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KCP&L offers $10K in theft
Posted on April 07, 2010KCP&L is offering a $10,000 reward after someone stole a 4,000-pound piece of equipment -- an impeller -- that officials say is critical to operating a power plant. The theft was discovered Monday at Industrial Services in the West Bottoms,...
Open Thread ... Wednesday
Posted on April 07, 2010Welcome 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,...
Animal-control officer shot puppy, cops say
Posted on April 07, 2010In Galena Park, Texas, an animal-control officer is facing criminal charges because -- after a resident turned in a lost puppy -- he allegedly shot the dog, threw it out at the dump and then lied when the owner asked...
Something awful happened at White Castle
Posted on April 07, 2010An Ohio man reportedly called police to say that he'd been robbed in a White Castle bathroom -- though, after investigating, police determined he really meant "had sex with a prostitute for $50, then called police in an effort to...
Now, THAT is a lovely mugshot
Posted on April 07, 2010He's putting the sexy back in registered sex offender. UPDATED: Sadly, the Boulder County Sheriff's Office does not believe in spreading joy over the Internet and took another, less awesome mugshot of the offender. A staffer was reprimanded for letting...
Teen arrested for late DVD, judge fired
Posted on April 07, 2010A municipal judge has lost his job in Littleton, Colo., after he issued an arrest warrant for a 19-year-old who failed to return a DVD to the library. Only there were a few problems: The kid had moved, and a...
Who killed Curley Tyler?
Posted on April 07, 2010Tyler, 43, was found dead of a gunshot wound on Easter morning, sitting in his Escalade at the Cottonwood Park Apartments, where he lived in Shawnee. His son was the one who found him. Joe Lambe says police searched a...
Fired KC cop wins $6.5 million
Posted on April 07, 2010And it wasn't from the Lotto. Danny Holmes sued KCPD for wrongful termination after he was fired in 2008 over a compromised homicide investigation. Today, he beat the department in Jackson County Circuit Court. Tony Rizzo was there, and he...
Report: Nothing found in Kopetsky search
Posted on April 07, 2010UPDATED: The search is over, and Don Bradley says that authorities didn't find anything. I spoke to Jim and Rhonda Beckford a little while ago, and they had no information that police were there because they'd gotten a new lead...
Teen reports mom for Facebook comments
Posted on April 07, 2010In Arkadelphia, Ark., a 16-year-old is pressing charges against his mother after she allegedly left "slanderous" comments about his personal life on his Facebook page. (Though, if I'm remembering right, I think he means libelous.) KATV's report says he's suing...
Ex-candidate found drunk, in tree, Ark. cops say
Posted on April 07, 2010In Fayetteville, Ark., a former congressional candidate was arrested authorities found him in a tree outside the county courthouse. They've accused him of public intoxication, and they say he was yelling "rambling, sometimes incoherent and profanity-laced phrases," nwaonline...
Indictment in fatal Northland crash
Posted on April 07, 2010A grand jury in Clay County has indicted a 22-year-old man for a fatal wreck that killed Teresa Lizar back on March 11 on U.S. 169 at Englewood, Glenn Rice reports. The authorities say that Kyle Carson was under the...
Who killed Martinous Woods?
Posted on April 07, 2010KCPD says that Martinous Woods, 29, was the man killed in a rolling gun battle a little after 7 p.m. Sunday in the 700 block of Monroe. Woods had apparently stopped his car and was trying to run when he...
Cops called after 'Jesus' showers at gym
Posted on April 07, 2010In Alexandria, Minn., police were called to a local health club when staffers saw a bearded man, apparently covered in blood, head to the locker room and start showering. As it happens, the officers weren't needed: The man had just...
Man threatens senator over health vote, cops say
Posted on April 07, 2010In Selah, Wash., a 64-year-old man was arrested for repeatedly calling the offices of U.S. Sen. Patty Murray and threatening to kill her for voting for health-care reform, federal prosecutors say. (I thought it was darkly humorous that Murray only...
Teach sex education, get arrested
Posted on April 07, 2010In Wisconsin, the district attorney in Juneau County has warned school districts there not to follow the state's new sex-education law -- or they could face criminal charges. The law says that school should teach age-appropriate lessons to students, including...
Worst Kan. sex offenders will be on registry for life
Posted on April 07, 2010Kansas will now make its worst sex offenders stay on the public registry for the rest of their lives, under a new law signed by the governor yesterday. In the past, the maximum stay was 10 years. Legislators decided that...
Victim kills abuser -- should he go to prison?
Posted on April 07, 2010In Ukiah, Calif., a man named Aaron Vargas has pleaded no-contest to killing Darrell McNeill, 63, a man that Vargas says abused him as a child and forced him into a sexual relationship that lasted even when he was an...
KSHB: Judge Beaird to retire
Posted on April 07, 2010Though when he plans to do so is an open question. Beaird has served as a Jackson County circuit judge since 2002, after a stint as prosecutor, KSHB reports. File photo: Beaird back when he was prosecutor.
The worst getaway vehicle, ever, period
Posted on April 07, 2010Early this morning, someone held up a Kwik Shop in Topeka. Their getaway vehicle? A white Hummer stretch limo. They would have been more subtle if they'd used a parade float as their means of escape.l Police say they were...
Why are so many criminals named 'Crystal'?
Posted on April 07, 2010The Houston Press has a funny post about the name "Crystal" and why so many dangerous women happen to have that name. They also pick on people named "Wayne" -- apparently, a LOT of people named Wayne have gotten into...
Person of interest sought in Shawnee slaying
Posted on April 07, 2010The Metro Squad is looking for Michael T. Lewis, 22, describing him as a person of interest in the Curley Tyler slaying from this weekend. (Tyler's son found the Shawnee man fatally shot outside Tyler's apartment complex on Easter morning.)...
25 years in pregnant woman's murder
Posted on April 06, 2010From Joe Lambe: A Lansing man pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of second-degree murder for shooting to death his pregnant girlfriend and her unborn child. As part of the Leavenworth County plea, Sedale Fox, 26, will be sentenced later...
The dumbest thing you'll read today
Posted on April 06, 2010In West Hartford, Conn., a 29-year-old man went to a stranger's house expecting to engage in group sex, because he'd seen a Craigslist ad inviting people over, police allege. Well, he's dyslexic, so he went to the wrong house. Then...
Open Thread ... Tuesday
Posted on April 06, 2010Welcome 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,...
Families of Ward Parkway victims sue
Posted on April 06, 2010From Tony Rizzo: Lawsuits stemming from the 2007 fatal shootings at the Ward Parkway Shopping Center were reinstated Tuesday by the Missouri Court of Appeals. The suits, filed by the parents of Luke Nilges and Leslie Noble Ballew, allege that...
Suspect named in topless coffee shop arson
Posted on April 06, 2010The coffee shop in Vassalboro, Maine, was destroyed last June, shortly after the owner announced plans to possibly convert into a strip club. The suspect is one waitress' boyfriend.
Ice-cream lady sold pot, too, police say
Posted on April 06, 2010Story is from Arizona, and say what you will about the legality, it sounds like a winning business model. Customers smoke the marijuana, get the munchies and then, bam, you're selling vast amounts of ice cream. Hat Tip: Many thanks,...
Neighbors' feud finally ends in death
Posted on April 06, 2010In Poway, Calif., a man named Bob Reed opened fire on his neighbors, Mitch and Diane Cunnyngham, killing them -- shortly before deputies shot and killed Reed, who'd refused to drop his weapons. The homicides were the climax of a...
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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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