Ohio police have arrested at least three men suspected of participating in a string of break-ins in which the victims have also had their beards and hair cut off and stolen. Authorities believe the mastermind behind the attacks is "renegade bishop" Sam Mullet, who leads a tiny Amish sect called the Bergholz Clan.
In Oregon, two teen friends alleviated their boredom by grabbing their trusty hatchets, heading to a local city park, and chopping down trees—just like you used to do when you were a bored teen, back in the 1760s.
A citizen of Sacramento noticed a 5-month-old girl locked inside a parked car, and waited 15 minutes before calling 911. Police arrived and rescued the child, who was "sweating profusely and seemed to be distressed."
Occupy Wall Street, or occupy a disabled stranger's home and transform it into a drugs-and-party den? This is the choice that many Americans face right now. Either activity can get you arrested, as eight Californians who chose Option Two recently learned.
Two Baltimore women, whose relationship we'll describe as "strained," had a memorable encounter with each other at the Walmart this morning when one of the women either threw or poured bleach on the other. Maybe it seemed like the right thing to do at the time. Or they were filming a scene from a new John Waters movie? (No.)
Ocala, Florida police believe they've caught the notorious Serial School Pooper—a man who's surreptitiously pooped on the entrance of a portable middle classroom five times since early September. He also allegedly left behind notes, pamphlets, and, in one instance, a thong.
One of the major crises facing the U.S. right now is overwhelming consumer debt. How can Americans be expected to stimulate the economy when they're paying off their student loans, or their mortgages, or their... 20 to 30 pornographic DVDs?
A whale that washed up on the Jersey shore recently wasn't killed by natural causes. It was... murder! Whale murder! Now authorities are on the hunt for the shadowy cetacean slayer.
The Queens DA office announced today that more than 100 people have been busted in a massive identity theft ring. The defendants are charged with stealing more than $13 million over 16 months, starting in 2010.
The city of Topeka, Kansas, which is broke because it exists in America, maybe won't prosecute domestic battery anymore because those cases are too expensive. City officials want the county district attorney to handle them now. But the DA just said last month that he's not going to prosecute any misdemeanors committed in Topeka at all, due to office budget cuts.
Today in Understandable Although Not Technically Excusable Crimes: Paul Collen, 42, punched a 79 year-old man and knocked him through a plate glass window at a hotel bar "after complaining about the older man's karaoke singing."
With a made-for-Hollywood name like Peggy Sue Thomas, you can probably do anything: Organize a sock hop on the fly, meet hot guys during your shift waiting tables at the malt shop, or even convince a judge that you have to take a two-week road trip across five states while waiting for your murder trial to begin.
Facebook user Benito Apolinar, who hails from the great state of Texas, had posted a loving status update to his Facebook page on the anniversary of his mother's death. Then he waited for the "likes" to roll in. You know how that is: One finds a strange sense of fulfillment in near-meaningless clicks of approval from friends and acquaintances and friends of acquaintances.
Where some see loss, others see opportunity. That would at least appear to be the case at the Apple store in Little Rock, Arkansas where two mourners who had come to pay tribute to Steve Jobs noticed something unusual: that the store was being robbed.
In yet another dark chapter in organized-Amish-crime history, The Wheeling Intelligencer is reporting that members of the Amish community near Bergholz, Ohio, are under investigation by at least four sheriff's departments for a string of recent break-ins in Amish homes. Every time, the victims' hair and beards were cut off.
You thought after your 18th birthday you'd grown out of having sex in the back of the car. Not so for 71-year-old senior citizen Rita Daniels who was arrested for getting it on in the back of her Buick with a guy she picked up at a bar.
Meet Amy Blose, a 37-year-old married mother of two who was arrested this week for attempting to contact a 13-year-old boy who she's been accused of sexually assaulting. Her method of contact: Burrito.
