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Sunday, January 10, 2010 - 10:58am By Matthew LawrencePolice in South Africa got a lot more than they bargained for two weeks ago when they arrested notorious drug lord Fat Murphy. Johannesburg-based newspaper The Times reports today that a strap-on dildo fell off the man during a police search in...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 6:36pm By Chris HallFriends and family of Jorge Steven López Mercado said goodbye to him in a funeral ceremony yesterday in Toa Alta, Puerto Rico. The murder of the 19-year-old López Mercado, who was found decapitated, dismembered, and burned by the side...
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Monday, November 9, 2009 - 2:51pm By Chris HallIt's no longer necessary to call Scott Roeder the "alleged" murderer of Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. Roeder admitted to the AP this afternoon that he did indeed murder Tiller, and that he intends to use the "necessity...
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Friday, October 30, 2009 - 7:14am By Matthew LawrenceThe Rhode Island Senate voted 36-2 yesterday on a bill to criminalize indoor prostitution in the state, reports the Providence Journal. (Besides certain counties in Nevada, Rhode Island is currently the only state in the US where prostitution...
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Friday, October 9, 2009 - 7:01am By Matthew LawrenceIt's getting very hard to stay in Allentown, at least if you're the guy convicted of defrauding people in the Pennsylvania city to pay for two penile enhancements. Jose Amid Juarbe was sentenced to 4½ to 18 years in state prison for 42 counts...
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Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 12:53pm By Matthew LawrenceIt's been a little over a week now since the murder of John Terry, a British diplomat living in Jamaica, and no suspects have been apprehended yet. The New Zealand-born consul's body was found by his gardener last Thursday; he had been beaten...
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Friday, September 11, 2009 - 12:26pm By Chris HallNine young Turkish women who thought they were signing up to take part in a "Big Brother"-style reality show soon found themselves in a completely different reality. While the women agreed to live together in a house believing that it was...
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Friday, August 14, 2009 - 2:13pm By Monica ShoresIn the wake of George Sodini's murderous attack on a women's aerobics class, the notion of sexual frustration has taken on an ominous cast. Sodini's celibacy became the stuff of legend once his personal history came to light. Scarcely a single...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 12:26pm By Chris HallWalt Disney World was built to be a magic kingdom, a place that would bring the wishes and fantasies of children to life (for a hefty admission fee). John William Moyer saw it differently, however. He wanted to bring some of his more adult fantasies...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - 2:25pm By Chris HallIn the spirit of the tradition established by Harry Whittington, who apologized to Dick Cheney for being shot in the face by the vice president's shotgun, Brooklyn resident Dwan Prince recently sent a letter to Steven Pomie, apologizing for having...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 - 11:57am By Chris HallMonday night, the Los Angeles City Council approved funding to test the huge backlog of rape kits that have been sitting untested in the custody of the Los Angeles Police Department. An audit in September, 2008 showed that the LAPD had over 7,000...
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Friday, May 8, 2009 - 7:08pm By Chris HallToday CarnalNation published a column by Monica Shores that takes a level-headed look at the moral panic surrounding the so-called "Craigslist murder" of Julissa Brisman, and how it's been bad for sex workers. Many of the issues about how the law...
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Friday, April 17, 2009 - 10:53am By Chris HallDuring the Bush years, Canadian comedian John Rogers called Canada "the designated driver of North America," a description that often seems to fit. Usually, the Canadians are a kind of boring, staid bunch who can be counted on not to do the really...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - 4:09pm By Chris HallTypically, when you go to the trouble of robbing a store, you're in it for the money. That's pretty much the point, the raison d'etre of the armed robber, as it were. If you make a lot of money in the armed robbery biz, it's a safe bet that no one...
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Thursday, April 9, 2009 - 12:51pm By Chris HallTeddy Sseezi Cheeye was convicted in Uganda this week for embezzling $56,000 intended to fight AIDS in Africa through a phony NGO that he set up and staffed himself. Cheeye established the Uganda Centre for Accountability, which received funding...
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