As governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee had a hand pardoning or commuting many more prisoners than his three immediate predecessors combined. Maurice Clemmons, the suspect in Sunday’s slaying of four Seattle-area police officers, was among them.
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Shooting Reopens Huckabee’s Record
It was no honeymoon for an alleged out-of-town bank robber in Niagara Falls. According to New York State Police, a Buffalo man who robbed an upstate bank was busted in his getaway car when it filled with smoke from an exploding dye pack. Cops say David Anderson, pictured, allegedly gave a note to a teller at an M & T Bank on Tuesday that read, “give me all the money or I’ll shoot.” So, the teller stuffed the bag with $50 and $20 bills and two red dye packs Witnesses say just before Anderson got into his car, the packs exploded and the car filled with smoke. “His hands were covered in red dye, the steering wheel was covered in dye,” Detective Palmer said, “and there was all this money in there covered in red dye.” Anderson took off anyway, and in an attempt to shuffle off to Buffalo, proceeded to get lost. Officers allegedly found him weaving his way onto the expressway. When they pulled him over, Anderson bolted from his car and led them on a chase, before finally being taken into custody
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Would-Be Robber Gets A Dye Job
Three boys have been arrested for investigation of bullying red-haired students after a Facebook message promoted “Kick a Ginger Day” at a Southern California school.
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3 Boys Arrested in ‘Ginger Day’ Attacks
A lawyer for the former boyfriend of Amanda Knox painted the U.S. coed as naive, spontaneous and imprudent as she argued Monday that both Knox and her lover were innocent in the slaying of the American’s British roommate.
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Defense Calls Amanda Knox ‘Naive’
Ah, the disturbing moment when you’re strolling down memory lane, thumbing through photos and realize there’s nary a one in the bunch where you’re not holding a beer bottle. Get thee to an AA meeting you say?
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Inevitable Concept Blog of the Week: Boozecats
Yes, it's “Cyber Monday,” the new fake holiday invented by marketing firms! This is, of course, not to be confused with “Black Friday,” the old fake holiday invented by marketing firms, which is now mostly synonymous with elbowing senior citizens in the face as you sprint into a chain store at five in the morning to get a digital camera for 30 bucks off. The idea behind Cyber Monday is that American workers who are FAR too smart to bumrush malls in the wee hours of Black Friday should instead get back behind their computers at work on Monday after the Thanksgiving break, and use the day to purchase things online. Then, when they get fired from their jobs for neglecting their work, they won't be able to pay off their credit card bills, setting off another wrenching cycle of unemployment, despair and alcoholism, just in time for all those open-bar holiday parties! But what are you reading this for?
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Happy ‘Cyber-Monday’!
SEATTLE (Nov. 30) — Police say the man suspected of slaying four officers is not in the Seattle house where he was thought to be holed up. The Seattle Times reports that a SWAT team searched the house, but Maurice Clemmons was not inside.
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Suspect in Cop Killings Still At Large
Police in northwest Ohio say a man who claimed to hate Christmas swiped a Salvation Army red kettle full of donated money and pushed one of the charity’s bell ringers to the ground when she tried to take it back.
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Grinch Grabs Salvation Army Kettle
SEATTLE (Nov. 30) — A suspect in the slaying of four police officers gunned down in a suburban coffee shop was holed up at a Seattle house early Monday, wounded and possibly dead, police said
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Suspect in Cop Killings Cornered
A man with an extensive criminal past — whose 95-year prison sentence was commuted in Arkansas nearly a decade ago — was being sought Sunday as a “person of interest” in a deadly ambush on four police officers who were gunned down inside a coffee shop.
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Man Sought in Coffee Shop Killings