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Cheating husband's cover story backfires

Posted on August 27, 2009
Say, if you decide to take the ill-advised step of cheating on your wife, maybe you should use the more mundane excuses, like "had to work late" or "getting beer with the dudes." If you tell your wife that you've...

Elderly man chases down drunk driver

Posted on August 27, 2009
From the Associated Press: SOUTHEAST, N.Y. ? An 83-year-old driver chased a pickup truck for 15 miles from New York into Connecticut, helping police catch the drunken driving suspect who had rear-ended his car. The incident last weekend started on...

Jessica Biel could infect your computer

Posted on August 27, 2009
Actress Jessica Biel is top of the list this year for the most dangerous celebrities to search online, according to this charmig video report. A Google search of her name is most likely to give your computer a virus. Last...

Speed and teens, a deadly combo

Posted on August 27, 2009
From 2006 to 2008, 15 to 17-year-old drivers were to blame in 61,784 traffic crashes that resulted in 27,838 injured and 212 people killed on Ohio roadways. Speed was a factor in 58 percent of those crashes, an Ohio State...

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Miami police officer steals Crime Stoppers TIPS money

Posted on August 27, 2009
An 11-year veteran of the Miami-Dade Police force stole $15,000 in reward money that was supposed to go to people who called in tips to Crime Stoppers, the FBI found. |Meredith Rodriguez

Guns and politics, hurrah!

Posted on August 27, 2009
Democrats and Republicans alike like guns in Nevada. So state senators used the opening of a shooting park as a prime opportunity to make that clear to voters. Nice lead on the Las Vegas Review-Journal story: Everyone knows Sen. Harry...

ACLU sues DHS over laptop privacy at the border

Posted on August 27, 2009
The ACLU says searching laptops at the border is an invasion of privacy. They want to know exaclty what DHS has collected. Court cases have generally found that citizens should have diminished expectations of privacy when re-entering the country because...

Obama political fundraiser is released on bail, $25 million to be exact

Posted on August 27, 2009
Hassan Nemazee spend the night in jail, charged for bank fraud, Bloomberg reports. Nemazee was charged Aug. 25 with using phony documents to trick Citigroup Inc. into lending him as much as $74 million. The financier got the loan by...

Mass slaughter? Well, I suppose that's one way to protest county zoning laws.

Posted on August 27, 2009
A 64-year-old Colorado resident is passing out flyers, looking for volunteers to slaughter his 24 horses. He's threatening this in protest because he's facing a 90-day jail sentence of contempt of court for not cleaning up his property of some...

Education task force recommends a ban on paddling in Arizona

Posted on August 27, 2009
Apparently 20 states, mostly from the South and Southeast, still use corporal punishment along with Arizona. The school board people are saying that it's not used anyway even thought it's allowed. But the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil...

Alex Rodriguez' (and 93 others') drug test results were unjustly seized

Posted on August 27, 2009
A federal appeals court ruled that a seizure by federal investigators of drug test results for over 90 major league baseball players in 2004 was illegal. The feds had permission to search 10 players in a warrant, but investigators decided...

Woman used air freshener to attack smoker, FL cops say

Posted on August 26, 2009
Glade Potpourri, if you were curious. The suspect is unrepentant, the police say, and vows to keep spraying the woman who keeps smoking outside her building. From Northwest Florida Daily News: The woman then pointed the air freshener at the...

Two MO legislators resign, plead guilty to obstruction

Posted on August 26, 2009
State Sen. Jeff Smith and State Rep. Steve Brown, Democrats who come from the St. Louis area, both pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in a federal campaign-finance investigation, tied to Smith's 2004 campaign for Congress. (Brown was an aide...

What's the matter with Utah?

Posted on August 26, 2009
Has someone secretly replaced the Great Salt Lake with absinthe? Here's a small collection of headlines from the Salt Lake Tribune on ONE DAY: Another card game ends with assault charges. Teen kidnapped in argument over video game. Man punches...

Singer Chris Brown gets 5 years probation

Posted on August 26, 2009
And he's got an order keeping him 50 yards away from singer Rihanna, his victim. (Or 10 yards in they're at award shows and industry events.) The order lasts until 2014 -- it's not clear if she'll try to get...

Charges filed in Ivan Jimenez homicide

Posted on August 26, 2009
From Dawn Bormann: A 19-year-old Kansas City, Kan., man was charged with first-degree murder this afternoon in the shooting death of Ivan Jimenez. Luis Banuelos was charged in Wyandotte County District Court. He is being held on a $5 million...

Open Thread ... Wednesday

Posted on August 26, 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,...

Former Chief gets 1 to 3 years for drunken driving

Posted on August 26, 2009
From AP: Former Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Eric Warfield has been sentenced to one to three years in a Nebraska prison for fourth-offense drunken driving. Lancaster County District Judge Jodi Nelson also revoked Warfield's driver's license for 15 years...

Burglary suspect comes back to crime scene, wearing victim's clothes

Posted on August 26, 2009
Unbelievable ... One of her neighbors, 36-year-old Kathleen Lawson, allegedly walked up to her while wearing Brown's own clothes. "I was shocked," Brown said. "She walked right up the gate and said, 'What are you going to do with the...

Criminal has world's worst name

Posted on August 26, 2009
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: Dalcapone Alpaccino Morris. Say it aloud a couple of times. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Sara!

SPCA exec in VA leaves dog in hot car, dog dies

Posted on August 26, 2009
She apparently forgot to get the dog out of the car. It's not clear yet if she's going to be charged. Story is from Richmond.

The Chappaquiddick Incident

Posted on August 26, 2009
You can't talk about Teddy Kennedy's life and not mention Chappaquiddick. Wikipedia has a pretty good summary of the case here. And here's the speech that Kennedy made to Massachusetts voters, asking them whether he should resign. ABC News talks...

Murder victim names his killer just before he dies, IL cops say

Posted on August 26, 2009
The victim -- and the suspect, one of his longtime friends -- are both from St. Louis, though the man was found dying in East St. Louis.

Midtown Miscreant v. Wannabes

Posted on August 26, 2009
Double-M looks into the future of some homicide suspects and foretells doom.

2 charged with robbing elderly couple

Posted on August 26, 2009
From Glenn Rice: Michael A. Mims, 18, and Joseph Mays, 19, were charged Tuesday in Jackson County Circuit Court with first-degree robbery and armed criminal action. According to court records, the homeowner was sitting on his patio reading Sunday when...

Man tricks Apple out of 9,000 iPods, police say

Posted on August 26, 2009
Somehow, he allegedly figured out how to guess the serial codes for iPod Shuffles, then he'd go to the Web site and order a free replacement for his "broken" (and nonexistent) machines -- which he then sold, authorities allege. Story...

That is a fetching mugshot

Posted on August 26, 2009
She allegedly got caught stealing $600 in makeup from a drugstore, the Boston Herald reports. I wonder why she needed that much makeup ... Hat Tip: Saw this via Fark!

Dad's argument with son devolves into swordfight, OH police say

Posted on August 26, 2009
I know it LOOKS cool to have swords hanging on your wall, but that also means they're going to be very accessible during a moment of emotional weakness.

Stimulus checks sent to 3,900 inmates

Posted on August 26, 2009
Your tax dollars at work! Under the government's stimulus project, people who get Social Security, VA and Railroad Retirement Board checks were also sent a check for $250. Prisons were able to intercept many of the checks bound for their...

Prosecutors shouldn't be liable for making up evidence, lawyer says

Posted on August 26, 2009
Tim Masters is a Colorado man who spent years in prison for a murder he didn't commit. He's now suing the prosecutors and police who put him behind bars. The attorney for one of the prosecutors is arguing that "prosecutors...

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