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Featured Articles
No birthday cake for Adolf Hitler, age 3
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
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
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
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...
Recent Articles
CT mom arrested after breastfeeding at the bar, police say
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
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
They've pleaded not guilty.
UPDATE: AZ boy, 9, accused of killing Dad, roommate
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
There, but for the grace of God, go I ...
Man beaten to death after playing "Margaritaville" on bar's jukebox
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...

