At least three early voters in Jackson County had a hard time voting for candidates they want to win.

Virginia Matheney and Calvin Thomas said touch-screen machines in the county clerk's office in Ripley kept switching their votes from Democratic to Republican candidates. picked by sidran32 3 months ago

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart will suspend all mortgage foreclosure evictions beginning Thursday, he announced today. picked by Nateebiinature 3 months ago

Yes...we have today's "Creepy-weird" piece. A county morgue employee took posed pics of dead people with doll furniture, fruit, and other props "as part of an art project to illustrate the cycle of life from birth through death". Hilarity ensues in the lawyers' offices. picked by moe 1 year ago

Crawford County authorities say an inmate escaped the county jail and left behind a rose fashioned out of toilet paper because he felt sorry for breaking out.

How thoughtful. picked by Nicky666 6 months ago

Slender, dark-haired Karen Jane Matthew was brought into the downtown King County Jail around 1 a.m. on Sept. 16 last year after being arrested for selling rock cocaine on Aurora Avenue. Over the next 30 hours, the 51-year-old inmate with a long, mostly misdemeanor record, including drugs and prostitution, lost consciousness and split open her head in a fall; told a cellmate she was "dope sic... read full post picked by bingo 7 months ago

Up to $1.25 million was embezzled from a small Michigan county whose annual budget is only $4 million. picked by Wingnut 2 years ago

Three male and three female inmates at a southern Indiana jail face charges that they devised a way to sneak between cell blocks to help pass their time behind bars by having sex. picked by AutumnLotus 2 months ago

Fast-moving mountain landslides called “debris flows” topped the news in September 2004 when one such slide killed five people in Macon County’s Peeks Creek community, but it is another type of less-understood slope failure that is the focus of a long-term research project involving Western Carolina University geology students and faculty, and the state’s Geological Survey ... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

...Fire fighters call repair man for tips on taking it apart, eventually resort to jaws of life.

(When I was a Kid I was under the impression that there were only one pair of the "Jaws of Life" and it was flown all over the country to save lives.) picked by MuppetmakeR 11 months ago

You can't get a license for this kind of fishing, but Allegheny County Jail officials said that hasn't stopped some inmates from doing it. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A man who sang gospels while he sexually assaulted and beat a woman and then left her for dead in a trash bin in St. Louis was sentenced Friday to two life sentences plus 200 years in prison. picked by digitalgimpling 2 years ago

Don't want to pay your bill? You could end up working in the kitchen of a local jail for the day. picked by Skid 2 years ago

Crystal is one of dozens of young people who are turning to social networking sites to talk about sexual assualt.

Some do it as a form of therapy, others like Crystal do it because they feel slighted by the justice system which often has a hard time convicting rape cases or as in Crystal's case when the prosecutor doesn't file rape charges at all. picked by 2manyusernames 8 months ago

A Wisconsin woman, fearing legal intoxication, called 911 on herself. Affiliate WTMJ has the story picked by neo3979 11 months ago

A Gardnerville man said he found an 1,800-pound meteorite in Douglas County using a device that detects radio signals from minerals. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Organizers say they want the pageant to restore the women's pride and raise awareness about the prevalence of landmines left over from Angola's three decade-long civil war. Undetonated mines still maim 300 to 400 people a year in the county, according to the United Nations. picked by DemureArt 9 months ago

Michele Anderson's Mother was wrapping presents for her family on Christmas Eve (2006), when gunfire erupted in her living room and her own daughter began a bloodbath that left Anderson and five other members of her family dead. Anderson pleaded not guilty to six counts of aggravated first-degree murder, but she contacted KOMO News from inside the King County Jail on Wednesday, claiming she wants... read full post picked by bevissimo 7 months ago

"The Oregon Trail is just across the highway. We had stagecoach robbers, gunfights, Indian attacks," Couch said, of Owyhee County, which is two-thirds Belgium's size but has just 11,000 residents. "The Wild West happened here." picked by bevissimo 2 years ago

A Franklin County sheriff deputy made the traffic stop on I-35 over the noon hour on Wednesday. picked by wags273 1 year ago

Randy Dean Sievert drew ire from Manatee County sheriff's deputies as he aimed his cell phone camera at undercover investigators executing a search warrant in his neighborhood. picked by mutil8or 10 months ago