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Wake up, Daddy

Posted on June 17, 2009
From the South Bend Tribune: South Bend police were dispatched to the Marathon gas station at South Michigan Street and Ireland Road about 11:40 p.m. for a report of a man with a small child passed out on the sidewalk....

Midtown Miscreant v. PETA

Posted on June 17, 2009
My favorite part: I took those pictures of the PETA girls because PETA is known for sending scantily clad women out to spread their propaganda, which probably makes me a sexist pig, and should make PETA love me long time,...

Georgia mom tries exorcism on son, age 15 -- gets arrested, police say

Posted on June 17, 2009
I'm sure every parent of a teenager has considered this at some point. Officers hauled a family friend away, too, for allegedly assisting in the procedure. The boy had been handcuffed for three days and was only given food and...

15 years for stealing undercover cop's gun from his car

Posted on June 17, 2009
Daryl E. Diemer, 42, of Independence, is a previously convicted felon, so he wasn't supposed to have a firearm in the first place. He's been sentenced to 15 years without parole, the U.S. Attorney for Western Missouri reports. Prosecutors say...

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Cali boy, 12, forgives shooter who paralyzed him

Posted on June 17, 2009
Christopher Rodriguez was getting a piano lesson when the stray bullet from a nearby robbery hit him. The shooter, Jared Adams, has been sentenced to 70 years. Christopher was there at the sentencing, to shake Adams' hand.

Mexico busts billion-dollar meth lab

Posted on June 17, 2009
One of the biggest they've ever shut down, it appears. The lab had enough ingredients for 40 metric tons of meth, or 309 million hits. Top that, Missouri hillbillies! Navy officials stand among containers at a clandestine drug laboratory after...

Woman shot her French lover 4 times as he wore a head-to-toe latex suit

Posted on June 17, 2009
Gentlemen: Suggesting that your special lady friend is a $1 million prostitute is not the compliment you think it is.

Girl, 12, clobbers boy with her backpack -- says she was sexually harassed

Posted on June 17, 2009
A Seattle girl admits that she smacked a male classmate so hard that he was knocked out and has to wear a neck brace. (She denies, however, putting rocks in her backpack.) She says that she got sick of being...

Quote of the day

Posted on June 17, 2009
"There is no law against driving naked so we had to let him go." -- Ware County (Fla.) Sheriff Randy Royal

Father of the Year candidate bit son's toes to punish him

Posted on June 17, 2009
Dad, who'll do a year behind bars at least, is from Arkansas. These bites don't sound like they were particularly gentle, either. The boy still has nightmares about his feet. It turns out that Dad has a thing for biting...

Charges filed in shooting at 42nd and Park

Posted on June 17, 2009
David L. Smith, 17, is facing charges of second-degree assault and armed criminal action, the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office reports. This is from a shooting last night at 42nd and Park, where several teens were in a basement with a...

Chiropractor accused of groping breasts, he says it was a treatment

Posted on June 17, 2009
The case is from Michigan. Prosecutors have brought charges against chiropractor Charles Rominger Jr., who's accused of groping patients' breasts. He says he was using "applied kinesiology," a treatment where the lymph nodes are massaged, though it's somewhat controversial...

Vandalism, art or both?

Posted on June 17, 2009
You might have already seen the "traffic barrel monster" created by North Carolina artist Joseph Carnevale. Raleigh police arrested him for reportedly stealing three barrels and cutting them up for his sculpture, which they dismantled. The company that owned the...

Teri Mathis Zenner Memorial 5K

Posted on June 17, 2009
Teri Zenner was a local social worker killed by one of her clients back in 2004. The run-walk is a fund-raiser for her memorial foundation, which provides scholarships for students interested in social work and welfare. The event will start...

Almost 1,300 people lose money in KS prepaid burial scam

Posted on June 17, 2009
As many as 1,300 people have been informed they will not get back all the money they paid Westlawn Memorial Gardens Cemetery for prepaid burial plans, the Cap-Journal reports. The former owner was caught embezzling, and though Shawnee County took...

Robber chases IL woman ... all the way to the sheriff's office

Posted on June 17, 2009
And then HE got to learn what it was like to be chased.

Son, ex-husband tried to kill Lawrence woman, police say

Posted on June 17, 2009
Police say they found the 15-year-old armed with a baseball bat as he chased his mom down the street. Both the teen and his dad have been charged with attempted murder. (A 12-year-old daughter was detained, but not charged.) As...

Thomas Frank on human trafficking

Posted on June 17, 2009
Frank -- who wrote "What's the Matter with Kansas?" -- devotes his Wall Street Journal column to the recent allegations of human trafficking here in Kansas City. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Joe White!

NY man dressed up like his dead mom for 6 years, police say

Posted on June 17, 2009
So he could keep cashing her Social Security and rent subsidy checks, the New York Daily News reports. (Around the office, we like to call it "going Full Norman.") He allegedly made $115K off the scam. He has a perfectly...

They found James Harrahill

Posted on June 17, 2009
Harrahill had been missing since Monday night, and police were worried that he might be disoriented or confused. He's been located, though, at a local E.R., KCPD reports. He was the victim of a robbery in Raytown, he says.

Cuban refugee with 22 aliases suspected in series of Jeff City robberies

Posted on June 17, 2009
Carlos Alonso Aguiar -- who also has four Socials and eight birth dates -- was actually arrested here overnight, KRCG-TV reports. He's been charged with a robber at a Salvation Army store in Jeff City, and authorities want to question...

Teen trips, drops his loot during OP robbery

Posted on June 17, 2009
Happened Tuesday morning near 74th and Beverly. The mugger was a teenager armed with a stun gun. He reportedly attacked a man carrying a moneybag. Though he dropped the money, the bad guy was still able to get away, KSHB...

Cyberstalker sent strangers to former date's house, posed as mobster

Posted on June 17, 2009
Shawn D. Memarian, 29, a software designer from Kansas City, will do two years in federal prison for cyberstalking and generally being a jerk to a woman he dated for a month. He used the standard technique for this situation:...

Wichita children were beaten after begging for food, witnesses say

Posted on June 17, 2009
More here from the Eagle.

Hot cereal leads to involuntary manslaughter charge

Posted on June 17, 2009
An aide at a Pennsylvania assisted-living facility was charged because she allegedly poured "scalding" hot oatmeal into an elderly man's mouth without cooling it off. That led to burns, which caused the man to stop eating. He later died. Hat...

OK trooper pulls over ambulance with patient onboard

Posted on June 16, 2009
Though it should be noted that (A) the ambulance didn't have its light or sirens running and (B) the trooper was trying to respond to a backup call, so he was upset when they wouldn't yield the right-of-way (Why he...

Scott Roeder's bond raised to $20 million

Posted on June 16, 2009
And $10 million of that would have to be in cash. So no, I don't think he's going anywhere. It's unclear why the judge raised the bond from $5 million, though the AP notes that it happened a couple of...

Boy Scout forced to drink urine over alleged racial slur, FL police say

Posted on June 16, 2009
Police have arrested a 21-year-old man who volunteers as a scouting leader, plus three teenagers. The alleged victim, 12, says he never used a racial slur, but said that his attackers poured urine down his throat.

20 years for MO's Plaid Shirt Robber

Posted on June 16, 2009
His nickname isn't as catchy as your average Dick Tracy villain, but Joseph Paul Young of Rogersville, Mo., was a suspect in 20-some bank robberies in several states. He pleaded guilty to one in West Virginia and has now been...

More great news for public defenders!

Posted on June 16, 2009
You would think that life couldn't get any sweeter for lawyers who defend people too poor to pay them, but you would be wrong. A few months ago, we saw a bunch of stories about public defenders dealing with overwhelming...

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