According to prosecutors, 16-year-old Rufus Bowman "picked the wrong prostitute to rob." Because the prostitute he picked was the six-foot, 280-pound Joshua Bumpus (pictured), who "beat the [daylights] out of" Bowman—even though he'd been shot.
On today's Swift Justice, Nancy Grace scolded a guest for smiling during a discussion about polygraph tests. After that, the man unleashed the best voice crack ever. I'd be smiling, too if my voice sounded an like auto-tuned T-Pain song!
A New Jersey postal contractor driver has been charged with the old-timey crime of "desertion of mails," for a May incident in which he just dumped 32,000 pieces of mail into the woods. He was having a bad day!
Asked how her daughter went from cherubic medical anomaly to cold-blooded killer, the mother of 'Hiccup Girl' Jennifer Mee mused, "Where things went wrong I do not know." But she believes the "curse of the hiccups" is where it began.
In the criminal pecking order, "Facebook games burglar" probably comes close to last. But that isn't stopping the Italian authorities from investigating the burglary of a virtual home belonging to a 44-year-old Facebook user living in Sicily.
Early this morning, 21 year-old Christopher Jusko was stabbed to death in his East Seventh Street apartment in Manhattan. He died on the sidewalk in front of his building. Below is a photo of the aftermath. Warning: It's very graphic.
19-year-old Jennifer Mee, who in 2007 was made famous for hiccuping 50 times a minute for five weeks straight, has been charged with first degree murder in Florida. Mee and two other girls allegedly killed someone during a botched robbery.
We've heard about the troubling behavior of Meg Whitman's eldest son, Griffith Harsh, who has been arrested twice and accused of rape. Let's check in on younger brother William. He appeared in court on Tuesday on a careless driving charge.
When provoked, nerds may react with the fury of a cave troll. Earlier this week, a Canadian high school student was beaten at the hands of a group of kids he trash-talked in the computer game Warcraft III.
Finally, a lucky break for Lindsay Lohan: At today's court appearance, the judge decided she won't go to jail. She will have to stay in rehab until January 3, 2011, though. How will the paparazzi survive that long without her?
As a student at Princeton University, the son of California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman—one of the school's most celebrated donors—was accused of sexually assaulting a classmate. This is the story of the explosive accusation and its quiet aftermath.
The gang of eight treasury-draining officials in Bell, California went to court and pleaded not guilty yesterday. All of them, not guilty! Even the city manager earning $800K, and the "disabled" running police chief. We were all wrong about them.
Els Clottemans, a 26 year-old mentally unstable Belgian skydiver, has been sentenced to 30 years for murdering a woman with whom she shared a lover by disabling the woman's parachute. Love triangles in parachute clubs are a dangerous game.
Alan Newton (pictured) was convicted of rape and jailed 22 years before being cleared by DNA evidence in 2006. Yesterday, a jury awarded him $18.5 million in compensation. Is that enough?
Steven Slater, the JetBlue flight attendant who walked off the job via inflatable slide, pleaded guilty today to two counts of criminal mischief. He will avoid jailtime by undergoing therapy and substance abuse treatment. Slater previously self-identified as an alcoholic.
Saudi prince Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud has been found guilty of strangling and beating his servant to death in a London hotel last February, in a drunken attack with "a sexual element." He'll be sentenced tomorrow. [BBC]