Police dispatchers are no strangers to accidental calls, although usually these “butt dials” reveal little more than muffled, innocuous chatter, broadcast from the pocket of an innocent civilian. But when a 24-year-old …
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WATCH: The Hollywood-Style Police Raid on Kim Dotcom’s Mansion
With two helicopters, four trucks, dogs and automatic weapons, the Jan. 20 raid of the Megaupload founder’s New Zealand home has all the makings of a movie.
Zimmerman Defense Team to Seek ‘Stand Your Ground’ Hearing
George Zimmerman’s lawyers want a hearing to argue that he defended himself under Florida’s controversial statute in hopes of getting charges against him dropped in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin
Colo. Health Officials to Thief: Don’t Open That Box
If the person who removed a radioactive sensor from a local construction site would please return it unopened, the people of Denver would be very grateful.
‘You Just Got Robbed’: Thieves Make Up Fake Reality Show to Hold Up Pizzeria
The reality show was a hoax, but the robbery was very real.
Man Accuses Prison of Violating His 13th Amendment Rights (You Know, The One That Banned Slavery)
It’s been 147 years since slavery was abolished in the United States, but one man believes a Vermont prison treated him as if he were back in the 1800s. Finbar McGarry has filed a lawsuit against the state’s prison system and a …
How MIT Students Won $8 Million in the Massachusetts Lottery
MIT students figured out how to make winning the Massachusetts lottery a sure thing, and a recent investigation suggests that the lottery commission knew about it.
Sikh Temple Shooter Identified, Had Ties to White-Supremacist Movement
Wade Michael Page, who police say shot and killed six people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, was involved in the white-power movement, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center
Outlaw Ned Kelly’s Remains Given to Family — 132 Years After His Death
The family of Ned Kelly, Australia’s most infamous outlaw, can now finally hold his funeral, 132 years after he was hanged for murder.
DNA testing last November confirmed that bones found in a mass grave outside the now closed …
Plow the Lot: Angry Farmer Flattens Seven Police Cars with Tractor in Vermont
It was a scene straight out of a monster truck derby, but it happened in the parking lot of a Vermont police station. A local farmer, likely upset over his recent arrest for marijuana possession and resisting arrest, took his …
New York City Doctor Charged with Taking Video Up Woman’s Skirt
A Manhattan doctor was arraigned Thursday after he was caught allegedly taking video up a woman’s skirt on the New York City subway Wednesday evening, the Wall Street Journal reports. The doctor, Adam W. Levinson, works as an …
Man Allegedly Assaults Girlfriend After Accusing Her of Affair with Mitt Romney
A man mistook Mitt Romney for his girlfriend’s lover and allegedly assaulted her over it.