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Three men wanted for questioning concerning murder of parents of 16 children

Posted on July 10, 2009
Police in Beulah, Fla., are looking to question three men about the home-invasion slayings of the mother and father of 16 children. The men were seen leaving the home of Byrd and Melanie Billings in a red full-size van. The...

Update on man who died after falling into vat of melting chocolate

Posted on July 10, 2009
The cocoa processing plant in Camden, N.J., apparently was operating illegally because it did not have a business license. The city cited Lyons & Sons Inc. for not having the license. Vincent Smith II died Wednesday after falling into the...

Missing cleaning woman feared dead

Posted on July 10, 2009
A cleaning woman who vanished from a Manhattan high-rise might be dead. Eridania Rodriguez, 46, showed up for her shift on Tuesday, but vanished midway through her shift at an office tower a few hundred feet from the World Trade...

One, two, three . . . Topeka has problem counting arsons

Posted on July 09, 2009
It seems there's a problem with software in Topeka. The fire department can't seem to get the correct number of arsons. The count is now 49, which is higher than the number released by fire officials last week. Fom the...

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Risk of child abuse rises in potty-training

Posted on July 09, 2009
Potty training ? one of the most frustrating events in the lives of parents and children ? has been linked to many serious cases of child abuse, The Wichita Eagle reports. Prompted by a recent spate of child-abuse-related deaths in...

Badger imbibes, causes scene

Posted on July 09, 2009
A woman in Germany called police to report a dead badger blocking traffic, but responding officers discovered that the badger wasn't dead, just drunk. (And, er, ill.) | Sara Shepherd

Drunken tractor driver leads police on low-speed chase

Posted on July 09, 2009
The 23-year-old German man stole the tractor to get home after his girlfriend ditched him at a nightclub. Police tried to end his getaway by throwing nail belts on the road, but the tractor's "tyres" proved too thick. | Sara...

Topeka squabbles over police copter

Posted on July 09, 2009
The city's controversial police helicopter program was grounded last year after a crash destroyed one of the department's two aircraft. But a newly proposed budget would provide for 1,800 hours of flight time, including $438,265 for salaries and benefits and...

Open Thread ... Thursday (Friday Eve)

Posted on July 09, 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. PROGRAMMING ANNOUNCEMENT: James is off this week, and Bob Cronkleton will...

Lee's Summit police warn residents of scams

Posted on July 09, 2009
Police warn that people are targeting Lee's Summit residents with telephone scams relating to their water bills. The underlying story of the scam is that there is a problem with the customer's payment or check. To fix the problem, the...

Juror threatens to cut off finger of another juror

Posted on July 09, 2009
Jury deliberations can be heated -- just look to a federal case in New York where a juror accused another one of threatening to cut off his finger. The jury is deliberating the fate of a lawyer accused of involvement...

Four charged with digging up graves, reselling plots for profit

Posted on July 09, 2009
Four cemetery workers face felony charges after authorities discovered that 200 to 300 graves had been dug up at a historic African-American cemetery near Chicago. The Cook County Sheriff's Office will receive help from the FBI to help identify the...

Give me an 'A' . . . Give me . . . all your money

Posted on July 09, 2009
A Georgia high school cheerleader is facing robbery and underage possession of alcohol charges after she allegedly stole $147 from several children last week. Chelsea Alexa Steele, 17, allegedly approached several girls, including one who uses a wheelchair, while they...

Maybe it was for a local production of The Princess and the Pea

Posted on July 09, 2009
Odessa police are investigating the theft of about 30 mattresses over the weekend from the Key West Mattress furniture store. The suspects loaded up dozens of mattresses out through a bay door. | Bob Cronkleton

KC police plan meet-n-greet in Ruskin area

Posted on July 09, 2009
Officers from KCPD's South Patrol Division and the Hickman MIlls School District's Prevention Coalition will meet with residents Friday to get to know them and talk about crime and safety. The meeting will run from 4 to 8 p.m. at...

Gov. Nixon signs into law bills concerning crime, law enforcement

Posted on July 09, 2009
What better backdrop is there to sign a slew of crime bills into law than a state crime lab? That's where Gov. Jay Nixon chose when he signed several bills into law today. One of the more significant ones requires...

Science teacher held on charge of attempted murder for allegedly assaulting student

Posted on July 09, 2009
Police arrested the teacher after a student was left with serious head injuries following an alleged attack during class. The science teacher, Peter Harvey, is also being question about alleged assaults on two other students during the same incident at...

One, two, three . . . Part 2

Posted on July 09, 2009
Topeka isn't the only city having problems keeping track of crime stats. An analysis by The Los Angeles Times found that the LAPD's online crime map failed to include nearly 40% of serious crimes reported in the city. The map...

Man learns what happens when trying to pass biscuit mix off as drugs

Posted on July 09, 2009
Matthew Ryan Shaver of Colorado tried to swindle a buyer out of $2,000 in a bogus drug deal by getting him to pay for what turned out to be a biscuit mix. Things didn't go as planned for Shaver. After...

Fans try selling/buying MJ tickets inexchange for "adult fun"

Posted on July 09, 2009
Movieline.com reported that a spate of Craigslist ads sprouted up by people soliciting or offering sex in exchange for tickets to the Michael Jackson memorial at the Staples Center earlier this week. One person was willing to give his extra...

Cities plan DUI checkpoints this weekend

Posted on July 09, 2009
Law enforcement agencies plan sobriety checkpoints this weekend in Kansas City and Merriam. | Bob Cronkleton Their announcements follow: From KCPD: The Kansas City Police Department will conduct a sobriety checkpoint on the weekend of July 10-12 at a location...

We all scream for ice cream

Posted on July 09, 2009
Well, all but a 14-year-old Michigan boy who decided to take matters into his own hands and steal his father's SUV so he could get some ice cream. He took his younger brother and a cousin on a Dairy Queen...

DNA test solves 1994 Lenexa rape case

Posted on July 09, 2009
Lenexa police and the Johnson County Sheriff's office say they have solved rape case dating back to 1994 using DNA testing. The results matched Anthony R. Martin, 42, who is currently serving a 25 year sentence for a string of...

With friends like these . . .

Posted on July 09, 2009
It's nice to know your friends have your back. Unfortunately, for a 17-year-old boy, who was allegedly a victim of a fight at an underage drinking party, he chose the wrong ones. The Wichita Eagle reports that while he suffered...

Reward increased to catch Liberty graveyard vandals

Posted on July 09, 2009
Remember the 176 markers, some dating to the 1800s, that were vandalized in the Liberty graveyard last month? Well, the reward has been increased in an attempt to catch the person or persons responsible. The Greater Kansas City Crime Stoppers...

Truck stolen by bank robbers found in Missouri River

Posted on July 09, 2009
Authorities have found the flatbed truck believed to have been used by the two men who robbed a bank in Holden, Mo., Wednesday morning. The truck was found in the Missouri River near Booneville.The suspects are believed to have driven...

Ohio's former director of faith-based iniatives pleads guilty to pimping charges

Posted on July 09, 2009
Robert E. McFadden, 46, Dublin, Ohio, pleaded guilty today to two felony counts relating to pimping a 17-year-old prostitute. The actual charges: two counts of compelling prostitution for computer activity. Five other counts of pandering obscenity and promoting prostitution were...

Defibrillator thief gets away

Posted on July 08, 2009
Police in Anchorage are looking for a burglar who made off with a bunch of stuff from a Habitat for Humanity trailer, including an AED. A perplexed charity official said: "I wonder if they thought it was a laptop or...

Minivan evades police over (and over and over...)

Posted on July 08, 2009
Great police chase video from Houston. I'm calling this guy the "U-turn bandit." A local TV station reported that the chase lasted more than an hour before the driver -- who was the subject of some type of tactical investigation...

Porn under the pier?

Posted on July 08, 2009
Police arrested everyone in an eight-student film crew after they were caught taping a sex act under a pier in Myrtle Beach. No passers-by (including the 12-year-old boy walking by on the beach) or police actually saw nudity. But all...

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