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Virginia man arrested for biting an elevator door

Posted on March 12, 2009
He SAID he was on cocaine.

Kansas AG supports keeping the death penalty

Posted on March 12, 2009
From David Klepper: Six said he doesn?t buy the cost-savings argument, and said the state?s law is sound and applied conservatively. Currently, 10 men sit on the state?s death row. Kansas hasn?t executed anyone in more than 40 years. The...

The next time you see a helicopter in the sky, remember this story

Posted on March 12, 2009
A California helicopter pilot lost his license after a video clip of him "fondling a porn actress, who then performed a sexual act on the pilot while he flew over San Diego" turned up on the Internet. ?These actions showed...

NYT: Prosecutors getting ready for wave of financial-fraud cases

Posted on March 12, 2009
You've probably heard all of these news stories about the economy and wondered why some of the people involved aren't in jail. Well, the New York Times reports, local and federal prosecutors are getting ready to file a wave of...

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Florida man offers to buy lap dance for officer, police say

Posted on March 12, 2009
Sadly, they were at a hospital, and the officer had been called there because the man was acting up. From tcpalm.com: Lemieux, who reportedly did not heed officers? repeated requests to lower his voice, referred to one of the patients...

Independence PD investigating dead body

Posted on March 12, 2009
From Russ Pulley: Independence police are investigating a body found this morning in a front yard on Crysler Avenue. About 9 a.m. a passerby saw a man on the ground in the 2700 block of Crysler Avenue and reported it...

3 years for Iraqi reporter who threw shoes at President Bush

Posted on March 12, 2009
That's actually the minimum sentence. His attorneys plan to appeal, though -- the case should've been treated like an insult, but not a physical assault, they argue.

Liberty man convicted in I-70 crash that killed Mizzou prof

Posted on March 12, 2009
Story is via the Columbia Tribune. My favorite part: In a closing argument, public defender Manuel Tatayon argued that the prosecution?s case was a ?self-profiling prophecy? that had been pieced together by inconsistent testimony and laboratory results showing drugs in...

Madoff pleads guilty

Posted on March 12, 2009
The AP take is here. He was promptly thrown in jail because, well, he's the world's greatest flight risk: An old rich guy staring down a long (possibly life) sentence. (Sentencing, by the way, won't occur until June.) Here's where...

Should MO require motorcyclists to wear helmets?

Posted on March 12, 2009
A Missouri Senate committee has passed a bill that would let riders, if they're at least 21, choose whether they want to wear helmets, the Sedalia Democrat reports. The measure still needs approval from the House and the Senate.

Mass. woman tried to impregnate her wife against her will, police say

Posted on March 12, 2009
Using either a turkey baster or a syringe with the woman's brother's donated semen, police allege. Hat Tip: Many thanks, You're A Mean Drunk R2D2!

Is waiting decades for execution "cruel and unusual"?

Posted on March 12, 2009
Interesting story from the Christian Science Monitor, which writes about an inmate who argues that his 32 years on Death Row constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. The Supreme Court refused to hear his case -- partly because the guy SOUGHT...

Report: Law enforcement receiving record numbers of applicants

Posted on March 12, 2009
That's according to USA Today. And it's a bit of a change from the past few years, when departments have been struggling to find recruits. The economy's a big part of it. Thanks to the stimulus bill setting aside money...

Kansas AG warns about possible serial rapist in Lawrence, Manhattan

Posted on March 12, 2009
Authorities believe one rapist is responsible for 13 attacks over eight years, KMBC reports. The AG is trying to put the public on alert as college students get ready to go on spring break.

UPDATE: TX workers ran "Fight Club" for mentally-disabled adults, police say

Posted on March 12, 2009

FL man punched mom after she complained about him masturbating in the back yard, police say

Posted on March 12, 2009
Story is from the St. Pete Times ... Hat Tip: Many thanks, JUNGLE JIM!

After Killeen

Posted on March 12, 2009
CNN has a piece here about Killeen, Texas, once the site of the largest mass shooting in U.S. history until the Virginia Tech massacre. It was 1991 when a shooter killed 23 people in a Luby's Cafeteria there. The network...

Japanese groom sets hotel on fire to buy time

Posted on March 12, 2009
He wasn't sure whether he wanted to stay with his wife of 14 years or marry his girlfriend of the last three. I guess when you're in a spot like that, arson starts to look like a reasonable response. He's...

Smithville man accused of $3 million tax fraud

Posted on March 12, 2009
From the U.S. Attorney for Missouri: Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Smithville, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for filing false tax returns that...

At least 10 dead after Alabama massacre

Posted on March 11, 2009
That figure includes the shooter himself, who reportedly committed suicide. Several of the victims are his own family, and he burned down his mother's house. Authorities say the shootings happened in several places, but started in the town of Kinston...

Hit-and-run driver strikes man in wheelchair near Waldo

Posted on March 11, 2009
From Meredith Rodriguez:A hit-and-run in Kansas City left a wheelchair-bound man with life-threatening injuries tonight. The accident happened at 79th Street and Wornall Road at about 9 p.m., according to Kansas City police dispatchers. Witnesses told police that a dark-colored...

New limits on red-light cameras in MO?

Posted on March 11, 2009
The Missouri Senate has approved an amendment that would require police departments, if they use red-light cameras, to positively ID a car's driver before sending out a ticket. (It's part of a larger transportation bill.) I'm not sure if this...

Sheriff Joe facing federal investigation over civil rights

Posted on March 11, 2009
Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz. -- famous for the pink underwear that he forces upon his inmates -- is facing a federal investigation over the way his department handles illegal immigration. Arpaio's guys are part of a program...

Florida man shoots man while having sex with man's GF

Posted on March 11, 2009
Talk about your multitasking ... A Florida man was having sex with a woman in his pickup when the woman's BF showed up and tried to open the passenger door. Police say the Florida man loaded a gun and fired...

Europeans debate whether sex offenders should be castrated

Posted on March 11, 2009
Only one European country offers surgical castration, the Czech Republic. The New York Times quotes some former sex offenders who say that being castrated "was like draining the gasoline from a car hard-wired to crash." The Council of Europe, however,...

Man opened fire after he thought a puppy cost too much, KCK police say

Posted on March 11, 2009
Police say a man went to buy a shar-pei puppy and, after learning how much it cost, ended up opening fire on the seller. Hat Tip: Many thanks, JUNGLE JIM!

NM police find 1,200 pounds of weed in spinach cans

Posted on March 11, 2009
This explains so much ... Hat Tip: Many thanks, Keith G in PV!

KCFD battles string of arsons

Posted on March 11, 2009
From Sara Shepherd:Someone set fire to a vacant house Tuesday, destroying that house and one next door that was home to a family of seven. The fire started about 12:30 p.m. at 33rd Street and Brooklyn Avenue, and flames quickly...

German school shooter kills 15

Posted on March 11, 2009
Before police could shoot and kill him. Spiegel Online says the victims include nine students, three teachers and then two passersby. The shooter was 17 years old. It's not clear if he used to attend the school. Police are saying...

5 severed heads found in coolers in Mexico

Posted on March 11, 2009
If this happened in Chicago or another big U.S. city, it'd be huge news. But I've lost count of how many bodiless heads or headless bodies have turned up in Mexico.

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