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St. Louis woman admits she prostituted mentally disabled woman
Posted on April 13, 2009The suspect -- who uses the nickname "Goddess" -- says a client let her use the disabled woman to pay off a $3,300 drug debt. Goddess also admits torturing the disabled woman, the Post-Dispatch reports.
Florida dad, 17, throws bubble gum at baby mama, police say
Posted on April 13, 2009And, thus, gets charged with domestic battery.
"I'd hoped it was apple juice or something"
Posted on April 13, 2009In Mobile, Ala., police have transferred the officer who used to oversee the undercover stings of liquor stores that sold booze to minors. That's because they allegedly found photos of that officer drinking booze with the minors who participated in...
3 arrested after Brookside home burglary
Posted on April 13, 2009From Sara Shepherd: The neighbor called police about 11 a.m. Friday, after he saw three men park by the house in the 1000 block of West 66th Terrace and go in. Within five minutes, he told police, the suspects took...
Worst excuse ever
Posted on April 13, 2009A woman accused of fatal hitting a pedestrian, then driving along says she would have stopped, really, but the traffic was too intense, Florida authorities say. That she was driving without a license, speeding and had coke in her system...
Hill, Cheesy, Mouse accused in St. Joe meth ring
Posted on April 13, 2009From the U.S. Attorney - Western MO: Gilberto Lara-Ruiz, also known as ?Hill,? 29, a citizen of Mexico, was charged with being the leader of a continuing criminal enterprise that distributed at least 10 kilograms of methamphetamine from Jan. 1,...
"As long as they ain?t naked, what?s the point??
Posted on April 13, 2009The New York Times has a story here about Riviera Beach, Fla., which is vigorously enforcing a new law against sagging britches. As predicted, it's gone to court, and the defense attorneys are saying the law itself is unconstitutional. (They're...
Dog groomer severely injured while trying to catch stray dog
Posted on April 13, 2009Don Bradley has a great story this morning about Ann Richardson, who was hit by a car on a highway exit ramp while trying to help catch a stray dog in Harrisonville. There's a good chance Richardson might lose a...
MO legislators no longer facing charges in casino case
Posted on April 13, 2009From The AP: Charges have been dropped against two lawmakers accused of presenting false identification at a Boonville casino. Democrats Sen. Jeff Smith, of St. Louis, and Rep. Joe Aull, of Marshall, were charged in 2007 with misdemeanors after Aull....
A bunch of #$%^
Posted on April 13, 2009A Texas man was ticketed after he used the S-word when complaining to his neighbors about their cat. Specifically, he wanted their cats to stop s****ing in his back yard. Snip: Loflin?s dogs, like many others, are attracted to cat...
Soldier accidentally shot, killed while teaching gun safety to wife
Posted on April 13, 2009Story is from Washington state.
Dead goat found hanging on Harry Caray statute outside Wrigley
Posted on April 13, 2009You know it's springtime in Chicago when dead animals start appearing on the Harry Caray statue ... Hat Tip: Many thanks, Keith G in PV!
MO Highway Patrol announces DUI checkpoint, saturation patrols
Posted on April 13, 2009Troop A plans to hold a sobriety checkpoint in Clay County sometime during the month of May. The troop also plans saturation patrols in Platte and Johnson counties in May.
MO girl drives ATV into path of truck -- family sues the driver
Posted on April 13, 2009Story is from Pettis County on U.S. 65. The girl, age 10, died from her injuries. Her family says the pickup's driver should have sounded an alert or driven more slowly because she was nearby.
Calls about suicide jumped last year in St. Joe
Posted on April 13, 2009About 64 percent, from 245 to 384, the News-Press reports. Still the number of actual suicides was still pretty stable. There were seven last year compared to six in 2007.
The suspect in the Sandra Cantu homicide has a KS link
Posted on April 13, 2009Though it's a pretty slender one: Her ex-husband used to live in Topeka.
Norwegian accused of speeding, having sex at the same time
Posted on April 13, 2009Snip: "It was veering from one side to the other because the woman was sitting on the man's lap while he was driving and doing the act, shall we say," said Tor Stein Hagen, a superintendent with Soendre Buskerund district...
2 KCPD officers, 1 other hurt in Old Northeast crash
Posted on April 13, 2009From Tony Rizzo: Two Kansas City police officers and at least one other person were injured Sunday night in a traffic accident in northeast Kansas City. Three ambulances were called to the scene shortly before 10:30 p.m. at the intersection...
St. Joe pastor accused of using Facebook to entice kid online
Posted on April 11, 2009From Glenn Rice: Nearly 20 parents have told investigators that their children might have traded e-mails with a St. Joseph pastor charged in an Internet sex sting. Robert M. Black, 40, of Independence, was charged this week with first-degree attempted...
My math teacher made me drink vodka shots!
Posted on April 11, 2009Just saying: I would've been laughed out of the police station if I'd tried to report this when I was a kid ...
Baby sitter found asleep on toilet after 2-year-old wanders to canal, police say
Posted on April 11, 2009A canal where alligators had previously been spotted, Florida authorities say. Sounds like somebody just lost refrigerator privileges.
Dear Teenage Boys
Posted on April 11, 2009Remember that girl on the Internet who requested naked pictures of you? Sadly, "she" was a middle-aged dude with a penchant for blackmail. And the bad news is that he wants more pictures ...
Open Thread ... Weekend Edition
Posted on April 11, 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. As always, please follow our standard rules: Please sign your comments,...
Suspect arrested in Sandra Cantu murder
Posted on April 11, 2009Surprisingly, it's a woman -- who teaches Sunday School, to boot. I'm not saying women aren't capable of being criminals, but the vast majority of stranger abductions I've seen were carried out by men. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Keith G...
More about ex-deputy's civil rights charges
Posted on April 11, 2009Mark Morris has more here about the case of Steven Burgess, a former Jackson County deputy who got probation for forcing a teenage girl to have sex in his patrol car. He's now facing a federal charge for allegedly denying...
UPDATE: Mom gets to harvest sperm from homicide victim's corpse
Posted on April 11, 2009The AP interviews some experts who suggest this might, uh, not be the smartest thing ever, psychologically speaking. Mom speaks: Missy Evans said she is unsure when she'll be ready to seek a surrogate to carry her son's child. But...
7 DUI arrests during KCPD sobriety checkpoint
Posted on April 11, 2009From KCPD: The Kansas City Missouri Police Department along with Jackson County Deputies conducted a Sobriety Checkpoint on April 10, 2009 from 2300 hours to 0400 hours at 8011E.Truman Rd . Eastbound and Westbound traffic was checked with total of...
Florida man accused of making crack in his microwave
Posted on April 10, 2009I had no idea that was even possible, but my knowledge of drug production begins and ends with the movie "New Jack City." (Which, BTW, is awesome.) Was he out of popcorn?
You just shot the wrong dog, @#$(*&
Posted on April 10, 2009Story is from Texas, where a decorated Navy SEAL chased the two men who shot his beloved yellow Lab -- a pursuit that lasted 40 miles and hit speeds of 100 mph. The dog was named DASY, an acronym for...
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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...
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It sounds like the law in your area is treating it as a civil matter. That being...
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