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Florida appeals court OVERTURNS two of Casey Anthony’s four convictions for lying to detectives

Court ruled the charges constituted double jeopardy – but two stand as she lied to detectives on two separate occasions

Civil case brought by woman with same name as Anthony’s fictional nanny can now go ahead and is expected to be heard in August

 

A Florida appeals court has overturned two of the four convictions that Casey Anthony faced for lying to detectives during the investigation into her daughter’s disappearance in 2008.

While [...]

4 Teens rob, kill and dismember 2..then continue playing video games with dead bodies

JOLIET — Police say four young adults — one the son of a Joliet police sergeant — lured two friends to a house robbing them and strangling them to death.

After the murders, the suspects “continued the party atmosphere” even after attempting to dismember the bodies until being surprised when police arrived, Chief Mike Trafton said. Then they played video games, police said.

http://heraldnews.suntimes.com/news/17514914-418/police-suspects-in-custody-in-joliet-double-slaying.html

London 2012 Olympics: Ten to a room and one shower for 75 people: Inside the ‘slum’ camp for Olympic cleaners

They sleep in portable cabins, some of which have been leaking in the rain, at the campsite in East London
The bad weather has left the site flooded with stagnant water, forcing the cleaners to use abandoned crates as makeshift ‘stepping stones’

‘It is like a slum inside,’ says one worker from Hungary

Cleaners at the Olympic Park are being housed ten to a room at a huge temporary compound.

The campsite in East London, hidden [...]

Woman, 22, who couldn’t afford to have sick kitten put down is jailed after letting teens drown it and force it to drink BLEACH

A woman who had two teenagers kill her 10 week-old kitten by trying to drown it, forcing it to drink bleach and break its neck has been jailed.

Bethan Louise Lawson feared she could not afford to have her ill kitten Puss Puss put down, so two youths, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also tried to break the creature’s back or neck.

The 22-year-old then buried the kitten in the [...]

SCARY: Man Beaten By Mob Of Teens In Chicago On Train Over Dropped iPhone

UPDATED 06/13/12 1:30 p.m.

CHICAGO (CBS) — Chicago Police hope surveillance pictures help lead them to one of three weekend mob attacks on people downtown.

As WBBM Newsradio’s Bernie Tafoya reports, around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, a 23-year-old man was beaten up on the CTA Red Line near the State-Lake stop Saturday by a group of about six teenagers.

LISTEN: WBBM Newsradio’s Bernie Tafoya reports

 

The teens had just stolen the man’s 27-year-old female friend’s iPhone [...]

What recession? Kanye West fans slept on streets for a WEEK for privilege of paying 400% markup for rapper’s sneakers

Kanye West fans across the United States and in several other countries lived on the street for a week for their chance to purchase the rapper’s new sneakers this weekend at thousands of dollars above the retail price.

The Nike Air Yeezy II sneakers were being sold at a 400 per cent markup on Saturday as thousands of people finally got their chance to buy the footwear after waiting in line [...]

Body of missing Harvard Business School student whose wife was pregnant with their first child is found in harbor

Nathan Bihlmaier, 31, was celebrating graduation at Irish pub when he was asked to leave for being too drunk
Portland Police Chief confirmed it was the 31-year-old, saying: ‘It’s a tragic end’

Was due to graduate on Thursday

The body of a Harvard Business School student who went missing on Sunday after drinking with friends in an Irish bar has been found.

Nathan Bihlmaier, 31, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, disappeared while celebrating his upcoming graduation [...]

Scientists Invent Sleep Mask That Let’s People CONTROL Their Dreams

In a twist straight out of the movie Inception, a duo of developers from Brooklyn, New York, has built a sleeping mask designed to allow people to have lucid dreams that they can control.

While it may look like a standard sleeping mask, Remee has been billed as a special REM (Rapid Eye Movement) enhancing device that is supposed to help steer the sleeper into lucid dreaming by making the brain [...]

Teen faces 60 years behind bars for killing two friends in car crash ‘after texting while drunk driving’

A teenage driver accused of drinking, smoking marijuana, speeding and texting friends at a party when her car crashed, killing two passengers, has been arrested on two counts of manslaughter.

Kristina Lowe, 19, from Paris, Maine, left a party with friends in January and picked up another passenger before driving back to the same party in her Subaru.

But on the way, she lost control of the car, which became airborne and [...]

Suspects in Seneca attack charged with lynching; hate crime charge possible (SC)

On March 17th, three white men were leaving an Applebees restaurant after midnight in Seneca, South Carolina. One of the men, Terry Moore, 32, of Macon County, NC, went to the bathroom while his two friends went straight to their car. When Moore walked to the car alone, he encountered between 15 and 20 black men. The men allegedly yelled racial slurs at him like “tree honkey” and “cracker,” then [...]

Mother sues cop after 14-year-old daughter tasered

(NBC) An edited surveillance video of a police officer firing a Taser at a 14-year-old girl was released as part of evidence for a federal lawsuit filed against the officer and the city of Allentown.

The incident happened back on Sept. 29 outside of Dieruff High School. The video first shows Keshana Wilson, 14, walking towards a car on the street with two friends on the 800 block of Washington [...]

HS bans student from prom for taping invite to school wall

SHELTON — It began as a simple gesture. Shelton High School senior James Tate just wanted to make his good friend, Sonali Rodrigues, feel special.

So instead of the usual way of asking her to the senior prom, Tate and two friends went to the high school campus in the middle of the night and posted 12-inch tall, cardboard letters on the outside of the building — at the main entrance.

The message that many saw when [...]

GOLD: STILL A RODNEY DANGERFIELD ASSET

by Jason DeSena Trennert

“It just can’t be right,” said the 30-something hedge fund manager through a towel after a grueling 45 minutes on the squash courts of the New York Athletic Club.

“I mean, G. Gordon Liddy is trying to selling it to me on Fox News. My orthodontist owns gold — he wears gold, for crying out loud. It just can’t be right,” he said, shaking [...]