a repo man was starting to haul away a Dallas woman's Ford Expedition, she allegedly threw her 1-year-old into the vehicle through an open window, authorities say. The law says repo guys can't haul vehicles that have a person...

Bank robbers place 'to-go order,' police say

Posted on March 24, 2010
In Fairfield, Conn., two suspected robbers allegedly called a local bank and told them to have a big bag of money ready, apparently because they were coming to rob the place, police say. They showed up 10 minutes later, authorities...

Olathe looks into racial comments on video

Posted on March 24, 2010
After he received a traffic ticket from Olathe police, a man requested a copy of the dashcam video because he planned to fight the ticket. KCTV reports that he found racial remarks recorded by officers after the stop. From their...

Feds probe illegal KU ticket sales?

Posted on March 24, 2010
The feds are trying to see whether KU basketball tickets were taken from the university and illegally sold -- possibly for years, Mark Morris reports this morning. A lot of the sources refused to speak for attribution, but the school's...

Mugger shoots victim who ran

Posted on March 24, 2010
A man was shot several times near 30th and Garfield last night when he tried to run away from a robber, KCPD says. It happened about 7 p.m. Meredith reports the man was in surgery last night and was expected...

It's the thought that counts

Posted on March 24, 2010
In Cedar Rapids, a man reportedly called 911 to report himself for driving drunk and, oh yeah, stabbing his girlfriend. When authorities investigated, they found the girlfriend healthy and unstabbed. The man clarified that he had only THOUGHT about stabbing...

Ocean's 111

Posted on March 24, 2010
A group of German senior citizens kidnapped their investment adviser after their accounts failed to produce the return that he'd promised, authorities allege. The three couples lost about $1.4 million and reportedly planned to have him transfer money from his...

Philly kids made a game of robbing homeless, cops says

Posted on March 24, 2010
Two kids -- a 12-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy -- are accused of beating up a woman, Philadelphia police say. According to the neighborhood's children, it's part of a game they like to play called "Catch and Wreck." Children...

Neb. man less murdered than previously believed

Posted on March 24, 2010
In Scottsbluff, Neb., police say that a missing man, long ago assumed to have been murdered, is actually alive. It's been 11 years since Jose Alfredo Flores left town. The Scottsbluff authorities say they recently learned the truth about Flores'...

Judge rules on lesbian teen's prom

Posted on March 23, 2010
Again, not a crime story ... but a federal judge has ruled that Constance McMillen's constitutional rights were violated by her school when they refused to let her bring a girl as a date and wear a tux to prom....

8 killed at Chinese elementary

Posted on March 23, 2010

15 years in prison for breaking into jail

Posted on March 23, 2010
Sylvester Jiles of Cocoa, Fla., has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for violating his probation on a manslaughter rap. He'd taken a plea deal on the manslaughter, but he was so scared of the victim's family, that he...

It's tough being a drug dealer

Posted on March 23, 2010
Rene Garcia-Rodriguez was sentenced to 25 years in prison for running a coke and pot ring in KCK, the U.S. Attorney for Kansas reports. The feds called the investigation "Operation Loadrunner," and while observing Garcia-Rodriguez, they learned it's actually a...

Open Thread ... Tuesday

Posted on March 23, 2010
Welcome back to the Open Thread, our blog's space for off-topic comments and discussion. If you've seen an interesting story somewhere else, feel free to post a link below. As always, please follow our standard rules: Please sign your comments,...

Shoplifter pushes kids into traffic, police say

Posted on March 23, 2010
A man accused of shoplifting allegedly pushed a shopping cart carrying two toddlers into traffic because he was trying to escape from Wal-Mart security, police in Tulsa, Okla., say. In fact, I'm pretty sure they're HIS kids: His name is...

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