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Date: May 6th, 2008

Man arrested for turning without signaling

6 May, 2008 (22:12) | Bad Cops, News | No comments

MELISSA, Tx — Mark Robinson was driving through downtown Melissa last week when he was pulled over for failing the use his turn signal.
But instead of getting a ticket, the officer took the 24-year-old to jail.
He was booked, strip searched, and sat for 3 hours with criminals. “People talking about using drugs and shooting […]

John and Susan Griffin Stand Trial for Starvation Death of Their Two-Year-Old Son

6 May, 2008 (22:00) | News, Parents Behaving Badly | No comments

In Rodgers Forge, Maryland, John J. Griffin, 39, and Susan J. Griffin, 38, are charged in the starvation death of their two-year-old son, Andrew Patrick Griffin. Prosecutors have said that the abuse inflicted by the parents was the same thing as torture.
The Griffins have five children together - ages 10, 9, 4, 1, and a […]

Austrian ‘Horror House’ Dad May Have Raped Granddaughter

6 May, 2008 (20:48) | News, Parents Behaving Badly, Weird & Strange | No comments

Police are investigating claims that an Austrian man accused of imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering her seven children also raped one of his granddaughters, a U.K. newspaper reported Tuesday.
Cops believe Josef Fritzl, 73, may have kept his granddaughter Kerstin as a sex slave in the dungeon he built […]

Catholic Priest Sentenced to Prison for Having Sex With Female Inmates

6 May, 2008 (20:42) | News | No comments

FORT WORTH, Texas — A Roman Catholic priest who had sex with two inmates while working as a chaplain at a women’s prison was sentenced Monday to two years in federal prison.
Vincent Inametti, 48, was taken into custody after he was sentenced, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported in its online edition Monday.
Inametti, who is […]

About 250,000 Unicel Cell Users Without Service (I was one of them)

6 May, 2008 (20:32) | News, new hampshire | No comments

CONCORD, N.H. — About 250,000 Unicel cell phone customers have been without service in New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine and parts of Massachusetts and New York.
Company spokeswoman Miriam Svobodny said technicians are working to fix the outage, which was the result of a software issue.
Service went out early Tuesday. Svobodny said she expected service to be […]

Dodds Arrested After Night-Long Search

6 May, 2008 (18:47) | News, Politics, new hampshire | No comments

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — A former congressional candidate convicted of faking his disappearance was arrested Tuesday after his wife reported that he assaulted her.
An arrest warrant was issued for Gary Dodds for violating his bail conditions, police said. Rye, N.H., police said that Dodds’ wife, Cindy Dodds, called them on Monday and said the family was […]

Is Bill Bramanti’s beer coffin offensive or just one man’s way to express himself - forever?

6 May, 2008 (18:39) | News | 3 comments

SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Illinois — Bill Bramanti will love Pabst Blue Ribbon eternally, and he’s got the custom-made beer-can casket to prove it.
“I actually fit, because I got in here,” said Bramanti of South Chicago Heights.
The 67-year-old Glenwood village administrator doesn’t plan on needing it any time soon, though.
He threw a party Saturday for friends […]

Prosecution in Higbee trial can use data box expert

6 May, 2008 (17:57) | Bad Cops, Good Cops Gone Bad, News | No comments

CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE - Cape May County prosecutors did not steal a defense witness in the upcoming vehicular homicide trial of State Police Trooper Robert Higbee, a state judge said Wednesday.
Higbee awaits trial after a 2006 collision between his State Police cruiser and a minivan killed two Upper Township sisters, Christina and Jacqueline Becker.
Higbee’s […]

Pregnant cop denied bid to get office duty

6 May, 2008 (16:57) | News | 7 comments

OCEAN TOWNSHIP — A decorated township police officer, who learned last week that she is more than two months pregnant, has been denied a request to go on light duty, despite a recommendation from her doctor.
Patrolwoman Sonia Henriques made the request to Police Chief Antonio V. Amodio Jr. She said she was concerned about putting […]