Backstroke backfires for Ore. man arrested in river
Maybe Matthew Grevers, seen here after winning the Olympic gold medal in the men's 100-meter backstroke in London in July 2012, could have helped an Oregon man who was arrested in a river when he tried to do the backstroke to escape from police.
/ AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa De OlzaThey fished him out of the river, and placed him under arrest.
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Michael Watkins
/ KBOI(CBS/AP) BOISE, Idaho - An Idaho man convicted of breaking into a Boise zoo and brutally beating to death a Patas monkey will spend up to a year in state prison, where he'll take part in a treatment program.
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Hofstra Univ. student, suspect killed in home invasion
Police outside the home in Uniondale, N.Y., where a Hofstra University student and an intruder were killed, Friday, May 17, 2013.
/ CBS New YorkDriving drunk on lawn mower brings 40 days in jail
Roy Walton, booking photo
/ CBS Dertroit'Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker' arrested
Caleb "Kai" Lawrence McGillivary
/ AP Photo/Union County Prosecutor's Office(CBS/AP) ELIZABETH, N.J. - The unlikely pair - an itinerant hitchhiker turned Internet celebrity and a lawyer three times his age - met amid the neon lights of Times Square and headed back to a squat brick home on a quiet New Jersey cul-de-sac, authorities say.
PICTURES: "Kai the Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker"
Continue »Got their goat...but then it got away from N.H. cops
Goat allegedly guilty of trespassing in Mont Vernon, N.H., wound up in the back of a police cruiser on Monday, May 13, 2013.
/ Mont Vernon, N.H. police, via CBS BostonPerhaps because the perpetrator is a goat.
Continue »Arias jury hears of anguish from murder victim's family
PICTURES: Jodi Arias: Guilty of first-degree murder
Continue »Ricardo Woods convicted of murder in "blink of an eye"
Ricardo Woods
/ File, AP Photo/Hamilton County Sheriff's Department(CBS/AP) CINCINNATI - Ricardo Woods, a 35-year-old Ohio man, was found guilty of murder Thursday in the shooting death of a man who authorities say identified Woods as his assailant by blinking his eyes while paralyzed and hooked up to a ventilator.
Defense lawyer: Jodi Arias will speak "about who she is"
Jodi Arias reacts on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, after she was found guilty of first-degree murder for killing her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander, by a Maricopa County Superior Court jury in Phoenix, Ariz.
/ AP/The Arizona Republic, Pool, Rob Schumacher(CBS/AP) PHOENIX -- Jodi Arias' defense team introduced eight "mitigating circumstances" in a Phoenix courtroom Thursday, including her age, troubled upbringing and artistic talent, in an attempt to save the convicted killer from a death sentence.
PICTURES: Jodi Arias: Guilty of first-degree murder
Continue »O.J. Simpson continues bid for new trial in robbery case
O.J. Simpson testifies during an evidentiary hearing in Clark County District Court, Wednesday, May 15, 2013 in Las Vegas.
/ AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, Pool(AP) LAS VEGAS - A lawyer who has hounded O.J. Simpson for years to collect a multimillion-dollar civil judgment after the former football star's "trial of the century" acquittal in Los Angeles, testified Thursday that items taken in the Las Vegas hotel room heist that put Simpson in prison didn't really belong to him.
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