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Do we need "nearly naked" body scanners?

Posted on December 29, 2009
Another side effect of last week's attempted terror attack? There's going to be more support for airport scanners that can look under a passenger's clothes. Privacy advocates such as the ACLU have opposed these devices, saying they're too intrusive. (They...

Wrongly convicted man gets $3.25 million

Posted on December 29, 2009
Boston has agreed to pay $3.25 million to Ulysses Rodriguez Charles, who spent 18 years in prison after he was convicted of raping three women during a home invasion. Charles was freed, though, after DNA tests couldn't tie him to...

Churchgoers report man, 80, for bank robbery

Posted on December 29, 2009
Tony Rizzo has a story about a local man, 80-year-old Augusta Cannon, who is accused of robbing a south Kansas City bank on Dec. 22. Authorities say he was reported by a pastor and several churchgoers, who said they recognized...

Toddler hospitalized after taking PCP

Posted on December 29, 2009
From Christine Vendel: A 21-month-old child went into respiratory arrest Sunday after ingesting PCP in his mother?s apartment in the 1600 block of Bellefontaine Avenue. Prosecutors on Monday charged Velma C. Scott, 32, with felony child endangerment. Court records accuse...

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Man threatens woman with witchcraft if she doesn't date him, police say

Posted on December 29, 2009
In one of the 110 calls that he made to her, the Fort Pierce, Fla., police allege, the man also threatened to blow up her apartment. Snip: The report did not state whether the man actually practices witchcraft.

Son fights dad after being told to fix his own lunch, Fla. police say

Posted on December 29, 2009
Why does "keeping it real" lead to such unreal stories? Jason Werry hurled a candleholder at his father, hitting him in the head. Jay Werry, who has a concealed weapons permit, pulled a gun on his son. Jason Werry hit...

Somebody needed to learn a lesson ...

Posted on December 29, 2009
In Port St. Lucie, Fla., a 39-year-old man is accused of using a pellet gun to shoot a boy, 14, in the chest. The boy had shot another kid, so the man was trying to "teach him a lesson." That...

Man made pregnant girlfriend drink bleach, Pa. cops say

Posted on December 29, 2009
He allegedly did that because he thought that she had cheated on him, authorities say. He's been charged with assault against her and the unborn baby.

Sea lion killed execution-style

Posted on December 29, 2009
By a fisherman who was frustrated that the sea lion kept taking his fish, authorities allege.

Open Thread ... Tuesday

Posted on December 29, 2009
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,...

NYC crime rate hits record low

Posted on December 29, 2009
New York's homicide count was in the 460s at last report, compared to 516 last year. Experts say it hasn't been this low since 1963, when the current record-keeping system started. City officials say the reductions are due to police...

Was N.J. dad right to remove his son from Brazil?

Posted on December 29, 2009
Another local blog, Hip Suburban White Guy, has a different take on the case of David Goldman, who just won a long legal battle to get his 9-year-old son back after several years in Brazil. If David Goldman REALLY had...

Open Thread ... Monday

Posted on December 28, 2009
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,...

L.A. cops avoid gang duty because of financial disclosure

Posted on December 28, 2009
Los Angeles is having a hard time staffing its gang units because of new financial disclosure rules that require officers to reveal all of their assets and debts. The measure is intended to fight corruption -- L.A.P.D. had a problem...

Ex-beauty queen accused of Social Security fraud to get school loans

Posted on December 28, 2009
Unusual case from Alaska, where a former Miss Anchorage is accused of getting a new Social Security number so that she could apply for more school loans after she'd reached the lifetime maximum for federal education assistance. (She's a Rhodes...

Victims capture robber in Lenexa, police say

Posted on December 28, 2009
From Grace Hobson: Victims of an attempted robbery in Lenexa last night were able to subdue their armed attacker and hold him until police arrived, police said today. A man armed with a handgun entered the victims? home around 7:15...

UPDATE: Brothel to offer male prostitutes

Posted on December 28, 2009
A few weeks ago, we heard about an effort to legalize the use of male prostitutes at Nevada brothels. Because of a quirk in the state regulations, prostitutes had to have a cervical exam -- something that guys physically can't...

Where is Donnell Minton?

Posted on December 28, 2009
From KCPD: Donnell L. Minton, B/M, 25 YOA, 5?9? Tall, 260lbs, black hair, brown eyes, unknown clothing. Mr. Minton was last seen on 12-26-2009 at 6730 Askew about 0100 hours he left by unknown means and has since contacted friends...

More cities keep their police copters on the ground

Posted on December 28, 2009
Because of budget problems, several cities had to ground their police helicopter units, including places like Oakland and Colorado Springs, the New York Times reports. Topeka's helicopter unit was cut because of budget problems, though there was talk that they...

Why didn't they catch terror suspect sooner?

Posted on December 28, 2009
Critics are asking why Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was allowed aboard a Detroit-bound plane, which he allegedly tried to destroy, after his father warned authorities and Abdulmutallab was added to the government's terrorism database. The White House is already planning to...

Mo. man shot and killed while stealing truck

Posted on December 28, 2009
In St. Louis, an 18-year-old was shot and killed when he reportedly to drive off with a pickup that its owner had left running outside a house early Sunday. The owner came out as he was driving off, though, and...

Is it self-defense? Or an excuse for murder?

Posted on December 28, 2009
The Miami Herald reports that some prosecutors are unhappy with Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law -- meaning that citizens don't have to try and run away before they use deadly force to defend themselves. There have been a handful of...

Teens still missing 10 years later

Posted on December 28, 2009
The Joplin Globe has a piece here about Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible, two Oklahoma girls who disappeared on Dec. 30, 1999. That was Freeman's 16th birthday, and it was the night that police found her parents murdered in their...

Does Kansas need a primary seatbelt law?

Posted on December 28, 2009
Right now, police in Kansas can only ticket someone for a seatbelt violation if they've already stopped them for something else, such as speeding. Some legislators want to change this so that motorists can be stopped for not wearing a...

Nelly offers $10K reward in burglary

Posted on December 28, 2009
Nelly, the St. Louis-based rapper, is offering a $10,000 reward after a man broke into his home in Wildwood, Mo., and made off with a duffel bag full of electronics earlier in December, the AP reports.

Missouri seeing another big drop in traffic deaths?

Posted on December 28, 2009
The highway patrol says that 839 people have died on Missouri roads this year, compared to 942 at the same point last year. The total for last year was 960. Barring a major catastrophe, it looks like the Show-Me State...

Victim's mom wants new trial for West Memphis Three

Posted on December 28, 2009
Pamela Hobbs, the mother of murder victim Stevie Branch, says there should be a new trial for three men who were convicted of killing Branch and two other 8-year-olds in 1993 in West Memphis, Ark. The defendants were teenagers at...

Kansas facing huge DNA backlog

Posted on December 28, 2009
There's a backlog of approximately 30,000 DNA samples waiting to be analyzed at the state's crime lab, the Eagle reports. That's because Kansas has started requiring DNA samples from people arrested for felony crimes, which has greatly increased their workload...

Remember, the crooks are watching your trash

Posted on December 28, 2009
Just a quick reminder: Be careful what you throw away over the next week or so. A lot of burglars like to watch for houses that have thrown out boxes for new computers, TVs, etc. It's another way they can...

Toys 'R' Us store loses all of its shopping carts

Posted on December 28, 2009
In New York, police are investigating after someone (or several someones) stole more than 500 shopping carts from a new Toys 'R' Us in the Bronx. The thefts started around Thanksgiving and continued all of them were gone. The carts...

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