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Now, THAT is a lovely mugshot

Posted on June 03, 2010
The suspect is a man who allegedly got into a fight about demons and religion at a bonfire over the Memorial Day weekend, the Post-Dispatch reports. More here. Hat Tip: Many thanks, JUNGLE JIM!

MISSING: Billy Ray Knight

Posted on June 03, 2010
From Meredith Rodriguez: Bill Ray Knight has not been seen since May 22. He left behind his cell phone, dog and dentures. Police today asked for the public?s help in finding the 57-year-old Belton man and his white Buick Park...

New Mo. law could put more drunk drivers in treatment, not jail

Posted on June 02, 2010
From AP: Gov. Jay Nixon has signed drunken driving legislation designed to steer people toward treatment programs and help track repeat offenders. Nixon had made it a priority to overhaul Missouri's drunken driving laws after concerns that punishment for drunken-driving...

Charges filed in Brookside mugging

Posted on June 02, 2010
Two men have been charged in a Brookside mugging from last Friday, which left one victim, a woman in her 20s, with serious head injuries. Andre Valentine and Durrell White both face charges of first-degree robbery and armed criminal action....

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12 dead in British shooting spree

Posted on June 02, 2010
At least 12 people are dead, and 25 injured, after a 52-year-old taxi driver went on a shooting spree in England's Cumbria region, CNN reports. Police were handling approximately 30 different crime scenes in three towns. Investigators were trying to....

Joran van der Sloot sought in Peruvian woman's homicide

Posted on June 02, 2010
Joran van der Sloot was arrested twice in connection with the Natalee Holloway disappearance in Aruba, but was never charged. Now? He's being sought in connection with the murder of a young woman found in a Lima, Peru, hotel. (AP...

Cops don't need radar guns to tell if someone is speeding, court rules

Posted on June 02, 2010
The Ohio Supreme Court says that an officer can ticket someone for speeding without actually measuring how fast that person was going. If the officer has the proper training and experience, they've got enough grounding to determine whether someone was...

Open Thread ... Wednesday

Posted on June 02, 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,...

Kitten killed for unplugging video game, Va. police say

Posted on June 02, 2010
The suspect allegedly threw his girlfriend's kitten against a wall while her kids watched. Hat Tip: Saw this via the Obscure Store!

Former convict assumes prison workouts make him invincible

Posted on June 02, 2010
This story is pretty funny. A 57-year-old man told his cousin that he could take the cousin in a fight because the 57-year-old had been lifting weights in prison. Hilarity ensues ...

Porn actor accused of machete rampage

Posted on June 02, 2010
The Los Angeles Times describes the suspect as a "struggling porn actor" who allegedly attacked coworkers because he was possibly going to lose his job -- and because he lived at the business, his home as well. One person reportedly...

Bernard Jackson appears in court

Posted on June 02, 2010
From Tony Rizzo: The Kansas City man allegedly linked by DNA to four 1980s sexual assaults in the Waldo area was arraigned on 18 felony charges this morning. Bernard Jackson, who Kansas City police have also called a person of...

How to stab someone in the chest and get away with it

Posted on June 02, 2010
A woman in East St. Louis allegedly stabbed her boyfriend in the chest after she caught him with another lady at a liquor store, but police had to let her go because the victim refuses to cooperate with investigators, the...

Mo. mom saves teen from being raped, police say

Posted on June 02, 2010
In Cape Girardeau, a woman reportedly saved her daughter from being raped in her own bedroom, the Southeast Missourian reports. A man with a knife had allegedly sneaked into their home early Sunday and tried to climb into the teenager's...

Alcohol might have been a factor

Posted on June 02, 2010
A Sheboygan man allegedly urinated on a puppy, stole his friend's clothes, tried to burn down the friend's house and leaned out of a window while he was naked so he could swear at neighbor children, police say. Hat Tip:...

Suspect in OP bank holdup has a long record of heists

Posted on June 02, 2010
Larry Leonard Rice, a 60-year-old from Abilene, allegedly robbed a bank inside an Overland Park Hy-Vee on Saturday and turned himself into authorities the next day, after his picture was on the news here in Kansas City. The Journal-World says...

Kansas teen, 14, accused of murder

Posted on June 02, 2010
A Saline County boy, age 14, is facing a charge of first-degree murder in the shooting of a 9-year-old boy, the Salina Journal reports.

Something awful happened at Arby's

Posted on June 02, 2010
Story is from Iowa City. It's a bad situation, but I think the worst part is how the suspect allegedly "made eye contact" with the shocked customers.

'Targeted killings' might be war crimes, U.N. official says

Posted on June 02, 2010
"Targeted killings" are cases where a government kills a suspected terrorist or insurgent, usually by means of a remote-controlled drone. The United States, Israel and Russia have all reportedly used targeted killings, the AP reports. Now an investigator with the...

Sleeping teen's eye, ear glued shut

Posted on June 02, 2010
A 19-year-old from New York was arrested after he allegedly poured Super Glue on a sleeping friend's face, which then ran into the 17-year-old's eye and ear, police say. The sheriff told WIVB-TV that a whole tube of glue was...

Lottery winners targeted for their money

Posted on June 02, 2010
In Brazil, the winner of a $16 million lottery was the target of a murder-for-hire plot -- organized by his own father, the police allege. The two of them had been fighting over the money for a few years, Reuters...

Drunk, pantsless teen caught in tree

Posted on June 02, 2010
Say what you will, but that must have been a great party.

Suspect sought in Gladstone theft

Posted on June 02, 2010
Gladstone police are trying to find the man pictured above. He's suspected of using credit cards that were stolen from a woman's car in late May. One of those cards was used about 8:30 a.m. on May 25 at the...

Some breakups are worse than others

Posted on June 02, 2010
A British man is accused of getting back at his ex-girlfriend by burning down her house -- only he didn't get out before the place exploded, the Sun reports: "They saw Mr Gray leaving the rubble. He was described by...

I'm not saying it's OK, but I understand

Posted on June 02, 2010
From Meredith: A man in Lawrence apparently stabbed a roommate who interfered with his laundry.The victim, in his 30s, arrived at Lawrence Memorial Hospital around 9 p.m. Tuesday with a 12-inch gash on his back. He told police that his...

Open Thread ... Tuesday

Posted on June 01, 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,...

Black drivers more likely to be stopped in Missouri, report says

Posted on June 01, 2010
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster has released a report on vehicle stops during 2009, the 10th year for such a report to be issued. (Legislators, worried about racial profiling, require the report to be issued annually.) Koster says that black...

Target store shooter had fatal cancer

Posted on June 01, 2010
A Target employee was killed Sunday when a gunman fatally shot her and them himself at a store in Apex, N.C. The Charlotte Observer reports the man, 67-year-old Mervin Carroll Mims, was living in his truck and had been diagnosed...

Kids attack with mustard, concrete

Posted on June 01, 2010
Police in Fort Pierce, Fla., tried to stop a gang of children who attacked an elderly woman's house using mustard and chunks of concrete, Will Greenlee reports at his Off The Beat blog. The best part: "The yellow substance had...

Speak up if you wish to remain silent

Posted on June 01, 2010
Suspects have the right to remain silent, but they must explicitly tell police that, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled. The question was raised during a 2000 murder case from Michigan. The suspect was "mostly silent" during a three-hour interrogation....

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