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ID theft ring is targeting mailboxes in KS, MO

Posted on February 02, 2009
The Journal-World has the story, which says there have been 50 to 60 such thefts -- mostly of new checks and credit cards. Several agencies, including the Missouri Highway Patrol, Kansas sheriffs and some KC-area LEOs, are working together to...

TX prison recovers from 2,000-man riot

Posted on February 02, 2009
It was bad enough that one of the facility's buildings is damaged. About 700 of the prisoners are living in tents for the time being. More here.

You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave

Posted on February 02, 2009
Mike Hendricks has a good column this morning about a guy who says he was supposed to do a couple days in JoCo lockup, but was there for a month because of an error. Best part? The county's billing him...

"Baby soaked in beer found outside nightclub"

Posted on February 02, 2009
I WISH I could take credit for that headline. (Many thanks, AAP!) Story is from New Zealand. I suppose beer is a nice change of pace compared to, say, urine or other stuff that babies are usually steeped in. Hat...

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Independence police look into shooting at 23rd and Crysler

Posted on February 02, 2009
From Sara Shepherd: Independence police this morning were investigating an overnight shooting. The shooting was reported about 11:50 p.m. Sunday near the train tracks at by 23rd Street and Crysler Avenue. Police said the victim was last reported to be...

This time for sure

Posted on February 02, 2009
They're going to try and solve the Jon-Benet Ramsey murder case, again. The big difference now is that police are now in charge of the investigation. For years, it's been under the umbrella of the prosecutors.

MO Highway Patrol releases results of enforcement campaign

Posted on February 02, 2009
From the patrol: Captain Robert L. Powell, commanding officer of Troop A, Lee?s Summit, announces the result of a Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (S.T.E.P.) Operation, which was held in Jackson County on February 1, 2009. Three officers focused their attention...

UPDATE: Boy, 9, accused of killing his dad, dad's friend

Posted on February 02, 2009
The kid has temporarily been released to his mom, which doesn't make Dad's old friends happy.

Meanwhile, at the Justin Thurber trial

Posted on February 02, 2009
Thurber is facing trial for allegedly kidnapping, raping and murdering college student Jodi Sanderholm near Ark City. The Wichita Eagle has coverage of the first day of testimony. Authorities reportedly used cellphone signals to track down the place where Sanderholm's...

Not remotely crime-related

Posted on February 02, 2009
Remember the teacher who let her class vote on whether they should eject a classmate with Asperger's. She was suspended for a year without pay, which she doesn't think is fair.

Abs of steel (sort of) deflect a bullet

Posted on February 02, 2009
A South Carolina kid tries to stop a pair of intruders and gets shot in the process. But Junior, who does karate, has strong enough ab muscles that the bullet was turned away from his interior organs, the authorities say.

Could it happen to you?

Posted on February 02, 2009
The Washington Post has a long, but good story about a case we've written about a few times here, where Maryland authorities broke down the door to a suburban mayor's home and killed his dogs for no good reason because...

Man accused of punching a ballerina

Posted on February 02, 2009
That's right up there with killing a unicorn ... Hat Tip: Many thanks, You're A Mean Drunk R2D2!

Seriously, that was the best hiding place you could find?

Posted on February 02, 2009
A Tennessee man is accused of hiding a baggie of painkillers in his 5-year-old niece's pants pocket, which she naturally found and gave to her teacher.

Woman stabbed man twice as KC officer watched

Posted on February 02, 2009
To clarify, it's not like the officer had a bag of popcorn or something. Sounds like it was so quick that nobody could've stopped it. From Tony Rizzo: A Kansas City woman is accused of stabbing a man twice with...

Are they still called Good Samaritans if they beat up the victim?

Posted on February 02, 2009
Lovely story from New York, where a group of "Good Samaritans" beat the tar from a cab driver who was grabbing a young woman's person. It was later ascertained that she was trying to skip out of paying her fare.

Teens shocked to learn that it's illegal to email nude pix of themselves

Posted on January 31, 2009
Felonies, no less. Story is from Ohio, where eight teenagers were facing criminal charges for doing just that. The judge agreed to reduce the charge, if they'd conduct of survey of 200 friends/classmates to see how many knew such behavior...

FBI says fired worker planned to destroy all of Fannie Mae's computer data

Posted on January 31, 2009
Spread across 4,000 servers, a piece of destruction that could have cost millions. They say a different worker found his code and removed it before anything happened. Story is from Maryland.

Open Thread ... Weekend Edition

Posted on January 31, 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. As always, please follow our standard rules: Please sign your comments,...

Tinker, tailor, father, son

Posted on January 31, 2009
Kind of a cool spy story from Oregon about a former CIA spy -- caught selling information to the Russians and jailed -- who allegedly had been using his 24-year-old son, a disabled Army vet, to keep up the family...

Woman tried to have BF kidnapped so they could talk about their relationship, OP police say

Posted on January 31, 2009
From Joe Lambe: When a guy doesn?t want to talk, there?s only so much a girl can do. For instance, police said, things went very wrong this week when a 19-year-old woman persuaded a friend to kidnap her ex-boyfriend and...

5 hurt in shooting at West Side basketball game

Posted on January 31, 2009
From Meredith Rodriguez: A Friday night basketball game at a West Side community center ended abruptly when a fight escalated into a shootout, leaving five people wounded. Rival gangs in the stands began fighting around 7:30 p.m. when one of...

Michael Vick leaving Leavenworth?

Posted on January 31, 2009
His lawyer says he could be released to a halfway house in Virginia any day now. (His sentence officially ends July 20.) The lawyer is also pretty optimistic about Vick getting readmitted to the NFL.

Say, aren't you supposed to be dead?

Posted on January 31, 2009
In Florida, a man has been found almost 20 years after faking his death. Was he running from the law? Nope, he'd just gotten engaged and didn't actually want to marry his fiancee.

Jonathan Lee Riches v. Bernard Madoff

Posted on January 31, 2009
More proof that Madoff has touched almost as many lives as Kevin Bacon: Longtime pro-se litigant Jonathan Lee Riches, who's Internet-famous for his numerous suits against Britney Spears, Bill Gates and others, now claims that Madoff ripped him off, too...

True Tales of Survival!

Posted on January 31, 2009
Drew Peterson's fiancee has broken things off, deciding that she would rather not be Wife No. 5. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Mikeybackwards!

Wall Street trader says boss called him gay for refusing to eat meat

Posted on January 30, 2009
And now, of course, he's suing. He alleges that his boss worked up a bunch of complaints to fire him, when he really disliked the guy for being a vegetarian. Which the boss reportedly considered the same thing as being...

Should this teacher have resigned?

Posted on January 30, 2009
Story is from Michigan, where a band teacher got into hot water after she posted the following to her Facebook page: "Morgan wants to kill her ninth grade flute player who stole the school's $900 dollar piccolo, and is denying...

Victim wasn't scared, so robber killed him, prosecutors say

Posted on January 30, 2009
Story is from San Antonio, where a 45-year-old man was reportedly killed during a robbery because, well, he wasn't particularly terrified of the robber. (He was also a little drunk.) Snip: ?I pointed the gun at him and he looked...

"Friends"

Posted on January 30, 2009
A New Jersey woman was left in the woods in 8-degree weather, wearing only a dress and one shoe, by friends who were angry with her over an insurance claim, police allege. (They said they were going to a party,...

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