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Vandals Strike Minnesota Parks During Shutdown

Vandals Hit Minnesota
Parks During Shutdown

Jul 6, 2011 2:57 PM CDT

Vandals Hit Minnesota Parks During Shutdown

State sites remain unattended

(Newser) - The government shutdown in Minnesota has claimed an unexpected casualty—state parks. Vandals ransacked buildings and burglarized parks over the holiday weekend, reports the Star Tribune . The most severe damage was done at a park east of the Twin Cities, where 12 people were arrested for allegedly breaking into camper...

Body in Creek
May Be Missing
College Student

Jul 5, 2011 1:58 AM CDT

Body in Creek May Be Missing College Student

Police awaiting test results

(Newser) - A badly decomposed body found in a creek may be that of a missing Indiana University student, reports AP . Police are comparing any identifying characteristics and awaiting test results of today's autopsy, officials tell the Bloomington Herald Times. Bloomington student Lauren Spierer, 20, was last seen by friends walking...

Woman Tracks Stolen iPad Online, Can't Convince Cops to Help

Woman Tracks Stolen iPad,
Can't Convince Cops to Help

Woman Tracks Stolen iPad, Can't Convince Cops to Help

She found the exact house where it turned up with app, to no avail

(Newser) - There's an app for pretty much everything—except cutting through bureaucracy. A woman who mistakenly left her iPad on a plane was able to track the whereabouts of the device, but couldn't convince authorities to follow up on it, reports the Syracuse Post-Standard , via the Consumerist . The woman...

Hair Fetishist
Guilty of
Murder

Jun 30, 2011 2:05 AM CDT

Hair Fetishist Guilty of Murder

Danilo Restivo a suspect in several similar killings

(Newser) - An Italian who committed a bizarre hair ritual murder has been convicted by a British court of killing a young mother of two, and may be responsible for several similar deaths. Danilo Restivo will be sent today to prison for life for killing neighbor Heather Barnett nine years ago in...

Medical Student Charged
With Killing 14 Dogs

Jun 29, 2011 3:58 AM CDT

Medical Student Charged With Killing 14 Dogs

Cops respond after tip that Italian greyhounds were disappearing

(Newser) - A Michigan medical student is being charged with torturing and killing up to 14 dogs he purchased in the last nine months. Police checked on David Thompson, 24, after a tipster complained that he was bringing in a large number of dogs, mostly Italian greyhounds, that were never seen again....

Cannibal Killer Gets Life

Jun 28, 2011 12:03 AM CDT

Cannibal Killer Gets Life

He confesses to eating flesh of one of two teen victims

(Newser) - A German identified only as "Jan O.," who admitted eating the flesh of one of his two teenage victims, has been sentenced to life in prison. The killer, 26, confessed to licking blood from the wound of a 14-year-old girl he murdered and eating her flesh. He had...

Porta-Perv
'Blessed by
Goddesses'

Jun 27, 2011 3:40 AM CDT

Porta-Perv 'Blessed by Goddesses'

Portapotty peeping Tom says he finds 'gold' in 'muck'

(Newser) - The yoga fan caught curled up in the tank of a Portapotty to peep on women attending a Colorado festival has admitted his crime, saying he was "blessed" to be able to spot so many "goddesses." Luke Chrisco, 30, admits he was "at the yoga festival,...

Whitey Bulger:
I Could Afford
a Lawyer if...

Jun 25, 2011 6:42 AM CDT

Whitey Bulger: I Could Afford a Lawyer if...

... the feds would give 'me my money back,' he tells court

(Newser) - Suspected mobster and longtime flight risk James "Whitey" Bulger will be cooling his heels in lockup after a federal judge denied him bail in his first court appearance yesterday. Bulger, who had $800,000 stashed in his Santa Monica apartment, asked to be declared indigent so that he could...

Worker Tells of Rape by
US Contractor Crew in Iraq

Jun 22, 2011 4:58 AM CDT

Worker Tells of Rape by US Contractor Crew in Iraq

Jamie Leigh Jones suing KBR

(Newser) - A former employee of US contractor KBR recounted a horrifying ordeal in which she was drugged, gang-raped in Iraq by other workers, and then locked in a shipping container by two company guards so she couldn't go to authorities. Jamie Leigh Jones, now 26, testified in a Texas courtroom...

John Galliano
Blaming Drugs
for Anti-Semitic
Tirade

Jun 22, 2011 4:46 AM CDT

John Galliano Blaming Drugs for Anti-Semitic Tirade

Booted fashion whiz testifies today in Paris

(Newser) - Fashion whiz John Galliano will blame drugs and claim amnesia today at his Paris trial for an anti-Semitic tirade against a Jewish customer in a local bar. The axed Dior creative director had a "triple addiction to alcohol, Valium, and sleeping pills," his attorney told Reuters . “The...

Strauss-Kahn
Tried to Claim
Diplomatic
Immunity

Jun 17, 2011 5:46 AM CDT

Strauss-Kahn Tried to Claim Diplomatic Immunity

He later dropped strategy, asked to call attorney

(Newser) - So much for the consensual sex argument. Ex-IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn didn't make that claim when he was busted for sexual assault of a Manhattan hotel maid , but declared that he had diplomatic immunity. He also complained his handcuffs pinched, according to new details revealed yesterday in court documents....

Cops Hunt
Truck Filmed
Near Missing
Student

Jun 16, 2011 2:19 AM CDT

Cops Hunt Truck Filmed Near Missing Student

Footage shows Lauren Spierer smiling before a night on the town

(Newser) - Investigators are poring over film footage of a missing college student from New York and searching for a truck spotted circling her apartment building before she vanished early this month. Lauren Spierer is seen smiling broadly on surveillance footage as she walks down the hall of her apartment building near...

New York Times Gets 'Dirt'
on Strauss-Kahn Accuser

Jun 15, 2011 7:51 AM CDT

New York Times Gets 'Dirt' on Strauss-Kahn Accuser

And here it is: She's devoted, dutiful, quiet

(Newser) - After a thorough investigation, the New York Times has uncovered the "dirt" on the hotel maid who has accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape : She's a quiet, devout, dutiful mom who was born in a mud hut in Guinea. Strauss-Kahn's attorneys have said for weeks that they...

Thug Drops Dead While Raping Victim, 77

Jun 14, 2011 1:57 AM CDT

Thug Drops Dead While Raping Victim, 77

Overweight con rode bike 2 miles to get to elderly woman's home

(Newser) - A knife-wielding, overweight sex offender dropped dead while raping a 77-year-old Texan woman. Isabel Chavelo Gutierrez broke off his attack to complain he wasn't feeling well—then keeled over. The victim ran from the house, and by the time police arrived, Gutierrez, 53, was dead. Investigators believe he died...

Woman Confesses
to Murder She
Committed
—in 1946

Jun 9, 2011 1:27 PM CDT

Woman Confesses to Murder She Committed —in 1946

96-year-old Atie Ridder-Visser killed a man she believed to be a Nazi

(Newser) - A murder mystery has been solved with the confession of a 96-year-old woman—and it only took her 65 years to do it. The 1946 killing of Felix Gulje, the head of a construction company who had high political ambitions, rocked the Dutch political landscape at the time. Atie Ridder-Visser...

'Phonehenge' Creator
Guilty of Outlaw Building

Jun 8, 2011 3:00 AM CDT

'Phonehenge' Creator Guilty of Outlaw Building

Alan Kimble Fahey could get years in prison for wacky structure

(Newser) - The druids of Stonehenge never had to worry about construction permits. But now the creator of a modern-day Phonehenge West has been found guilty of violating California building codes and could face years in prison. Alan Kimble Fahey has been found guilty—so far—of nine misdemeanor violations, and the...

Boy, 12, Charged in Beating Death of Toddler Half Brother

Jun 7, 2011 1:41 AM CDT

Boy, 12, Charged in Beating Death of Toddler Half Brother

Mom faces charges for covering up attack

(Newser) - A 12-year-old Florida boy has been charged in the vicious beating death of his 2-year-old half-brother. David Galarriago died two days after he was hospitalized with a severe skull fracture and facial bruising. Big brother Cristian Fernandez admitted beating the toddler, and said he also broke the little boy's...

Were There
'Irregularities' in
Strauss-Kahn
Arrest?

Jun 6, 2011 1:18 AM CDT

Were There 'Irregularities' in Strauss-Kahn Arrest?

He's due in court today for arraignment on attempted rape charges

(Newser) - A defense source is claiming "irregularities" in the arrest of former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn just as he's to be arraigned today on charges that he sexually assaulted a Manhattan hotel maid . The source hinted at the possibility that local cops illegally intercepted a telephone call because they...

Calif. Cops Discover 2nd 'Familycide' in 8 Days

Jun 2, 2011 3:15 AM CDT

Calif. Cops Discover 2nd 'Familycide' in 8 Days

Another family wiped out in murder-suicide

(Newser) - California police believe they've found another case of a family wiped out in a murder-suicide—the second such tragedy in eight days, reports the AP . The discovery of the body of a man who apparently leaped to his death from a highway overpass near San Diego led investigators to...

Mom Tells of Killing
Toddler Son in 'Exorcism'

May 30, 2011 2:11 PM CDT

Mom Tells of Killing Toddler Son in 'Exorcism'

Latisha Lawson says she was trying to drive out the demon 'Marzon'

(Newser) - A mother killed her toddler son as she was trying to "exorcise" a demon from his body, she told Indiana jurors. She accidentally crushed her son's neck as she attempted to stop him from spitting up a concoction of oil and vinegar she hoped would drive out the...