It reads like a line from a clever whodunnit:
The aspiring actress told an operator: “I can’t breathe. I’ve been stabbed. Please help me. I’m dying. He’s stabbed me to death.”
There’s something about the murder mystery that holds a unique place in our popular lore, from Hitchcock to Agatha Christie to CSI. Such mysteries are fun and intellectually diverting…
The St. Petersburg Times reports:
A woman has been arrested after accosting her live-in boyfriend with a pink sex toy.
Yes, it’s true. Intoxicated Kimberly Lynn Calvert of Treasure Island, Florida was charged with battery for poking her boyfriend John Anthony Gonzales several times in the groin.
Naturally, he called 911.
You might think this…
(Retired football star, husband, and father of four Steve McNair was murdered on July 4th, 2009, by his 20-year old girlfriend who then shot herself.)
It was always easy to root for Steve McNair.
A Mississippi boy who played college ball for a historically black college many football fans had never heard of – Alcorn State. A calm-headed…
An Iowa man literally tried to take control of his car while in the passenger seat, wrenching the wheel from his wife and sending the car careening off the road.
The Des Moines Register reports that:
[The] 26-year-old man was charged with domestic assault and was being held at Polk County Jail. His
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We recently ran a story about one unintended consequence of cheating – having twins, each with a different father. We now learn that there is apparently no statute of limitations on the rage of the spouse being cheated on. The Everett Herald reports that a 78-year old woman took a lead pipe to her…
Wouldn’t you know it? I just yesterday wrote an article praising Saudi Arabia for taking some tentative steps towards progress – because the Kingdom is apparently considering banning underage marriage (this in response to international criticism of a Saudi judge who refused to anul a wedding between a 7-year old girl and a 47-year old man).…
In 12th Grade, in New York City, in 1983, I was a bike messenger. It was not just a job, but also extra training for weekend bike races in Central Park, so I loved it. I got to see little snapshots of a great big city, every day after school. One day, however, I’d just as soon forget: it was…
In my first year of law school we studied the Kitty Genovese murder. In 1964 a young woman in Queens, New York, was stalked and stabbed, then stalked and stabbed, repeatedly, over almost an hour, outside her apartment complex, as her cries for help were heard but ignored by no less than 38 of her neighbors. It was…
It’s hard to find any silver lining at all in the last month’s spate of gruesome, family murder-suicide shootings. So I have to appreciate the guardian angels looking after three wives who recently survived the respective killing sprees of their husbands in Silicon Valley, California, Graham, Washington, and now Jackson County, Mississippi.
In each…
It’s usually hard to tell how a court’s going to rule after reading just the first three sentences of an opinion. But not always.
A 2/18/09 Washington Court of Appeals (Div. II) opinion on a nasty custody fight begins:
“When Anthony Meredith was about 37 years old and a Virginia Assistant Attorney General [an AAG, a state prosecutor],…
