Date: May 7th, 2008
7 May, 2008 (22:12) | News, Parents Behaving Badly | No comments
ALIQUIPPA, Pa. — The father of a 1-year-old girl has been charged in connection with her scalding death at the family’s Linmar Terrace home in Aliquippa, Beaver County.
Troy Moon, 37, was charged with criminal homicide, aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of another person on Wednesday.
Police said Moon’s daughter, Trinity, suffered third-degree burns caused by […]
7 May, 2008 (22:05) | Animals, Bad Cops, Good Cops Gone Bad, News | No comments
MOORESTOWN –Additional charges have been filed against former Moorestown police officer Robert Melia after allegations surfaced last week that he performed several sexual acts with livestock, specifically cows.Melia, 38, of 126 Cottage Avenue in Moorestown has been charged with four counts of animal cruelty after purposely and knowingly tormenting an animal, specifically by having a […]
7 May, 2008 (22:00) | Bad Cops, Good Cops Gone Bad, News | No comments
PHILADELPHIA - A police sergeant and five officers were pulled from street duty Wednesday as city officials investigated television footage showing a group of officers kicking and punching three suspects during a traffic stop.
More than a dozen officers were involved, but Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said investigators were having the videotape enhanced to help determine […]
7 May, 2008 (21:54) | News | 2 comments
NEW YORK (AP) ― A sadistic gang of police impersonators abducted and tortured scores of East Coast cocaine traffickers, forcing them to hand over multimillion-dollar stashes by threatening to squeeze their testicles with pliers, authorities said Tuesday.
An indictment unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn charged eight men with robbery conspiracy, drug dealing and […]
7 May, 2008 (21:49) | News, Politics | No comments
A longtime Cabell County magistrate accused of sexually harassing women at the courthouse is fighting his suspension by the state Supreme Court.
In March, the high court suspended Magistrate Alvie Qualls with pay after a nine-member panel appointed by the Judicial Investigation Commission recommended his removal from the bench.
The panel found Qualls had made lewd remarks […]
7 May, 2008 (21:38) | News, new hampshire | No comments
WASHINGTON — New Hampshire residents who pay their rents on time are losing their homes as fast or faster than homeowners who default on mortgages.
A National Low Income Housing Coalition report examined New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, which have large numbers of two- and three-family homes and apartments.
The NLIH estimated that at least […]
7 May, 2008 (16:06) | News | No comments
CHICAGO — Chicago police say a man died as he tried to shield his four-year-old daughter from an auto allegedly driven by a man under the influence of a controlled substance.
Joseph Richardson was walking his daughter Kaniyah to a McDonald’s for burgers late Monday when a car jumped the curb. Police say the 39-year-old […]
7 May, 2008 (15:56) | News | No comments
NEW YORK — A sadistic gang of police impersonators abducted and tortured scores of East Coast cocaine traffickers, forcing them to hand over multimillion-dollar stashes by threatening to squeeze their testicles with pliers, authorities said Tuesday.
An indictment unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn charged eight men with robbery conspiracy, drug dealing and an array […]
7 May, 2008 (15:44) | Medicine, News | 1 comment
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A local teenager thought he was being trendy when he pierced his lip. Now, he’s in a hospital bed with an infection so bad doctors say it could kill him.
Within days, Wheeler became achy and developed sores on his feet and hands.
Doctors realized a staph infection had set in and spread […]