http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060828/ap_on_re_us/jonbenet_ramsey_419 Prosecutors abruptly dropped their case Monday against John Mark Karr in the slaying of JonBenet Ramsey, saying DNA tests failed to put him at the crime scene despite his insistence he strangled the 6-year-old beauty queen. Does this surprise anyone? He’s the wrong kind of creepy for this crime – not the kind of […]
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CTV Toronto – Six GTA shootings mar first weekend of summer – CTV News
http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20060625/gta_shootings_060625/20060625?hub=TorontoHome And for the third time in five days, a police officer shot and struck a suspect who used his vehicle to try and run down the officer. In that incident, which took place at about 3:15 a.m. Saturday in Scarborough, the officer shot and struck the 23-year-old suspect behind the wheel, but he too […]
The Don’t-Bother-to-Knock Rule – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/opinion/16fri1.html?ex=1150689600&en=95695c4cba23e074&ei=5087 Another step away from former privacy rules by the rejigged US Supreme Court, and it’s small enough and positioned in such a way that most Republicans will support it. But all these baby steps add up, and each ruling takes the US further down the path to Big Brotherhood. Once you get there, it […]
Life after a lonesome death | Music | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,,1424244,00.html A reprinted Mother Jones article that asks what became of a real-life subject in a Bob Dylan protest song: “What comes through in the stories about the march is a vast sense of relief – shared, presumably, by the reporters, the papers’ management and their readership – that the 200,000 or more assembled “Negroes” […]
New Orleans Metblogs
http://neworleans.metblogs.com/ Holy crap! *bump* I stumbled this yesterday because the sheer size of the hurricane blew me away (pun intended). On an even more puerile level, it makes the Southeast look even more anatomically correct…
BBC NEWS | Americas | Man shoots postman to get jailed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4687073.stm Another reason to be glad I’m Canadian: “Mr Crutchfield told police that he shot the postman as a way of escaping medical debts of $90,000 (51,000). He said he feared losing his home and thought that living in prison would be better than surviving on the street. “He was saying that he wanted to […]
Hate Map | Southern Poverty Law Center
http://splcenter.org/intel/map/hate.jsp Who’dve thought that the Dakotas would be an island of sanity surrounded by a sea of crackpots?