Random crime-related wire stories

Jury selected: Girl was fondled by Wal-Mart employee
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A jury has been picked to hear a lawsuit by the family of a girl who claims Wal-Mart failed to protect her because the company didn’t require criminal background checks on its employees.
The girl, who was 10 years old when she was fondled by a Wal-Mart employee...

Topekans too cheap to support topless club
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The general manager of a topless club that shut its doors this winter after a nine-month run says Topeka residents proved to be too tight with their money.
Lollipops Gentlemen’s Club opened last June in a new 17,000-square foot building, across the street from another topless club. It closed in February, and the property is now up for sale.
...people who came to Lollipops, one of about six similar clubs in Topeka, would watch topless dancers without spending money on them.

Court martial in Army training death
FORT RILEY, Kan. (AP) — Charges have been referred against two Fort Riley infantry soldiers for the training death of a fellow soldier.

Narcolepsy drug may be cocaine solution
WASHINGTON (AP) — The hottest topic in cocaine addiction is another drug — a medicine already sold to wake up narcoleptics.
Hundreds of cocaine users are testing whether that legal pill, called modafinil, could help them kick the addiction, and there’s early evidence that it may.

Florida woman dead after Taser shock
GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) - A woman in a wheelchair who swung knives and a hammer at relatives and police died after being shocked by a stun gun, officials said.

Mayors: Feds don't do enough against illegal guns
NEW YORK — Asserting that the federal government had failed to curb gun trafficking, mayors from 15 cities gathered on Tuesday at Gracie Mansion and agreed to intensify efforts to combat illegal firearms.
Mayors Michael R. Bloomberg of New York and Thomas M. Menino of Boston, the organizers of the summit, said the mayors needed to use every tool, from crackdowns on irresponsible gun dealers to new gun-tracing technologies, because federal authorities had abdicated their responsibility.

Download sex_offenders_killer_studied_states_lists.pdf
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A man who fatally shot two people named in Maine's sexual offender registry drove by the homes of four others in the area who appear on the list, a police official said Tuesday.    Stephen Marshall also viewed the national registry, as well as those in New Hampshire and Vermont, said Col. Craig Poulin, Maine's state police chief, briefing a legislative committee on the investigation into the April 16 killings.

Comments

[acmoore]

Hey Greg - I never heard the end of a story from yesterday morning and I couldn't find it in the Star. I was wondering if you got the scoop on it.

Apparently, two cars were driving around at about 5am. The driver of the first one was a woman, and the passenger was shooting at the one following them. The guy following them was her husband, who was on the phone with the cops at the time.

It seemed like it started out in midtown on about Troost or Prospect or so and then ended up at about I-70 and Manchester when the cops lost track of the car in the front.

Conflicting reports came out whether this was a kidnapping in progress, or a lovers quarrel.

It's rare you hear about people driving around and getting shot at while on the phone with the cops, so I'm wondering what the heck was going on.

[Champion of Justice]

I like the story of the topless club closing. "No one would spend their money on the dancers". Looks like the laws of supply and demand have finally caught up with the dancers....too many of them showing their wares, cheapens the price. It may come to the point where women have to pay men to "gawk" at them. Ha Ha.