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Florida Cop and Sexual Predator Chases Two Teen Boys at Over 100 Miles An Hour, Allegedly Rams Car and Causes Crash That Kills One Boy ? Colleagues Clear Him in Accident and Charge the Other Teen

Posted on September 04, 2008
This is an extraordinary and deeply disturbing story. In Polk County, a sexual predator of young men named Sgt. Scott Lawson was allowed to carry out a personal fantasy as an officer with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office in pursuing and abusing young men during his 11-year career...

Shock Video: Police Beat Soccer Fan; Soccer Fans Then Beat Police

Posted on September 04, 2008
An extraordinary video has surfaced of a fan running on the field of a soccer game, only to be chased down by security officers. The crowd watches as the guards appear to beat the man and then rush the field and beat the security guards. It is not clear where this video originates beyond a [...

Kwame Kilpatrick Pleads Guilty and Agrees to Jail Time for Obstruction

Posted on September 04, 2008
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has agreed to plead guilty to two obstruction of justice counts tied to his perjury as a witness on an affair with a former aide. He will also give up his law license, resign as mayor, and turn over his pension to the city...

A Learning Experience Like None Other: Los Angeles Opens its $350 Million High School

Posted on September 04, 2008
Los Angeles has now officially opened its $350 million downtown high school the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center. It is only a decade over due and more than the operating budgets of some small nations. It appears that economics and good government will be elective courses at Roybal...

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Belt or Bust: Florida Police Arrest Man for Wearing Baggy Pants

Posted on September 03, 2008
Kenneth Smith will think twice when he next dresses to go out in Riviera Beach, Florida. The twenty-nine-year-old was arrested for the unspeakable offense of wearing baggy pants, the most recent example of the over-criminalization of life in America...

Two Israeli Policemen Convicted in Death of Palistinian Teenager

Posted on September 03, 2008
Two Israeli border policemen have been convicted of manslaughter after they kidnapped a Palestinian teenager, 17-year-old Amran Abu Hamadiya, and threw him from a moving jeep. The death came during a day in which Shachar Botbeka, Denis Alhazov, and two other officers terrorized Palestinians in Hebron with tear gas, stun grenades, beatings and abductions...

Hospital Worker Arrested for Stealing From Patients

Posted on September 03, 2008
A new former hospital worker has been arrested for a third time for stealing from patients, including the rent money of own elderly victim. Tacoma Jawara worked at the Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Police alleged that Jawara stole rent money from an elderly woman after she was checked into the hospital and spent [...

Palestinian Father Buries Divorced Daughter Alive in Honor Killing

Posted on September 03, 2008
A Palestinian father has been arrested for the murder of this 24-year-old daughter after he buried her alive in an honor killing. Police are investigating whether her four brothers assisted the over seventy-year-old father in the crime. It is only the latest of such honor killings in the Middle East, though (unlike Pakistan) [...

Palin: Iraq War is Part of God?s Plan

Posted on September 02, 2008
The media is quickly moving to learn more about Gov. Sarah Palin. Now, the video below has emerged that gives a glimpse into her belief in the convergence of politics and divine prophesy. In a speech only a couple of months ago, Palin speaks at the Wasilla Assembly of God where she refers [...

Chinese Train Company Destroys Ancient Site

Posted on September 02, 2008
Nanjing holds some of China’s oldest and most valuable relics dating back from the 11th to the 2nd century BC. Well, it used to. Despite demands for the Beijing-Shanghai Express Railway company to redirect its construction route for a new high-speed train or take steps to protect the site, the company went ahead [...

Russian Police Accused of Killing Blogger and Website Owner

Posted on September 02, 2008
Russian police are accused of pulling a dissident website owner, Magomed Yevloyev of Ingushetiya.ru, off a plane near Chechnya, shooting him in the head, and dumping his body along a road. Authorities confirm that police did arrest Yevloyev and took him off his plane...

For Whom The Bells Toll: St. Stephens Deafens Woman in Italy

Posted on September 02, 2008
Usually, saints are known to heal such conditions as deafness, but a woman in Genoa has successfully sued the Santo Stefano for hearing loss due to the ringing of its church bells. The church will have to pay 60,000 euros for its ringing nuisance. It is actually a type of tort action that [...

Untouchable and Unrescueable: India?s Untouchables Left to Be Rescued Last in Deadly Floods

Posted on September 02, 2008
The recent deadly flooding has brought new evidence of caste discrimination in India. Journalists have reported that Indian officials have been rescuing “untouchables” last — bypassing tens of thousands to rescue higher caste members...

The Methodist Menace: Fiji Human Rights Commission Finds Planned Conversions of Non-Christians to be Violation of Freedom of Religion

Posted on September 01, 2008
In a very curious ruling, the Fiji Human Rights Commission has found that the proposed campaign by the Methodist Church Conference to convert non-Christians in Fiji would violate the freedom of religion under the country’s constitution and international law...

Palin v. Putin: Is the United States Falling Behind in a Hunting Arms Race?

Posted on September 01, 2008
Vladimir Putin seems ready to meet the challenge of Sarah Palin. Supporters of the Vice Presidential hopeful have released pictures and videos of her shooting high-powered rifles, skinned bears, and posing with dead animals that she has shot. Putin, technically the second in command of Russia, has released a series of macho pictures, [...

UCLA Faces New Controversy Over Use of Race in Admissions

Posted on September 01, 2008
UCLA is facing a renewed controversy over the use of race in its admissions policies after Political science professor Tim Groseclose resigned in protest from the Admissions committee. He has charged that the school is covering up illegal use of race as a selection criteria — a long simmering controversy at the school...

Seattle Kills 78-Year-Old San Francisco Fan

Posted on September 01, 2008
A likely tort case has emerged from a bizarre accident outside of a San Francisco 49ers pre-season game. A police horse named Seattle was on patrol when he was spooked by a plastic bag and broke free. He collided with 78-year-old Eugene Caldwell, who fell and hit his head...

?Only Mad Dogs and Englishmen?: British Figure Proposed Dividing World Between England and Germany During World War II

Posted on August 31, 2008
Documents have been uncovered that James Lonsdale-Bryans, an amateur diplomat and fascist sympathizer, proposed to German diplomats during World War II that the two countries simply divide up the world. Lonsdale-Bryans had high-level connections to the English Foreign Ministry, but there is no evidence that he was supported in his efforts...

Louisiana Pastor Confesses to Turning Church to Satanic Sacrifices and Child Molestation

Posted on August 31, 2008
Jurors in Amite, Louisiana are hearing a disturbing confession by former Hosanna Church Pastor Louis Lamonica. Lamonica confessed to “dedications to Satan” inside the Ponchatoula church, though most of the parishioners did not know that church elders had turned from worshipping Christ to Satan...

Pakistani Legislator Supports ?Centuries-Old Tradition? of Honor Killings

Posted on August 31, 2008
A Pakistani lawmaker, Israr Ullah Zehri, has publicly supported honor killings even in the face of a recent case in which five women were buried alive by Muslim religious fanatics. While the case is the latest outrage that has disgusted the world, Zehri insisted it is a time-honored tradition for immoral people to [...

New York Police Bust Police Detective as Notorious ?Bling Bandit?

Posted on August 31, 2008
The police have finally arrested the so-called “Bling Bandit” and it turns out that it is one of their own. Known for his flashy watch and ring, the bandit knocked over nine banks and businesses. He is allegedly Athelson Kelson, 59, a former NYPD detective and decorated Vietnam veteran...

?The People on the Bus Go Help, Help, Help . . .?: Honolulu Police Arrest Drunk Bus Driver

Posted on August 31, 2008
Bus authorities have finally taken Searle Pestana, 61, off the road in Hawaii. However, it was not the two prior drunk driving convictions that convinced the Honolulu city bus company that he was not ideal for driving passengers. It was the weaving with the bus and the sideswiping of a tree that finally [...

Maurice the Meter Menace: Police Search for Alleged Parking Meter Felon

Posted on August 30, 2008
In Cool Hand Luke, Paul Newman’s character Lucas Jackson was sent to a work gang for cutting off the heads of parking meters. He has now been outdone by the not-so-cool Maurice Mizrahi, 34, who is accused of pulling 87 meters out of the ground and taking them home to drill out over $6000 [...

Pro-Golfer Tripp Isenhour Gets a Legal Mulligan on Killing Protected Hawk

Posted on August 30, 2008
Tripp Isenhour may be popular with golfers but he is despised by environmentalists. The golfer is accused of intentionally killing a protected red-shouldered hawk (shown here) on at the Grand Cypress Golf Club because the bird’s chirping was interrupting his filming of an instructional video...

Journalist Arrested for Telling Son to Walk Home from McDonalds

Posted on August 30, 2008
Dave Lieber is a columnist for Fort Worth Star-Telegram who has found himself in a bizarre situation where he has been criminally charged for telling his 11-year-old son to walk home a few blocks from McDonalds. It began with an argument in McDonald’s and Lieber leaving his son to walk home...

Grasshoppers Destroy Man?s Eye and Disclaim Liability

Posted on August 30, 2008
Carroll Master went to watch the Greensboro Grasshoopers play in Greensboro, North Carolina with his wife and his two-year-old son. It would cost him his eye. Master was hit in the left eye by a foul ball. It is the latest in such spectator injuries and is part of an ongoing debate [...

Two Pinches of Negligence: Magazine Causes Poisonings Due to Typo in Apple Cake Recipe

Posted on August 29, 2008
Now this could make for an interesting tort case — literally. Ok, it was technically an apple cake not a torte but liability is likely to follow a bizarre accident over a typo in a published recipe in Stockholm, Sweden. Instead of calling for two pinches of nutmeg, a type in the cooking [...

Showstopper: Bernie Ward Sentenced to Over Seven Years in Prison

Posted on August 29, 2008
Show’s over for former liberal radio host Bernie Ward. The San Francisco radio personality was sentenced to seven years on child pornography charges. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker sentenced Ward to seven years and three months in federal prison calling his case a “personal tragedy...

Carnegie Mellon Professor Arrested Three Times in Eight Days for Drunk Driving

Posted on August 29, 2008
After the removal of Iowa Central Community College President Robert Paxton for a chugging picture at a boat party, it appears that academics are having some serious alcohol problems this week. Prosecutors in Pittsburgh have called for the jailing of Carnegie Mellon University professor and former Dean Jeffrey Hunker, 51, who has been charged [...

Anti-Christ or Artistic Angst: Pope and Catholic Activists Seeks Removal of Kippenberger Art Piece of Crucified Frog

Posted on August 29, 2008
An art museum in Bolzano, Italy has refused demands from Catholics, including Pope Benedict XVI to take down and no longer show “Zuerst die Fuesse” (”First the Feet”), an art piece by the late German artist Martin Kippenberger showing a crucified frog...

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