law

  1. [COURT] Oregon court rules teeth not considered dangerous weapon in a fight.

    Biting your opponent during a brawl may violate the rules of what's considered a fair fight, but it doesn't turn the attack into first-degree assault. The Link Removed - Invalid URL of Appeals has ruled Wednesday that teeth cannot be considered dangerous weapon in a case that grew out of a...
  2. Officer enters bank as robber exits

    An officer was walking in to the Stoughton bank as an alleged robber was running out, and he chased him down. It only took 90 seconds for the robber to walk in the front doors of the bank until he was in handcuffs. As he was walking out with the cash he walked by a police officer, who was...
  3. Robed, bewigged judge rugby-tackles prisoner

    LONDON (Reuters) – A judge sporting full robes and a wig rugby-tackled a sex offender to the floor to prevent him from fleeing the court where he was on trial, the Press Association reported Tuesday. Judge Douglas Marks Moore, 60, wrestled with 34-year-old Paul Reid as he tried to escape from...
  4. Facebook sex video threats over 'threesome' taunts

    Three men are in court after two allegedly secretly filmed their friend having sex with a woman, before threatening to release the footage if she complained. University of Westminster student George Iaponas, 24, met the victim via social networking site Facebook and she agreed to meet in...
  5. Police Discover $1 Million Worth of Drugs in Toronto Pizza Parlor

    Note to drug dealers: If you're masking illegal operations behind a pizza parlor, make sure customers actually leave the premises with food. In Toronto last week, police shuttered a downtown pizza restaurant after they found more than $1 million of marijuana and other drugs on site...
  6. Man who ejaculated into co-worker's water bottle convicted

    A Fullerton man who secretly ejaculated twice into an attractive co-worker's water bottle — that she later drank from — was convicted Thursday of two counts of misdemeanor battery. After about two hours of deliberating, the seven-woman, five-man jury also found true a sentencing enhancement...
  7. Mom Showed Breasts in School in Cleavage Fight

    Police in Florida say a mother was visiting her child's school when she attempted to impose a dress code on another mom over allegations of excessive cleavage. Laura Campanello was charged with disorderly conduct after saying the other mom was showing "too much breast" -- then allegedly pulling...
  8. Ohio Executes One-Time Neo-Nazi Who Killed 3

    Ohio on Thursday executed a one-time neo-Nazi who shot to death two men and a teen more than a quarter-century ago on the campus of Cleveland State University in a shooting spree that targeted blacks. More Ohio Executes One-Time Neo-Nazi Who Killed 3
  9. X-Ray Reveals Scissors Left in Patient's Abdomen

    A word to the wise doctor: After you perform surgery, please double-check to see if you've left any instruments behind -- say, inside the patient you just operated on. After a woman, Anne, in Lyon, France, complained of postsurgery abdominal pains, an X-ray revealed a pair of 4-inch-long...
  10. Monk first to be charged under Bhutan smoking law

    Link Removed due to 404 Error THIMPHU (Reuters) – A Buddhist monk could face five years in prison after becoming the first casualty of a stringent anti-smoking law in the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, which vows to become the first smoke-free nation. The monk has been charged with...
  11. something Will Rodgers might have said

    Think about this: 1. Cows 2. The Constitution 3. The Ten Commandments COWS Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept...