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No birthday cake for Adolf Hitler, age 3

James Hart
December 17, 2008 14:24

A New Jersey couple is upset because the local grocery won't make a birthday cake for their kiddo, who is named Adolf Hitler. (His little sister's middle name is "Aryan Nation.") I guess this isn't technically a crime, but naming...

Man turns violent when confronted with occupied bathroom

James Hart
December 11, 2008 16:00

He couldn't use the bathroom because his 14-year-old cousin was using it. The scene quickly deterriorated from there. First he breaks in while the girl is still in there. Then he chokes his mother, punches his sister and kicks a...

Arizona boy, age 8, accused of double homicide

James Hart
November 08, 2008 13:00

What a horrible story. The boy is accused of killing his dad and a boarder at their house. Snip from the AP: Arizona law generally holds that a child lacks competency to be held responsible for a homicide. However, Melnick...

How a tipster foiled the alleged Obama assassination plot

James Hart
October 28, 2008 19:42

From the Memphis Commerical Appeal: The unidentified woman told authorities her daughter had just acted as the driver for a planned burglary across the county line in Crockett County that was abandoned when two neo-Nazi skinheads chickened out at the...

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CT mom arrested after breastfeeding at the bar, police say

James Hart
January 06, 2009 22:39

Did we mention that Mom herself was allegedly three sheets? Hat Tip: Many thanks, You're A Mean Drunk R2D2!

Charges filed in late December homicide

James Hart
January 06, 2009 22:17

Kirk Fincher, 18, has been charged in Jackson County with first-degree murder Murder in the death of Ryan Onckelet, who was fatally shot on Dec. 30 in an apartment parking lot in the 100 block of North Belmont. Fincher, in...

UPDATE: Blackwater guards accused of manslaughter

James Hart
January 06, 2009 22:07

They've pleaded not guilty.

UPDATE: AZ boy, 9, accused of killing Dad, roommate

James Hart
January 06, 2009 20:57

As it happens, the prosecutors will NOT use that interview where the kid reportedly admitted that he shot his dad. (Sounds like that was pretty iffy evidence anyway, since he didn't have an attorney with him.)

Not remotely crime-related

James Hart
January 06, 2009 20:37

There, but for the grace of God, go I ...

Man beaten to death after playing "Margaritaville" on bar's jukebox

James Hart
January 06, 2009 20:33

Story is from Steamboat Springs, Colo., where an Army sergeant got into a fatal fight after he played the Buffett standard on the jukebox. UPDATED: The Rocky has more details here. Apparently, the sergeant slipped on ice before he got...