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Sat Apr 14 2001 10:46:23 Cincinnati, Ohio City Prepares For Funeral -- (Channel Cincinnati) The silver casket of Timothy Thomas was brought into a Cincinnati church Saturday morning and is being adorned with flowers. About 30 local civil rights activists are standing outside the church wearing yellow jackets with NAACP on the back. They will act as a volunteer security force. Curfew's Second Night: 218 More Arrests -- (Channel Cincinnati) -- Cincinnati police said that 218 arrests occurred in the city between 9 a.m. Friday through 9 a.m. Saturday, with 200 people getting arrested for curfew violations. Fri Apr 13 2001 22:36:18  Warren, Massachusetts District attorney says trail 'not cold' in case of missing lifeguard -- (Boston.com) A recently drawn sketch of missing lifeguard Molly Bish resembles two early suspects and the prosecutor says he believes the person responsible for her disappearance is from the area. Fri Apr 13 2001 21:09:18  Lansing, Michigan State Sen. David Jaye arraigned Friday on charges of hitting fiancee -- (Michigan Live) State Sen. David Jaye, who last year served time in jail for drunken driving, was charged Friday in Florida with assaulting his fiancee. Fri Apr 13 2001 21:07:20  Joplin, Missouri Man who threw rock receives prison sentence for manslaughter -- (Nando) A man received a seven-year prison sentence Friday for involuntary manslaughter in the death of a teenage girl who contracted meningitis from a rock he tossed through her car's windshield. Joey Virgo, 21, had pleaded guilty in the death of 17-year-old LeAnne Hamm. He also pleaded guilty to assault for injuries suffered by a passenger in Hamm's car. Fri Apr 13 2001 21:04:03  Fairbanks, Alaska Police report Forgery -- (News-Miner) Alaska State Troopers arrested a "bingo-aholic" at Honest Bingo Wednesday evening on an $15,000 felony arrest warrant for check forgery charges. Trooper Larry Erickson said Delta troopers called the Fairbanks office and said Mildred Jonathan, 54, was wanted and was probably in Fairbanks playing bingo. Fri Apr 13 2001 19:50:35  Fremont, Nebraska Minneapolis girl found dead in Nebraska had been in and out of temporary housing -- (Star Tribune) The death of Teresa L. Windham, 17, is being treated as a homicide, although a cause of death hasn't been determined, Dodge County Sheriff Dan Weddle said. Investigators have said Windham was not shot or stabbed. Officials were still awaiting final autopsy results. Fri Apr 13 2001 18:54:00  Denver, Colorado Deputy Thought He Hit Columbine Gunman -- (Fox) A sheriff's deputy who was the first officer at Columbine and who traded shots with one of the gunmen believed he may have hit the shooter, according to newly released documents. Fri Apr 13 2001 18:14:34  MOLLY ANNE BISH, 16 - missing since June 27, 2000 Warren, Mass. 90 million to get Bish photo -- (MassLive) Starting Saturday, 90 million Americans will open their mailboxes to find a picture postcard of Molly Anne Bish. Fri Apr 13 2001 18:08:13  Wilmington, North Carolina Actor injured in North Carolina bar fight -- (ABC News) An actor and screenwriter in town for the filming of a new movie, "Domestic Disturbance," were arrested along with two Wilmington men for a fight in a downtown bar early on Thursday that left another of the film's stars, actor Steve Buscemi, with stab wounds to the throat and head. Fri Apr 13 2001 18:01:40  Mark Sappington, 22 - charged with murders Kansas City, Kansas Cannibalism suspected motive in KC killings -- (CBS-CH2000) A Kansas City man has been charged in the murders of three men, and police said that the apparent motive for the killings was cannibalism. Fri Apr 13 2001 17:21:23  Kearney, Nebraska Her Ordeal Over, Kidnapped Girl Goes Home to Nebraska -- (Fox) Kidnapping victim Anne Sluti came home Friday, a week after the 17-year-old was whisked away from a local mall parking lot and kept hostage hundreds of miles away in Montana. Fri Apr 13 2001 17:16:30  Cincinnati, Ohio Curfew: 153 Violators Arrested -- (Channel Cincinnati) Police arrested 153 people for violating curfew during the first night of a state of emergency in Cincinnati. Cincinnati Curfew Extended -- (Newsday) Cincinnati Violence Built With Time -- (Newsday) Fri Apr 13 2001 16:16:03  San Jose, California Man indicted in dog road rage death -- (CNN) In a singular case of road rage, a man was indicted Thursday for allegedly grabbing a small dog from its owner's car and throwing the animal into oncoming traffic. The dog was struck by a car and killed. Fri Apr 13 2001 16:10:43  Concord, New Hampshire Conviction Upheld -- (Boston.com) The state Supreme Court on Friday rejected the appeal of a Hopkinton man convicted of raping and killing a six-year-old girl four years ago. Fri Apr 13 2001 16:07:09  Boston, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court overturns convictions in 'sleep talk' case -- (Boston.com) The state's highest court on Friday ordered a new trial for a man convicted of sexually assaulting two young girls based in part on something one of the girls said in her sleep. Jorge R. Almeida was convicted in 1998 of two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, one count for each girl. He was sentenced to five years in jail. Fri Apr 13 2001 16:05:30  New York Rapper Jay-Z held on gun possession charge -- (Boston.com) Grammy-winning rapper Jay-Z and three other men were arrested early Friday outside a Manhattan nightclub and held on weapons charges after a plainclothes officer spotted one pulling a loaded handgun out of the rapper's vehicle, police said. Fri Apr 13 2001 12:11:29  SUSAN K. PARKER, 47, and JEFF L. WYNDHAM, 45 - escaped Edward J. "E.J." Parker, 23 - bond set at $1 million Madison Township, Ohio Son accused of setting fire to murder mom, stepdad -- (Cleveland Plains-Dealer) His family calls him a future atmospheric scientist. Police call him something else: an arsonist. Fri Apr 13 2001 11:42:38  Charles Miloro, 62 - arrested in a Connecticut hotel New York Ex-con accused of forcing woman to become sex slave -- (NJO News) An ex-con whose rap sheet included shooting two police officers was jailed Friday on $500,000 bail for allegedly forcing a woman to become his sex slave, raping her repeatedly for six months until she escaped, authorities said. Fri Apr 13 2001 11:16:35 Shawn Carter - known as 'Jay-Z' New York Rapper Jay-Z arrested outside night club -- (Nando Times) Grammy-winning rapper Jay-Z was arrested for illegal gun possession near a Manhattan nightclub after a loaded weapon was found in his car early Friday, police said. Fri Apr 13 2001 10:14:42  Smryna, Tennessee Triple-murder featured on nationally syndicated crime shows -- (Oak Ridger) The murders of three Captain D's employees will be featured on the nationally syndicated TV shows "America's Most Wanted" and "Aphrodite Jones Investigations." Production crews with "America's Most Wanted" will be in Smryna next week to begin work on the segment, which is scheduled to air in May, Smyrna Police Detective Rick Hall said. The "Aphrodite Jones" segment will be filmed in the next few weeks and will appear June 4 on the USA Network. Fri Apr 13 2001 10:12:18  Miami, Florida Witnesses' travel limited in case of murdered nun -- (Sun Sentinel) A Miami-Dade County judge on Thursday put further travel restrictions on four monastic students at Holy Cross Academy whom defense attorneys want to question as material witnesses for their client, the accused killer of a nun. Fri Apr 13 2001 10:10:55  Putnam County, Florida Woman charged in murder, arson -- (Florida Times Union) Betty Slater, 38, of the 100 block of Shoreside Trail south of Melrose was arrested after the body of the 40-year-old man was found after the 10 p.m. fire at her home. Investigators said the fire started inside the mobile home in a pile of clothes soaked with gasoline. The man, whose body was found in one of the bedrooms, is not being identified pending notification of family. Fri Apr 13 2001 10:08:50  Robert Tulloch and James Parker - accused of murders Hanover, New Hampshire Motive still missing in N.H. murder case -- (Boston Globe) When prosecutors next week ask a grand jury to indict Vermont teenager Robert W. Tulloch on two counts of murder in the deaths of Dartmouth College professors Half and Susanne Zantop, they will face the challenge of trying to show premeditation without knowing an alleged motive for the crimes. Thur Apr 12 2001 18:11:01  Indianapolis, Indiana Depot near McVeigh execution site holds tons of deadly nerve agent -- (Boston.com) The scheduled execution of Timothy McVeigh has prompted higher security at an Army chemical depot stocked with tons of a lethal nerve agent. Thur Apr 12 2001 17:26:38  Kathleen Grossett-Tate - mother of accused called into the State Attorney's Office for questioning Broward County, Florida Tate mom focus of renewed inquiry -- (Yahoo) The Broward State Attorney's Office is continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Tiffany Eunick, focusing on the mother of Lionel Tate, the boy who was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison last month. Thur Apr 12 2001 17:22:22  Eugene Molter, 68 - shot Patricia Carignan, 60, Albert Carignan, 65. Chula Vista, California Police: Shooter Was To Be Evicted -- (Newsday) A man who shot to death three fellow tenants at his senior citizen apartment building, then took his own life, was being evicted because of disputes with his neighbors, police said Thursday. Thur Apr 12 2001 16:32:16  Cambridge, Massachusetts Pair Charged With Scamming Special Olympics -- (Yahoo) A Framingham father and daughter were charged Thursday with stealing as much as $1 million in donations from the Special Olympics. Gerald Tenglund, 52, and his daughter, Melissa Caparella, 32, faced larceny charged in Cambridge District Court. Thur Apr 12 2001 16:29:09  Miami, Florida Hingis Stalker Sentenced to 2 Years -- (AP) A man who claimed that he and Martina Hingis were in love was sentenced to two years in prison Thursday for stalking the tennis star. Dubravko Rajcevic, a 46-year-old naval architect from Australia, was found guilty last week of stalking as well as trespassing at a tournament in Miami. Thur Apr 12 2001 16:20:26  Montreal, Quebec Montreal police officer nabbed for allegedly leaking confidential info -- (Cnews) Montreal police have arrested three people, including a veteran of the force, for allegedly leaking confidential information about bikers and a criminal organization. Police director Michel Sarrazin did not say who received the information. Thur Apr 12 2001 15:36:51  Sacramento, California Dog Case Attorneys Can't Pay Lawyers, Court-appointed defenders probable -- (SF Gate) Unable to come up with enough money up front for private attorneys, Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel will have to rely on court appointed defenders to fight charges in the dog mauling death of Diane Whipple. Thur Apr 12 2001 15:13:20  Miami, Florida Trial date set in case of Miami student monk accused of murder -- (Miami.com) Circuit Judge Manuel Crespo said Mykhaylo Kofel's four fellow students are material witnesses in the first-degree murder and armed-burglary case. Crespo said it could be problematic for the trial if the monk candidates, all Ukrainian citizens, leave the county. Kofel, 18, was arrested in the stabbing death of Sister Michelle Lewis, 39, who, like Kofel and the other student monks, lived on the academy campus. Thur Apr 12 2001 14:37:19  Hennepin County, Minnesota Tanning salon owner charged with video peeping -- (Star Tribune) The owner of a Brooklyn Park tanning salon was charged Wednesday with using tiny video cameras inside boom box speakers to tape female customers secretly as they undressed. Jeffrey P. Engstrom, 36, was charged with interference with privacy after police seized three videotapes showing about 115 people inside tanning rooms. Thur Apr 12 2001 14:33:49  Yakima, Washington Despondent teen held class hostage in school near Yakima, sheriff says -- (Seattle P-I) A 16-year-old boy who briefly held his high school English class hostage with a loaded hunting rifle Tuesday was despondent and taking medication for depression, the Grant County sheriff said. Thur Apr 12 2001 14:29:00  Alexandria, Virginia State Accountable in Death, Shiffletts Say -- (Washington Post) Kevin Shifflett's parents say their 8-year-old son's slaying nearly one year ago could have been prevented if Virginia officials had treated Gregory Murphy's mental illness while he was in prison and monitored him electronically -- as they were instructed to do -- when he was paroled. Thur Apr 12 2001 12:12:58  Caroline Dickinson, 13 - was raped and strangled in 1996 Miami, Florida and France Curiosity, Web and DNA may solve murder -- (St Petersburg Times) A U.S. agent read in a British online paper about a teen's rape-slaying in France, and that got him thinking . . . Officials Hold Man in French Homicide -- (LA Times) Francisco Javier Arce Montez, 50 is a suspect in the 1996 killing of Caroline Dickinson, 13, who was raped and suffocated while visiting the Brittany village of Pleine-Fougeres on a school trip to France. U.S. bond revoked for suspect in French murder -- (CNN) Thur Apr 12 2001 11:55:13  Orange County, California Woman Accused in Alleged Hit Must Stand Trial -- (LA Times) Judge Everett W. Dickey delivered the ruling after an unusual day of testimony in which prosecutors turned a newspaper reporter into their star witness during a preliminary hearing for Adriana Vasco. Deputy Dist. Atty. Walt Schwarm based his case almost entirely on the reporter's interview with Vasco, who allegedly said she watched from the gunman's car as the couple were fatally shot in 1999 along a lonely stretch of Ortega Highway. Thur Apr 12 2001 10:10:05  Leighton, Alabama Veteran beaten to death-Colbert neighbor charged in slaying -- (Times Daily) A 78-year-old Colbert County man who survived parachuting onto the beaches of Normandy on D-Day died Tuesday night, apparently at the hands of an enraged neighbor, authorities said. John Hurst was beaten to death after answering a knock on the door just before 10 p.m Thur Apr 12 2001 10:07:24  Washington Closed-circuit telecast of McVeigh execution -- (Boston.com) Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday survivors and relatives of the Oklahoma City bombing victims will be allowed to watch Timothy McVeigh's execution on closed-circuit television. He said he wanted to help them ''close this chapter of their lives.'' Thur Apr 12 2001 10:04:58  Napa, California Prosecutor: Four killings were planned -- (SacBee) A deep-seated resentment harbored by Arturo Juarez Suarez against his wife's brothers was the motive for a deadly assault on the family of Jose Luis Martinez, a prosecutor said Wednesday in his summation of the Auburn ranch hand's quadruple-murder trial. Thur Apr 12 2001 10:03:04  Sacramento, California Prostitutes victimized by group of rapists: Detectives face a tough task in persuading the victims to cooperate -- (SacBee) They plan alone. They hunt alone. They attack alone. But not this time. Since summer, a band of men has methodically preyed on prostitutes, raping and robbing at least a dozen women working Stockton Boulevard in Sacramento. Thur Apr 12 2001 10:00:48  Wampsville, New York Second relative accused of lying at trial -- (Boston.com) Matthew E. Johnson, 32, was arraigned Wednesday in Madison County Court on one count of first-degree perjury for testimony he gave at the second-degree murder trial of his brother, Wellington Johnson Jr. Thur Apr 12 2001 09:59:08  Mobile, Alabama Federal grand jury indicts suspect in fatal carjackings -- (Alabama Live) A man already in jail on state murder charges in connection with a pair of fatal carjackings last month has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Mobile. At least one area prosecutor is livid, however, about the way the federal case began. |
