NEW YORK – A police officer warned a tattoo parlor worker that if he reported being sodomized with a baton during an arrest at a subway station, officers would lock him up for a felony, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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The day he went to jail, Michael Vick bought a $99,000 Mercedes. He cashed four checks that totaled $24,900. He gave $28,000 to the mother of his oldest child. He paid a public relations firm $23,000 and gave a friend $16,000.
Altogether on Nov. 19, 2007, Vick spent $201,840. But… Continue

O.J. Simpson was transferred Monday from jail to a Nevada state prison to begin serving nine to 33 years for his felony convictions in a gunpoint confrontation with two sports memorabilia dealers, a state corrections official said.
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A 19-year-old man shot and killed his baby's mother Monday afternoon, then drove three miles to his Miami Gardens home and fatally shot himself, police said.
The unidentified woman was found at a home in the 1200 block of Northwest 155th Lane. Not long after, Katae Alex Williams, 19, ret… Continue

Three people appeared in court Monday on charges of kidnapping and torturing a 16-year-old boy who an investigator said had been kept chained in a fireplace, choked with a belt and denied food for days at a time during more than a year… Continue

"They have AK-47s and grenades. They have bags full of grenades and have come fully prepared," Indian commandoes killed the last three gunman at a landmark hotel late Thursday and were sweeping another luxury hotel in search of hostages and trapped people after suspected… Continue

A 28-year-old man convicted of killing SIX policemen in Shanghai has been executed, Chinese state media reports. Yang Jia forced his way into a Shanghai police station and stabbed the men. Police said Yang, who was from Beijing, told them his attack was in revenge for torture he had s… Continue

In the world of spam, what goes down must come up. Over 90% of email is spam.

Two weeks after the shutdown of web hosting firm McColo, which saw a two-thirds drop in spam worldwide, spam numbers are creeping up again.

Industry experts disagree on the degree to which spam has retu… Continue

Bank card users should be cautious when using ATM machines this holiday season. The Cobb County Sheriff’s Office fraud department is investigating an ATM scam that netted two suspects $30,000. Nikolov Nikoliy, 23, and Yordan Kavalov, 29, were arrested Nov. 6 at a Powers Ferry Road… Continue

An armed bandit is on the loose Tuesday afternoon after robbing an armored truck in Miami. The robber approached a guard in a TransValue armored truck outside General Financial Center, 3012 NW Second Ave., about 10:30 a.m. He pulled out his g… Continue

, N.J. – A gunman drove across the country to confront his estranged wife, then killed her in a church vestibule as Sunday services let out, authorities said. Two other people were injured in the attack, which sent churchgoers scrambli… Continue

DUBLIN, Ga. – He shot a man twice and felt so good about it, police said, a rapper wrote a song describing the shooting and calling out the victim by name. A judge sentenced 25-year-old Rico Todriquez Wright Monday to spend the next 20 years in prison after his victim mentioned the hip h… Continue

MARYSVILLE, Wash. – A father arrested after his 6-year-old daughter was fatally shot in their Washington state home allegedly told authorities he had been drinking double shots of vodka while cleaning his guns.
Court papers say Richard Peters told detectives he had a… Continue

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A pistol-packing dad fought a gun duel with a trio of holdup men in his Brooklyn shop Monday night, killing two and sending their lookout running for his life, police said. The shop owner, who sources identified as Youssouf Brame, took a slug in the stomach and underwent emergency surg… Continue

MARTA cop shoots man in Woodruff Park. A knife-wielding homeless man was shot in Woodruff Park Tuesday morning by MARTA police officers who had pursued him out of the nearby Five Points station, police said. The incident played out across several busy blocks of downtown Atlanta in… Continue

Michael Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison for the 2004 stabbing death of classmate Jaime Gough in a middle school bathroom.

Maria Gough stood face to face with her son's murderer on Friday, and tried to save his soul.

''In the past, I had moments when I hated you… Continue

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – An 8-year-old boy is charged with murder in the shooting of his father and another man in a rural community in eastern Arizona, authorities said Friday.The boy was charged with two counts of premeditated murder in the death of his father, 29-year-old Vincent Romero,… Continue

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) – Suspected drug hitmen ambushed and killed two senior police officers with grenades and guns in Mexico, where escalating cartel violence has killed more than 4,000 people this year, police said on Monday. In the latest of a wave of police murders, gunmen… Continue

LONG BEACH, Calif. – The crime scene, alongside a busy freeway off-ramp, was shielded from view by dense brush and tangled tree limbs. The victims — five people shot to death over the weekend at a spot inhabited by the homeless — were known largely by their nicknames or just their… Continue