Police have been accused of protecting fellow officers in the high-profile Peterson and Crane cases in Georgia and Illinois. Continue reading “Officers Accused of Protecting Fellow Officers From Criminal Charges in Illinois and Georgia”
Category: Bizarre
A Massachusetts woman, Caroline Bilodeau-Allen, and her son, Christopher Allen, are suing the National Enquirer for defamation after the tabloid reported in 2006 that Christopher is really the son of Mass. Sen. Ted Kennedy. The Enquirer is standing by its sources in what could be a new test of the so-called New York Times v. Sullivan standard. Continue reading “National Enquirer Sued for Defamation Over Kennedy “Love-Child” Story”
Only hours after a Washington State judge ruled that Dennis Lindberg could refuse a life-saving blood transfusion as violative of his Jehovah’s Witness faith, he passed away at age 14. Continue reading “Washington Teen Dies After Court Blocks Parents Demand for Blood Transfusion Based on His Religious Beliefs”
British teacher Gillian Gibbons, 54, has been found guilty of insulting Islam by a Sudanese “court” after she allowed her young students to name a teddy bear “Mohammad.” Continue reading “Sudan Finds Teacher Guilty in Mohammad Teddy Bear Case”
The New York police are using a very controversial decoy operation to arrest people who steal personal items from s Continue reading “New York Police Placing Decoy Items to Arrest Thieves — and Possible Good Samaritans”
In another entry into the abuse of tasers, this video shows police using a taser to the neck of a pregnant mother after throwing her on her stomach to the ground. Continue reading “Shock Video: Police Taser Pregnant Mother”
Geoffrey Fieger is fighting for his law license in classic Fieger fashion: he is suing everyone from prosecutors to judges. In the meantime, judges are expressing surprising levels of public contempt for Fieger — and each other. Continue reading “Michigan Judges and Geoffrey Fieger Attack Each Other”
Dennis Lindberg is a 14-year-old Jehovah’s Witness who has leukemia. His parents (who do not have legal custody and are not Jehovah’s Witnesses) have demanded that he be given a needed blood transfusion. However, Judge John Meyer ruled that the boy can refuse the treatment, even though it will inevitably lead to his death. Continue reading “14-Year-Old Allowed to Refuse Life-Saving Treatment Over Objections from His Parents”
Ex-Oral Roberts University President Richard Roberts told students that God told him to resign even though he didn’t want to. Continue reading “Oral Roberts University President: God Told Me to Resign”
The Sudan government is proceeding with charges against British teacher Gillian Gibbons, 54, who is accused of offending Islam by allowing her young children to name a teddy bear “Mohammad.” ‘ Continue reading “Teacher Charged in Sudan in the Mohammad Teddy Bear Case”
Niagara Falls City Court Judge Robert Restaino has been taken off the bench after a perfectly bizarre incident involving a cellphone and a short judicial temper. Restaino was upset that someone violated the no cellphone rule and ordered that all 46 people in the courtroom be searched and jailed. Continue reading “New York Judge Removed from Bench After Jailing Entire Courtroom Over Cellphone Interruption”
An Oklahoma businessman has pledged $70 million to Oral Roberts University — a move that could prevent the closing of the financially strapped school in the midst of the latest scandal. Continue reading “Oral Roberts University to Receive $70 Million Gift”
As the election approaches, it is becoming apparent that no one actually supported going to war in Iraq. In separate statements this week, Bill Clinton and Karl Rove revised history and their roles in supporting the Iraq War. Continue reading “Clinton and Rove Revise History on War: It Turns Out That No One Actually Supported the Iraq War”
In the ultimate demonstration of extremism, a school in Sudan has been forced to close in fear that extremists could take violent actions against students or teachers in the aftermath of the controversy over the naming of a class bear “Mohammed.” Lillian Gibbons, a 54-year-old teacher at the Unity High School in Khartoum, was arrested for insulting Islam when she allowed her children to pick the name. Continue reading “School Closed in Sudan to Avoid Violence by Extremists After Mohammed Teddy Bear Incident”
An extraordinary torts case is now before the Illinois Supreme Court where a women is continuing a fight to hold the parents of a former lover liable for their failure to tell her that their son had AIDS. A jury found the parents, Elizabeth and Kirkpatrick Dilling liable for $2 million. Continue reading “Illinois: Women Sues Parents of HIV-Positive Fiance for Failing to Disclose Son’s Condition”