man, 20, arrested for attempted murder of grandmother

PONOTOC COUNTY, Okla. -- A 20-year-old Pontotoc County man stands accused of trying to kill his grandmother. Daniel Lewis Whelchel was arrested Monday just outside of Ada.
According to the Pontotoc County Sheriff's Department, Whelchel lived with his grandmother, 60-year-old Elaine Welchel, and had done so for over 18 years.

On Sunday night, Mr. Whelchel told his grandmother he was tired of waiting for her to die naturally, and according to the sheriff, asked her if she wanted to die.
Mr. Welchel then allegedly tried to break her neck, beat her until she was unconscious, and left her in a field near Ada.
Elaine Whelchel is now recovering at a local hospital.
Daniel Whelchel faces attempted murder charges.

St. Lucie man arrested, drank wine as he rode electric store cart, police say

ST. LUCIE COUNTY — A man who apparently drank blackberry wine while cruising through Publix on an electric cart was arrested after leaving without paying, according to a recently released arrest affidavit.
Joseph Leonardi, 68, reportedly also said he took a bite out of a candy bar about 11:45 a.m. Monday in the store in the 7500 block of South U.S. 1.
An employee reportedly spotted Leonardi, of the 1400 block of Southeast Sunshine Avenue, with a bottle of wine in the front of his electric cart. The bottle was three-quarters full.
“As Leonardi rounded the next corner it was no longer in his cart,” the affidavit states.
The employee found the bottle — half full — on the next aisle.
Asked if he drank the wine, Leonardi allegedly asked the employee, “What are you going to do, call the cops?” Leonardi also reportedly said he took a bite out of a candy bar, and investigators took the bottle and wrapper into evidence.
A deputy, who saw Leonardi’s vehicle near Kitterman Road, stopped Leonardi. He said he was coming from Publix and had opened some blackberry wine. He said he didn’t like it and put it back on a shelf. Leonardi faces two counts of larceny.

CHECK! (CAREFULLY!) some restaurants are charging you for bread and butter.

Recession-hit restaurants are helping themselves to your wallet by serving you an extra side of super sneaky charges.
The Post last week found city eateries subtly billing customers for things usually free -- including bread and butter.
Although managers claim the prices are clearly marked on menus, the outrageous charges can backfire on restaurants, experts said.
"Doing this at this time could be ultimately suicidal," said Zagat founder Tim Zagat.
"It irritates the customer so much, and the last thing you want to do right now is annoy your customer."
Unexpected costs found by The Post include:
* A $1-per-person charge for water at West Village restaurant Bobo -- noted on the menu but not mentioned by waiters. The drink is filtered tap water.
Staff said the money funds the filtration.
"If anyone doesn't want to pay it, we take it off the bill," said manager Andy Vaughan.
* $3 for bread and another $2 for butter at Company, in Chelsea.
No cost was mentioned when bread was requested and delivered to a Post reporter last week -- and a waiter refused to give a refund.
"Bread and butter are not hidden charges," restaurant spokeswoman Danielle Pagano said. "They are both affordable menu items."
* A 10 percent charge for takeout food at the sushi hot spot Nobu Next Door in TriBeCa.
"It's for the packaging materials, the costs of handling the volume of calls," said managing partner Richie Notar.
* A 20 percent mandatory tip on all checks at the Little Italy tourist spot Grotta Azzurra. more

Pilot arrested 'for failing breath test' minutes before he was due to fly plane

Marching orders: Pilot Daniel Dufour was arrested for being over the alcohol limit just before take-off from Heathrow
A pilot was marched off his plane and arrested for being over the alcohol limit moments before he was set to take off from Heathrow Airport.
Security staff at Terminal 3 alerted police claiming they could smell alcohol on Daniel Dufour's breath.
The 45-year-old captain was then hauled out of the cockpit and arrested after failing a breath test.
Dufour had been due to fly 300 passengers on a nine-hour trip to Calgary from London on the Air Canada Flight AC851.
He had allegedly been drinking with colleagues the previous night, according to The Sun.
A police source told the newspaper: 'He was amazed to be still over the limit in the middle of the day.
'He was close to tears. At this stage he appears to have thrown away his distinguished career.'
A reserve captain was called in to fly the Airbus A330.
Dufour was taken to Heathrow police station where he gave a blood sample and was reportedly bailed for further inquiries.

Shock: Horrified crew and passengers looked on as Captain Dufour was led off an Air Canada plane
His arrest comes four months after Jet Airways pilot Michael Harr was arrested at Heathrow over fears he had drunk too much to fly. more

6 arrested in Hattiesburg prostitution sting

The undercover operation, which started around noon and ran about six hours, was law enforcement’s response to public outcry of what was believed to be acts of prostitution occurring in and around the downtown area.During the sting, police arrested:• Barbara Riels, 41, of Seminary, one count of prostitution• Carrie Reynolds, 33, Hattiesburg, one count of prostitution• Jennifer Garner, 41, Hattiesburg, one count of prostitution• Lori Watts, 39, Hattiesburg, one count of prostitution• Melissa Pittman, 41, Hattiesburg, one count of prostitution• Grena Ducksworth, 47, Hattiesburg, one count of prostitution and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia. more

Couple caught having sex in dumpster by Saanich police

VICTORIA — Don’t bother knocking if the dumpster is rocking.
That’s what Saanich police found out early Friday, while following up on a call of “suspicious persons.”
A Saanich police officer arrived at a parking lot where he heard noises coming from a large garbage dumpster.
The officer called out to the people in the dumpster, but no one responded. When he looked inside, he was surprised to see two naked adults intertwined and oblivious to his presence.
The two adults, a 30-year-old woman and a 26-year-old man, were ordered to put their clothes on and get out of the dumpster, police said in a news release. more

Illegal aliens delivering drugs to Wal-Mart

CEDAR CITY, Utah (ABC 4 News) - Three men are in jail telling a strange story about drugs and Wal-Mart. It started with a routine traffic stop. Iron County Sheriffs also found boxes of prescription medication in the car. The driver says he was delivering them to the chain store in Cedar City.Iron County Deputy Wade Lee says Diego Jimenez, Maricio Jimenez, and Kyle Gutierrez were on their way to the Cedar City Wal-Mart. They were stopped on Northbound I-15 at mile marker 45, where Deputy Lee clocked them driving 96 miles per hour. Lee says he grew suspicious when he saw a marijuana pipe in the glove compartment. After searching the car, he found two boxes of prescription narcotics. The stock invoice found with the drugs shows the retail value is over $30,000. Lee says two of the men admitted to being illegal aliens. The driver said he's been delivering prescription drugs for a company called "Nevada Courier" for several months. Lee explains, “He said ‘I was sitting at home and somebody called me and paid me $150 and a tank of gas to drive these medications down here and drop them off.’” Police say the men are from Las Vegas. They had made a delivery in Mesquite, two in Saint George, and their fourth delivery would have been in Cedar City. Lee says, “I called Wal-Mart and they said yeah they were expecting a delivery and the driver was late.” more

Iowa Issues Marriage Licenses To Gays

Same-sex couples in Iowa began applying for marriage licenses on Monday after a state Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay unions took effect. The court issued an order early in the day confirming that the appeals process in the case has officially concluded. Iowa county clerks were to begin processing same-sex marriage applications Monday, following the Iowa Supreme Court's ruling on April 3 that legalized same sex-marriage. Iowa typically requires a three-day waiting period for marriages, but judges can waive that and allow immediate weddings. In Des Moines, about a dozen gay and lesbian couples waited in the rain for the Polk County administrative building to open. more

Domino Pizza employees loose job and faces felony charges after posting a video to you tube.

When two Domino’s Pizza employees filmed a prank in the restaurant’s kitchen, they decided to post it online. In a few days, thanks to the power of social media, they ended up with felony charges, more than a million disgusted viewers, and a major company facing a public relations crisis.
In videos posted on YouTube and elsewhere this week, a Domino’s employee in Conover, N.C., prepared sandwiches for delivery while putting cheese up his nose, nasal mucus on the sandwiches, and violating other health-code standards while a fellow employee provided narration.
The two were charged with delivering prohibited foods.
By Wednesday afternoon, the video had been viewed more than a million times on YouTube. References to it were in five of the 12 results on the first page of Google search for “Dominos,” and discussions about Domino’s had spread throughout Twitter. more

"Youtube" Domino's Pizza Workers arrested, charged.

"Youtube" Domino's Pizza Workers arrested, charged.

Man is fighting $24,000 dollar phone bill, after he lost his phone

A Shuswap, B.C., man is fighting a $24,000 bill after losing his cellphone while on vacation in Peru.
Alex Dobson, 18, told CBC News he didn't mean to bring his phone on an extended backpacking trip through South America with some friends last fall.
"When I went through airport security, I realized my cell phone was still in my pocket," Dobson said on Thursday. "And I thought, well, that's dumb, because I'm never going to use my cell phone, and I just threw it in the bottom of my backpack."
Then halfway through the trip, his backpack was stolen while on a bus in Peru.
"They pulled a fast one on me," he admits, but he didn't think about the phone until he arrived back home in the B.C. Interior in December.
"That's when we saw they had just been adding in these three-month-old charges, and so at that point it was a $13,000 bill," said Dobson. Apparently someone in Peru had been using the phone at $3.49 a minute, and Dobson was getting the bill. more

Man accused of stabbing man because the man let his girlfriend use the bathroom

FORT PIERCE — A 26-year-old man accused of stabbing another man after that man let his girlfriend use the alleged stabber's bathroom is facing a felony charge, according to an arrest affidavit released Monday.
Juan Diaz, of the 600 block of Texas Court, was arrested on an aggravated battery with a deadly weapon charge in connection with the 3:36 a.m. Saturday incidents.
The victim told police that he and his girlfriend went to Diaz's home. When the girlfriend headed to the restroom, Diaz ”got upset at him for letting her use his bathroom” and stabbed the victim's arm and face.
The victim, who had a small cut on the face and a big slash on his right arm, tried to use a plastic chair to defend himself and took the knife from Diaz. more

Man arrested on a misdemeanor false report, claim he was robbed at gun point

PALM CITY — A Palm City man was accused of fabricating an armed robbery last week to try to make his girlfriend feel bad for leaving him. He was arrested after deputies unraveled the ruse, according to recently released reports.
Derick A. Culberson, 22, initially told officials late Friday night that two men robbed him at gunpoint, the reports stated. He said the men took his vehicle GPS device and bound his hands and ankles before leaving in an older black Chevrolet Impala.
Investigators found Culberson, of the 1600 block of Southwest Sunset Trail, sitting next to his truck near Leighton Park, his ankles and wrists bound with plastic “zip ties.”
At least a dozen Martin County Sheriff’s deputies searched the area to find the supposed suspect vehicle. Culberson said the robbers wore black shirts, and one had dreadlocks and the other an afro. He described the weapon as a 9 mm or .40-caliber silver pistol, the reports stated.
Investigators, however, said they found inconsistencies in Culberson’s version of events and turned up zip ties in Culberson’s vehicle of the same type that bound his hands and feet.
Culberson eventually acknowledged making up the entire incident “in an attempt to make his girlfriend feel bad for leaving him,” reports states.
“Culberson admitted to tying his own hands and feet, and further inventing the suspects’ vehicle and weapon descriptions he gave to Sheriff’s Office dispatch and deputies,” reports state. more

Meter repairman arrested for stealing $170,000

Alexandria police say William J. Fell stole $170,000, in quarters and nickels and dimes. From his job as a parking meter repairman over about a year.
A supervisor became suspicious of Fell and began following him during his morning rounds, watching him steal the coins.
Alexandria officials called police, who hid a surveillance camera in his city truck. When police searched his Stafford County home last week. They hit the jackpot. They found much of the cash there -- in a bucket, in rolls and in a cup, court documents said.
Sgt. Shahram Fard said "It's pretty bold," , who oversees the city's property crimes unit, said yesterday. "I've never recovered that much money in a search warrant."
The 61-year-old city employee did it, police say, by going to work at 3 a.m., well before his shift started. He would jump in his city truck and, under the cover of darkness, empty into bags the contents of coin canisters from parking meters all over Old Town, according to court documents.
Then he would drive back to his personal car, stash the bags in his trunk and go about his normal workday fixing meters, a search warrant affidavit said.
By the time police caught up with him, his house looked a bit like a Las Vegas casino, documents show. There were coins in cups, coins in canisters, coins in a silver box. Police said they found paper money in a safe and in zip-lock bags. They also found the top of a parking meter in the house.
Fell, who worked for the city for 16 years before his promotion in June in the Department of Transportation and Environmental Services, faces two counts of embezzlement by a public officer and is being held at the city jail. He told an Alexandria judge that he needed a public defender because he did not have enough money to hire a lawyer. more

Cheerleader Coach Fired After Posing Nude

Ron Jones with CBS 13 in Sacramento has the story about a local woman who was fired from her job as a cheerleading coach after she turned up in Playboy magazine. "The girls are supposed to look up their coaches," says one concerned parent at Casa Robles High School. Carlie Christine bared all, all over the internet. Casa Robles High School officials in Orangevale confirm with CBS13 that their girl's cheerleading coach, Carlie Christine, was the one who posed nude in a playboy centerfold. Christine is also Playboy's 'cyber girl of the week.' Parents and some students, who did not want to be identified, exposed the coach to school officials after rumors started slowly getting out that she had posed nude. "I think it's unacceptable. It's not fair," says Jamye Curtis. more

Man Jailed For Peeing On Woman On Plane

(AP) A 28-year-old man was sentenced to three weeks in prison for urinating on a 66-year-old woman during a Continental Airlines flight last month from Los Angeles to Honolulu, officials said Wednesday. Jerome Kenneth Kingzio, a resident of the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, was sentenced after pleading guilty Tuesday to an assault charge in U.S. District Court. The victim was headed to Hawaii on March 21 for a scuba diving vacation and was watching an in-flight movie when Kingzio stood up next to her aisle seat and began urinating on her midway through Continental Flight 3. She pushed Kingzio back and he continued to urinate, according to the FBI's criminal complaint. Kingzio, seated a row behind the woman, had been drinking on the flight and annoying other passengers. U.S. Attorney Edward Kubo Jr. said the woman reported that not only was her entire vacation ruined, but she continues to suffer emotionally from the incident. more

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I could have turned everything into a crime scene, like O.J., cutting everybody's throat ... I totally understand OJ. I get it."
Hulk Hogan, in an April issue of Rolling Stone magazine, on his divorce battle with estranged wife Linda Bollea and her relationship with 19-year-old Charlie Hill. O.J. Simpson was acquitted of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in 1995.

Somali Pirates Vow to Hunt Down, Kill Americans in Revenge

Pirates fired grenades and automatic weapons at the Liberty Sun, but its American crew successfully blockaded themselves inside the engine room. The ship was damaged in Tuesday's attack but escaped and was heading to Kenya under U.S. Navy guard.
A pirate whose gang attacked the aid ship admitted Wednesday that his group was targeting American ships and sailors.
"We will seek out the Americans and if we capture them we will slaughter them," said a 25-year-old pirate based in the Somali port of Harardhere who gave only his first name, Ismail.
"We will target their ships because we know their flags. Last night, an American-flagged ship escaped us by a whisker. We have showered them with rocket-propelled grenades," boasted Ismail, who did not take part in the attack on the Liberty Sun.
The move comes after U.S. Navy sharpshooters killed three pirates Sunday to win the release of a hijacked American sea captain, Richard Phillips of the Maersk Alabama.

The French forces, meanwhile, launched an early morning attack on a pirate ship after spotting it Tuesday with a surveillance helicopter and observing the pirates overnight. The raid thwarted the bandits' planned attack on the Liberian cargo ship Safmarine Asia, the French Defense Ministry said.
The statement called the pirate vessel a "mother ship" — usually a seized foreign ship that pirates use to transport speedboats far out to sea and resupply them. The ship was intercepted 550 miles (900 kilometers) east of the Kenyan city of Mombasa.
The 11 detained pirates were being held on the Nivose, a French frigate among the international fleet trying to protect shipping in the Gulf of Aden. France already is holding several pirates for prosecution.
Tuesday's attack on the Liberty Sun foiled the reunion between Phillips and the 19-man crew he saved with his heroism. Phillips had planned to meet his crew in Mombasa and fly home with them Wednesday, but was stuck on the USS Bainbridge when it was diverted to help the Liberty Sun.

U.S. Cargo Ship Evades Somali Pirate Attack
Maersk Crew Heads Home, Will Reunite With Captain in U.S.
The crew left without him, flying to Andrews Air Force base in Maryland in a chartered plane.
"We are very happy to be going home," crewman William Rios of New York City said before departing Wednesday. "(But) we are disappointed to not be reuniting with the captain in Mombasa. He is a very brave man."
Third mate Colin Wright, from Galveston, Texas told ABC's "Good Morning America" that fighting off pirates gave him a new appreciation for life.
"I'll just love to hug my mother," Wright said. "Everybody out there give your mother a hug. Yeah, don't wait. Life is precious. And what a beautiful world."
The Liberty Sun had left Houston with a crew of 20 American sailors and a load of aid for the U.N. World Food Program. It warded off the pirates with evasive maneuvers, according to U.S. Navy Lt. Nathan Christensen of the Bahrain-based 5th Fleet.
"We are under attack by pirates, we are being hit by rockets. Also bullets," Liberty Sun crewman Thomas Urbik, 26, wrote his mother in an e-mail. "We are barricaded in the engine room and so far no one is hurt. (A) rocket penetrated the bulkhead but the hole is small. Small fire, too, but put out."
By the time the Bainbridge arrived five hours later, the pirates had left. A small group of armed U.S. sailors from the Bainbridge went aboard the Liberty Sun to ensure its safe journey to Mombasa.
Despite President Barack Obama's vow to take action against the rise in banditry and the deaths of five pirates in French and U.S. hostage rescues, brigands have seized four vessels and more than 75 hostages since Sunday's dramatic rescue of Phillips. more

Gresham woman charge with giving teenagers marijuana and alcohol for sex

GRESHAM, Ore. - A Gresham woman has been arrested on charges she gave teenagers marijuana and alcohol in exchange for sex.Police say Jennifer Lynn Wills, 30, befriended 15- and 17-year-old boys and girls in the area, gave them pot and booze, and then sexually abused them. She is in a wheelchair due to a car accident.Two teens went to police and investigators say they have identified five victims so far. But they think there may be more. The arrest came after a five-month investigation.
Wills was charged with six counts of sexual abuse, three counts of contributing to the sexual delinquency of a minor, three counts of delivery of marijuana to a minor and three counts of delivery of alcohol to a minor. She is being held on $137,500 bail.

Woman threw a pint of ice cream through store window when clerk refuse to sell her beer.

PORTSMOUTH — A woman who threw a pint of ice cream through a store window after a clerk refused to sell her beer was fined and given a suspended jail sentence Monday.
Jamie Cahill, 26, most recently of Portland, Maine, pleaded guilty in Portsmouth District Court to a class A misdemeanor count of criminal mischief. Prosecutor Rena DiLando told the court that Cahill went to the convenience store at Heath’s Mobil in Sept. of 2007, when a clerk refused to sell her beer, then she purchased ice cream.
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After Cahill left the store, the pint of ice cream was thrown through a plate glass store window, according to police.
DiLando said Cahill is on probation in Maine for drug convictions and according to her probation officer, has been “doing excellent.” According to court documents, Cahill’s case was delayed at her request while she was in a rehab program.
In exchange for her guilty plea, Judge Sawako Gardner sentenced Cahill to 60 days in the Rockingham County House of Corrections, with all of it suspended providing she remain of good behavior for one year. Cahill was also fined $500, with half suspended, contingent on the same year of good behavior.
Cahill is also ordered to pay restitution for damage to the store window if the prosecution determines it is necessary within 30 days. more

Fromer laundry supervisor at correctional facility charge with rape.

The former laundry supervisor at Gouverneur Correctional Facility admits to having sex with an inmate.In St. Lawrence County Court on Monday, 42 year old Lisa Vaughn pleaded guilty to 3rd degree rape, a class E felony. She's expected to get a sentence of probation when she's sentenced in May.The charge was rape because prison inmates are, by law, incapable of consensual sex.Authorities said Vaughn, of Carthage, seduced a male inmate and eventually had sex with at least four male inmates between 2006 and her arrest last year.The ensuing investigation also led to the arrests of 32 year old Rachael Paterson of Ogdensburg for allegedly having oral sex with inmates; and 38 year old Laura Douglass, for alleged sex with an inmate and with passing prison contraband

Isaiah Washington has been evicted from his L.A. rental

Each week, Luxist rounds up the latest celebrity real estate news. Lenny Dykstra is the latest celebrity facing foreclosure, while Shaq has reduced his sale price on his Miami home by almost a quarter. Isaiah Washington has apparently been evicted from his L.A. rental, while Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, formerly of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, is selling his home in Westchester County. For more luxurious homes and celebrity real estate, check out Luxist: Estates.

Tampons (A TRUE STORY)

Tampons to the rescue in Iraq!! Don't worry, it's a good story, and worth reading. It's even humorous in parts. It's from the mother of a Marine in Iraq My son told me how wonderful the care packages we had sent them from the ladies auxiliary were and wanted me to tell everyone thank you..He said that one guy we'll call Marine X, got a female care package and everyone was giving him a hard time. My son said, 'Marine X got some really nice smelling lotion and everyone really likes it, so every time he goes to sleep they steal it from him', I told my son I was really sorry about the mistake, and if he wanted I would send Marine X another package. He told me not to worry about Marine X because every time I send something to him, he shares it with Marine X. He said when my husband and I sent the last care package, Marine X came over to his cot picked up the box, started fishing through it, and said, 'What'd we get this time?'But my son said they had the most fun with Marine X's package. He said he wasn't sure who it was supposed to go to, but the panties were size 20, and he said one of the guys got on top of the Humvee and jumped off with the panties over his head and yelled, 'Look at me, I'm an Airborne Ranger!!!!!One of the guys attached the panties to an antenna and it blew in the wind like a windsock. He said it entertained them for quite awhile. Then of course.......they had those tampons. When he brought this up, my imagination just went running, but he continued.My son said they had to go on a mission and Marine X wanted the Chap-Stick and lotion for the trip. He grabbed a bunch of the items from his care package and got in the Humvee. As luck would have it he grabbed the tampons too, and my son said everyone was teasing him about 'not forgetting his feminine hygiene products.' He said things went well for a while, then the convoy was ambushed and a Marine was shot. He said the wound was pretty clean, but it was deep. He said they were administering first aid but couldn't get the bleeding to slow down, and someone said, 'Hey! Use Marine X's tampons!' My son said they put the tampon in the wound. At this point my son profoundly told Me, 'Mom, did you know that tampons expand?' ('Well....yeah!') They successfully slowed the bleeding until the guy got better medical attention. When they went to check on him later, the surgeon told them, 'You guys saved his life. If you hadn't stopped that bleeding he would have bled to death.' My Son said, 'Mom, the tampons sent by the Marine Moms by mistake saved a Marine's life.' At this point I asked him, 'Well, what did you do with the rest of the tampons?' He said, 'Oh, we divided them up and we all have them in our flak jackets, and I kept two for our first aid kit.'I am absolutely amazed by the ingenuity of our Marines. I can't believe that something that started out as a mistake then turned into a joke, ended up saving someone's life. My sister said she doesn't believe in mistakes. She believes God had a plan all along. She believes that 'female care package' was sent to Marine X to save our Marine. Either way, our efforts have boosted the morale of many Marines, provided much needed items for our troops, AND saved the life of a Marine! God bless every one of you for your efforts and hard work, and God bless our Marines, Army, Navy, Air Force and all our military service personnel.

A fight over a dog urinating in the house caused the ambush of 3 policemen

PITTSBURGH — An emergency call that brought two police officers to a home where they were ambushed, and where a third was also killed later during a four-hour siege, was precipitated by a fight between the gunman and his mother over a dog urinating in the house.
The Saturday argument between Margaret and Richard Poplawski escalated to the point that she threatened to kick him out and she called police to do it, according to a 12-page criminal complaint and affidavit filed late Saturday.

When officers Paul Sciullo II and Stephen Mayhle arrived, Margaret Poplawski opened the door and told them to come in and take her 23-year-old son, apparently unaware he was standing behind her with a rifle, the affidavit said. Hearing gunshots, she spun around to see her son with the gun and ran to the basement.
"What the hell have you done?" she shouted.
The mother told police her son had been stockpiling guns and ammunition "because he believed that as a result of economic collapse, the police were no longer able to protect society," the affidavit said.
Friends have said Poplawski was concerned about his weapons being seized during Barack Obama's presidency, and friends said he owned several handguns and an AK-47 assault rifle. Police have not said, specifically, what weapons were used to kill the officers.
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Autopsies show Sciullo, 37, died of wounds to the head and torso. Mayhle, 29, was shot in the head.
A witness awakened by two gunshots told investigators of seeing the gunman standing in the home's front doorway and firing two to three shots into one officer who was already down. Sciullo was later found dead in the home's living room, and Mayhle near the front stoop, police said.
A third officer, Eric Kelly, 41, was killed as he arrived to assist the first two officers. Kelly was in uniform but on his way home when he responded and was gunned down in the street.
Kelly's radio call for help summoned other officers, including a police commando team. The ensuing standoff included a gun battle in which police say Richard Poplawski tried to kill other officers.

Saturday's slayings occurred just two weeks after four police officers were fatally shot in Oakland, California, in the deadliest day for U.S. law enforcement since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Poplawski is charged with three counts of criminal homicide and nine counts of attempted homicide — one each for the eight officers who were shot at in an armored police vehicle, plus a ninth who was shot in the hand as he tried to help Kelly.
Poplawski also was charged with possessing an instrument of crime: the bulletproof vest he wore during the gun battle. The criminal complaint does not say how Poplawski obtained the vest. more

Man robbed store with his 9 year old daughter

The nine year old daughter of the man who robbed an Ellensburg store was found safe today in California but her dad, who took the girl along for robbery, got away.
Police are still looking for 42-year old Robert Daniel Webb who led them on a high speed chase. Webb was identified as the suspect who robbed an AM-PM convenience store off I-90 near Ellensburg with his daughter in tow.
The father of a Humboldt County Sheriff's Deputy, who apparently knew Webb from his past, was asked to watch the girl last night while the father ran some errands. Later in the evening he learned that Webb was being sought by the local police in the town of Fortuna, California for drunk driving and possibly a robbery in Washington. The man checked around with the Fortuna Police Department and figured out that the young girl and her father were the same as those from the robbery.
Q13 Fox News caught up with the girl's mother at her apartment in Everett. She says she is happy her daughter was found safe but she is still concerned that her husband is on the run from police. more

Woman sentenced to 30 years for kidnapping baby

SANFORD - A judge today sent to prison for 30 years the woman who kidnapped a one-day-old baby from the maternity ward of a Sanford hospital last year.Jennifer Latham, 40 of Sanford, pleaded guilty in February, the day testimony was to begin at her trial.She did not explain her actions but today, in a soft voice, apologized to Circuit Judge Debra S. Nelson, saying she suffers from depression and anxiety and needs help.Defense psychiatrist Wade Myers, though, did tell the judge what was going on in Latham's mind the day the baby was abducted, March, 28, 2008.
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She was obsessed with being a mother and was desperate for a baby, he said. She also was depressed, unhappy that she had recently lost an attempt to win custody of her two school-aged children.She had first lost custody to her ex-husband in 2003, Myers said, and that left an enormous hole in her life. more

Man charge with hitting his 70 year old mother in the eye

COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. - A Golden Gate man is in jail, charged with giving his 70-year-old mother a black eye after she accidentally stepped on his foot, according to sheriff’s reports.Mark William Adams, 31, was charged with battery on a person 65 years or older, a felony.Janet Sharpe told deputies that she was walking by her son Adams, whom she lives with, and accidentally stepped on his foot, according to arrest reports.Adams got angry and threw a full can of soda at his mother, striking her in the eye and causing a large black and blue mark, reports said.

Woman arrested for leaving 7 month old child in car overnight and child died

CEDAR HILL — Police arrested a woman whose seven-month-old son died after he was left in a car overnight.
Laheather Wilson, 35, faces a charge of injury to a child/recklessness, a second-degree felony, in the death of Christian Wilson.
Wilson realized early Wednesday morning that she had left Christian in the car after returning from day care the previous evening, said Cedar Hill police spokesman Corky Brown. She found the child unresponsive in the car outside their home in the 1200 block of Brewer Drive, near East Belt Line Road.
Wilson asked a Dallas police officer who lives nearby to help her. The officer gave the child CPR, and someone called 911. Christian was pronounced dead at the scene.
Child Protective Services took custody of Wilson’s other sons, ages 3 and 6, on Wednesday, Brown said.
Wilson was being held Wednesday night at the Dallas County Jail, where her bail had not yet been set.

Woman Cashed Dead Mother's Social Security Checks for 6 years

SEBASTIAN, Fla. -- Police arrested a Sebastian, Fla., woman after discovering the mummified remains of her 96-year-old mother inside her home.
Authorities charged Penelope Jordan, 61, with fraud and grand theft, West Palm Beach television station WPBF reported.
Sebastian police received a search warrant to enter the home on Wimbrow Drive shortly before 5 p.m. Monday.
Code enforcement officers removed eight cats from the home during the weekend and notified police about possible human remains inside.
"There's excessive debris in the residence and it's very difficult to make your way around inside this house," Officer Steve Marcinik said. "While moving around in there, they observed something that was somewhat suspicious and upon that they notified law enforcement."
Neighbors had also been complaining of a foul smell coming from the home.
Michael Pearce said he's complained to the city about feral cats running loose on the property and a foul smell "for at least a decade, if not 12 years" since he has lived there.
Police said Timmie Jordan, 96, had been dead for years. Her mummified body was found in her bed.
Investigators said she still had on her nightgown and her skin had fused to the mattress.
Police said Penelope Jordan, her live-in daughter, admitted to cashing her mother's Social Security checks for at least six years. more

woman accused of felony child abuse charge for burning her brother with curling iron

FORT PIERCE — An 18-year-old woman accused of burning her younger brother with a curling iron after denying his request to take a shower faces a felony child abuse charge, according to a recently released arrest affidavit.
The 14-year-old victim told St. Lucie County Sheriff’s deputies that he walked in the bathroom late Sunday night and asked his sister, Zabrik Z. Byrd, if he could take a shower. Byrd, of the 3200 block of West Lake Drive, denied the request and locked the door.
The brother then opened the door with a knife and Byrd allegedly “used a curling iron and burned him on the chest and began punching him in the head,” the affidavit states.
Investigators saw a burn mark on Byrd’s brother’s chest and a cut on the bridge of his nose.
Byrd refused to speak with investigators and was arrested on a child abuse charge.