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Excuse me, is that a pot roast in your pants?
Posted on December 28, 2009In Fort Walton Beach, Fla., a 41-year-old man is accused of stealing a $69.16 pot roast from a Winn-Dixie by stuffing the meat down his pants. A store manager stopped him, police say.
No spillover violence from Mexico?
Posted on December 28, 2009U.S. authorities were worried that violence from Mexico's war on drugs would spill into this country, but judging from homicide totals in several border cities, that's not been the case, USA Today reports. Cities like Tucson, El Paso and San...
Jon Gosselin's apartment burglarized, trashed
Posted on December 28, 2009Whatever didn't get stolen was apparently destroyed. Also, the guilty party used a butcher knife to leave behind a note "speared" to his dresser. Why do bad things happen to good irritating people? Hat Tip: Many thanks, Searching!
Update on last week's attempted terror attack
Posted on December 28, 2009If you haven't heard already, federal prosecutors have charged Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian native, with trying to destroy an airliner flying from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas. Luckily, his explosives caught fire instead of detonating. A Dutch tourist named...
Adoptive parents want to return boy, 11, after attempted arson
Posted on December 28, 2009In Oklahoma, a married couple is asking to return the 11-year-old boy they adopted because he has severe problems -- including, ABC News reports, "reactive detachment disorder, disruptive behavior disorder, major depressive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and fetal alcohol syndrome...
Mo. troopers find pot hidden in Christmas presents
Posted on December 28, 2009Troopers made the discovery during a traffic stop last week on Interstate 44 near Joplin -- a couple of out-of-staters had reportedly been speeding. The authorities say they found about 20 pounds of pot inside wrapped Christmas presents and some...
Almost 2,600 murdered in Juarez in 2009
Posted on December 28, 2009National Public Radio has a good piece here about the state of affairs in Juarez, which they describe as the murder capital of the Western Hemisphere. The story answers an important question: If so many people are murdered there, what...
Something awful happened at Wal-Mart
Posted on December 28, 2009I think the faked heart attack is my favorite part.
Judge will consider Roeder's "defense of others" argument
Posted on December 28, 2009From AP: A Kansas judge will hear further arguments on whether a man who has confessed to killing a Wichita abortion provider may present evidence on the ?use of force in defense of another.? Sedgwick County District Judge Warren Wilbert...
La. cops keep Corvette as "teaching tool"
Posted on December 28, 2009Liked this story about a Louisiana police department turning a Corvette, seized during a drug case, into their DARE car. Snip: Kenner Police Chief Steve Caraway said the car, now painted the same black and white of the police cars,...
Thief steals $40K worth of cheesecake
Posted on December 28, 2009The cheesecakes, along with the tractor-trailer they were in, were stolen in Orlando, police say.
Does this man deserve to be executed?
Posted on December 28, 2009Chinese authorities are preparing to execute a British national named Akmal Shaikh for drug smuggling, but his family says Shaikh is a homeless man with mental illness who was tricked into smuggling drugs. (They say he was told he'd become...
Why Kansas needs nurses who can do rape exams
Posted on December 28, 2009The Journal-World has a story about the need for nurses who are trained to conduct "rape exams" that gather evidence in sexual-assault cases. In some Kansas towns, the local hospital doesn't have staffers who can do that, so the victim...
Gang of muggers picked the wrong victim
Posted on December 26, 2009In New York City, police are investigating after a group of men reportedly tried to drag a woman off a subway car -- which led her to fatally stab one of them in the chest and escape on a different...
Mo. trooper killed while helping motorists
Posted on December 26, 2009Cpl. Dennis Engelhard, 49, was killed while working Christmas duty. He was helping at the scene of a wreck on Interstate 44 near Eureka when another vehicle lost control and struck him. Engelhard is the first Missouri trooper to be...
How Charlie Sheen spent Christmas
Posted on December 26, 2009From AP: This picture provided by the Aspen Police Department on Friday, Dec. 25, 2009 shows Charlie Sheen. Sheen has been arrested in Aspen, Colo. on charges related to an alleged case of domestic violence. Authorities said Sheen was arrested...
Salvation Army major robbed, murdered for his kettle
Posted on December 26, 2009While his children watched. On Christmas Eve. Stay classy, North Little Rock. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Keith G in PV
Open Thread ... Weekend Edition
Posted on December 26, 2009Sorry, sports fans, things will probably be very quiet today. As always, the OT is open, but regular service won't return until Monday. As always, please follow our standard rules: Please sign your comments, and please avoid profanity, as well...
Report: No evidence of ACORN fraud
Posted on December 24, 2009The Congressional Research Service, a nonpartisan government office, says it couldn't find any evidence that ACORN committed voter fraud or broke federal financing rules -- though ACORN's critics say they don't believe the report.
Man decides to firebomb ex-girlfriend's house, police say
Posted on December 24, 2009Only he went to the wrong house.
Say, how's Bernie Madoff doing?
Posted on December 24, 2009The other day, I saw an item about Madoff being transferred to a prison medical center. It turns out he need treatment for "facial fractures, broken ribs and a collapsed lung," which makes it sound like he need to be...
More U.S. kids taken overseas in parental abductions
Posted on December 24, 2009Over the past two years, there's been a big increase in the number of U.S. kids who are taken overseas during parental abductions, the Christian Science Monitor reports, citing State Department figures. There's been an increase in the number of...
Cop's badge deflects bullet
Posted on December 24, 2009In Oakland, Tenn., a town near Memphis, an officer says his heavyweight badge -- and his bullet-resistant vest -- helped stopped a bullet during a traffic stop early today.
They call him Mr. Plow
Posted on December 24, 2009In Reinfeld, Germany, police stopped a 7-year-old boy who "borrowed" a front-end loader from his parents' business and, you know, plowed all the snow in town. He said he did it after his dad complained about the roads. Hat Tip:...
Man claims he smothered dad in self-defense, police say
Posted on December 24, 2009In St. Pete, Fla., police are investigating after a California man allegedly smothered his 83-year-old father with a pillow and claimed self-defense. Investigators say they doubt this was a mercy killing because the elderly man wasn't good sick and still...
Man holds 3 hostage in Va. post office, police say
Posted on December 24, 2009In Wytheville, Va., a man in a wheelchair held three people hostage for several hours yesterday at a post office, police say. Luckily, it ended peacefully, and everybody was OK. Early reports indicated the man might have had explosives strapped...
Grandma kills herself after giving pot cookie to grandson, police say
Posted on December 24, 2009What a tragic story -- a Denver woman reportedly committed suicide after she gave her 3-year-old grandson a peanut-butter cookie made with cannabis butter, the AP reports. The next morning, she couldn't wake him up, so she called an ambulance....
2 more arrests in Christmas Eve robbery
Posted on December 24, 2009From Glenn Rice: Clay County authorities have arrested two more men accused of taking part in a Northland burglary on Christmas Eve 2006 in which the owner was beaten and a safe was stolen. Arthur Hopkins of Kansas City and...
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Do parents have the right to NOT turn in a sexual offender?
No. The offender should be turned in regardless of any disability (1), or reason...
Can someone detained in a search w/ warrant, be charged with a crime related to the search if they were not arrested at the time of the search?
The police have fairly wide discretion on when they can make an arrest so long a...
I was a bookkeeper for a recreation center. The Center Director left and a new director took over. I went to work one day and some of my files were missing. I called our computer tech and her restored the files (I had ma
In order for a crime to be established you need to conclusively prove that the D...
If I was detained by citizens unlawfully, and then the police showed up...is everything they charged me with in-admissable?
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