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Blog Post Archive
Harper Lee Sues Agent Over To Kill a Mockingbird
Atticus! Harper Lee has sued her former literary agent, claiming that he tricked her into signing over the rights and royalties of To Kill a Mockingbird, reports Reuters. The 87-year-old author alleges that Samuel Pinkus, the son-in-law of her late longtime agent, pulled a fast one on her while she...
Cause of Death: Gunshots, Blunt Force Trauma
The death certificate of Tamerlan Tsarnaev apparently will hold no surprises. While Massachusetts officials have yet to release it publicly, the owner of the Worcester funeral home with his body said it lists the cause of death as "gunshot wounds of torso and extremities" and "blunt trauma to head and...
Soccer Ref in Coma After Being Punched by Teen
A soccer referee in Utah is in a coma after being punched by a teenager during a weekend game. Police say a 17-year-old player in a recreational soccer league punched 46-year-old Ricardo Portillo on Saturday after Portillo called a foul and issued him a yellow card. Portillo remains in critical...
Cops: Prostitute Steals Teen Victim's Piggy Bank
So many life lessons in this one: Police in suburban Chicago say a 14-year-old boy who was home alone arranged online for a prostitute to visit. She arrived, told the boy to take off his pants, then doused him pepper spray, reports the Tribune. The woman took the teen's iPad...
Tamerlan's Undertaker: 'I'm Not Honoring a Terrorist'
Burying Tamerlan Tsarnaev isn't for the faint of heart—protesters gathered last night around a funeral home where the Boston bomber's body was initially taken after the state released it —but Peter Stefan is determined to do it. "I'm not honoring a terrorist," Stefan tells the Worcester Telegram. "I'm just...
Trouble for Store Named 'Finders Keepers'
Ruben Pavon swears he didn't mean to steal a grill and a DVD player from a New Hampshire thrift store—he just thought the business's name, Finders Keepers, meant they were free, WCVB reports. "The sign did say 'Finders Keepers.' So I took that DVD player, took it home,...
OK, Now Lindsay Lohan Is in Rehab
Lindsay Lohan's attorney told a judge yesterday that she was safely "ensconced in the bosom" of a California rehab facility, but she actually never checked in. For a while, as the AP reported, her whereabouts were unknown; she ended up checking into a different California facility late yesterday, TMZ reports....
Meth Ingredient Continually Stolen From Texas Plant
First we learned the exploded Texas fertilizer plant was lacking in basic fire safety protection, then that it didn't report several hundred tons of ammonium nitrate to Homeland Security. This week's revelation: West Fertilizer Co. was a repeat target of thieves stealing anhydrous ammonia and tampering with tank valves, which...
Did Houston Gunman Plan Bigger Attack?
The gunman who was killed—possibly by his own hand —at a Houston airport yesterday left a number of chilling posts on Facebook the day before, prompting CBS News to suggest he was planning a mass shooting. But a note he was carrying, discovered after he was shot, said he'd...
Boston Suspects First Planned Attack for July 4
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told investigators that he and his brother originally planned their attack for July 4th—but they built their bombs so quickly that they moved the mission up to the day of the Boston Marathon, reports outlets including the New York Times, Boston Globe, and CBS News. All of...
Family Claims Body of Tamerlan
The family of Tamerlan Tsarnaev—or at least the funeral home it hired—claimed his body from Massachusetts officials today, reports AP. Widow Katherine Russell agreed earlier this week to release it to his side of the family. It's not clear yet where Tamerlan will be buried, though the development...
Woman, 76, Gets 10 Years for 1957 Murder of Daughter
Prosecutors wanted the judge to impose a 45-day jail sentence along with 10 years of probation. Instead, she gave 76-year-old Ruby Klokow of Sheboygan 10 years in prison after Klokow pleaded no contest to killing her infant daughter in 1957, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. A lesser sentence would "unduly...
Carriers Ignore, Profit From Phone Thefts, Say Cops
Cell phone thefts are on the rise across the country, and police say the people swiping them aren't the only ones to blame. "The carriers are not innocent in this whole game," Washington DC's police chief tells the New York Times. "They are making profit off this." Carriers mostly trust...
White House Shooter Riled About Pot Law: Prosecutors
Prosecutors believe Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, who was arrested after allegedly shooting the White House in 2011, may have been motivated by his unhappiness with US marijuana policy, the AP reports. The Idaho 22-year-old "expressed anger toward the government regarding the continued criminalization of marijuana," they say in a newly filed...
Woman Makes Most-Wanted List 40 Years After Murder
The FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list now contains its first female: Joanne Chesimard. Her name was added to the list on the 40th anniversary of the murder of New Jersey state Trooper Werner Foerster, who was killed during a traffic stop, reports Fox News. Chesimard was convicted of the 1973...
A $240M Win for Disabled Workers 'Treated Like Cattle'
A now-defunct turkey plant accused of abusing its workers for decades has been ordered to pay $240 million in damages to 32 of its former employees. The men, who were granted $7.5 million each, were among hundreds of mentally disabled Henry's Turkey Service workers sent from Texas to a...
Why I Broke Up With Dzhokhar
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev certainly didn't seem like a devout Muslim to a woman who had what she calls a "fleeting fling" with him at UMass-Dartmouth. Though she describes herself as being "very forward" ("I walked right up to him and I was like, 'Oh my God, you are adorable. Can we...
Man Jailed for DUI ... for 13 Years
When does a DUI conviction carry a 13-year prison sentence? Apparently, when it's your eighth one. That's what Timothy Morrow, 43, found out yesterday, the Chicago Tribune reports. Morrow has not only been convicted eight times—with the first coming at age 17—he's been cited nine more times for...
Pa. Woman Declared Dead Turns Up After 11 Years
A central Pennsylvania woman who mysteriously disappeared after dropping off her children for school 11 years ago has surfaced in Florida, telling police she traveled there on a whim with homeless hitchhikers, slept under bridges, and survived by scavenging food and panhandling. Brenda Heist, 54, had been declared legally dead,...
Mom Who Lost Girls to Fire: Town Profited Off Tragedy
There's no question that Madonna Badger suffered an unspeakable tragedy—losing her three daughters and both parents to a Christmas Day fire. But in new court papers, she asserts that the horrors of her experience didn't end there: Connecticut building officials ordered her $1.7 million home torn down less...