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Brazilian Politician Solicits Votes with Leaflets, Packets of Cocaine
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/09/12 11:40AMElderly Couple Claims Giant Cannabis Plant Purchased by Accident at Flea Market
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/09/12 08:15AMHamilton Nolan · 10/08/12 03:00PM
Does This Look Like the Face of a Man Who Would Attempt to Abduct a 10-Year-Old Boy?
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/08/12 01:52PMWoman on Probation for Soliciting a Dog for Sex Accidentally Jailed
Taylor Berman · 10/07/12 10:13PMPolice in Alabama Shot and Killed a Naked College Freshman Saturday Morning
Taylor Berman · 10/07/12 08:23PM
Police officers shot and killed a naked 18-year-old freshman outside of the University of South Alabama police station early Saturday morning. According to the police report, an officer heard a loud noise outside the station. When he went to investigate, he was, according to the school, "confronted by a muscular, nude man who was acting erratically."
Brawl Between Two Wedding Parties in Philly Results in One Death, Three Arrests
Taylor Berman · 10/07/12 06:28PMTeenage Murderer Confesses to Killing Mom and Sister: 'I Am Pretty, I Guess, Evil ... Whatever'
Louis Peitzman · 10/07/12 11:53AMNew York's Finest Bills Parents for Damage to Cop Car That Killed Their Son
John Cook · 10/05/12 03:06PM
When they're not busy cold rapin' ladies, members of the New York City Police Department often like to run over black people with their cars, as two of them allegedly did to Tamon Robinson earlier this year in Queens, killing him. Robinson ran after the cops tried to stop him for removing paving stones from the street, so they drove up onto the sidewalk and ran him over, with their car. Anyway he died but there was a pretty big dent in the cop car so last month they sent a repair bill to his grieving family. Freedom isn't free, people.
Punching Your Lawyer in the Face During Sentencing Probably Won't Reduce Your Prison Time
Neetzan Zimmerman · 10/04/12 04:10PMPolice Find $10 Million of Marijuana Growing on Chicago's South Side
Taylor Berman · 10/03/12 10:50PM
Chicago police discovered roughly $10 million worth of pot growing in a field on Chicago's South Side. The plants, some of which were ten feet tall, took up a plot of land the size of two football fields. Even with so much weed, authorities only found the field during a routine helicopter patrol, and even that was mostly due to luck, according to Cook County Sherriff's officer Ed Graney.
Did You Know It Is Illegal to Ride a Manatee?
Caity Weaver · 10/02/12 05:46PM'Kidnapped' Teen Kara Alongi Caught on Camera Taking the Train Out of Town
Adrian Chen · 10/02/12 02:44PM
Here is Kara Alongi, the 16-year-old whose fake tweet about being kidnapped set off an internet firestorm, caught by a surveillance camera at the Rahway station in New Jersey on Sunday night. The picture was taken at 6:34 P.M., just about fifteen minutes after she had tweeted: "There is somone in my house call 911." Police have learned that she bought a ticket to Penn Station, New York that night, confirming their suspicion that she was a runaway, not a kidnap victim. They're still looking for her. As of this writing, Kara Alongi has 109,000 followers on Twitter.
This Newspaper Photo of an Office Is What Keeps One Prison Inmate in Solitary Going
Hamilton Nolan · 10/02/12 01:12PM
Adrian is a prisoner in an isolation cell in a New York State prison, due to be released in September of 2015. He spends 23 hours per day locked in his cell. The picture above, clipped from a newspaper and festooned with motivational reminders, hangs on his cell wall "to remind him of his dream to work in an office one day."
Oregon Man Gets Devoured by Hogs
Louis Peitzman · 10/01/12 07:19PMLindsay Lohan Allegedly Assaulted After She Confronts Man for Taking Her Picture (UPDATE)
Taylor Berman · 09/30/12 01:34PM
Amanda Bynes' number one rival Lindsay Lohan is in the news again, although this time it appears the incident wasn't her fault. According to TMZ and the New York Post, Lohan was partying in a Manhattan hotel room with several friends and a few others when a man, who TMZ identifies as Christian LaBella, took a cell phone picture of her. Lindsay, being Lindsay, took umbrage and confronted LaBella, who then allegedly assaulted her. Says TMZ: