The San Francisco Chronicle reported on March 29 that a man who murdered an ostrich late last year had been released from jail after serving only a five-month sentence for animal abuse. This despite the fact that it was a…
Search engines are a vital part of modern life, at least for people like us who have computers and are able to hook them up to that series of tubes I call "the Internet." The amount of information search engines…
Someone who shows up at a checkpoint anywhere in the Middle East with strange bulges under their clothing is likely to attract some attention. (I concede that this could happen anywhere, depending on the nature of the bulge.) That’s what…
An unidentified man in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, called police earlier this week and asked for help breaking into a church. They were happy to come over, but didn’t help him with the break-in. The man told police that he had…
Robert Marsh was arrested last week in Wisconsin and charged with several offenses stemming from an incident early Thursday morning in which he broke down a woman’s door and grabbed her. Two other men in the home stopped Marsh, who…
A terrifying spree finally brought to an end.
She also bought a life-size statue of Al Capone, which I thought was a nice touch.
Thieves stole 14 global positioning system devices from a New York public-works department on Monday night. Police located them almost immediately. My shortest post yet.
Police in Sylva, North Carolina, announced this week that they had tracked down arrested two men suspected in the vandalism early Saturday of the Sylva police department building. Detective Aimee Sumner said that a police sergeant discovered the glass front…
A man in Liverpool, England, who was arrested after police responded to a report of a domestic dispute appeared before a judge with bruises on his face, and told the judge that the police had beaten him up. Unfortunately for…