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SAO PAULO, Brazil — In one murder after another, the "Canal Livre" crime TV show had an uncanny knack for being first on the scene, gathering graphic footage of the victim. Too uncanny, say police, who are investigating the show's host, state legislator Wallace Souza, on suspicion of commissioning at least five of the murders to boost his ratings and prove his claim that Brazil's Amazon region is awash in violent crime. Police also have accused Souza of drug trafficking. "The order to execute always came from the legislator and his son, who then alerted the TV crews to get...

Breaking. Per CBS radio news.. the crew has regained control of the ship throwing three pirates overboard and capturing one.. Will post more.. Breaking

STOCKTON - A retired truck driver and Vietnam War veteran said Monday that he is forming an armed militia - mostly men with rifles and armbands, four to a car - to patrol Stockton this summer, when at least 43 police officers are to be laid off.

For all the talk of the Internet's threat to authoritarian regimes, China's Communist Party has capably rebuffed the Web's challenge to its rule. But a growing trend on the Chinese Internet could make life unpleasant for a handful of government bureaucrats who offend the cybercitizenry.

On the day that fliers announced a registered sex offender had moved into a Puyallup neighborhood, a woman welcomed him with an aluminum baseball bat. Baldwin (Pierce County Sheriff's Office picture)The 7-foot-3 man was beaten so badly, medics transported him to a hospital. "I kept swingin' and swingin' and swingin," court documents say Tammy Gibson told police, who arrested her in Cottonwood Mobile Home Park. Gibson has been charged with second-degree assault and felony harassment

Police: Burned, Headless Body Of Sex Offender FoundPOSTED: 12:08 pm EST November 8, 2007 UPDATED: 3:52 pm EST November 8, 2007 NORTHVILLE TOWNSHIP -- Construction crews found a torched and headless body Thursday morning on Hidden Ridge Drive in Northville Township. Police were able to identify the body as 26-year-old Daniel Gene-Vincent Sorensen by using a partial fingerprint technique, despite the severe burns on Sorensen’s hands. Police said the severely burned hands seemed to be an effort to hide his identity. Police confirmed that Sorensen was a registered sex offender. A neighbor called to report a fire on Wednesday night,...

Vigilante justice has become common in Bihar Pics: Prashant Ravi Vigilante justice appears to have become the order of the day in the lawless northern Indian state of Bihar.The latest incident in which 10 men suspected to be thieves were lynched by a group of villagers in Vaishali district on Thursday underscored the people's frustration with the police. The villagers said that they were fed up with rising theft for the last two months in spite of informing the police regularly. "But when the police did not take any action we started patrolling our village ourselves to catch the...

A crowd attacked and killed a passenger in a vehicle that had struck and injured a child, police said Wednesday. Police believe 2,000 to 3,000 people were in the area for a Juneteenth celebration when the attack occurred Tuesday night. The man who was killed had been trying to stop the group from attacking the vehicle's driver when the crowd turned on him, authorities said. The Austin Police Department identified the victim as David Rivas Morales, 40. The child was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Police spokeswoman Toni Chovonetz said she had no further information, including how...

June 20, 2007, 12:30PM Angry crowd kills man riding in car that struck child By LIZ AUSTIN PETERSON Associated Press AUSTIN — A crowd attacked and killed a passenger in a vehicle that had struck and injured a child, police said today. The man who was killed Tuesday night had been trying to stop the group from attacking the vehicle's driver when the crowd turned on him, authorities said. The Austin Police Department identified the victim as David Rivas Morales, 40, of Austin. The child was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The beating began after the car...

"I've been sentenced for a D.U.I. offense. My 3rd one. When I first came to prison, I had no idea what to expect. Certainly none of this. I'm a tall white male, who unfortunately has a small amount of feminine characteristics. And very shy. These characteristics have got me raped so many times I have no more feelings physically. I have been raped by up to 5 black men and two white men at a time. I've had knifes at my head and throat. I had fought and been beat so hard that I didn't ever think I'd see straight...

Has Chris Matthews watched one too many episodes of "Oz," the hyper-graphic HBO original series about prison life? Discussing the Scooter Libby trial on the 7 PM ET edition of this evening's Hardball, Chris spun a sanguine scenario in which Libby, facing the prospect of a long prison sentence in a vulnerable environment, might turn on Vice-President Cheney. Matthews: "If Scooter's convicted, if you're looking at the number of counts facing him. If that jury really does go to town -- and I hope they're not watching -- and hits him with four or five counts, they add up...

THERE are some crimes that even the police do not seem keen to solve. Armed with Eskies, the residents of the Victorian town of Meringur danced and drank beer as they watched flames engulf the home of Terrence Allan Ellis last Sunday night. Ellis, a 52-year-old alcoholic and former vagrant, was convicted two weeks ago of raping a young girl. Police have quizzed residents over the arson attack and confirmed the fire was suspicious. While nobody in Meringur is owning up to the crime, as many as 40 people from the area celebrated at the time. Even the victim, whom...

An inmate serving a life term for molesting and killing a 10-year-old girl named Katie somehow got "Katie's Revenge" tattooed across his forehead, and prison authorities were trying to determine how it happened. The Indiana Department of Correction placed Anthony Ray Stockelman, 39, in protective custody away from the general inmate population last weekend after authorities discovered the tattoo, said Rich Larsen, a spokesman for the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. Stockelman was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to abducting, molesting and killing Katlyn "Katie" Collman. Katie was missing for five days before her body was found Jan....

DEMING, New Mexico - John Sherwood was trying to explain why he joined the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and how illegal immigrants will destroy America if they're not stopped. Then it happened. "There's some right there!" he shouted. What came next is something Sherwood likes to call his "patriotic fulfillment": helping the U.S. Border Patrol apprehend illegal immigrants near his home in southern New Mexico. In this case, he whipped his four-wheel-drive pickup around and barked a report into his cellphone. He told agents in the Deming station of the Border Patrol that several suspected illegal immigrants had slipped behind...

So we finally wrapped up the interview with Evan and inserted the wonderful Stolen Sidekick song from Blind Routine. During the interview we address what his website www.evanwashere.com/stolensidekick is really about for him, his response to some of his doubters and uncover his relentless pursuit of proving his honorable purpose. He gives a short update on the status of the police report, details how much he received in donations and what he may or may not do with the surplus funds.

A spokesman for the Suffolk district attorney says 20-year-old Stephen Marshall shot himself in the head when Boston authorities, acting on a tip from Maine police, climbed on the bus he was riding at about 7:25 PM Sunday night. A spokeswoman at Boston Medical Center says Marshall died at 11:24 PM No passengers were hurt. Five were taken to hospitals to be examined. Maine authorities say Marshall was a person of interest in the deaths of 57-year-old Joseph Gray of Milo and 24-year-old William Elliott of Corinth. Both men are registered sex offenders in Maine. Police say they do not...

CORINTH, Maine - The Maine Department of Public Safety has no plans to change the state's Web-based sex offender registry despite the killings of two sex offenders whose addresses were apparently obtained online. A Canadian man used the registry to obtain personal information about the victims, authorities said, renewing fears that such lists expose ex-convicts to vigilante violence. "The events of the weekend will obviously be reviewed, but there are no plans to change the Web site at this point," Stephen McCausland, Maine Public Safety spokesman, said Monday. The gunman, Stephen A. Marshall, a 20-year-old from Nova Scotia's Cape Breton,...

Ritual murders spark lynchings 21/10/2005 09:10  - (SA)    Lagos - Avenging lynch mobs have seized and burnt alive more than 20 suspected kidnappers over the past month in and around the Nigerian city of Lagos where terrified residents have taken extreme measures to stamp out ritual child sacrifices, police and witnesses said. The mutilated corpses of the victims of black magic ceremonies - which turn up on an almost daily basis in the fields and on the roadsides of southwest Nigeria - have now been joined by piles of ash and blackened flesh where alleged gang-members were set ablaze. Police and...

MYSTERY DEATHS THE PROBLEM: Guatemala is experiencing a wave of mysterious killings targeting gang members. WHAT'S BEHIND IT: Human rights groups claim vigilantes, possibly including rogue cops, are engaged in ''social cleansing.'' The country's attorney general blames gang warfare. THE BIG PICTURE: The Central American nation has endured 36 years of civil war and poverty is rampant. Gangs have been swelled by Guatemalans who immigrated to the U.S. and were deported back for gang activity. GUATEMALA CITY -- Some are shoved into cars with dark windows and never seen again. Sometimes bodies turn up with messages left on paper or...

Angry South Africans take law into their own handsOctober 09, 2005, 19:00  Communities around South Africa are angry with the police and there have been a spate of mob justice assaults and killings in the last 24 hours around the country. People are fed up with police inefficiencies and many are now taking the law into their own hands. In Soweto two people died and one critically injured at the hands of the community. They alleged the men had been terrorizing people in Protea South in Soweto. The survivor is in a critical condition in hospital. Residents say police...

Notes of congratulation to Michael Mullen popped up on Web logs as soon as news accounts reported that he had turned himself in, claiming to be the vigilante killer of two convicted child rapists shot in Bellingham. Mullen, 35, was charged Thursday in Whatcom County Superior Court with two counts of aggravated first-degree murder, the county prosecutor's office said. Aggravated murder in Washington is punishable by either death or life in prison without parole. Deputy Prosecutor Mac Setter said the prosecutor's office would decide by Mullen's Sept. 16 arraignment date whether it would seek the death penalty. Comments on the...

If the scene in Whatcom County Superior Court yesterday is any indication, Michael A. Mullen doesn't like to sit and wait for the wheels of justice to turn. On Aug. 27, according to police, Mullen killed two sex offenders who had served their time and had been quietly living in suburban Bellingham. About a week later, police say, he confessed to the crime. And yesterday, during his first court appearance, Mullen's main concern was getting the process over with. "Can I have a speedy trial?" Mullen, 35, asked Superior Court Commissioner David Thorn during his preliminary hearing. He didn't even...

Victims Found On Sex Offender Web Site BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- A man allegedly confessed to posing as an FBI agent and then fatally shooting two convicted sex offenders in Washington. Police say 36-year-old Michael Anthony Mulled called police to confess. They say he gave detectives details about the crimes that only the killer would know. A third roommate said the man wore an FBI cap and acted like an agent. The roommate left for work and found the bodies when he returned home the next morning. Mullen said he chose his victims from the county's sex offender Web site and...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. - A man turned himself in to authorities in the killing of two convicted child rapists, saying he picked the victims from a sheriff's Web site, police said. Michael Anthony Mullen, 36, called 911 on Monday to claim responsibility for the killings, and officers who talked to him said he gave information that only the killer would know, according to a police news release. He was jailed for investigation of two counts of first-degree murder. Hank Eisses, 49, and Victor Vasquez, 68, were found shot to death at their apartment Aug. 27. They were both classified as Level...

BELLINGHAM -- Two men shot to death at a Bellingham apartment building were Level 3 sex offenders, police confirmed Monday. The men were identified by police as Hank Eisses, 49, and Victor Vasquez, 68, both convicted child rapists. Police are looking for a man who may have posed as an FBI agent to gain access to their apartment. A roommate who found the bodies says the man wore a blue jumpsuit and a cap with the FBI letters and said he wanted to talk with the men about their status as sex offenders. The man also was seen Friday by...

I have to give the DUmmies credit for honesty in this THREAD titled, “Fight dirty, go negative early and often.” At least they make absolutely NO phony pretense at trying to attain even a minimal level of civility. They up front admit they HATE Republicans and will do ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING to defeat them. This is the REAL FACE of the Left, not that false front the professional Democrats put up when they know the cameras are rolling. Read this thread and learn how the Democrats REALLY think. It is a sad sight but educational as well. As usual, the...

There is great frustration among ranchers and residents along the Texas-Mexico border. The damage done by illegal migrants is borne by landowners who must deal with this human passage. The most benign threat involves cut fences, ransacking of buildings, and trespassing on private property. The latent threat is that among the migrants are criminal elements. The answer needed is a realistic federal policy on immigration that would stem and regulate this flood tide. The answer is not the Minutemen, the citizens militia that purports to be a helpmate to immigration officials, which is now being organized in the Goliad area....

FAIZABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) -- A group of Afghan Muslim clerics have threatened to call for a holy war against the United States in three days unless it hands over military interrogators reported to have desecrated the Quran. The warning on Sunday came after 16 Afghans were killed and more than 100 hurt last week in the worst anti-U.S. protests across the country since U.S. forces invaded in 2001 to oust the Taliban for sheltering Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network. The clerics in the northeastern province of Badakhshan said they wanted U.S. President George W. Bush to handle...

The Minuteman Project mistakes the nature of our immigration problem It will be fascinating to see how the Minuteman Project, the brainstorm of Aliso Viejo resident James Gilchrist, comes off now that President Bush has referred to the effort as a "vigilante" operation of which he disapproves. It has certainly stirred a lot of interest, pro and con.

Some Arizona residents aren't waiting for the president or Congress to curb illegal immigration. Instead, they're arming themselves, creating so-called private citizen patrols. Others refer to them as vigilantes. Whatever you call them, more and more are forming in border towns like Sierra Vista and Douglas where those citizen patrols aren't only toting guns, they're recruiting new members. They're even using sophisticated technology in their hunt for border crossers. For example, an unmanned plane offers a bird's-eye view of the border, including group after group of illegal immigrants sneaking across the border. The most popular smuggling route in the country...

A convicted sex offender broke into a San Francisco home in the Ingleside district and raped a 9-year-old girl in her bedroom in an hourlong attack that ended when the girl's mother walked into the room, San Francisco police said. The man, police say, fled on foot and was chased by the girl's father, who at one point struck him with a 2-by-4. The man continued fleeing through several backyards and was captured by police and identified as Roberto Gamero, 36, of San Francisco, police said. "It's a parent's worst nightmare,'' said San Francisco police Deputy Chief Morris Tabak of...

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — When Rodrico Harp was sentenced to seven years at hard labor for his part in the infamous abduction and rape of an Okinawa schoolgirl in 1995, he never thought he’d be assembling cell phones or making auto parts. That’s what he claims “hard labor” meant at Kurihama, the Japanese prison near Yokosuka where most American servicemen convicted in Japanese courts wind up. “I made parts for Mazdas and Nissans,” Harp said during a telephone interview from his home in Griffin, Ga. “You had no choice. If you refused to work, they put you in what we...

For America's multimillion-dollar Superman industry, it's a serious problem. This is a guy who's from outer space — he was born on the planet Krypton, let's not forget — but he's also from another time. He debuted in the 1930s, when Americans liked their heroes like they liked their steaks: tough, thick and all-American. Nowadays we prefer our heroes dark and flawed and tragic. Look at the Punisher (wife and kids dead), or Hellboy (born a demon), or Spider-Man (secretly a nerd). Look at Batman: his parents were killed in front of him, and he dresses like a Cure fan....

<p>PALOMINAS, Ariz. -- Wearing a camouflage jacket that cloaks the semi-automatic handgun at his waist, Chris Simcox aims his binoculars less than a mile away toward the seven strands of barbed wire that divide this remote desert town from Mexico.</p>

An attack on Jan Lewan while he slept in a prison cell has an attorney for the former polka entertainer criticizing Delaware officials responsible for his safety. An inmate cut Lewan, 61, across the neck and on the back with a razor at the Delaware Correctional Center in Smyrna, said attorney David Glassberg of Hazleton. Glassberg identified Lewan's assailant as Keith Garner. According to The News Journal in Wilmington, Del., Garner is serving a life sentence for rape. Glassberg questioned the decision by prison officials to assign Garner to a cell with Lewan, who is serving a sentence for securities...

<p>They torched a crack house.</p> <p>They branded a child molester with a hot spatula.</p> <p>For more than 150 years, Detroiters -- like other Americans -- have been dishing out street justice. It might have happened again this week on the west side, and it has caught the attention of people across the country.</p>

Earlier this year, Mark Kram revealed to his two teenage children a secret he had kept for two decades: He killed a man. That man was Carl Brown, who killed more people in one day than anyone else in Miami-Dade's history. On a Friday morning in August 1982, Brown, 51, fuming over a $20 repair bill, marched into a Miami machine shop and shotgunned 11 employees, killing eight. Within minutes, Brown -- a schoolteacher on psychiatric leave -- was the ninth person to die. Kram, at work in a nearby machine shop, and another man set out to stop Brown,...

<p>A man was beating a 16-year-old girl with a pipe Wednesday morning on Detroit's west side.</p> <p>Suddenly, the man was dead, shot several times by a passenger in a passing car.</p> <p>Police are looking for the driver of the car and the gunman, who might not be a criminal suspect, but a much rarer species -- a drive-by vigilante.</p>

Critics Decry Yuma, Arizona's 'Vigilante' Crackdown By Jon E. Dougherty CNSNews.com Correspondent October 14, 2003 (CNSNews.com) - Immigration reform organizations are criticizing a resolution adopted by the Yuma, Ariz., County Board of Supervisors condemning "vigilante" civilian groups that voluntarily patrol the U.S.-Mexico border. Supervisors recently voted unanimously to adopt a decree expressing their opposition to the civilian border groups, some of which have been operating in Yuma County. The goal of the civilian groups is to deter aliens from illegally crossing into the U.S. The handful of groups, which include organizations like Ranch Rescue and Arizona-based Civil Homeland Defense, usually...

Vigilantes plead guilty, released BY LOUIE VILLALOBOS, Staff Writer Aug 21, 2003 The two men accused of detaining six illegal immigrants at gunpoint were released from jail on Wednesday, after each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit unlawful imprisonment, said Yuma County Attorney Patricia Orozco. Orozco said Matthew Hoffman, 23, and Alexander Dumas, 26, were ordered released by Yuma County Superior Court Judge Andrew Gould during a Wednesday hearing and are scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 19. As a result of the pleas, Orozco said the remaining charges each man was facing were dropped. Each had...

<p>A POSSE of outraged outlaws, thugs and drug dealers are joining forces with the community to help capture the animal who raped a 9-year-old girl on the roof of a Harlem building. Infuriated by the rapist's savage assault, many of the street toughs are forming an unholy alliance with cops to hunt down the rapist - the question is who's going to nab him first.</p>

Article published May 24, 2003 Shiites Reportedly Hunting Baathists By HAMZA HENDAWI Associated Press Writer The Shiite Muslim cleric sat cross-legged on the floor. With chilling calm, he explained the criteria - how to decide which of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party officials are permitted to live, and which of them will die. Only officials attempting to return to positions they held under Saddam should be killed - and only after a fair warning, said Sheik Ali al-Gharawi, one of several community leaders in a poverty-ridden Baghdad district known as al-Thawra, where an estimated 2 million Shiites live. "People come to...

<p>For years, U.S. officials along the southwestern border have done a peculiar dance with local ranchers and other residents who, without the government's help, have captured thousands of illegal immigrants from Mexico.</p> <p>Publicly, authorities have discouraged citizen patrol groups, which civil rights advocates and Mexican officials have accused of being abusive "vigilantes." But in an approach that the critics say encourages vigilantism, U.S. agents routinely accept immigrants caught by such patrols, and return the immigrants to Mexico.</p>

REBUILDING IN THE GULF Iraqis exact revenge on Saddam's regime Former Baath Party officials killed in systematic assassinations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: May 20, 2003 1:25 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Liberated Iraqi citizens are taking matters in their own hands and have begun assassinating former ruling Baath Party officials, reports the Washington Post. The killings of mid-level government functionaries and Baathist icons, according to the Post, appear to have increased following the U.S. decree last Friday that prohibits senior party officials from holding positions in the top three tiers of Iraq's postwar government. In one example, the singer Daoud Qais, known...

Murder of Catholics selling alcohol raises fundamentalist fears (Filed: 10/05/2003) Fanatics are trying to fill the power vacuum left by the fall of Saddam and it puts a community in fear, writes Kate Connolly in Basra It was because of a stomach upset that Sabah Gazala did not go to work in his off-licence in the El Saymar district on Wednesday. Had he done so he might still be alive today. Two men were doing the rounds of the alcohol shops in town that day, ordering them to close their doors or see their businesses blown to smithereens. Most obeyed....

Guns in Baghdad Posted: May 5, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com As we speak, the National Rifle Association's nightmare scenario is unfolding in Baghdad. Unchecked, ruthless military authorities, operating in the absence of any constitutional restraints, without search warrants and without paying compensation, and without distinguishing between criminals, ordinary Baathists and law-abiding citizens, are seizing privately-owned weapons in clear violation of the principles of the revered, holy and sacrosanct Second Amendment. Where is the NRA to protect a gun-owner's rights? Well, in Baghdad, you don't have any right to bear arms. And no hand grenades, mortars or light...

GAZA CITY, Oct. 9 -- In a territory that reverberates with nightly gun battles, in a city full of weapons and armed men in various uniforms, the checkpoint in central Gaza City must have looked like any other as the car carrying Col. Rageh Abu Lehiya approached. Hardly something to worry about for one of Gaza's top Palestinian police commanders. But when Abu Lehiya's car pulled to a stop, someone yelled, "That's him!" and the 20 uniformed men operating the checkpoint sprang into action, according to Palestinian police and other Gaza officials. The men were members of the Islamic Resistance...

No more muggings    Peach Zeenie leaves this page, egged on by Bill Dennis alas, with the notion that Ann Coulter's prominent, nay exalted, stature amongst us right wing nutzoids is due, primarily, to a set of long legs.  That couldn't be further from the truth. It's long legs and an attitude.     While pondering the exact nature of Ann's sway over me, I was struck by the similar feelings I experience while watching Ann confront the likes of Katie Couric, and the exaltation that caused me, and legions of theater goers everywhere, a quarter century ago, to leap to our...