Death ruled a homicide
The death of a 13-month-old Kansas City boy last month has been ruled a homicide.
On June 2 police responding to a call in the 7900 block of E. 47th
Terrace found Dontaey Simpson not breathing. The child later died at a
hospital. The Jackson County Medical Examiner’s office has ruled the death a homicide.
Police said they'll question everyone who had contact with the child.
Dontaey’s death represents the 42nd
homicide this year in Kansas City.
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Friday, July 14, 2006
Nude photos send ex-teacher to jail
MCMINNVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former teacher who has already served jail time for having sex with a 13-year-old student was sent to prison for more than six years Friday for violating her probation by sending the boy nude photos of herself.
When Pamela Rogers (photo), 29, was released after serving 198 days in jail, she was under orders not to contact the student or his family or use the Internet. But authorities say that even after appearing in court on a charge of violating her probation in April, she continued talking with the boy and sending him text messages and sexually explicit photos and video of herself.
“You have done everything except show this court that you wanted to rehabilitate yourself,” Warren County Circuit Judge Bart Stanley said.
Earlier picture of Pamela Rogers
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Miss Universe contestants escape crime
Following up on my search for a crime-related angle to the Miss Universe 2006 contest, well, I haven't found one. But I'm persistent.
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Coors chief had one too many for road
GOLDEN, Colorado (AP) -- Beer company executive, chief commercial pitcher and former Senate candidate Pete Coors confirmed Thursday he was cited in May for driving under the influence of alcohol after leaving a friend's wedding celebration.
"I made a mistake," Coors said in a prepared statement. "I should have planned ahead for a ride. For years, I've advocated the responsible use of our company's products. That's still my message, and our company's message, and it's the right message.
Coors, stopped a block from his home in his 2004 Jaguar after rolling past a stop sign, breath-tested 0.088 percent blood-alcohol, a spokesman said, slightly above the legal limit of 0.80 0.08 percent.
Hat tip to reader Theresa M.!
Police dog in pickup drives over woman
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — A police dog named Ranger that was left in a pickup truck with the engine running apparently knocked the vehicle into gear and ran down a woman who was walking to her mailbox.
Mary F. Stone, 41, was hit by a front and rear tire of the truck and had tire marks on her clothes, police said. She suffered a fractured pelvis and tailbone.
Ranger's handler, responding to a domestic disturbance call, had left the dog in the truck with the engine running so he'd have air conditioning.
The truck then went through the Stones' yard and struck a vehicle in the driveway.
(Photo: Kemi, Independence PD, 2000)
Woman calls 911, asks for 'cutest' deputy
Lonely woman arrested for using 911 as love line
ALOHA, Ore. (AP) — A woman who called 911 to get “the cutest cop I've seen” sent back to her home got a date all right — a court date.
The same sheriff's deputy arrested her on charges of misuse of the emergency dispatch system. Washington County Sheriff's Sgt. David Thompson told KGW-TV of Portland it all started with a noise complaint called in last month by neighbors of Lorna Jeanne Dudash. The deputy sent to check on the complaint knocked on her door, then left.
Thompson said Dudash then called 911, asking that the “cutie pie” deputy return.
“He's the cutest cop I've seen in a long time. I just want to know his name,” Dudash told the dispatcher. “Heck, it doesn't come very often a good man comes to your doorstep.”
Scam of the Week: Mortgage fraud
The Scam: Mortgage fraud/Predatory lenders
The Targets: Homebuyers/refinancers; people with troubled credit
The Hook:
Unscrupulous operators will offer to lower your monthly payments, use your equity for consumer purchases, or refinance your way out of bankruptcy, for example. They solicit aggressively by phone or email. Once you sign up, sky-high interest rates and unexpected fees apply.
How to avoid being victimized: Be wary of doing business with a mortgage lender you don't know or who isn't known in your community. Do your due diligence - check out any mortgage-business offer with the Better Business Bureau and the attorney general of your state (consumer protection division).
Xbox massacre trial witness balks
Witness won't testify at Xbox trial
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) - The key prosecution witness in the 2004 massacre of six persons, allegedly over a discarded XBox game, claimed innocence Thursday and refused to testify.
"I am going to face death in the Lord's name," accused killer Robert A. Cannon, 20, told the court.
Ex-con Troy Victorino (photo) led the violence, prosecutors say, in revenge because one of the victims had cleared Victorino's Xbox video game system and some clothing out of her grandparents' vacant home, where he had been temporarily living.
Victorino, they said, wanted to imitate a scene from the movie "Wonderland" where people are beaten to death with pipes. The plan: no masks needed, because all witnesses would be killed.
Most of the victims, ages 17-34, worked together at a Burger King.
Victorino and two others are charged. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
(AP Photo/Peter Bauer, Pool)
