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This sounds like a bad idea ...

Posted on June 25, 2009
There's going to be a reunion of the Chicago cops who worked the Democratic National Convention in 1968. And now a group of activists has decided to protest that reunion. It's like nobody watches the History Channel.

Pit bulls, metal bed frame used as weapons in Utah women's fight, police say

Posted on June 25, 2009
It's like Warren Ellis wrote: Hit the soft parts with your hand, hit the hard parts with a utensil.

PA inmates will still get paid ... even if the prison guards don't

Posted on June 25, 2009
If Pennsylvania has a budget crisis this summer, there's a good chance that some prison staffers won't get paid. However, the inmates -- who get paid 19 to 42 cents per hour for doing work in the prison -- will...

Supremes say student's strip search was illegal

Posted on June 25, 2009
We've written about Savana Redding a few times -- the Arizona teen was told to strip to her underwear and then shake her underwear, so school officials could see if she was hiding ibuprofen on her person. (She wasn't.) The...

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Strange Visitor From Another Planet just wants to get his "binge on," UT police say

Posted on June 25, 2009
Salt Lake City police stopped a motorist for driving erratically. The driver said he was from the Planet Alpha Omega: "The documents then say the man said 'tonight I started getting my binge on.'" The man is actually from Salt...

Adrian Burks charged in KCK quadruple homicide

Posted on June 25, 2009
Dawn Bormann has details here. Burks is looking at four charges of first-degree murder. His bond was set at $2 million.

5 years for using stun gun on OK cheerleading sponsor

Posted on June 25, 2009
The zapper, who says she was on pain pills and suffering from sleep deprivation, says she didn't think the sponsor was treating the kids fairly. And she doesn't think it's fair that she's getting five years in prison.

Wichita police arrest 2 bail bondsmen after truck-ramming chase

Posted on June 25, 2009
Which included a woman getting run over. The story defies summarizing, but you can read it here.

UPDATE: MO inmate escapes jail using cardboard tube

Posted on June 25, 2009
They caught Curtis Jones -- the man who escaped the Howard County Jail using nothing more than a cardboard tube from a roll of toilet paper -- in Columbia yesterday afternoon, the Tribune reports.

National coverage of Renee Pernice case?

Posted on June 25, 2009
That's what anti-crime activist Alonzo Washington is reporting. He says "20/20" has been following the case and will broadcast something soon. Hat Tip: Saw this via Tony's Kansas City

MO will now demand ignition interlocks for repeat DUI cases

Posted on June 25, 2009
Judges had the ability to require DUI offenders to use ignition interlocks, but the new law, which takes effect next Wednesday, will require the devices for people with two or more DUI convictions. (Ignition interlocks are devices installed in cars...

How are KC's red-light cameras doing?

Posted on June 24, 2009
It seems like people learn pretty quickly to stop running lights at those particular intersections, Christine Vendel reports. KCPD, though, is burning a lot of time reviewing the photos before the tickets are sent out. Snip: Keeping up with the...

Have you seen this man?

Posted on June 24, 2009
Gladstone police are searching for Norman Charles Schulze, 28, of Lee?s Summit, Bob Cronkleton reports. Schulze has been charged with five felony counts of stealing in Clay County Circuit Court in connection with thefts from the Home Depot at 4949...

1 man dead in early-morning shooting near 36th and Main

Posted on June 24, 2009
From KCPD: Officers were called Wednesday morning at about 1213 am to investigate a shooting at 36th and Main. When the officers arrived, they discovered a male in his 20's dead in the street (on 36th just west of Main)....

NJ man rides 90 miles in bus' luggage compartment after Jimmy Buffett concert

Posted on June 24, 2009
His friend -- who, like the man himself, had been drinking -- put him in the compartment. Nobody discovered him until the bus was well into Pennsylvania. And everybody learned a valuable lesson about attending Jimmy Buffett concerts: Don't. Hat...

Heather Snively did not die quietly

Posted on June 24, 2009
Snively, 21, was the Oregon woman who was allegedly killed for her unborn baby. Another woman, 27-year-old Korena Roberts, is accused of the crime. Court records say that Snively put up a violent fight before she died, the AP reports....

Mr. Happy Meal

Posted on June 24, 2009
British Columbia police are searching for a naked man who grabbed an order of french fries as a Wendy's employee tried to hand the food to a woman waiting in the drive-through lane. (He ran between the car and the...

We didn't realize lying under oath was such a big deal ...

Posted on June 24, 2009
Two associates of former NYPD Chief Bernard Kerik are facing perjury charges after they told a grand jury they didn't pay for Kerik's apartment renovation. This was not only "not true," it crossed into that special area that prosecutors consider...

Open Thread ... Wednesday

Posted on June 24, 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,...

KCPD names homicide victim from 36th and Main

Posted on June 24, 2009
From KCPD: The victim is identified as Montague K. Ashline, b/m, 10/24/86 of KCMO. There are no suspects in custody and anyone with information is asked to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.

Curtis Jones, still at large

Posted on June 24, 2009
Jones -- who reportedly escaped from the Howard County Jail using nothing but his wits and a cardboard tube -- is still on the run, the Columbia Tribune reports. The authorities have found the children's bike that he used to...

Ex-con posed as retired ATF agent near Table Rock Lake, police say

Posted on June 24, 2009
And he called himself "Maverick." Stone County authorities say Mark Sager, who used to live near Kansas City, told people that he used to work with the ATF. Not only that, he drove around in a used patrol car that...

Fun Fact: It's almost impossible to sue the military for medical malpractice

Posted on June 24, 2009
Congress is considering legislation that would let servicemembers and their relatives sue in these cases -- which would overturn a Supreme Court doctrine that goes back to the 1950s, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Their article includes a list of...

Mom pleads guilty to BUI -- breastfeeding under the influence

Posted on June 24, 2009
Health officials say it's a risk to the baby because alcohol could be passed along in the milk.

IA football coach fatally shot in high school's weight room

Posted on June 24, 2009
Ed Thomas was a well-known football coach who'd served in Butler County, Iowa, for approximately 30 years, winning almost 300 games and training four players who later went into the NFL. About 8:30 this morning, a gunman shot Thomas in...

KCK names victims of quadruple homicide

Posted on June 24, 2009
From KCKPD: The victims from the homicide which occurred on Monday, June 22, 2009 in the 5200 Block of Muncie Drive have been identified. James A. Warren, black male, DOB 11/17/1942 Amanda J. Remmers, white female, DOB 05/29/1988 Peggy Castleberry,...

Wisconsin man drove his boss to suicide, prosecutors allege

Posted on June 24, 2009
The defendant is a 33-year-old EMT who allegedly got into his boss' email account and forwarded emails that reportedly showed the boss "trading sexual innuendoes with a female employee," the AP reports. The EMT sent those messages to several people,....

Magazine salesman disturbed bystander with his "gyrating," WI cops say

Posted on June 24, 2009
Snip from The Capital Times in Madison: Johnathan A. Hull, 23, of Lancaster, Ohio; Layne A. Watson, 20, of Tempe, Ariz.; and Edward G. Dorsett, 26, of Pittsburgh, Pa. were all cited for soliciting without a permit and unlawful trespassing....

KC woman stabs sleepwalking, sleep-urinating BF in the face, police say

Posted on June 24, 2009
Christine has the entire tale here: What a wake-up call. A 24-year-old Kansas City man suffered a stab wound to his face and shoulder early today when his girlfriend allegedly tried to wake him from sleepwalking. Police reports gave this...

KC man drops shotgun, shoots himself in his thigh

Posted on June 24, 2009
From Christine Vendel: A 19-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to his thigh after he dropped a shotgun Tuesday night in Kansas City. The victim told police he was on his front porch in the 2900 block of Indiana Avenue...

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