Here's an argument that Rod Blagojevich might want to take notes on, now that he has been very unsurprisingly indicted. Former San Francisco supervisor Ed Jew (who I'm going to refer to as "Ed" here in hopes of not appearing in…
“Loud laughter” isn’t what you hope to hear when your defense attorney speaks.
The owner of the Newport Avenue Market in Bend, Oregon, is fed up with whoever has been stealing bottles of expensive balsamic vinegar from the market for over a year now. This is why a sign now hangs in the relevant…
None of the evidence against Juan Antonio Roca proved he engaged in any wrongdoing, said his lawyer, who did not explain how a city planner making $150,000 a year could afford two very large estates in Spain. Also not explained by him: the…
I guess the police station is the logical place to go if you are trying to get some handcuffs off, although now that I say that, I think I would try a locksmith first. But, FYI, the police-station option is not a…
A man described as "an Australian pigeon fancier" was arrested in Melbourne on February 3 after customs officials found two birds in his pants. Officials said the man had wrapped each pigeon in a roll of newspaper and stuffed one…
A man in Amsterdam, New York, returned a lobster to his local Price Chopper supermarket on January 18, saying it was “bad.” Employees said that Walter Tessier wanted to exchange the bad lobster for a bag of king crab legs….
Last Sunday night or early Monday morning, a person or persons unknown stole a variety of costumes from a shop associated with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The items taken, worth about $5,000 in all, were intended for upcoming productions of "Macbeth" and "The…
Good news — convicted "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski, now serving a life term for murder, will not be getting back any of the unabomb-making materials that the FBI seized from his cabin in 1996. Kaczynski's cabin. Defense experts argued that Kacyznski's skewed worldview was…
A 30-year-old New York man is being charged with grand and petit larceny for crimes he committed during the last two months. The grand larceny charge is for stealing a shark and the petit larceny is for swiping a moray…