Category Archives: Crime Beat

Stabbed man puzzles police Police are still puzzled by an incident involving a man with a 5-inch knife stuck into his chest who walked into a restaurant and ordered a coffee Sunday. "His story is still questionable," Warren Police Commissioner … Continue reading →

  A Van Buren Township man was shot in the leg during a party at an Ann Arbor hotel early Saturday morning, police said. Officers were dispatched to the Executive Hotel for a shots fired call about 12:30 a.m. and … Continue reading →

  About 3:30 p.m., the police reported a man on campus wearing a black tank top and a cowboy hat, carrying a black puppy and a large hunting knife. Lieutenant Ross said that the man was being questioned, but that … Continue reading →

  Fayette County man fires cannonball through neighbor’s house 　 Police said a man in Georges Township, Fayette County, fired a metal cannon that sent a two-pound lead ball into his neighbor’s house. William Edward Maser, 54, fired the cannon … Continue reading →

LANCASTER, Pa. — A central Pennsylvania man says he robbed a bank in 2007 to go to jail and get away from his overbearing wife. At a sentencing hearing yesterday, 39-year-old Anthony Miller said he robbed a bank in Ephrata … Continue reading →

CMU student plunges to death Stairwell had poem with dark humor Saturday, August 29, 2009 By Kaitlynn Riely, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The eight-story stairwell in which a 19-year-old Carnegie Mellon University student apparently jumped to his death Thursday afternoon was known … Continue reading →

Well, I’m off to the ancestral home with the Prodigal to inspect the ruined towers and straighten out the Steelers in Latrobe, so I’m maintaining ubusilence for about a week. Here’s a double dip of Crime Beat to see you … Continue reading →

FRASER Police: Game of Monopoly turns violent A game of Monopoly turned ugly when a Fraser man hit a friend in the side of the head when she refused to sell him Boardwalk and Park Place, Fraser police said. The … Continue reading →