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Meth adds value to neighborhoods

2006-07-22T10:26:00.000-04:00

For every pound of meth made, seven pounds of toxic lab waste is produced. Most of this dangerous toxic waste will be dumped secretly in our community.

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Stone Cold Steve Austin wins again!

2006-07-21T09:49:00.000-04:00

Stephen Austin, 26, of Birdsboro, is accused of killing 22-year-old Jonathan Austin during an argument in May at their mother's home in Upper Mount Bethel Township.

Trooper Michael Sadusky testified that Austin told him that he and his brother had argued over their mother's medical care. He said Austin told police that his brother swung at him first, before Austin hit his brother in the head with a crowbar.

Austin told police he drove the body to a field near his mother's house and left it there while he went shopping with his wife, Sadusky said.

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Please Recycle

2006-07-21T09:46:00.000-04:00

Two Guatamalan nationals remained jailed Thursday on charges related to the discovery of a dead newborn's body in a trash bin in this small Panhandle town.

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Editorial Briefs of Ft. Wayne, Indiana

2006-07-21T09:41:00.000-04:00

On Saturday in Mahmudiya, Shiite militiamen kidnapped a 14-year-old Sunni boy named Omar and brought him to a remote compound. The fighters buried Omar up to his neck, then killed him by taking shots at his head.

Later this week, a sheep seller was killed in Tikrit when a bomb hidden under a teenage girl’s severed head exploded as he lifted it.

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In LaPorte, a police officer checking out a tip found a marijuana plant three feet tall growing in a brick planter downtown.

The planters are maintained by members of LaPorte’s Business Improvement District, a group of local business owners who for years have organized volunteers to weed each of the 130-plus planters.

The president of the Business Improvement District told The News-Dispatch of Michigan City that the marijuana probably was planted as a joke. Or was it a suggestion for boosting restaurant traffic? In any case, police pulled the plant and later ~~smoked~~ destroyed it.

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Jesus saves teen's life on birthday

2006-07-21T09:36:00.000-04:00

According to Carr, a 16-year-old - who had been drinking alcohol during the party - lunged at a 14-year-old and began stabbing him with a kitchen knife. The victim's brother, who helped stop the attack, also received knife wounds to his hands. The assailant fled the home, stole a Ford F-150 Super Crew pickup truck from a neighbor's house and sped across the S.S. Jolley Bridge into East Naples.

The teenager lost control of the truck and rolled it near the intersection of Routes 951 and 41. When police arrived, they found the wrecked truck along with a prosthetic leg and a pair of pants.

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Faith in Jesus saves man's life, strengthens church

2006-07-21T09:32:00.000-04:00

Worshippers were back in Faith Lutheran Church on Sunday for the first time since the church's entrance was damaged after being hit by a pickup...

When emergency workers arrived, [George E.] Lipsey refused treatment. He waved a machete at Manatee County Sheriff's Office deputies and emergency workers. He then held the machete to his own throat, a sheriff's report states.

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Business Is Booming for North Bergen Motel

2006-07-21T09:05:00.000-04:00

An attempted murder and suicide couldn't stop business as usual at the Seville Motel yesterday, as the sight of TV cameras, police tape and investigators contrasted with that of the employees who continued their morning cleaning routine.

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"He kind of jumped out of the woods and he was naked"

2006-07-20T09:44:00.000-04:00

A West Babylon woman helped cops nab a registered sex offender who cops say had the audacity to masturbate in front of her and her friend as they were arriving home.

The two young women, ages 20 and 21, were parking their car in front of a house when Patrick Oliveri, of North Babylon, stepped out of a nearby wooded area on Sheffield Ave. and exposed himself to them, cops said.

"He kind of jumped out of the woods and he was naked," Suffolk County Police Detective Lt. James Maher. "He proceeded to masturbate in front of these two young women."

He then darted back into the wooded area, put on a pair of shorts and hopped on a bicycle to ride away.

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Laser beam triggers search

2006-07-20T09:42:00.000-04:00

Jersey City police called in the Emergency Services Unit to search for some suspects yesterday morning after an officer saw a red laser pointed at him - a sign that he might have been in the sights of a gunman.

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Baby Shafted in NJ

2006-07-20T09:39:00.000-04:00

An indictment for murder and attempted murder was handed up yesterday against Jose Julio Ventura, who is accused of repeatedly raping his teenage daughter and telling her to throw their two newborn infants down their apartment building's air shaft, officials said yesterday.

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On Sept. 13, Salmeron's wife was taking a shower when she heard crying coming from the bathroom window and called her husband, Salmeron said in Spanish during an interview yesterday.

He opened the window and saw a streak of blood across the narrow air shaft and turned the beam of his flashlight downward, he recalled. When the light landed on the baby, he said, it stopped crying.

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Cesspool hero did it for love

2006-07-19T18:28:00.000-04:00

Forty-four-year-old Orduck Reid, who spent hours in the Tucville Sewerage System on Monday looking for five-year-old Brianna Dover who had fallen in, does not see himself as a hero. He said it was his love for children that drove him to do what no one else wanted to.

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Italian police free Polish slaves

2006-07-19T18:26:00.000-04:00

Some 20 people were also held in a joint operation with Polish police targeting a criminal ring that supplied farm workers in Italy's Puglia region.

Officials said the workers were kept in barracks with horrible sanitary conditions against their will.

Those who tried to escape were reportedly raped and tortured.

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New ghey template, same bloody gore

2006-07-19T10:36:00.000-04:00

Pink is the new Black with a splash of Crimson.

Staten Island Borough President's Grandson Is Model Citizen

2006-07-19T10:28:00.000-04:00

Steven Molinaro, 17, was charged with misdemeanor assault after the incident, which involved a 14-year-old Staten Island Advance carrier, cops said. It was Molinaro's third arrest this year.

He and the victim exchanged words about 2:45 p.m. yesterday and then Molinaro slugged the paperboy in the face, cops said.

When the victim was down on the ground, Molinaro allegedly kicked him in the head. The victim suffered a cut on his upper lip.

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Wait outside

2006-07-19T10:25:00.000-04:00

Benito Vazquez Jr., 50, of the 700 block of East Fourth Street, was visited by his brother, Israel Vazquez, at his home Thursday evening to discuss a family problem. The two were talking outside when they began to argue.

According to court papers, Benito Vazquez told his brother to wait outside while he went back into the house. He returned wielding a machete. He swung it at his brother, hitting him twice, once in the neck and once in the upper right arm.

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Canal is 'cesspool,' residents say

2006-07-19T10:23:00.000-04:00

Some families who live in a Lewisville apartment complex say a flood control canal adjacent to their buildings is a cesspool of garbage, mosquitoes and snakes.

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Mom Takes Out Trash

2006-07-18T20:36:00.000-04:00

A woman was charged with attempted murder and endangering children after her 2-year-old son was found in a garbage bin on Monday morning.

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Lil' Jon To Blame For Fatal Gang Shooting

2006-07-18T20:34:00.000-04:00

A rap song sparked a nightclub shooting between rival gangs that had declared a truce to celebrate a birthday, leaving two men dead and four others injured, police said.

The song - "Put Yo Hood Up" by Lil' Jon & The East Side Boyz - urges listeners to flash hand signs for their neighborhood and confront rivals. It was played before Sunday's shooting.

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Found In Cesspool

2006-07-18T12:09:00.000-04:00

Relatives discovered a 76-year-old Elwood woman dead in a cesspool yesterday, after the ground under her apparently collapsed, police said.

Police said Ruth Cotgreave, of 229 Cuba Hill Rd., was found by her niece and her husband around 4 p.m. in a hole in the front yard of her home. She was about six feet down in the cesspool, police said.

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Miami: The City God Forgot

2006-07-18T10:16:00.000-04:00

Lázaro Suarez, 58, was found bludgeoned to death on the steps of an office building at 921 SW 27th Ave. on Saturday. Police are still trying to figure out what Suarez was hit with.

Detectives think Hernandez wanted to steal the homeless man's most prized possession, a small blue scooter.

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Whoever the man was who savagely attacked Noemi Lopez, he apparently didn't care that she was elderly, that her car was parked in a handicapped spot and that what he got was an 11-year-old Toyota Corolla.

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Music Professor To Get Flute Lessons In Prison

2006-07-18T10:07:00.000-04:00

During the trial, jurors heard sordid details where Joseph, using the screen moniker "DSax25," told "Julie" he would teach her about sex. He sent her a picture of himself, and when he asked to see her, the FBI agent sent him a real picture of a teen, prosecutors said.

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Another Reason to Hate City Drivers

2006-07-18T10:04:00.000-04:00

A 11-year-old Queens girl died late last night after a motorist with a blazing temper opened fire on a group of kids cooling off at an open fire hydrant, police said.
The girl was among a group of kids trying to cope with yesterday's heat wave by frolicking in the stream of a hydrant across the street from her home, on 99th St., police said. A car with its windows down passed, and when water sprayed inside the car, the enraged suspect fired at the kids.

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Kenya mob burns teenage 'rapists'

2006-07-18T07:24:00.000-04:00

"They were ambushed, then killed and their bodies doused with petrol," Rift Valley provincial police commander Everette Wasike told AFP news agency.

A mother watched as her son writhed in flames before dying, a paper reported.

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Man Dies After Running Naked

2006-07-17T23:52:00.000-04:00

A man who Suffolk police said was apparently high on drugs ran naked through Smithtown streets yesterday before suffering respiratory problems and dying, authorities said.

I *heart* Long Island.

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Hands off

2006-07-17T23:49:00.000-04:00

A Vancouver boy had his hand severed in a brutal machete attack early Sunday morning, and another is in intensive care with severe injuries, the uncle of one of the victims said in an interview late Sunday.

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"Leaving a child unattended in a car on a hot day is like placing the child in an oven.''

2006-07-17T16:20:00.000-04:00

In some tragic child death cases, parents have said they simply forgot their child was in the back seat.

Parents can leave a stuffed animal on the front seat or they can leave a purse, briefcase or their house keys in the back seat to remind them there is a child in the back seat, Safe Kids Sonoma County suggested.

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"Somehow he got into the car, shut the doors, and child safety locks, he couldn't get out," said neighbor Tammy Wallace. "I tried to revive the baby, I evidently got a heartbeat back, and on the way to the hospital he passed away."

Should have left a stuffed animal in the front seat...

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Meth Lab a Minor Inconvenience

2006-07-17T15:45:00.000-04:00

Midmorning, police asked tournament organizers to clear the teams from the two fields closest to the meth lab area.

"We'll just need you to hustle off. You'll hear a boom. When you hear a boom, you can go back on," Bassett said. For additional safety, the container was moved into a makeshift sand bunker.

"It was kind of interesting -- a little scary. You know, kids are playing baseball and you have something that close," said Laurie Farvasilio of Mesa, Ariz.

Parents said the incident was a minor inconvenience.

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Happy Birthday!

2006-07-17T15:34:00.000-04:00

A party in honor of a Latina teenager turned deadly Sunday when the 70-year-old owner of the property allegedly opened fire on the girl's family, fatally wounding a 39-year-old San Diego man.

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A man was charged with fatally stabbing his wife and son on the boy's 11th birthday, authorities said Saturday.

Nico Duzant ran from his home while his father, Franklyn Duzant, 40, chased him to a neighbor's front yard Friday, said Seminole County Sheriff's Lt. Dennis Lemma. The father repeatedly stabbed the boy with an "edged" object, Lemma said.

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Human Au Jus

2006-07-17T13:13:00.000-04:00

She is considered one of Australia’s most notorious murderers. Katherine Knight pleaded guilty in 2001 to stabbing 44-year-old John Price 37 times, skinning him and then roasting his buttocks with vegetables as a meal for his children.

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Heads Roll in Acapulco

2006-07-17T09:42:00.000-04:00

A man's severed head dumped on the steps of city hall in the popular tourist resort of Acapulco on Thursday appeared to mark a gruesome upsurge in drug violence ahead of Mexico's presidential elections.

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Why don't they flush?

2006-07-16T21:42:00.000-04:00

POLICE are looking for a woman they believe gave birth in the bathroom of an Internet cafe yesterday morning and then left the baby to die.

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Cage Rage

2006-07-16T11:54:00.000-04:00

Nepola maintained that Anderson was going too fast when he tried to pass Nepola that morning. Anderson said that he tried to pass after Nepola suddenly pulled out in front of him from Nepola's driveway on Kings Highway. Anderson's car flipped three times after the collision, and he required surgery on his left knee.

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Sweetarts To The Fourth Dimension

2006-07-16T00:47:00.000-04:00

The mother of a three-year-old boy faces child endangerment charges after the boy apparently ate candy spiked with LSD.

Police in Cedar Park, Texas, a suburb of Austin, say the boy was left alone by his 22-year-old mother during a weekend apartment party.

The man who rents the apartment noticed that his roll of Sweetarts candy, which had been laced with LSD, was open and nine of the pieces were missing.

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I Like My Baby Shaken, Not Stirred...

2006-07-16T00:41:00.000-04:00

A Brentwood man with a long history of violence, drug addiction and Satanic worship was charged Friday with killing his 5-month-old son, an infant he often subdued by blowing marijuana laced with PCP into his mouth, authorities said.

Welcome to Long Island. Welcome to my world...

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More Shocking News

2006-07-16T00:35:00.000-04:00

Kevin Omas, 17, died last year. Euless police say the youth was high on drugs and was shocked with a Taser after he charged at an officer, says the report.

The lawsuit claims that officers have a pattern of using 'excessive force,' and cited an incident in which Euless officers used a Taser on a man in diabetic shock in February.

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Pray for Whitney

2006-07-16T00:34:00.000-04:00

Once the wholesome girl admired for her stunning looks and amazing voice, Whitney is now a paranoid wreck hopelessly hooked on crack that has devastated her famous beauty.

Looking haggard with dark circles under her eyes and a deranged mien, she often disappears for days and weeks at a time, holed in secret drug dens in seedy parts of the city. And she has blown much of her multi-million pound showbiz fortune on her drug habit.

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No Vacancy

2006-07-16T00:24:00.000-04:00

“We’re urging people to hang onto their animals for a little bit longer and give us some time to adopt out the animals,” she said, adding they will still try to help any animals that do come in.

“We are full, but we don’t want people leaving them on the street or in a dumpster either.”

Fucking Canucks.

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Shot Over Parking Tickets

2006-07-15T19:15:00.000-04:00

A man was arrested after he shot a "high-quality" pellet rifle at a town Parking Authority officer Thursday morning, Police Director Tim Griffin said yesterday.

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The Party's Over When the First Bottle Is Thrown...

2006-07-15T19:13:00.000-04:00

A Jersey City man was beaten by five to 10 men and left bloodied on the floor of a Martin Luther King Drive nightclub early yesterday morning, police said.

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I think he did this to punish Amanda.

2006-07-15T19:02:00.000-04:00

They seemed to be a happy couple until last night...

They always do before these things happen.

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Dumpster Diving Yields Free Kitten

2006-07-15T19:00:00.000-04:00

Seven kittens were wrapped in a plastic garbage bag and left to die recently in a dumpster behind the Circle K on Rex Allen Drive, officials said.

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Heads Up!

2006-07-15T18:49:00.000-04:00

A severed female head flew from a pickup early Thursday during an accident that killed a woman and her child on a busy Boise road.

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Nice Driving...

2006-07-15T18:46:00.000-04:00

Even veteran officials were stunned by what they saw—a single car accident that left a perfect imprint on the freeway wall.

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Son of Beast Injures 27

2006-07-15T18:39:00.000-04:00

A malfunction on an amusement park ride sent 27 people to hospitals yesterday, most with minor injuries, a park official said.

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8 Out of 9 Lives Used

2006-07-15T18:23:00.000-04:00

The little orange-and-white ball of fluff is a fighter.

Any kitten that survives a tumble through a wood chipper would have to be.

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My Little Pony

2006-07-15T18:21:00.000-04:00

On Wednesday an employee at the Payless Shoe Store off of FM 802 saw two men drop off something in their back dumpster and take off.

When he went to take out the trash there was a dead pony in the dumpster.

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Smiling in Ohio

2006-07-13T22:34:00.000-04:00

A murder defendant who wouldn't stop smiling was removed from the courtroom before being sentenced to death for killing his former girlfriend.

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Bathtime Turned Tragic

2006-07-13T11:57:00.000-04:00

"She said, `I considered using a knife, but that would be too bloody. I considered using a gun, but that would be too noisy. I decided that drowning would be the safest way to take them into the next world,'" Deputy Michael Stephens told jurors in Yates' second capital murder trial.

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Not Amused

2006-07-13T11:53:00.000-04:00

Breanna Larsen and Erica Matrious were riding the Zipper on Sunday when they were thrown from the ride from about 25 feet in the air. Larsen suffered a broken elbow and was recovering at St. Mary's Hospital in Duluth. Matrious remained in critical condition Tuesday at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis.

"We got flipped upside down and the cage flew open and we flew out," Larsen said Monday. "I hit some other cages and then a fence. Erica fell straight on the cement."

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Stroking a Dog Leads to Beatdown

2006-07-13T10:56:00.000-04:00

"Police have renewed an appeal for information about two youths, who punched and kicked a man after he stroked their dog."

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Bayonne Father of the Year

2006-07-12T11:46:00.000-04:00

"Police said officers confronted Anthony Padilla, 29, of Avenue B, at 9 a.m. as he was striding along at 53rd Street and Avenue C while cradling his 6-month-old son. Padilla, who was drenched in sweat, told the cops he'd just injected himself with cocaine"

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Just Tryin' to Scare a Cat

2006-07-12T11:43:00.000-04:00

"A Jersey City fire investigator who spotted a 14-year-old boy holding a handgun to a man's forehead followed the boy and then snatched the weapon away from him, police reports said."

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A Role Model for Young Athletes

2006-07-12T11:20:00.000-04:00

"Russell, 53, was twice arrested for the trafficking of steroids and ecstasy, and has testified he helped burn and dispose of a dismembered body. Russell, however, still runs the Dolphins Swim Club in Oakville."

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Milton Is Not the City of Brotherly Love

2006-07-12T11:18:00.000-04:00

"'I work hard, I play hard and I love hard, my family is my family and if you screw with my family, you're screwing with the wrong guy and that's exactly what I told that man,' Keegan said. 'You're coming to the wrong house, dude.'"

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Ronald, Is That You???

2006-07-11T23:00:00.000-04:00

(Picture From "Mystical High From Mushroom Drug")

Gallons of Blood

2006-07-11T15:06:00.000-04:00

"Eddington, who a has two children, five grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren, donated gallon NUMBER 70 last month. That's 560 pints of A-positive."

Hope it is AIDS/Hep negative...

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'Shrooms: Nature's Mind Expansion Kit

2006-07-11T12:12:00.000-04:00

"[Psilocybin] promoted a mystical experience in two-thirds of people who took it for the first time, according to a new study. One-third rated a session with psilocybin as the "single most spiritually significant" experience of their lives. Another third put it in the top five."

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Bad News for Men

2006-07-11T12:07:00.000-04:00

"A new scientific breakthrough may lead to women in the future being able to produce sperm."

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Behaving Like Animals Over Animals

2006-07-11T10:59:00.000-04:00

"Mrs Alison Frankland, of Slaidburn Avenue, was punched in the face and violently pushed to the ground as she battled to save her beloved cocker spaniel Ben."

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Goddess 2, Boy and Goat 0

2006-07-11T10:31:00.000-04:00

"An eight-year-old was sacrificed at the altar of black magic when his 'tantrik' father butchered him before a goddess in the tribal Kandhmal district of Orissa."

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Meth: It's Everywhere You Want To Be

2006-07-11T09:50:00.000-04:00

"Richard Rawson, a researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has been studying methamphetamine since the 1980’s, agrees that meth use is compatible with the kind of concentration needed to be an identity thief."
“'Crack users and heroin users are so disorganized and get in these frantic binges, they’re not going to sit still and do anything in an organized way for very long,” Dr. Rawson said. “Meth users, on the other hand, that’s all they have, is time. The drug stimulates the part of the brain that perseverates on things. So you get people perseverating on things, and if you sit down at a computer terminal you can go for hours and hours.'”

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Playa hatin'

2006-07-10T15:14:00.000-04:00

"A Northeast Portland man is suing basketball superstar Michael Jordan and Nike founder Phil Knight for a combined $832 million. Allen Heckard filed the suit himself, June 29th in Washington County Court. Heckard says he’s been mistaken as Michael Jordan nearly every day over the past 15 years and he’s tired of it."

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5-year-old 'girl' starting school is really a boy

2006-07-10T15:01:00.000-04:00

"The soon-to-be kindergartner looks quite feminine, cartwheeling around the yard and playing with dolls. Pat says he hates his penis, and he refuses to wear boys' clothing."

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Grand Theft Xbox

2006-07-10T14:39:00.000-04:00

"The victims, some of whom were sleeping when the attack occurred about 1 a.m., did not put up a fight or try to escape. All were stabbed, but autopsies showed they died of the beatings."
"Even two small dogs were massacred."

Well, killing the dogs was a dumb move. Haven't they ever played GTA? You need to kill hookers and bank customers if you want to get CA$H MONEY...

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How Not to Catch the Train

2006-07-10T12:38:00.000-04:00

"A New Yorker anxious to get home yesterday climbed on top of an Acela Express train berthed at South Station and stepped into 25,000 volts of electricity that scorched nearly 85 percent of his body, authorities said."

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Invincible

2006-07-10T11:52:00.000-04:00

"A winner of the "Survivor" TV show posted bond in Douglas County, Ga. on Wednesday on charges related to shooting a puppy with a bow and arrow and battery against his wife."

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Operation Iraqi Freedom

2006-07-10T11:47:00.000-04:00

"FIVE US soldiers have been charged in a rape and multiple murder case that has outraged Iraqis, with documents showing the rape victim was aged 14 - not over 20, as US officials have said."

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'Everything Got Messed Up'

2006-07-10T11:36:00.000-04:00

"A man in Lake Mary, Fla., accused of slashing his son to death on his birthday in front of neighbors after decapitating his wife with a samurai sword said the incident is "a blur and a bad dream," according to information released by the Seminole County Sheriff's Office."

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Covered in Blood

2006-07-08T23:38:00.000-04:00

"In 1979, Ernesto Torres, then only 19 years old, was sentenced to life in prison for robbery and murder after brutally stabbing a Jersey City gas station attendant 20 times before an accomplice shot the man in the head."

Good thing he changed his ways after prison.

Oh, nevermind.

Girls night out

2006-07-08T23:33:00.000-04:00

Girls will be girls these days...

Sticks and stones

2006-07-08T23:30:00.000-04:00

Will break bones.

Oceanside is the Place To Be

2006-07-08T23:22:00.000-04:00

According to Scott Reeder, "Downtown Oceanside at midnight is still the kind of place where someone who doesn't beat, stab or shoot you can be considered 'friendly.'"

Part 1:

"Nice day, huh?" he slurred.
"Not bad," I answered.
"Hey, you got a knife, man?"

and Part 2...

Spare Ribs

2006-07-08T21:35:00.000-04:00

Awww, the stuffed Chimpanzee is sooooooo cute!:

Also: Cry me a river.