Two men found shot dead execution-style in their SUV near Union Square in Manhattan yesterday were each witnesses to separate murders in NYC last year—but cops don't think that's why they were killed.

This is Senior U.S. District Judge Jack T. Camp Jr., former chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Atlanta. He just got arrested for buying coke, weed, and prescription painkillers. From a stripper.

Legendary Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, the "Merchant of Death," was cleared for extradition to the US in August on weapons charges, but extra charges the US tacked on have stalled his extradition, or maybe not. Nice work, DoJ.

Colorado police are conducting a new round of interviews in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case.

Veteran CBS Radio reporter Howard Arenstein and his wife, Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reporter Orly Azoulay, were arrested yesterday at their home in DC for growing 11 marijuana plants. Selling drugs is better than working in media these days, apparently.

As the uproar surrounding the suicide of 18-year-old Rutgers student Tyler Clementi escalates, prosecutors are considering whether they can charge the students who broadcast video of Tyler making out with a man before his death with a hate crime.

Now that sexy Russian spy Anna Chapman is but a stale post on the Facebook wall of our sad lives, we've been waiting patiently for a sexy Russian criminal to fill the void. Enter Kristina Svechinskaya, cybercriminal

It was all theoretical when the pirates were patrolling the waters off of Somalia. But it's getting too close for comfort: now, there are Mexican pirates. Right on the border. Shooting at American jet-skis.

Cecilia Chang, the former dean of the Institute of Asian Studies at St. John's University, is a terrible person. She stands accused of embezzling $1 million from her school. Also: forcing scholarship students to be her servants. Positively Dickensian!

20-year-old Harley Davidson Ironwing—a known accomplice of "Barefoot Bandit" Colton Harris-Moore—was given an 18-month jail sentence after he knocked over an old man during a botched string cheese heist at a grocery store. That's some luck. [Everett Herald]

A man was stabbed to death outside the bar where he worked in Brooklyn early Thursday morning during a fight that apparently stemmed from disagreement over the two participants' dogs. Another bartender was stabbed in the neck.

There are a lot of things one expects to see on the community bulletin board inside the Park Slope Food Coop: Ads for babysitters, ads for book groups, announcements of boycotts, announcements of counter-boycotts. Not usually on the list, however, is a handmade sign shouting "I hired a hooker and she stole my dog!!!! Waahhhh!!!"

Montana resident David Sicotte pleaded not guilty to hitting his pregnant sister in the mouth with "a large wrench" at her wedding reception. Before that, he'd "pushed his sister's new mother-in-law to the ground and started fighting with the groom."

Law enforcement in the U.S. and Britain say they've nailed 80+ people for stealing millions of dollars from bank accounts using computer viruses. The group even had its own "money mules."

Police believe they may have found the body of Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers student who jumped to his death after a roommate spied on him having gay sex. Meanwhile, some Rutgers students are saying Clementi's roommate's actions were misinterpreted.

Max Moreno was a 21 year-old Pace University business student who cops say was selling weed out of his luxury apartment in the Financial District. Wednesday morning, two people ran up in his apartment and shot him dead.

Margaret Matthews, a 68 year-old Chicago woman, was reportedly being "terrorized" by a group of middle school vandals in her neighborhood. So when one of them broke her window, she shot him. He's 12. She's already a folk hero.

Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei, both 18, have been charged with planting a webcam in a Rutgers dorm and broadcasting a classmate's sexual encounter. The classmate is believed to have committed suicide. Here's what Dharun did, step by step.

A New York City traffic agent was savagely beaten in the Bronx this morning while trying to give a double-parked car a ticket. He's now in the hospital with a fractured skull.

The University of Texas shooter's been identified as 19 year-old sophomore math major Colton Tooley.