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UPDATE: Vehicle kills OP woman doing work in her yard

Posted on July 21, 2009
Brad Cooper and Dawn Bormann have more about the crash that killed 70-year-old Sandra Carocari on Saturday. (She was working in her yard when a vehicle went off the road and killed her.) Neighbors described the street -- 99th Terrace...

60 days for Shawnee man who stomped GF's dog

Posted on July 21, 2009
The attack was so gruesome that he originally was charged with a felony rap under Scruffy's Law, but the judge decided the law was worded too much like the misdemeanor law and, thus, meant he needed to face the misdemeanor...

KC shooting victim dies from his injuries

Posted on July 21, 2009
From Christine: James Ragsdale, 31, who was critically injured in a shooting in his driveway early Saturday, has died from his injuries, police said today. Ragsdale was with two others in a BMW in the 4300 block of Flora Avenue...

Worker kills self after iPhone vanishes at Chinese factory

Posted on July 21, 2009
This never happens when pens or copy paper goes missing in your typical American office. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Tim P!

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Stealing puppies at gunpoint

Posted on July 21, 2009
A Utah woman reportedly stole two pit bull puppies from a couple that was selling a litter outside a drugstore. The woman reportedly thought her dog had fathered the puppies entitling her to two of them, the Salt Lake Tribune...

Officer down

Posted on July 20, 2009
From AP: Rockland County Sheriff's Dept. Offiicer Gerrett Clapp lies over his horse Coughlin, after the horse fell when he stepped on a metal plate, Saturday, July 18, 2009 in Stony Point, N.Y.. They were on the East Main Street...

UPDATE: Pizza Hut deliveryman shoots, kills robber

Posted on July 20, 2009
Last year, we wrote about James Spiers, a deliveryman for Pizza Hut in Des Moines. Spiers shot and killed a man who robbed him and looked like he was going to kill him. The deliveryman had a CCW permit, but...

Are gangs responsible for innocent bystanders' deaths?

Posted on July 20, 2009
That's what Councilwoman Melba Curls is telling Channel 41, referring to two shootings this weekend where women were killed by stray gunfire. The first happened late Friday on 71 Highway, where Deanna Lieber, an attorney for Kansas' education department, was...

TN man accused of murdering 6 in weekend killing spree

Posted on July 20, 2009
Including his wife, her dad, her brother, her son and a teenage neighbor, plus a sixth unidentified victim at a business in Huntsville, Ala. A 4-year-old daughter was home, but not harmed. Hat Tip: Many thanks to D-Man for the...

James von Brunn slept here

Posted on July 20, 2009
Von Brunn, the man who reportedly killed a security guard at the National Holocaust Memorial Museum, spent a year living in Jeff City, the AP reports. He apparently tried to sell some of his paintings, mostly scenes of the Old...

Colorado cops bust naked drinking game in city park

Posted on July 20, 2009
The game is called "strip groundies." Everybody gets drunk, stands in a circle and then waits for the first person to fall down, who then removes an article of clothing. Police found one man with three naked 19-year-old women. I...

Murder victims' daughter agrees to care for 13 adopted kids

Posted on July 20, 2009
Ashley Markham, the daughter of murder victims Byrd and Melanie Billings, is 26 years old. She's agreed to move into her parents' home and raise the 13 special-needs kids they adopted. The Billingses, a wealthy couple, were murdered when a...

Homeless woman arrested for skinnydipping in the Kansas River, cops say

Posted on July 20, 2009
Lawrence police made the arrest. Liked how the Journal-World reported it: The woman reportedly approached a 46-year-old Lawrence man, who was standing along the river, "and asked him if he minded if she went skinny-dipping,? the report said. "The man...

Hutch landlord gets 30 days for leaving abandoned fridge in yard

Posted on July 20, 2009
The Hutch News says the defendant was accused of several code violations, but the fridge was especially egregious, in the judge's eyes, because a little kid could have gotten trapped inside it.

"I'm a cop, I can't go to jail"

Posted on July 20, 2009
Prosecutors in Pittsburgh beg to differ.

Open Thread ... Monday

Posted on July 20, 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,...

New MO law eases the burden on deadbeat dads and moms

Posted on July 20, 2009
A new Missouri law decriminalizes nonpayment of child support for parents, assuming they don't have a serious criminal history. Instead of going to jail, the "deadbeats" will be enrolled into a program similar to drug court, the Post-Dispatch reports...

"Burn Notice" star accused of DUI

Posted on July 20, 2009
From AP: In this image released by the Miami Beach Police Dept., actor Jeffrey Donovan is seen in this booking photograph released by the Miami Beach, Fla. Police Dept. Donovan was charged with DUI on Sunday July 12, 2009. (AP...

WI inmate gets extra 18 months for throwing feces

Posted on July 20, 2009
Money Quote: When Dotson was escorted away, she said, "I've been saving up my (expletive deleted) all day for that (expletive deleted)."

Despite recession, crime drops in biggest U.S. cities

Posted on July 20, 2009
Including Washington and Los Angeles. A lot of experts were warning communities to brace themselves for a crime wave, but that doesn't appear to be happening. One point of comparison, via the Washington Post? Criminologists point to the Great Depression...

KC c-store owner gets run over while stopping beer thief, police say

Posted on July 20, 2009
From Christine Vendel: A driver ran over the 63-year-old owner of a convenience store last night as the owner was trying to stop an underage girl who had stolen two 12-packs of beer. The owner followed the girl across the...

Who was Dshawn Clayton?

Posted on July 20, 2009
The Plog has an interview with school-board member Airick Leonard West about Clayton, who was killed in an accidental shooting earlier this summer.

Woman uses paddle to chase away pantsless home-invader

Posted on July 20, 2009
You know ... he might actually enjoy something like that. Story is from Pennsylvania.

Michael Adams, accused of murdering his wife

Posted on July 20, 2009
Adams, who has been dressing as a woman, is accused of murdering his wife last week at their home in Belton. Hat Tip: Many thanks to Don Bradley for sending this over! More from today's court appearance.

Attacker puts Super Glue in women's hair, TX cops say

Posted on July 20, 2009
Weird story from Pasadena, Texas, where a man has been secretly pouring Super Glue in women's hair while they're distracted by shopping.

The most outrageous thing you'll read today

Posted on July 20, 2009
A convenience store's cameras catch a Philly cop roughing up a female motorist -- who'd been rearended by his son earlier, only the son had left the scene -- and SHE is the one who gets charged for assault. And...

KCK names homicide victim from 40th and Haskell

Posted on July 20, 2009
From KCK PD: The victim from the homicide that occurred on Sunday, July 19, 2009 at North 40th Street and Haskell Avenue has been identified. Hans E. Wurtz, white male, DOB 10/07/1983, was a Liberty, Missouri resident. The family has...

"Don't make a woman mad, especially if she has a concealed firearm"

Posted on July 20, 2009
Weird story from North Carolina about an offender who fell in love with his prison psychologist, who later lost her job and ended up shooting him in the back. They're still in love. He even declined to press charges because,...

Former Death Row inmate kidnaps family that was fishing in NC, cops say

Posted on July 20, 2009
They were able to escape after 12 hours, when he stopped at a convenience store. They'd been abducted from a popular fishing spot, where several other families fished -- but didn't notice the abduction taking place.

KCPD names victim of 34th and Troost homicide

Posted on July 20, 2009
From KCPD: The victim of the homicide at 34th & Troost has been identified as 38-year-old Lynn Glover of KCMO. Anyone with information is asked to call the TIPS hot line. (Glover was the bystander who was hit by stray...

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