Date: April 4th, 2008
4 April, 2008 (21:53) | News, Weird & Strange | No comments
PURCELL, Okla. — A judge formally sentenced a former grocery store stocker to death by injection Thursday for killing a 10-year-old girl in a bizarre cannibalistic fantasy.
McClain County District Judge Candace Blalock approved the death sentence recommended by a jury that convicted Kevin Ray Underwood of first-degree murder last month for the death of […]
4 April, 2008 (21:43) | News, Weird & Strange | 1 comment
An elderly woman survived a harrowing ordeal after becoming trapped in her bathtub and waiting five days before help arrived on Saturday, FOX 12 in Oregon reported.
The Beaverton, Ore., woman lives alone at Westbury Apartments, and was only rescued after her daughter, who lives out of the area, hadn’t heard from her in several […]
4 April, 2008 (21:40) | News | No comments
CAMDEN, N.J. — State Education Department officials are investigating how 15 Hispanic elementary students were punished in Camden.
The Sumner School students say a black vice principal forced them to eat their lunches on the floor for two weeks after a large water bottle was spilled on a classroom floor earlier this year.
Some community activists […]
4 April, 2008 (21:34) | News | No comments
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A woman has been sentenced to death for killing a Missouri mother-to-be and cutting the baby from her womb.
U.S. District Judge Gary Fenner handed down the sentence Friday.
A jury had recommended the death penalty for Lisa Montgomery in the 2004 slaying of Bobbie Jo Stinnett. The 39-year-old had been convicted […]
4 April, 2008 (21:26) | News | No comments
A UMass student falls 17 floors to his death early Friday morning, leaving students in his residence hall in shock.
At 3:30 Friday morning, UMass Amherst police responded to a report of someone falling from a window on the 17th floor of the John Quincy Adams Residence Hall.
They found the victim on the ground and […]
4 April, 2008 (11:31) | Bad Cops, Good Cops Gone Bad, News, Politics | No comments
ATLANTA — An Atlanta police lieutenant was caught on tape cruising for sex acts from people while on duty, Internal Affairs investigators said.
A resident of midtown Atlanta shot a video of Lt. John Oglesby, who is seen with several neighborhood cross dressers and prostitutes. The resident told CBS 46 he shot the video because he […]
4 April, 2008 (11:17) | Bad Cops, News | 1 comment
BESSEMER, AL — A Bessemer police officer will serve nearly one month in jail for intentionally shooting a family pet.
At a hearing today, Jefferson County District Judge Eric Fancher ordered Officer Charles Wallace Wesson Jr., pay a $750.00 fine, $300.00 in restitution and serve 100 hours of community service.
Wesson pleaded guilty to second-degree animal cruelty […]
4 April, 2008 (10:42) | Bad Cops, Good Cops Gone Bad, News, Politics | 4 comments
CLAYTON, AL - Three Clayton police officers are currently being investigated for allegedly using excessive force during an altercation at the Oyster Bar last Friday night.
Clayton resident Greg Warr said he was handcuffed, maced, bruised and arrested. He was charged with disorderly conduct, escape, resisting arrest and assault on a police officer, though Warr claims […]
4 April, 2008 (10:34) | Bad Cops, Good Cops Gone Bad, News, Politics | No comments
WINOOSKI, VT - Winooski Police Chief Steve McQueen remains in employment limbo hoping he will get a public hearing next week to clear his name and get back to work.
But the city manager who suspended McQueen made it clear on Thursday there is no hearing scheduled and he’s in no rush to have one. But […]
4 April, 2008 (05:35) | Bad Cops, Good Cops Gone Bad, News, Politics | 1 comment
BOSTON - A state judge should be suspended without pay for 30 days, fined $25,000, and publicly censured for sending two letters to the publisher of the Boston Herald demanding that the newspaper drop its appeal of a libel verdict and hand him a check for $3.26 million, the state’s Commission on Judicial Conduct recommended […]
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