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“Authorities have recovered a stolen 18-carat gold bookmark that reportedly was given to Adolf Hitler by his longtime mistress, Eva Braun. Christian Popescu, a Romanian national, was arrested Tuesday outside a Bellevue Starbucks after trying to sell the bookmark to an undercover agent for $100,000, according to papers filed in U.S. District Court. Federal prosecutors said the bookmark was among several items taken in an auction-house heist in Madrid, Spain, six years ago.” [Link]
“The Orange County State Attorney’s office released almost 800 pages of discovery documents in the case of 22-year-old Casey Anthony, who has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and other charges in the June disappearance of her daughter Caylee. In mid-March, someone used the Anthonys’ home laptop to search Google and Wikipedia for peroxide, shovels, acetone, alcohol and chloroform.” [Link]
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“At a news conference late this evening, a police spokesman said Curtis Lavell Vance, 28, Marianna, Ark., is wanted for Pressly’s murder. They said they believe Vance is driving a black 1998 Oldsmobile Aurora, and said he was believed to be armed with a 9mm High Point pistol with extra ammunition. Vance was believed to be traveling with a woman named Sheanika Cooper, 25, and three small children, police said.” [Link]
“Frederick Purvis, 42, is accused of sending e-mails to two local media outlets and to the FBI threatening Paul Brown Stadium, four bridges over the Ohio River, the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, and an Indiana casino, FBI spokesman Mike Brooks said. Brooks said Purvis was arrested Thursday at a hotel in Erlanger, Ky., near the airport. He was being held on federal charges of making bomb threats and distributing a bomb hoax.” [Link]
“Michael Kolb, 23, 1023 N. Seminary Ave., Woodstock, approached the girl in late October while she was doing community service work at the school, Hebron Police Chief Dale Egland said. ‘He asked her if she was still doing some modeling work to which she said yes,’ Egland said. ‘He told her there was more money to be made in the adult film business.’ Egland said the girl then left, but on Nov. 4 Kolb pulled her into a back room at the school.” [Link]
“The U.S. Army is investigating a soldier who allegedly videotaped his son in a battle with another toddler and allowed the tape to be spread on the Internet. Alicia Scheideger, the boy’s mother, told ABC News her ex-husband, who is stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, had custody of the boy. She said she was the one who notified authorities of the video, which has been removed from the Internet. ‘I was horrified. It’s a baby cockfight just like somebody put two animals up to fight each other,’ Scheideger said.” [Link]
“The children, all younger than 18 and part of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, were taken while custody hearings were being held for six girls seized during a September raid of Alamo’s compound in Fouke, in southwest Arkansas. The court must decide whether the girls should be returned to their parents or remain in state care.” [Link]
“ABC says Ashley Alexandra Dupre sat down with Diane Sawyer on the program ‘20/20.’ Dupre reveals how an ‘upper middle-class, girl next door got into the profession and the psychological journey she continues to experience.’” [Link]
“Casey Anthony, 22, filed a counter lawsuit against Orlando resident Zenaida Fernandez Gonzalez, after Gonzalez sued her days earlier for saying she was the baby sitter Anthony left then 2-year-old Caylee with when she vanished, according to MyFOXOrlando.com. Anthony is jailed on first-degree murder and other charges in the disappearance of her little girl, who is presumed dead.” [Link]
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“Jennifer Love Hewitt has called in the police after her trailer on the set of TV show Ghost Whisperer was broken into last week. The actress lost a number of personal items in the burglary, which occurred during filming at the Universal Studios lot in Hollywood.” [Link]
“University of Illinois police have served search warrants on the home, computer and e-mail accounts of a former gymnastics coach who’s being investigated after a video camera was discovered in a locker room. Sgt. Tom Geis says investigators are going over the information recovered from Jon Valdez’s home. He says they hope to turn the information over to Champaign County prosecutors this week. Valdez helped train U.S. gymnasts at the Beijing Olympics.” [Link]
“‘We can confirm the ship is anchoring off the Somali coast at Haradheere,’ said Lt. Nathan Christensen, spokesman for the U.S. Fifth Fleet. Haradheere is situated roughly in the center of Somalia’s coastline. ‘All 25 crew members on board are believed to be safe,’ Vela International, the shipping arm of state oil giant Saudi Aramco, said in an earlier statement.” [Link]
“Melanie Vanessa Mitchell was charged Monday with aggravated battery with a weapon, and is being held on $10,000 bond. More charges are expected. Friday night’s fight at Martin County High School occurred during a game between longtime rival South Fork High School. One person involved in the fight was Tasered by a deputy.” [Link]
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“Heather Locklear has just been charged with one count of driving under the influence of drugs….prescription medications. No alcohol and no illegal narcotics were found in Heather’s system. ” [Link]
“Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has been charged by the SEC with insider trading relating to Mamma.com. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Mark Cuban insider trading charges stem from and allegation that he sold shares of Mamma.com prior to a private offering.” [Link]
“A 30-year-old woman was found dead in a parked car outside Paula Abdul’s home on Tuesday. A source close to Abdul tells X17online that Paula was at an American Idol meeting when the body was discovered. “Paula is upset, you can imagine how disturbing this would be to someone,” the sources tells X17online.” [Link]
“An Oklahoma woman invited to a rural Louisiana campsite for a Ku Klux Klan initiation ritual was shot and killed after she asked to be taken back to town, the sheriff of a New Orleans suburb said Tuesday. Eight people were arrested after authorities found the woman’s body hidden under some brush, on the side of a road several miles from the remote campsite where the initiation was planned.” [Link]
“‘We are profoundly saddened to tell you that our dear Anne has lost her struggle for life,’ Guy and Patti Cannady, Pressly’s parents, said in a statement posted on the KATV Web site. ‘It was our hope, as was yours, that Anne would overcome the injuries inflicted upon her in the brutal attack at her home. We were with her in her last moments, and although our hearts are broken, we are at the same time comforted by our faith knowing that Anne is now with our Heavenly Father. ” [Link]
“Authories have arrested a suspect in the shooting deaths of Jennifer Hudson’s brother, Jason Hudson, 29, and mother, Darnell Donerson, 57. Responding to a call made by a family member who discovered the bodies, police found the pair a little before 3 p.m.” [Link]
“Law enforcement sources tell TMZ Jennifer Hudson’s mother was one of two victims shot and killed in Chicago earlier today. A neighbor tells TMZ the other victim was Jennifer’s brother Jason. A cousin who lived nearby discovered the bodies.” [Link]
“A Manhattan judge sentenced actress Anne Hathaway’s ex-boyfriend to 4 1/2 years in prison for cheating investors by claiming he had Vatican connections that allowed him to buy Catholic Church property at a discount.” [Link]
“Threatening letters sent this week to banks and financial institutions declare ‘it’s payback time’ and promise death to its readers, according to the text of the message released Thursday. More than 50 letters mailed to Chase Bank branches and federal regulatory offices in 11 cities this week, most filled with white powder, have so far tested negative for any dangerous toxins. ” [Link]
“Crystal Mangum appeared Thursday in Durham to promote the book. It was her first public appearance since making the debunked allegations more than two years ago. In the book, Mangum says, ‘I want to assert, without equivocation, that I was assaulted. Make of that what you will. You will decide what that means to you because the state of North Carolina saw fit not to look at all that happened the night I became infamous.’” [Link]
“The report by psychiatrist Adelheid Kastner says Joseph Fritzl’s mother humiliated him in childhood, creating his need to ‘possess a human being’. Mr Fritzl said he had an ‘evil streak’ and that he ‘could have behaved a lot worse than locking up my daughter’.” [Link]
“Alton police charged Jamie E. Day, 24, of the 400 block of Brookshire in Jerseyville, with lewd entertainment following her arrest at 2:40 p.m. Friday at the Pub Room, 230 E. Broadway. Someone called police to complain about the woman, who ‘was observed totally nude while tending bar at the Pub Room,’ a brief Alton Police Department report says.” [Link]
“Harrods department store owner Mohamed Al Fayed has been questioned by police over allegations of a sexual assault on a girl under 16. Police are investigating claims the girl, reported to be 15, was assaulted at business premises in central London.” [Link]
“San Francisco would become the first major U.S. city to decriminalize prostitution if voters next month approve Proposition K — a measure that forbids local authorities from investigating, arresting or prosecuting anyone for selling sex. The ballot question technically would not legalize prostitution since state law still prohibits it, but the measure would eliminate the power of local law enforcement officials to go after prostitutes.” [Link]
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“Nineteen-year-old Josh Holly told Wired.com that his Murfreesboro, Tenn.home was raided by the FBI on Monday, during which the authorities seized three computers and a cell phone. ‘I was just kind of shaking. I was thrown way off guard,’ he told Wired.com. ‘I guess somebody ended up ratting me out.’” [Link]
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“A popular math teacher at a Tennessee high school has been charged with having sex with at least three of her male students. The investigation into Sandy Binkley began after a parent wondered why a teacher was sending her son a text message saying ‘I’ll have to mark you absent,’ The (Nashville) Tennessean reported. ” [Link]
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“Skylar Deleon — a child star on TV’s Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers — has been found guilty of murdering three people, including a couple who were tied to an anchor and thrown off their yacht off the California coast. According to The Associated Press, Deleon, 29, was convicted Monday in the deaths of Tom Hawks, 57, and his wife Jackie, 47, who were thrown from their yacht in 2004 during a cruise” [Link]
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“KATV anchor Anne Pressly, 26, was found about 4:30 a.m. Monday by her mother, who went to the house when her daughter didn’t answer a wake-up call, Little Rock police spokesman Cassandra Davis said. Davis said investigators are talking to Pressly’s co-workers to determine whether she ‘has had any problems.’” [Link]
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“Someone called from Cornelius’ home and LAPD responded to a ‘domestic dispute.’ After arriving on scene, they arrested 72-year-old Cornelius on charges of felony domestic violence. He was taken to the LAPD jail in Van Nuys where his bail was set at $50,000. He was released at 5 AM.” [Link]
“State and local investigators allege that Mark Jacoby fraudulently registered himself to vote at a childhood California address where he no longer lives so he would appear to meet the legal requirement that all signature gatherers be eligible to vote in California. His firm, Young Political Majors, or YPM, collects petition signatures and registers voters in California and other states.” [Link]
“Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson has been charged with simple assault for allegedly pushing a woman at a Kansas City nightclub in February, the third time he has faced assault charges against a woman. Johnson, 28, was charged last month for a Feb. 24 incident at the Grand Emporium Saloon. A 26-year-old woman accused Johnson of pushing the side of her head with an open hand, telling her ‘don’t touch me’ as he made his way through the club.” [Link]
“Federal authorities in Chicago say they’ve shut down one of the largest spam e-mail operations in the world. The Federal Trade Commission says the group generated e-mails promoting sales of prescription drugs and ‘male enhancement’ pills. The FTC says authorities closed the operation by working with their counterparts in New Zealand.” [Link]
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“A man was arrested at Heathrow airport in London today for going ballistic on Mel B, Stephen Belafonte and a group of photogs. At around 3 PM, Mel, Stephen and their baby arrived at Heathrow and were greeted by a few photogs. As they were exiting the airport a random man approached them and started talking to Belafonte. We don’t know what was said between the two, but the man suddenly went crazy, screaming things like ‘I’ll get a knife and stab you’ at Stephen. ” [Link]
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“Canceco was detained at San Diego’s San Ysidro border crossing Thursday after agents searched his vehicle and said they found human chorionic gonadotropin, which is illegal without a prescription, said his attorney, Gregory Emerson. Emerson declined to say if Canseco — who admitted to using steroids in a 2005 book that also alleged steroid use by other baseball players — had the drug, which is banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency for use in males.” [Link]
“Police arrested 27-year-old Brooke Biggs Thursday at a home in Osceola. She teaches 7th and 8th grade P.E. at Grissom Middle School and coaches some Penn High School sports. Almost every parent and student WSBT spoke with after school Thursday said the accusations against the teacher are a huge surprise. ‘I don’t believe it right now,’ said Grissom parent Kim Rassi. ‘She’s my favorite teacher,’ 8th grade Grissom student Aundraya Leemreis told WSBT. ” [Link]
“Police said when they found April Griffin, 29, and her son at the house of a relative Friday she gripped the boy so tightly they had to stun her, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported. The Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare has custody of the 2-year-old. DeAngela Ellis, a lawyer for Legal Action for Wisconsin, said the father, Matthew Sebuliba, and his son will be reunited soon.” [Link]
“Police say the girl, her 5-year-old niece and a friend were standing in line on Sept. 14 at the McDonald’s in South Los Angeles. The suspect and two young boys then approached the counter when the 16-year-old started arguing with the man over who was first in line. Police say the girl swore at the man, who then got angry and punched her in the face several times.” [Link]
“State attorneys say John LaVoie should be forever barred from the massage business because he ran a house of prostitution camouflaged as a church.
But in his latest court argument, the Tucson man says he hired women at Angel’s Heaven Relaxation Spa — near University Medical Center — not to sell sex but to comfort the afflicted through the religious act of ‘laying on of hands.’ ” [Link]
“Kinnecom pleaded guilty last year to posting sexually explicit photographs a woman on the Internet without her knowledge or consent. He was sentenced on Friday in state Superior Court, Morristown, to probation, community service and counseling. ” [Link]
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“Actress Heather Locklear was arrested Saturday night on suspicion of drunk driving in Montecito, police said this morning. Locklear, no longer in custody, was arrested by the California Highway Patrol and booked around 8 p.m., said Sgt. Alex Tipolt of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department. ” [Link]
“Alamo was staying at a hotel in Flagstaff, Ariz., when arrested, said FBI spokesman Steve Frazier in Little Rock. The religious leader — who began his career as a California street preacher in 1966 — was scheduled for a federal court appearance Friday in Flagstaff.” [Link]
“Police say members of an Arizona State University fraternity vomited milk from a campus bridge and caused a car crash that injured two people. Tempe police Sgt. Steve Carbajal says the prank caused a woman in one car to stop in the road Monday night. Another car smashed into it from behind.” [Link]
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“A woman working at a beer tent last July told an officer she thought the man was joking when he asked for two beers — one for him and another for his 4-year-old son. When he was questioned by an officer, he told him it’s legal for underage children to drink in Wisconsin, as long as they’re with their parents. The officer countered that the boys weren’t old enough to know what they were drinking.” [Link]
“Troy Davis, 39, had been slated to be put to death at 7 p.m. EDT. The stay will remain in effect while the court considers Davis’ appeal. Davis wants the high court to order a judge to hear from the witnesses who recanted their testimony and others who say another man confessed to the crime.” [Link]