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Should we cut the death penalty to save money?
Posted on February 25, 2009In a handful of states -- including Kansas -- activists are pushing the legislature to end the death penalty because it typically costs more to put some on Death Row, with the various appeals and legal reviews, than to imprison...
Crash victim thanks KC officers who rescued him
Posted on February 25, 2009Hat Tip: Many thanks, Eric!
Beggar uses stone crucifix to beat woman
Posted on February 25, 2009When she said she didn't have any money to give the attacker, Chicago police say. The woman will live, though she had a bad cut on her head. (The crucifix is about a foot long.) Hat Tip: Many thanks, JUNGLE...
Dear Criminals: OK, you earned your money this time
Posted on February 25, 2009A team of thieves cut a hole in a New York bank's roof as a way to sneak inside the building. What's great is how they brought along a fake chimney to hide inside while they cut into the roof....
Wisconsin man bites off parts of other man's face
Posted on February 25, 2009The lip and the ear, to be specific. The victim made the mistake of talking to a woman that our bad guy considered his girlfriend. (Which was news to the girlfriend.) Snip:"I've learned a lot about myself, and I think...
Serious crime dropped 16 percent last year in KC
Posted on February 25, 2009From Christine Vendel:Serious crime reported to Kansas City police declined 16 percent in 2008, to the lowest level in at least 12 years. Rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and theft declined, according to police officials who presented the year-end data...
No news in the Tylenol poisoning case
Posted on February 25, 2009A few weeks ago, authorities raided the Massachusetts home of James W. Lewis, a Kansas City native who served time for trying to blackmail the makers of Tylenol during the Tylenol poisonings of 1982. Lewis was never connected to the...
Judge won't throw out Tiller charges
Posted on February 25, 2009From The AP: A judge has refused to toss out the criminal case against a Wichita doctor accused of violating Kansas' late-term abortion law. Sedgwick County Judge Clark Owens on Wednesday denied a defense request to dismiss charges against George...
UPDATE: Boy, 11, accused of killing his dad's pregnant GF
Posted on February 24, 2009Prosecutors are seeking to try him as an adult, and they say they can show the killing was premeditated: The boy reportedly covered up his rifle with a blanket when he came downstairs. That means he knew what he planned...
In Chicago, 911 listens -- and watches
Posted on February 24, 2009Chicago already had one of the best surveillance systems in the country -- part of its bid to get the Olympics, no doubt -- but this new feature takes things one step further: Police have hooked their 911 system to...
Was it murder? Or just bad parenting?
Posted on February 24, 2009In Massachusetts, the parents of a 4-year-old girl are facing first-degree murder charges after they allegedly gave their daughter so much ADHD meds that she died. Snip:The defense maintains that Rebecca died of pneumonia. "This is a death by natural...
Illegal immigrant attacked his GF because he thought she gave him worms, MN police say
Posted on February 24, 2009To be fair, he said he'd been doing meth, and that really will confuse a person.
Man stole computer so he could check Facebook, police say
Posted on February 24, 2009Story is Florida, the U.S. capital of self-control.
When bad things happen to Good Samaritans ...
Posted on February 24, 2009When a New Orleans teen jumped into a Good Samaritan's car, trying to flee "friends" who wanted to hurt her, she also put the stranger at risk, too. When the "friends" opened fire, the two of them both suffered gunshot...
?I got high on pills and I stole a golf cart?
Posted on February 24, 2009A true tale of dastardly deeds in the Bluegrass State ...Hat Tip: Saw this via Bluegrass Beat!
Open Thread ... Tuesday
Posted on February 24, 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,...
UPDATE: Atlanta woman, 92, killed in no-knock raid
Posted on February 24, 2009This should bring back memories for some of our longtime readers. They're doing sentencing in the death of Kathryn Johnston, a 92-year-old woman killed during a no-knock raid on her house back in 2006. She opened fire, and was shot...
SC sheriff explains why the Michael Phelps investigation was justified
Posted on February 24, 2009Of course, he had to wear a stupid wig and talk to the Rotary while explaining, but I digress. Hat Tip: Many thanks, You're A Mean Drunk R2D2!
$5K reward offered in Hereford House arson
Posted on February 24, 2009And the ATF has released photos of a suspect. (We'll have those for you shortly.) Just got back from a press conference across the street from the Double-H. Let's see, what did we learn: There was no forced entry made...
2 girls, age 16, accused of pimping out other girls
Posted on February 24, 2009Story is from Arizona, and it sounds like the suspects had a fairly elaborate business model, if the story is true. Police say the girls even rented their own apartment for business and recruited other girls, at least one as...
7th Heaven closing in Sedalia
Posted on February 24, 2009They say it's because of the music industry and not the raid in December where police confiscated $40K worth of pipes.
NKC man stabbed 2 people over Xbox, prosecutor says
Posted on February 24, 2009From Platte County prosecutor's office: A North Kansas City man has been charged with assaulting two people with a knife after allegedly stealing a video game system. James S. Harris, 18, is accused of stabbing a man and a woman...
Soldiers abusing prescription pills up 70 percent since Iraq War started
Posted on February 24, 2009So Sen. McCaskill has introduced a bill ordering the military to change how it treats servicemembers with substance-abuse problems -- presumably, there'll be more of a focus on pill-abuse.
"This is the reason we build prisons"
Posted on February 24, 2009The St. Joe News-Press has a story about Steven Zorn, who beat a 1-month-old baby to death. Snip:He said a medical examiner would?ve testified that Cora Jean had widespread brain hemorrhaging, retinal hemorrhaging (implying severe shaking), numerous blunt-force traumas and...
How bad is the economy?
Posted on February 24, 2009Illegal immigrants would rather stay home. Snip from USA Today:The decline still left the country with 11.6 million illegal residents in January 2008, down from a record 11.8 million a year earlier, according to a Homeland Security report. There were...
Oh, this is turrible
Posted on February 24, 2009Charles Barkley pleads guilty to DUI charge. He'll do five days in jail.
UPDATE: MO woman tried to poison husband with Visine, police say
Posted on February 24, 2009The police had a videotaped confession, but the case has been dismissed, the News-Leader reports, because authorities couldn't prove a crime had been committed. The husband complained that he'd had some symptoms, including diarrhea, that went away after she was...
Naked prisoner fails to derail MO church service
Posted on February 24, 2009Story is from St. Louis, where a naked man -- who said he'd been kidnapped and beaten all day -- burst into a congregation's church service. The congregation called the police, fed the guy and got him a suit, but...
570-pound drug suspect brought to court in U-Haul
Posted on February 24, 2009And they held his arraignment on the loading dock. Story is from New York. Hat Tip: Saw this via Fark!
"Get off of me, Nazi Germany!"
Posted on February 24, 2009The good part doesn't really happen until the end. Apparently, this drunk-driving suspect thought that Texas police were, in fact, Nazis.
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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?
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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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