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Naked man commandeers Georgia school bus, police say
Posted on August 28, 2009Story is from Atlanta. The man's sweat pants were around his knees, students say. Well, the students who were around to see him -- most of them started jumping off the moving bus as the guy sped down the road....
Bank robber resembling Scooby Doo character found
Posted on August 28, 2009A man the FBI believes is the "Shaggy Bandit," blamed for 17 bank robberies in four states, was arrested after a employee in a Boulder bank identified him and called police. The FBI said the suspect was 29-year-old Michael Kincade....
Because stabbing people makes a guy thirsty
Posted on August 28, 2009During a night of drinking at a Utah apartment, one man got into a nasty fight with his friends, one of whom he stabbed and the other he slashed, and then went outside, where he sat down on the curb...
You make the call: Are these guys burglars or rock stars?
Posted on August 28, 2009There are some lovely mugshots here. Maybe they can use them for the liner notes. Story is from the Phoenix area. Hat Tip: Many thanks, eephus!
Open Thread ... Sweet Merciful Friday
Posted on August 28, 2009Welcome 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. PROGRAMMING NOTE: James is going to be out of the office...
Fire causes stir (and lots of smoke) downtown Friday afternoon
Posted on August 28, 2009TV newscasts ran with this story far too long on the evening news considering there were no injuries and the building was vacant, but it did provide good visuals. |Meredith Rodriguez
Former Blue Springs South quarterback kicked off MU football team for DWI
Posted on August 28, 2009Blaine Dalton, 18, was arrested by University of Missouri police shortly before 1:30 a.m. on Friday and was charged with DWI, not driving within the proper lane and with driving an unregistered vehicle, writes The Star's Mike DeArmond. This was...
Jaycee Dugard suspect speaks to CNN
Posted on August 28, 2009Phillip Garrido, the convicted sex offender who kidnapped Dugard, says that his is a "heartwarming story" about how he turned his life around. |Meredith Rodriguez
Nine-foot marijuana plant in backyard leads to arrest
Posted on August 28, 2009Police arrested the woman after they obtained a search warrant. |Meredith Rodriguez
Stillbirth photo considered pornography in South Africa
Posted on August 28, 2009An editor sent officials photos of a mother giving birth to a stillborn baby. She did it to make a statement about how nursing strikes were hurting people. She's now facing pornography charges. An interesting story about tradition, free press...
Wealthy communities flee the foothills
Posted on August 28, 2009More than 2,000 were ordered to leave their homes due to California wildfires, mostly from wealthy seaside and foothill communities. |Meredith Rodriguez
Nude model arrested at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
Posted on August 28, 2009The photographer she was posing for, contends that to consider their work public lewdness is absurd in a setting where nude art is everywhere. |Meredith Rodriguez
Beware "using pesticide in a manner that causes harm"
Posted on August 28, 2009A Tennessee man is showing up in court for such an offense, along with vandalism and trespassing, for poisoning his neighbor's Maple tree. "He (Barbarotto) came on my property almost every day for three months," Burger said, in a Thursday...
Judge upholds $102 million damage award for FBI scapegoats
Posted on August 28, 2009A federal appeals court upheld a landmark award for four men who were framed by the FBI in a slaying. The wrongly convicted: Peter Limone, now 75, spent more than 33 years in prison for the 1965 murder. Joseph Salvati,...
Mom goes to prison for kidnapping hoax
Posted on August 28, 2009The recommended sentence for hoaxing a kidnapping is probation, but the judge felt that Bonnie Sweeten, who said she and her daughter were abducted by "two black men" deserved more, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. After calling her "a calculating,...
Two Overland Park businessmen men charged with robbing the elderly
Posted on August 28, 2009Grant G. Wilms, 44, and Hermann P. Wilms, 74, along with Kenneth Opstein, were arrested Thursday. They started a business and used it to make unauthorized withdrawals from elderly people's accounts. |Meredith Rodriguez
Man who swats at bee requires rescuing
Posted on August 28, 2009Nearby workers rescued an 18-year-old northeast Oregon man after he swatted one bee and was swarmed by others that stung him more than 200 times. The workers said he was so covered by bees that they couldn't see his face....
Family remembers 16-year-old killed Saturday
Posted on August 28, 2009Xavier Ferguson, 16, was shot while he was sleeping. The shooter slit through the screen of his window and shot him in the head while he slept. The family, and Alvin Brooks wants the shooter found and the violence to...
Boy who drowned yesterday identified
Posted on August 28, 2009Chris?Shaun Franklin, age 9, had been playing with two other friends around a rain-swelled drainage creek during the rainy weather. He went into the water and could not get out. |Meredith Rodriguez
Horror follows joy after abducted girl found
Posted on August 28, 2009Horribly, Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was kidnapped at age 11 in 1991, was kept as a sex slave by convicted rapist Phillip Garrido all these 18 years and was foced to father two children with him. Her girls are 11...
Thieves accused of selling U.S. border fence for scrap
Posted on August 27, 2009Mexican authorities have arrested six people who allegedly were taking steel sheeting off the border wall and selling it as scrap metal near Tijuana.
FBI: More public-corruption cases coming in MO
Posted on August 27, 2009The AP quotes the head of FBI office in St. Louis, saying there are more public-corruption cases coming soon. (Just this week, two St. Louis area legislators pleaded guilty to federal obstruction charges and resigned their posts.) It's not clear...
KCPD plans DUI checkpoint for Sept. 4-6
Posted on August 27, 2009From KCPD: The Kansas City, Missouri Police Department will conduct a sobriety checkpoint on the weekend of September 4-6, 2009 at a location in Kansas City, Missouri that is known for occurrence of DUI related crashes or DUI arrests. This...
Cockfighting suspect accuses Humane Society of hurting his birds
Posted on August 27, 2009Story is from Wisconsin.
Would-be victim shoots guys who tried to rob him, Lawrence police say
Posted on August 27, 2009It happened Sunday at a trailer park there. One of the suspected robbers is from Lawrence, the other from Kansas City. More here from Joe Lambe.
Open Thread ... Thursday (Friday Eve)
Posted on August 27, 2009Welcome 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. PROGRAMMING NOTE: James is going to be out of the office...
Man in wheelchair keys car parked in handicapped spot, FL cops say
Posted on August 27, 2009Because he was mad about able-bodied people abusing the handicapped-parking spot. The only thing is the driver was there to pick up her handicapped mother, and there was a handicapped-parking tag hanging from the mirror.
Missouri AG opposes defense request in Mark Woodworth case
Posted on August 27, 2009For those coming in late: A man named Mark Woodworth is serving a life sentence because he was convicted of killing Cathy Robertson, a neighbor who lived across the road, and shooting her husband. This allegedly happened back in 1990...
Man who shot KC police officer two years ago gets 30 years
Posted on August 27, 2009From The Star's Tony Rizzo: A man who shot and critically wounded a Kansas City police officer two years ago pleaded guilty this morning to federal gun and drug charges. Bryan K. Walker, 23, will serve 30 years in prison...
Girl abducted 18 years ago walks into northern California police station
Posted on August 27, 2009She said she is Jaycee Dugard, a girl who was abducted in 1991. She was last seen at age 11 walking to a bus stop in South Lake Tahoe. Phillip Garrido, a registered sex offender, and his wife Nancy Garrido...
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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?
Probably depends on the law of the state in which you live. Many states allow fo...
If I pay restitution, can I still be charged with a crime?
It sounds like the law in your area is treating it as a civil matter. That being...
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