 An accused child molester cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet, then took a limousine to Chicago to appear on a popular TV talk show, authorities said.A judge set bail Friday at $50,000 for Mario Sims, 21, who had been awaiting trial on 2004 charges of child enticement and first-degree sexual assault of a child."A significant bond is legally necessary given the fact he absconded, admittedly for one of the more unique reasons I've heard in my time on the bench," Racine County Circuit Judge Emily Mueller said.Sims had been out of jail about three weeks when he cut off the bracelet and missed a court date Sept. 6. His defense attorney at the time, Domingo Cruz, told the judge his client was seen getting into the "Jerry Springer Show" limousine....
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 Teens Killed Mom, Hid Body For Month Police Charge Colo. Girl and Boyfriend With Murder After Body Found In Car Trunk |
For nearly a month after she was stabbed to death, Linda Damm's body lay in the trunk of her car inside her garage while her 15-year-old daughter and friends used her debit card to "do teenage stuff," police say. Three teens tried but failed to get rid of the body, investigators allege, once turning back because they got stuck in the mud of a nearby landfill and later retrieving the body from a grave they had just dug at the edge of a cemetery, fearing it was too shallow. They were planning to drive north to Wyoming for a third attempt, investigators claim, when an anonymous tip led police to Damm's body on Feb. 28 in her modest house in Lafayette, a small town about 20 miles northeast of Denver. Now Damm's daughter, Tess Damm, and Tess' live-in boyfriend, Bryan Grove, 17, are being held without bail, Grove on charges of murder, conspiracy and evidence-tampering and Tess on charges of conspiracy, accessory and evidence-tampering. Both are being prosecuted as adults. ...
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| Police smile at woman’s tale of stolen pot plants Middle-aged New Zealander cries to constable over theft of illegal weed |
A middle-aged New Zealand woman rang police to report a theft of cannabis plants she had been growing at her North Island home, local media reported.The crying woman told a constable at the police station in the city of Napier the plant theft was the fourth from her property in as many years. The 45-year-old woman, who was not named, lamented someone had again sneaked on to her property at night to steal her three carefully nurtured marijuana plants. Senior Sergeant Mal Lochrie told local media Friday that the officer found it hard to stop smiling as the women gave details of the theft over the phone.“I am a good person. I am sick of these low-lifes stealing my things,” the woman told a police communications officer....
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| Chicago fire kills 4, critically injures 1 |
An apartment building fire killed at least four people Saturday morning on the city's North Side, authorities said.One other man was critically injured when he jumped from a third floor window, said Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford."This is a bad one," Langford said.Firefighters were on the scene within about two minutes after the fire was reported, just before 7 a.m.The blaze was quickly extinguished, but when firefighters entered to search the building they found three people dead in one apartment and one dead in a second apartment, Langford said....
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| Iraq: Bloodshed may spread across Mideast Al-Maliki urges international help to fight nation's chaos |
Iraq’s prime minister appealed Saturday for international help to sever networks aiding extremists and warned envoys from neighbors and world powers that Iraq’s growing sectarian bloodshed could spill across the Middle East.“Iraq has become a front-line battlefield,” Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told delegates at a groundbreaking conference that brought together Islamic nations including Iran and Western representatives led by the United States.“(Iraq) needs support in this battle that not only threatens Iraq but will spill over to all countries in the region,” he added — shortly before mortar shells landed near the conference site and a car bomb exploded in a Shitte stronghold across the city. Al-Maliki urged for help in stopping financial support, weapon pipelines and “religious cover” for the relentless attacks of car bombings, killings and other attacks that have pitted Iraq’s Sunnis against majority Shiites....
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| Congressman's video blunder shows Democrats split on war |
A video of Rep. David R. Obey criticizing anti-war Democrats as "idiot liberals" circulated on Capitol Hill yesterday, with Republicans using it as an example of Democrats' split over the Iraq war. The 20-term Wisconsin Democrat, who voted against authorizing force in Iraq in 2002, was caught in an unflattering light on tape by the Occupation Project, an anti-war group making the rounds on the Hill. Yesterday, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee apologized for yelling at the group and said his outburst was "another example of a country needlessly and painfully divided on a war that I have opposed from the beginning." When members of the group, including the mother of an Iraq veteran, asked during a six-minute impromptu conversation if he supported cutting troop funding as a way to end the war in Iraq, Mr. Obey exploded. "We're trying to use the supplemental to end the war ... it's time these idiot liberals understand that," he said. ...
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