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Some good news for burglary victims -- KCPD might have your stuff

Posted on April 09, 2009
From KCPD: Kansas City Missouri Police property crimes detectives have recovered more than $150,000 worth of property from a major burglary ring and now need the victims to come forward to claim their belongings. Anyone who believes they were a...

Have recent murders affected support for gun control?

Posted on April 09, 2009
Yep, though maybe not in the way you'd expect: Since 2001, most Americans have favored stricter gun laws, though support has slightly dropped in recent years: 54 percent favored stricter laws in 2001, compared with 50 percent in 2007, according...

KCPD plans DUI checkpoint sometime April 17-19

Posted on April 09, 2009
From KCPD: The Kansas City, Missouri Police Department will conduct a sobriety checkpoint on the weekend of April 17-19, 2009 at a location in Kansas City, Missouri that is known for occurrence of DUI related crashes or DUI arrests. This...

One Year Later: Who killed Jeff Rogers?

Posted on April 09, 2009
It's been one year since Rogers, 25, was murdered by a group of people who forced their way into his house near 84th and Tauromee. His family -- which had a fund-raiser last August for a reward -- is using...

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1 dead, 1 hurt in driveby shooting

Posted on April 09, 2009
From Sara Shepherd: Police were initially called to 59th Street and Walrond Avenue at 5:30 p.m., where they found an 18-year-old victim, according to Sgt. David M. Bernard of the Kansas City Police Department. He was confirmed dead at Research...

The importance of quitting while you're ahead

Posted on April 09, 2009
It's a lesson that an Ohio man learned the hard way last week. Police were called to a Steak 'n Shake because other people were complaining about his behavior. The man denied that he was drunk, but police were able...

OK shoplifter pulls gun over stolen toothbrush

Posted on April 09, 2009
Happened at a Wal-Mart in OKC. A security guard apparently caught the guy as he was leaving and tried to herd him back into the store. Instead, the suspect pulled a gun rather than surrender his ill-gotten hygienic device.

Man accused of selling "Ecstasy" to 12-year-old girl, CA police say

Posted on April 09, 2009
And by "Ecstasy," we mean "diabetes medication." I didn't know this, but it's apparently against the law to rip off budding junkies this way.

Open Thread ... Thursday (Friday Eve)

Posted on April 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 NOTE: James will be in the morning, but Sara Shepherd...

Thief steals 83-year-old woman's 66-year-old bicycle

Posted on April 09, 2009
Ruth Slovenski left the bike unlocked during one of her regular visits to a nursing home. She told police "the bike, with wide fenders and a large metal basket, had great sentimental value." | Sara Shepherd

82-year-old KC man arrested for child rape

Posted on April 09, 2009
It isn't one of those DNA cold-cases that happened decades ago, either. Reporter Christine Vendel had this item in today's paper: KANSAS CITY | Elderly man accused of raping child Police arrested an 82-year-old man Wednesday for allegedly sexually abusing...

Hospital to pay for 'dumping' mentally ill on skid row

Posted on April 09, 2009
In a settlement announced Wednesday, the L.A. city attorney's office said that College Hospital had dumped more than 150 mentally ill patients on skid row -- long a magnet for the region's most vulnerable citizens -- in 2007 and 2008....

College sued for discriminating against whites

Posted on April 09, 2009
Federal officials today simultaneously announced the lawsuit and an agreement to settle it. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Benedict College -- a historically black school in Columbia, S.C. -- on behalf of three former instructors, who claimed they...

Boy guilty of shooting sister (but says it wasn't over chips)

Posted on April 09, 2009
An 11-year-old South Carolina boy pleaded guilty Wednesday to shooting his sister in the face last year. He was 10, she was 9, and the two were home alone at the time. The boy's attorney said he accidentally shot his...

Sea pirates = eligible bachelors

Posted on April 09, 2009
So what if they murder, pillage and terrorize sea-farers? The large sums of ransom money being paid out to pirates, one former Navy SEAL says, is leading some Somali women to venture to the port town of Bosaso in hopes...

UPDATE: Man accused of driving, crashing his bar stool while drunk

Posted on April 09, 2009
Someone has already written a country song ...

Mom of the year?

Posted on April 09, 2009
The TAC squad had to be called in after this one allegedly incited a riot at her daughter's school. | Sara Shepherd

From the police scanner

Posted on April 09, 2009
For those of you who like these, a few more recently-overheard dispatches. All in a day's work for the PD: "Caller advised that she and her sister were trying to pick up a 12-year-old at the residence, who is possibly...

Florida man calls 911, asks to be put in jail, police say

Posted on April 09, 2009
Because his sister had kicked him out, and he wanted to "teach her a lesson." (He was, yes, drunk.) The police complied and charged him with misusing 911, the St. Pete Times reports.

Man shot arrows at neighbors' houses to impress a woman, MN police say

Posted on April 09, 2009
No people got hit, but police found arrows embedded in a few nearby homes. Snip: "She told officers that she and Fletcher had been drinking all night and that Fletcher grabbed his bow and arrow and walked out onto the...

Because it gets lonely on house arrest ...

Posted on April 09, 2009
A former teacher, convicted of sex with a student, is now accused of reaching out to young people via Facebook. Hat Tip: Many thanks, goshel!

Elderly man -- suspected of being Nazi guard -- can stay in U.S. for now

Posted on April 09, 2009
Until he exhausts all of his legal options, basically. John Demjanjuk is a Ukrainian immigrant who worked as a U.S. auto workers after the war. Now in his 80s, he's been stripped of his U.S. citizenship and could be deported...

"This is not about prosecution by any means necessary"

Posted on April 09, 2009
You've probably heard about the Ted Stevens story by now: Not only did the former senator's conviction get dismissed, the prosecutors themselves are now under investigation. Politico has a really good piece saying there might be a bigger problem with...

More facts about multiple homicides

Posted on April 09, 2009
Some interesting bits from USA Today, which reports the U.S. Conference of Mayors will be focusing on the issue in coming months. (Emphasis blow is mine.) Since 1976, an average of 18 mass fatal shootings have occurred yearly in the...

KS mayor gets reelected, despite facing charges for shooting dogs

Posted on April 09, 2009
Story is from McCune, where the mayor, acting on citizen complaints, allegedly shot a resident's two dogs as they lay on the sidewalk, the Joplin Globe reports. He's facing criminal charges as a result. His town must really love him...

Man's treetop suicide went undiscovered for 30 years

Posted on April 09, 2009
Because he had climbed to the top of a tree, where he had tied himself BEFORE committing suicide. (It even sounds like he tied up the gun, too, so it wouldn't fall.) For 30 years, the skeleton went undiscovered --...

Grandma dies trying to break up sword fight

Posted on April 09, 2009
Story is from Indiana. It's not clear if the woman died from a stab wound or a heart attack. The fight was between her 39-year-old grandson and another relative. Hat Tip: Many thanks, JGM and Keith G!

Con artists made $1 million off life insurance for imaginary people, CA police say

Posted on April 09, 2009
They even held funerals for their "victims" and buried coffins in their names, authorities allege. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Keith G in PV!

The Plaid Shirt Robber pleads guilty

Posted on April 09, 2009
Joseph Paul Young -- a Rogersville, Mo., man suspected of 20 bank robberies in several states -- has pleaded guilty to three stickups in West Virginia. Young was called the "Plaid Shirt Robber" because he was often spotted wearing a...

Should college students be allowed to carry concealed weapons?

Posted on April 09, 2009
The Missouri House has given early approval to a bill that would lower the concealed-carry age from 23 to 21 and would lift the CCW ban on college campuses. (You can argue this would affect more than just college students,...

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