Tag Archives: Halloween

Police responding to a 911 call on the morning after Halloween were spooked by what they found. Around 8:15 a.m. police in Birmingham, Alabama raced to the scene of a possible homicide. A passerby called 911, reporting that a woman had been shot and her bloody body was seen slumped over the steering wheel of her SUV parked at a traffic light. The woman appeared to be pregnant, too. A hit and run? A drive-by shooting? A crime of passion …

It’s time to patch the hole in the sidewalk before dozens of grade school children come to visit on Halloween. You wouldn’t want Little Johnny suffering a personal injury on your property, advises Larry Bodine, Editor in Chief of Lawyers.com. Check your local ordinances. If you’re over 12, the general rule is that you have to stay at home on Halloween. Nobody wants to see a six-foot trick-or-treater at the door. Your costume can legally impersonate celebrities or politicians, because …

Mark Williams isn’t waiting for Halloween to dress up and play superhero. The Petoskey, Mich. man recently showed up to an accident scene dressed as Batman, convinced he could help. The cops, however, were having none of it and arrested the superhero wannabe for obstructing and resisting police during an investigation. On Sept. 29, Williams, 33, arrived at a crime scene he’d discovered by tuning in to a police scanner. So did state police, who tried to use a police …

If Megan Duskey’s parents had been with her that night in 2010, they perhaps would have insisted she (dressed as the comic book hero Silk Spectre) not try to slide down the railing during the Halloween-themed ball at Chicago’s Palmer House Hilton hotel, but she did slide down, and she fell four floors to her death. Nonetheless, in July 2012, the parents filed a $500,000 lawsuit against Hilton and other entities, claiming that the death of Ms. Duskey at age …

Una investigación criminal federal de dos años sobre el infame Joe Arpaio, Sheriff de Arizona, por abuso de poder y  mal uso de fondos, fue suspendida a principios del mes. Pero el autoproclamado “sheriff más duro de los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica” tiene más problemas legales en camino. Arpaio es celebrado y  vilipendiado a lo largo de todo el país por sus políticas tan duras sobre inmigración, aplicadas en el Condado de Maricopa, en Arizona, apoyando la discriminación por perfil racial, …