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Should there be a time limit for suing over child abuse?
Posted on June 11, 2009The Wall Street Journal has an article about child-abuse victims who file civil suits decades after they were attacked -- even though, thanks to the statute of limitations, criminal charges can't be brought. California and Delaware allow this, and New...
Hundreds of venomous snakes force Sierra Leone police out of their HQ
Posted on June 11, 2009It's gotten so bad that police have called the army, local firefighters and various snake charmers -- all of them useless, so far. Samuel L. Jackson unavailable for comment.
This little piggy went to court
Posted on June 11, 2009A woman is suing a Washington state restaurant because one of the establishment's pigs, which diners are allowed to feed, bit her hand. I like her suit because it's written in a very spooky manner, like vintage Mary Higgins Clark....
Worker loses arm in bakery's machine -- his bosses put it in the garbage
Posted on June 11, 2009The case is from Spain. While the worker, who wasn't supposed to be employed at the bakery, went to the hospital, his employers removed the severed arm from the machine, cleaned off the gore and promptly went back to work....
A new low
Posted on June 11, 2009Vandals have ruined a memorial dedicated to an Independence homicide victim, KSHB reports. The family of Jeffrey Paul Johnson, a 19-year-old killed back in March, put the flowers and pictures in Benton Park. Somebody replaced them with a beer bottle.
Driver ends wheels up in Brush Creek
Posted on June 11, 2009I guess that's what happens when you allegedly go around drunk, speeding and driving the wrong way. KMBC has a lovely snapshot of the results.
WDAF: Person-of-interest in Fairway is now in standoff with California police
Posted on June 11, 2009More here.
Bottle of hot sauce led to murder and 33 years in prison
Posted on June 11, 2009From Mark Morris: A judge sentenced a Kansas City man to 33 years in prison Thursday for murder during a melee that erupted when someone threw a bottle of hot sauce. A Jackson County jury convicted Jarvis T. Williams, 29,...
Thank goodness she gets to keep her job
Posted on June 11, 2009Not remotely crime-related, though it is mean-spirited and cruel. The Florida teacher who let her kindergarteners vote out a classmate with Asperger's is going to be reinstated after serving a year's suspension without pay. The kid's mom assumed she'd be...
The First Amendment doesn't protect honking your car horn at 6 a.m.
Posted on June 10, 2009A judge has ruled against a Washington woman, who -- to protest her neighborhood association not allowing her to keep chickens -- honked her horn for 10 minutes straight at 5:50 a.m. outside a neighbor's house. Sadly, this is not...
Bank teller stole almost $20K to take his GF to fancy restaurants, police say
Posted on June 10, 2009He apparently dipped into the till over the course of months, Florida police say.
Hearing postponed for PA mom accused of killing infant -- she's pregnant again
Posted on June 10, 2009Good luck, unborn kid, you're going to need it.
MO cop was driving drunk, killed 4 people in March crash, authorities say
Posted on June 10, 2009The story is from Sunset Hills in St. Louis County. Christine Miller, who was allegedly driving the wrong way, now faces four charges of first-degree involuntary manslaughter. Her BAC was .16 more than three hours after the wreck, police allege.
Why is this man smiling?
Posted on June 10, 2009He was found naked in a stranger's car. She says she still can't get the stink out. Story is from Florida.
Surfer tried to smuggle $74K worth of pot on his board, police say
Posted on June 10, 2009Story is from California.
Drunk driver runs over coworker after fighting over $10 bar bill
Posted on June 10, 2009The story is from New Hampshire. Police say the driver even hit the coworker's dad.
Open Thread ... Wednesday
Posted on June 10, 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,...
At least nobody asphyxiated
Posted on June 10, 2009Myleene Klass -- a host of "I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here" -- was apparently glued to her hotel bed and required the assistance of staff to get free again. (Not remotely crime-related ...) Hat Tip: Many...
KY homicide suspect surrenders in Grain Valley
Posted on June 10, 2009From AP: Lexington police say they have arrested a suspect in the fatal shooting of a custodian at a middle school. A police statement says Brian Allen McGuire, 27, of Lexington, turned himself in Wednesday afternoon in Grain Valley. He...
UPDATE: Prosecutors attack alibi of IL dad accused of murdering his family
Posted on June 10, 2009If it's true, things got much, much worse today for Chris Coleman, who's accused of killing his wife and two young sons. He had said his family was murdered while he was in the gym. The coroner says the deaths...
Drunk driver has healthy sense of self-esteem, confidence
Posted on June 10, 2009He's accused of speeding into a Pennsylvania police department's lot, parking between two cruisers and sleeping off his booze. Visible from the window? His empty vodka bottle. Police say they also found a marijuana pipe during their search. Hat Tip:....
At least 2 shot, injured at Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C.
Posted on June 10, 2009Those injured include a security guard and the man who tried to bring a rifle into the museum. UPDATED: CNN reports the shooting suspect is an 88-year-old white supremacist from Maryland. Photo via the AP.
VA prison put women inmates who "looked gay" in separate wing, AP reports
Posted on June 10, 2009Prison officials deny it, but the AP has found several guards and inmates who confirm that Virginia's largest prison for women had a wing especially for women that appeared to be lesbians. (Some straight women were accidentally placed there.) The...
Rhode Island legislators give the green light to marijuana shops
Posted on June 10, 2009The stores would have to be nonprofit, and they would only be allowed to people with a medical need for weed. The governor might veto it -- he did the same thing last year -- but the legislators passed the...
UPDATE on LAPD detective charged in 23-year-old murder
Posted on June 10, 2009Stephanie Lazarus, a longtime Los Angeles police detective, is accused of murdering her ex-boyfriend's new wife back in 1986. She'd never really been developed as a suspect back then, even though the victim's family say she was threatened by Lazarus:...
We're not burglarizing this church, officer. We're volunteering.
Posted on June 10, 2009Great story from Shawnee about a couple of knuckleheads trying, unsuccessfully, to burglarize a church.
Prank caller strikes What-A-Burger in Albuquerque
Posted on June 10, 2009And it sounds like this guy has a similar M.O. to the guy who called the Holiday Inn in Arkansas. The WAB staff was told to test the fire-suppression system, which merely covered them all in yellow powders. They were...
Baby-sitter gets probation for fracturing baby's skull
Posted on June 10, 2009From Joe Lambe: A Johnson County judge today sentenced an Olathe woman to probation for breaking the skull of a 7-month old boy she was babysitting. Judge Stephen Tatum sentenced Suzanne Simpson, 25, to three years probation and to 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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