Casey Anthony is back in Florida awaiting the decision on whether she must serve a year’s probation resulting from a check fraud case in 2010.  She is scheduled to start by Aug.26, but her lawyers are appealing that decision.
Before her first degree murder trial, Anthony pleaded guilty to stealing checks from best friend Amy Huizenga during the time that Caylee was missing.  She was ordered to serve 412 days in jail and a year’s probation.  An error occurred giving Anthony credit for the probation when she was …

ANCHORAGE—A 36-year-old Anchorage mother  went on trial Wednesday morning for the charge of misdemeanor child abuse.
Jessica Beagley and husband, a police officer, adopted two young boys from Russia.  The boys, age 7, are twins who had been in an orphanage in Russia for three years after being abandoned by their parents.  The Beagleys have four biological children.  Jessica Beagley began having trouble disciplining the boys when they lied and misbehaved in school.  She said traditional methods of discipline did not work.
In November, Beagley appeared on the Dr. Phil show …

San Diego — Los Angeles Laker Kobe Bryant was with his wife at St. Therese of Carmel Valley church in Carmel this past Sunday when he thought someone near him was taking his picture with a cell phone.  Kobe grabbed the cell phone from the man’s hand and looked to see if there were pictures of him.  There were no pictures of him and Kobe returned the phone.
The man who owned the phone, 21-year-old Thomas Hagos, said that his wrist was injured in the incident and he had to go …

TAMPA — Acting on a tip from an informant, police arrested a teen for planning a bomb attack at a local high school.  The student, Jared Cano,17,  who had been expelled from Freedom High School in 2009 was discovered with bomb-making material at his home.  Police learned from the informant that the attack was planned for the first day of school, August 23.
Cano has multiple juvenile arrests, which have included burglary, carrying a concealed weapon, altering serial numbers on a firearm and drug possession. All have been either …

Dr. Kevin Brown, a Los Angeles physician and son of a former premier of Bermuda, was found guilty Monday on 21 charges which included sexual battery by fraud, sexual exploitation by a physician and lewd act upon a child.  He  was accused of assaulting nine female patients, including a 15-year-old and an undercover police officer.
Brown, who had been free on $4-million bond, was immediately handcuffed and taken to county jail.  His father, former Bermuda Premier Ewart Brown, was in the court room along with other family …

KENNETT, Mo. -Shawn Morgan has been charged with first-degree murder, armed criminal action and tampering with evidence in the disappearance of 3-year-old Breeann Rodriguez.  Morgan, 43, was a neighbor and is the father of three.  Breeann disappeared on Aug. 6 from her neighborhood which is located about 200 miles south of St. Louis.
According to authorities, Morgan admitted to grabbing Breeann and carrying her inside his house as she stood on the ladder at the pool in his backyard on the day she went missing.   Morgan …

Over fifty teenagers were detained on Friday night as the implementation of Philadelphia’s new curfew law began. The new curfew law enacted by Michael Nutter, the city’s mayor, is aimed at preventing teens from gathering in three districts where bystanders have been attacked by unruly groups using social media networks to co-ordinate their meetings and movements.

Unaccompanied teens aged between 13 and 18 were banned from the streets of the colonial Old City and two other busy nightlife districts. Mobs of teens have been popping …

Fullerton city council members are holding a special meeting today, Friday, to discuss whether to start an inquiry into 37-year-old Kelly Thomas’s death. His father, a former sheriff’s deputy filed a claim against the police on Thursday.
The claim alleges violation of civil rights, negligence and conspiracy against the city, its police department and the officers that Ron Thomas says caused the death of his son.
Kelly Thomas died five days after officers, responding to a call that someone was breaking into cars, tried to search Kelly’s …

On July 22 jurors convicted Anthony Sowell of 11 counts of aggravated murder and more than 70 other charges including abusing corpses and kidnapping.  Today, Wednesday, those same jurors unanimously voted to sentence Sowell to the death penalty.  Ultimately the decision belongs to Cuyahoga County Judge Dick Ambrose who will give his decision on Friday at 9 a.m.
Sowell’s conviction began in 2009 with the discovery of two victims in his Cleveland, Ohio home. Police executed a search warrant when a woman complained about about being raped by Sowell.  When they …

A Columbia woman and her 5-year-old  son were injured Monday night when she drove her Ford Escape off the bridge into the bank of a creek near Wilcox Road off of Route E. The woman, Elizabeth Klaus, 32, was taken by paramedics to University Hospital, and was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated following the accident.  This was her third arrest for DUI.  The woman’s son, Lucas, who was found outside the SUV was rushed to the hospital by helicopter with serious injuries.  The boy was not in a …