Defense Rests in Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping Trial
Elizabeth Smart, Nov. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Chris Detrick)
SALT LAKE CITY (CBS/AP) Brian David Mitchell, currently on trial for the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart from her Salt Lake City home, is a paranoid schizophrenic who believes he is the "Davidic King" and will rise up to fight and defeat the anti-Christ at the end of the world, according to a prison psychologist who testified just before the defense rested its case Thursday.
Continue »Rev. Marcus Lamb Faces Unusual Lawsuit over Affair
Marcus Lamb (daystar.com)
NEW YORK (CBS/AP) Here's a twist on marital infidelity you don't hear every day.
A woman who worked for Rev. Marcus Lamb's DayStar Television Network is suing the prominent televangelist, claiming that Lamb's recently admitted extramarital affair caused her "great emotional pain," because the out-of-wedlock tryst compromised the Christian values she expected in the workplace.
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Cops: Sex Offender Assaults 2 Yr. Old in Store
Eugene Ramos (Santa Rita Jail)
UNION CITY, Calif. (CBS/AP) A registered sex offender has been arrested on suspicion of raping a 2-year-old girl in a Northern California discount store, while her family was shopping in the next aisle.
Continue »Missing 19 Yr. Old's Car Found Near Miss. River
James "J.J." Willman (Personal Photo)
WOODSON TERRACE, Mo. (CBS/KMOX) There's growing concern about 19-year-old James "J.J." Willman, a Missouri man who's been missing since early Saturday morning.
Continue »Conn. Home Invasion: Execution Will Be a "Relief"
Haley, Michaela, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, William Petit (Personal Photo)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CBS/AP) Steven Hayes, the man sentenced to death for the murders of the wife and two daughters of Connecticut doctor William Petit during a home invasion, says his execution will be a "welcome relief."
Continue »Police Report Second Death in Disney Town
Market Street, Celebration, Fla. (Wikipedia/Bobak Ha'Eri)
CELEBRATION, Fla. (CBS/WKMG/AP) Florida police are investigating another death in the Disney-developed community of Celebration just days after reporting its first ever homicide, authorities said.
Craig Foushee, 52, barricaded himself in his home Thursday afternoon for more than 14 hours before killing himself, according to CBS affiliate WKMG.
Continue »Family Pleads for Help to Find Kyron Horman
Kaine Horman and Kyron Horman (Personal Photo)
PORTLAND, Ore. (CBS/KOIN) Kaine Horman and Desiree Young, the parents of missing boy Kyron Horman, issued a plea Thursday nearly six months after Kyron went missing.
PICTURES: Kyron Horman Missing, New Photos
Continue »Convicted Murderer Posts Pics From Prison
Justin Walker Licking What Appears To Be a Shank (Personal Photo)
GRANITE, Okla. (CBS/KWTV/AP) A convicted murderer locked up for killing an Oklahoma sheriff was caught posting pictures to his Facebook page from inside his prison cell using a smuggled-in cell phone.
PICTURES: Inmate's Facebook Photos
Inmate Justin Walker apparently used his blackberry to upload the photos onto Facebook.
Continue »Alleged Female Shoplifters Hid Items in Body Fat
Shmeco Thomas and Ailene Brown (Edmond Police Dept.)
Cops: Man Blames Vending Machine for Attack on Mom
(AP Photo, file)
FREEDOM, Pa. (CBS/AP) Bet you never heard this one before.
Police say a western Pennsylvania man told them that a vending machine "made him" attack his mother, breaking her wrist.
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