Milwaukee man faces jail time for shooting lawnmower

A Milwaukee man is facing more than six years in jail after he attacked his lawnmower with a sawed-off shotgun. Keith Walendowski, 57, said he became “pissed” when his 21-inch Lawn-Boy wouldn’t start and believes he did nothing wrong.  “I can do that.  It’s my lawnmower and my yard, so I can shoot it if I want,” he said. But police charged him with felony weapons possession and a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct while armed. Dick Wagner, a local lawnmower... More

Woman threatens lawsuit over dog obituary

A Florida woman is threatening to bring a discrimination lawsuit against a local newspaper because it refuses to run an obituary for her dog. When Kimberly DeWolf’s 12-year-old pup Bailey passed away, she took a week of bereavement leave and submitted an obituary to the West Orange Times.  But the paper refused to run the announcement based on a policy that death notices are limited to human beings. But DeWolf insists that Bailey is “not a dog: he’s my child.  They’re discriminating... More

Baltimore starts another school year preaching respect and alternatives to violence

Tawanda Hughes was a hall monitor at Reginald F. Lewis High School, one of Baltimore’s most dangerous. Her son, David Higgins, attended Thurgood Marshall and Hamilton middle schools, both among Maryland’s most violent. More  Read More →

Baltimore police video surveillance expands

Mayor Sheila Dixon, left, and City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. [Photo: www.SheilaDixon.com]Mayor Sheila Dixon and City Council President Stephanie Rawlings-Blake have strongly supported the Baltimore Police Department’s... More

Masked teens take chips, soda from Pa. store

Police are searching for three masked teens who burst into a southwestern Pennsylvania convenience store, but were content to steal only several bags of potato chips and bottles of soda. More  Read More →

Lost & found: Golf course may regain missing holes

How do you lose a hole? Ask the Westchester Golf Course, which was deprived of three of them — and now might get them back. More  Read More →

Escaped emu is back home

An emu bought to keep a cow company escaped from its quarters and spent a day on the lam before being cornered by detention center inmates working on ball fields. More  Read More →

Charges to be dropped in beating

Court records indicate prosecutors will drop felony charges against a youth who allegedly beat his mother with an bat because she wouldn’t share her french fries with him. More  Read More →

Store owner gives would-be thief $40 and bread

A rifle-toting convenience store owner said he decided to show mercy on a would-be robber after seeing the man collapse into tears and claim he was only committing the crime to support his starving family. The Long Island store owner provided the bat-wielding man with $40 and a loaf of bread and made... More

Police: Teen beats mom over french fries

The Cecil County Sheriff’s Office says a teenager beat his mother with an aluminum baseball bat because she wouldn’t share her french fries with him. Seventeen-year-old Dennis Hickman III is charged as an adult with first- and second-degree assault. More  Read More →

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