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Your St. Pat's predictions, please ...
Posted on March 17, 2009Will the annual parade -- which moves to Westport this year -- be quiet or rowdy? And how many mouth-breathers will both (A) drive drunk and (B) head straight for one of the many, many, MANY sobriety checkpoints in operation...
Chicago might use surveillance cams to hunt down uninsured drivers
Posted on March 17, 2009Now THIS is interesting. Chicago has one of the country's best (scariest) networks of surveillance cameras. How scary-good? Chicago is talking about using its cameras to constantly scan for license-plates of cars that do not have insurance. (The cameras actually...
"Could not find help. Nowhere to go."
Posted on March 17, 2009Sad, strange story from Washington state, where police say a man used an ax to kill his wife and stepdaughter. He then spray-painted a series of increasingly desperate messages on buildings near the house, they allege: One message on the...
Hungry like the wolf pack
Posted on March 17, 2009From KCPD: The KCPD and the Jackson County Sheriff's Office recently focused extra enforcement efforts on impaired driving laws during the March 13-15 weekend. A joint Sobriety Checkpoint with Jackson County Traffic Deputies resulted in 11 DUI arrests, 1 Hazardous...
When will these whippersnappers learn?
Posted on March 17, 2009South Dakota man, 71, successfully uses ice scraper to chase away knife-wielding robber, age 20. The older gentleman was born during the Depression and lived through the 20th Century's more awesome wars. He's had an extra 50 years to perfect...
TX jail was run like a drug-infested frathouse, authorities say
Posted on March 17, 2009The locks didn't work on some cells, but the prisoners were having sex with jail staff, getting high and were allowed to bring recliners to their cells. Who'd want to leave that? Hat Tip: Many thanks, Keith G in PV!
Open Thread ... Tuesday
Posted on March 17, 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,...
Not remotely crime-related
Posted on March 17, 2009How a giant sex toy helped a man win $2 million ... Hat Tip: Many thanks, You're A Mean Drunk R2D2!
Shh, he's sleeping
Posted on March 17, 2009Poor baby. Getting arrested for domestic violence takes a lot out of you. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Amanda!
MO man -- accused of killing GF's dad -- kills himself, police say
Posted on March 17, 2009Story is from the De Soto, Mo. area. More here from the P-D.
Florida boys steal dog from shelter, throw it off a bridge, police say
Posted on March 17, 2009I'm just saying -- it would be awesome if one of those "creative punishment" judges got this case.
Popcorn don't go down easy
Posted on March 17, 2009"Popcorn" Sutton -- the notorious Tennessee moonshiner and author of "Me and My Likker" -- has apparently committed suicide rather than report for prison. Hat Tip: Many thanks, aqua and c8h10n4o2!
I think the T-shirt is lying
Posted on March 17, 2009You really have to see for yourself. Hat Tip: Many thanks, JUNGLE JIM!
Family of chimp-attack victim seeking $50 million
Posted on March 17, 2009It'll probably take that much to put the poor woman back together again ... (Did we mention that she has no health insurance?)
More about yesterday's KCPD-involved shooting
Posted on March 17, 2009From KCPD: The suspect who was shot and killed by officer?s yesterday near 8th and Olive is positively identified as 55yr old Dennis Watson of KCMO. The officer and detective involved have been placed on paid administrative leave which is...
Did "D.B. Cooper" get his name from a comic book?
Posted on March 17, 2009I was already interested in the case, FBI. Why are you nerd-baiting me?
How did the St. Pat's parade go?
Posted on March 17, 2009I just checked with my editor, and she said that we've only heard about one arrest so far. (Not sure for what.) There were a few medical calls. For now, though, it sounds like everyone was as nice as the...
More good news from Mexico
Posted on March 17, 2009The drug cartels now have grenade launchers and antitank rockets. "Mexico: We put the 'war' in 'drug war.'"
The Best Little Prostitution Ring in Texas
Posted on March 17, 2009Only authorities say it wasn't so little ... According to court records, the couple did ?unlawfully and knowingly own, invest in, finance, control, supervise and manage a prostitution enterprise using more than one prostitute.? Their client list includes professional athletes,...
The diary
Posted on March 17, 2009In Las Vegas, a man is being tried for torturing another guy to death by hammering a screwdriver into his head. (A previous attempt with a pencil didn't quite do the job.) Authorities learned about the slaying because Florida police...
Okie confesses to murder on his deathbed
Posted on March 17, 2009The funny thing is he lived. And he's now facing a murder charge.
What a fetching creature
Posted on March 17, 2009From AP: British singer Amy Winehouse arrives at Westminster Magistrates Court in London, Tuesday, March 17, 2009, where she faced a charge of common assault over an incident at a charity ball. Winehouse, 25, is accused of assaulting a woman...
"He kept laughing"
Posted on March 17, 2009Lam Luong is accused of throwing four children off an Alabama bridge last year, killing them. All but one of the kids were his. None was older than age 3. His common-law wife testified at his trial yesterday: Later, when...
Midtown Miscreant v. Hard Times
Posted on March 17, 2009Double-M disliked a recent piece in the Star about a Brookside family that tried to cut costs as an experiment. Then the father lost his job, so their "experiment" became a necessary fact-of-life. Double-M argued that, even with the job...
Alonzo Washington interviews Shon Pernice
Posted on March 17, 2009About the case of Pernice's missing wife, Renee. Alonzo has posts about the interview here and here. And KCTV has a summary here. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Tam!
Florida man kills brother over a can of Coke
Posted on March 17, 2009Police say the victim was upset that his brother had finished off the Coke. The brother ended up shooting the victim, and police believe it might be a case of self-defense.
Why DC v. Heller HASN'T changed everything
Posted on March 17, 2009The Supremes' DC v. Heller ruling struck down Washington DC's longtime ban against, well, pretty much every kind of gun. And it stated that individual citizens have a right to own guns. A lot of legal experts expected there would...
Not remotely crime-related
Posted on March 17, 2009I know, we had this last year. I'm not sick of it yet.
MO man accused of killing his pregnant wife, 9-month-old son
Posted on March 17, 2009Awful, awful news. Story is from Ava.
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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...
If I pay restitution, can I still be charged with a crime?
It sounds like the law in your area is treating it as a civil matter. That being...
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