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Police lose their website address to ticketed man

Posted on June 08, 2010
In Bluff City, Tenn., the police department forgot to renew its website's domain name -- which was promptly bought by a man who was unhappy about getting a ticket from the city's speed camera. He has found a new purpose...

Report: Van der Sloot confesses

Posted on June 08, 2010
Joran Van der Sloot has allegedly confessed to murdering a Peruvian woman and could face criminal charges today, government authorities tell CNN. I'm always a little hesitant when I hear police say someone has confessed -- over the years, there...

Soldier accused of leaking secret documents, video online

Posted on June 08, 2010
Wired's Threat Level blog has broken a big story: The military has arrested an Army intelligence analyst for allegedly passing classified information to Wikileaks, a website specializing in whistleblower-type stories. Specifically, the analyst, a 22-year-old specialist, is suspected of sending...

The Supreme Court's 'mad month'

Posted on June 08, 2010
June is one of the busiest months for the U.S. Supreme Court, and this one is no exception, even though the justices deliberately tried to do more earlier in the year, USA Today reports. We could see some big opinions...

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I said 'death' from above, not 'pets'

Posted on June 08, 2010
In Denville, N.J., a group of teenage boys has been arrested over a senior prank: Placing chicken, mice and rabbits in the ceiling of their high school, authorities allege. They think the animals were stolen from local farms. Sadly, there...

Suspect spent too much time in grocery store's bathroom, police say

Posted on June 08, 2010
In Fort Walton Beach, Fla., a man was arrested for trespassing after spending too much time in the bathroom of a Tom Thumb grocery store. Previously, he'd gotten a warning for being drunk and harassing other shoppers, the Northwest Florida...

Awaken the giant robber within!

Posted on June 08, 2010
In Newport News, Va., police are looking for a man carrying a "Workshop for Success" workbook when he robbed a local gas station. Those success strategies must work because he was able to get away.

Open Thread ... Tuesday

Posted on June 08, 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,...

Olathe man busted because of Australian child-porn case

Posted on June 07, 2010
From Joe Lambe: An Olathe man today pleaded guilty in federal court in Kansas to producing child pornography in a case that began in Australia. Larry L. Howard, 42, admitted he took pornographic pictures of a 2-year-old girl, which he...

KC man puts on mask, tries to rob neighbor, prosecutors allege

Posted on June 07, 2010
A Kansas City man is accused of putting on a mask and trying to rob his downstairs neighbor. Police were called to an apartment building in the 1000 block of East Fifth Street about 8:45 p.m. Sunday because a man...

Open Thread ... Monday

Posted on June 07, 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,...

Trial date set for Jared Mohler

Posted on June 07, 2010
From AP: A January trial date has been set for one of six men accused of molesting young family members more than two decades ago. Jared Mohler is scheduled for trial Jan. 31, 2011, in Lafayette County Circuit Court. The...

Stay classy, Bernie Madoff

Posted on June 07, 2010
From New York magazine: ?F**k my victims,? he said, loud enough for other inmates to hear. ?I carried them for twenty years, and now I?m doing 150 years.?

Florida cops raid bikini club

Posted on June 07, 2010
In St. Petersburg, Fla., police raided a so-called bikini bar late Friday over allegations that dancers were showing more of their bodies than allowed by law, the St. Pete Times reports. Bikini bars are designed to beat the area's tough...

Women face criminal charges over suicide attempt

Posted on June 07, 2010
In Upper Darby, Pa., authorities have charged two women, a set of twins in their 50s, after they allegedly tried to kill themselves by turning on the gas from their stove. They did this inside an apartment building, and police...

PHOTO: Couple marries at hospital after wreck

Posted on June 07, 2010
From AP: Lauren Magee and Tom Hanley exchange vows, Saturday, June 5, 2010 at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. Police say one man is dead and at least 14 people have been injured after a shuttle bus carrying a wedding party...

Casino killer thought games were rigged

Posted on June 07, 2010
In Atlantic City, a man has admitted to walking into a casino and deliberately killing a manager there because he thought the games there were rigged. The victim, Ray Kot, was a Chinese immigrant whose life sounds like a Horatio...

'Friendly card game' wasn't

Posted on June 07, 2010
A woman is accused of fatally shooting a friend during a card game on Thursday night, the Chicago Tribune reports. It appears the suspect thought the victim was cheating, the Sun-Times adds. Hat Tip: Many thanks, JUNGLE JIM!

Elderly man pleads guilty to bank robbery

Posted on June 07, 2010
An 80-year-old man has pleaded guilty to robbing a UMB Bank in south Kansas City, and federal prosecutors are recommending a sentence of probation. Augusta Cannon used a pellet gun to steal $8,755 from the bank at 103rd Street and...

Man gave up his kids to pay off debt, Mexican police say

Posted on June 07, 2010
Mexican police have arrested a man from Mexico City who said that his two young children were abducted last month. Instead, authorities allege, the man gave the children to a woman in order to pay off a debt of $1,900....

Man arrested over repo job gone wrong

Posted on June 07, 2010
An Idaho man is accused of repossessing a riding lawnmower -- the wrong lawnmower, it appears, because the mower didn't have the right serial numbers. He also allegedly pulled a gun on the mower's owner because he felt threatened when...

Police handle big crowds at Swope Park

Posted on June 07, 2010
KSHB has a story here about large crowds at Swope Park on Sunday evenings, a report they apparently did because someone was shot and killed while leaving the park a few weekends ago. Their report notes there's a lot of...

U.S. sees big drop in youth offenders

Posted on June 07, 2010
Several states have been closing their youth prisons because there are fewer underage inmates and more offenders are being sent to treatment programs instead, the AP reports. Missouri, for example, is a national leader of sending troubled kids to programs...

Police: Man threw vomit-filled condoms

Posted on June 07, 2010
Well, the stuff inside the condom is "believed to be" human vomit. No word yet from CSI.

N.J. men wanted to join terror group, authorities say

Posted on June 07, 2010
On Saturday, two young men from New Jersey were arrested at Kennedy Airport because they allegedly planned to fly to Somalia and join a terrorist group, the AP reports. Federal authorities had been monitoring Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, 20, and Carlos...

It Came From The Police Blotter!

Posted on June 07, 2010
From the Shawnee police blotter on June 1: Subject was battered by her boyfriend's fiance. Hat Tip: Many thanks, Richard!

Should suspect's tattoos be hidden?

Posted on June 07, 2010
You might remember Curtis Allgier, who's accused of murdering a Utah corrections officer, Stephen Anderson, when Allgier was being taken on a doctor visit in 2007. Allgier's skin is almost completely covered by tattoos, many of which reference his neo-Nazi...

Dad Tasers guy who sent nasty photo to his daughter, police allege

Posted on June 07, 2010
In Temecula, Calif., a man is accused of tying up and Tasering a 23-year-old who had sent a photo of his genitals to the suspect's 17-year-old daughter. (The "detention" allegedly lasted an hour and involved the younger man being stripped...

Sentencing today for Dan Rinehart

Posted on June 07, 2010
Dan Rinehart is going to be sentenced today in Cass County for incest, felony murder and other crimes, Don Bradley reports. A jury found him guilty April 20 in a trial that included his daughter?s testimony that he carried on...

NY would collect all criminals' DNA under new legislation

Posted on June 07, 2010
Anyone convicted of a crime in New York would have their DNA added to a state database, if a new measure, backed by Gov. David Paterson, wins passage. Right now, about 46 percent of all convicts are added to the...

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