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Facebook felon finally found

Posted on January 13, 2010
We've got some sad news this morning: Craig Lynch, the UK inmate who escaped from prison on Sept. 23 and gave recurring Facebook updates while he was on the run, has been captured. They caught him last night. Authorities haven't...

Suspect in McDonald's freakout blames staff

Posted on January 13, 2010
UPDATED: KMBC had an interview with McMullen at 10. She apologized to other customers who saw the freakout, especially ones with little kids. She says that she was under extreme provocation from staff, though. And she said that one video...

Drug-fueled orgy involving guns goes horribly wrong

Posted on January 13, 2010
In Portland, Maine, a man is accused of shooting another man in the head and killing him. The victim, the suspect and a third guy had allegedly spent 12 hours, drinking, huffing aerosols, smoking weed and having sex in a...

Man accused of raping woman recovering from chemo

Posted on January 13, 2010
In Lincoln County, Mo., a man is accused of tying up and raping his estranged wife while she was home recovering from chemotherapy treatments, police say. He tells authorities the sex was consensual. Hat Tip: Many thanks, cripjak

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It was like they caught him red-handed ...

Posted on January 13, 2010
Near Seattle, a bartender called police after she caught a customer looking at her while fondling himself. He escaped, but left behind a jar of Vaseline. Amazingly, the same guy came back two days later, and the bartender called the...

Body found in burned car in Lafayette Co.

Posted on January 13, 2010
From Meredith Rodriguez: A woman?s body was found in the trunk of a torched car in Lafayette County Monday night. Lafayette County firefighters responded to a car fire on Sni-A-Bar road near Missouri FF around 11:30 p.m., according to Lafayette...

Something awful ALLEGEDLY happened at the Hustler Club

Posted on January 13, 2010
A Delaware man is suing after he went to Larry Flynt's Hustler Club in New York, had a couple of drink, agreed to go into a private room for a lap dance. He says he passed out for 90 minutes...

Hello, 911? My 6-year-old won't go to school

Posted on January 13, 2010
An Ohio dad says he called the police in hopes they would "scare" the crying rugrat into going to school. The police say they're actually OK with these kinds of calls, though I don't think they endorse the "scaring" part.

Does this movie pirate deserve to go to prison?

Posted on January 13, 2010
The New York Times has a profile of the sad sack who posted a bootleg copy of "Wolverine" on the Internet and, thus, incurred the wrath of Fox and became a target of the FBI. He's still not sure what...

The dumbest thing you'll read today

Posted on January 12, 2010
In Washington state, a legislator feels like the term "at-risk" is too negative and hurts poor kids' changes of improving their lot in life. So she's proposed a bill to remove the term in state statutes and replace it with...

Sex offenders win at Mo. Supreme Court

Posted on January 12, 2010
The Missouri Supreme Court says that registered sex offenders do NOT have to comply with new regulations that were passed after they were originally sentenced. So if you were convicted of a sex crime back in the 1970s, you wouldn't...

Open Thread ... Tuesday

Posted on January 12, 2010
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,...

Suspect in serial killing acts as his own attorney

Posted on January 12, 2010
This is the third time for California prosecutors to try Rodney Alcala, who's been convicted twice of murdering a 12-year-old, Robin Samsoe, back in 1979. Both previous convictions were overturned, so now they're trying again. Only this time, Alcala is...

The case against Robert Joos

Posted on January 12, 2010
In Springfield, a man named Robert Joos is on trial, facing federal weapons charges, the News-Leader reports. Last summer, the feds seized over a dozen guns and 19,000 rounds of ammunition from Joos' property in McDonald County -- a 200-acre...

Robber uses brother as getaway driver, gets stuck, KCPD says

Posted on January 12, 2010
From Christine Vendel: A Kansas City man may be regretting his choice of getaway driver after he and his brother got stuck in the snow Monday night while fleeing an attempted robbery. According to police: A gunman confronted a clerk...

Most Americans OK with racial profiling at airport, poll suggests

Posted on January 12, 2010
From USA Today: By 3-1, those polled favor the idea of subjecting airline passengers to more intensive security checks if they fit the profile of terrorists based on age, ethnicity and gender.

Funny, he doesn't LOOK like a neo-Nazi ...

Posted on January 12, 2010
Okay, maybe a little. (The man above is named Frank Spisak, and the Supreme Court has reaffirmed his death sentence for killing three men in Cleveland back in 1982.)

Raymore's weapons ban stands

Posted on January 12, 2010
They tried -- but failed -- to override the mayor's veto of a measure that would have allowed councilmembers to carry during meetings. (It also would've let the public bring guns into parks and city buildings, though not city council...

The Supremes tackle "civil commitment"

Posted on January 12, 2010
"Civil commitment" is a process where the authorities keep a sex offender in custody -- even after he's served his sentence -- because he's still dangerous and still likely to reoffend. In theory, the sex offender can only be held...

Mo. activists want a new puppy mill law

Posted on January 12, 2010
The Humane Society and other groups are circulating a petition to get the Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act on Missouri's ballot during the November general election. Operating a puppy mill is illegal now, but it isn't prosecuted -- the act...

Abducted Mo. boy tapes PSA

Posted on January 12, 2010
Shawn Hornbeck -- the Missouri boy who was held prisoner for years by his abductor -- is recording a public-service announcement urging kids to pipe up if something is wrong. Today's the third anniversary of his rescue, the Post-Dispatch reports....

Cop asks girls, 9, to not pull Daddy's hair

Posted on January 12, 2010
In Buffalo Grove, Ill., a man drove his twin daughters, age 9, to the police station after they pulled his hair and hit him in the neck while he was driving. (To be fair, he was singing a song they...

Robbers hit Burger King in Waldo

Posted on January 12, 2010
Happened over the lunch hour yesterday at 71st and Wornall, KMBC reports. It was particularly bold because that BK sits right next to a convenience store that a lot of KCPD officers frequent. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Tom Servo!

$6K reward in pedestrian's death

Posted on January 12, 2010
The wife of Edward Falke, a pedestrian who was struck and killed back on Oct. 10 in Oak Grove, is adding $5K to the reward for information in his case. (It happened in the 300 block of S.W. 15th Street...

Alleged drug lord revealed as hermaphrodite

Posted on January 12, 2010
In South Africa, police discovered that a local man -- suspected of being a drug lord -- was also a hermaphrodite when his prosthetic penis fell off during a search. And that's led to his gender being a major story...

Her milkshake brings all the boys to the graveyard

Posted on January 12, 2010
From AP: In this Aug. 2, 2005 file photo, American Nancy Kissel walks out of Hong Kong's High Court. The American expatriate jailed in Hong Kong for more than four years for killing her investment banker husband by drugging him...

Church threatens to sue JaCo sheriff

Posted on January 12, 2010
That's according to KSHB, which has seen a copy of the lawsuit that New Covenant Faith Center plans to file. They're seeking over $25,000, and they want to stop the sheriff from conducting any more searches. (The church and a...

You should get a charge out of this one

Posted on January 12, 2010
In Olympia, Wash., a woman allegedly rewired her husband's table saw to give him an electric shock after she learned that he was leaving her. The shock threw him to the ground, but he didn't need to go to the...

Attacking Roeder's manslaughter defense

Posted on January 12, 2010
In Wichita, the judge in the Scott Roeder trial is going to consider whether jurors should have the option of finding the Kansas City man guilty of a lesser charge, such as voluntary manslaughter. That's all the defense has going...

Local family loses another young man to homicide

Posted on January 12, 2010
Randy L. Wilson, 21, who was shot and killed over the weekend, is a relative of Nelson Hopkins Jr., a teenager who was slain in December, Christine Vendel reports. (Though it doesn't look like the two incidents are connected.) Wilson...

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