WINNEBAGO COUNTY, Wis. (WTAQ) – Police are recommending drunken homicide charges against a 27-year-old Oshkosh area woman, after authorities found her baby in a submerged SUV. Winnebago County sheriff’s deputies said today they’ll recommend an OWI charge against Kayla Westenberger of Omro, as well as a count of homicide by intoxicated driving. Deputies were called late Saturday night to the Eureka boat landing on the Fox River in southwest Winnebago County. There, they found 8-month-old Richard Westenberger, who was in the partially-submerged SUV.

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San Francisco — Despite being shielded by her grandfather, a 3-year-old girl coming home from trick-or-treating was seriously wounded in a gang-motivated shooting on Halloween outside her Potrero Hill home, police said Monday. The girl, who turned 3 last month, was walking with her 52-year-old grandfather and 24-year-old mother just outside the 25th Street housing development when shots were fired at 10:02 p.m., San Francisco police said. She was wounded three times but is expected to survive.

Pittsburgh, PA — According to police, 42-year-old Karen Remsing decided to help herself to a dose of her terminally ill son’s pain medications this past Sunday. Remsing, a registered nurse, reportedly disconnected a computerized intravenous injection tube supplying Midazolam to her 15-year-old son, and filled several hypodermic needles stolen from a hospital supply cart before injecting herself with the sedative. The loopy woman then tried to reconnect the IV tube back into the machine, but screwed it up, causing an air bubble in the line. Fortunately, the potentially fatal air bubble did not enter her son’s body.

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NEWBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. – Some kids trick-or-treating a few days early at the Conewago Valley Mobile Home Park got the fright of their lives when they went to collect candy from a 68-year-old resident. What they found was his corpse lying outside his front door, a victim of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. “They saw him lying there, but they though it was a Halloween decoration until they got close and they realized it was real,” said Newberry Township resident Donna Jones. Police don’t know when the man killed himself or how long he had been lying on his front step, but think that anyone who had seen the body may have thought it was simply a Halloween prop.

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ELYRIA, Ohio — A registered sexual offender is being held in the Lorain County Jail, on charges that he exposed himself to two teenage girls on Monday. Matthew Trakas, 41, is facing two counts of public indecency. Trakas was arrested after the girls told investigators the registered sexual predator was completely naked in his doorway while putting up Halloween decorations. Trakas lives across the street from St. Mary’s Catholic School and was in full view of the school.

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Officials believe the baby’s father may have intentionally crashed the vehicle into the home–Killing newborn daughter and the mother

LOS ANGELES ( KTLA) — A 21-year old father has been booked on suspicion of murder after slamming his truck into a home, killing his ex-girlfriend and their newborn daughter. Authorities say 21-year-old Eduardo Villareal was treated for minor injuries Monday and was booked after being released from a hospital. The crash was reported just before midnight in the 400 block of N. Mott Street. Investigators say about 14 people were inside the home at the time of the incident, possibly for a Halloween get-together. A white Cadillac Escalade pickup, driven by Villarreal, slammed into the house, landing in the mother’s bedroom, officials said.

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LOS ANGELES ( KTLA) — A 5-year-old boy who was shot in the backyard of a South Los Angeles home with family members has died. Family members say Aaron Shannon, Jr. was taken off life support and died at about 10 p.m. Monday night. The boy was shot around 2 p.m. Sunday in the 1000 block of E. 84th Street as he was getting ready for a Halloween party, according to LAPD homicide detectives. He even posed for pictures in his ‘Spiderman’ costume.

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Authorities say someone recognized the suspect’s image on the news and turned him in to police.

COSTA MESA (KTLA) — A man accused of trying to unzip a teenager’s pants aboard an Orange County bus last week is believed to have targeted at least two other teenagers. 55-year-old Herath Premaratnea was taken into custody as he exited a bus at the corner of Harbor Boulevard and Wilson Street on Oct. 28, just hours after officials released images caught on bus surveillance cameras. Premaratnea is suspected of being involved in at least two incidents that happened Monday aboard the OCTA bus traveling near Ave and 18th St. in Costa Mesa about 5:40 p.m.

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Shane Sparks starred on “So You Think You Can Dance” and “America’s Best Dance Crew”

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — Reality star Shane Sparks has been ordered to stand trial on eight sex counts involving an underage girl in the 1990s. Melvin Shane Sparks, 40, is charged with six counts of a lewd act on a child and two counts of oral copulation of a person under 16. He was arrested at his Studio City home on December 18 and was released the following day. The criminal complaint alleged that the crimes occurred between July 1994 and April 1997. Sparks was arrested Dec. 18 at his Studio City home and he was released on $590,000 bail.

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Case closed doesn’t mean lesson learned.

When AWOL sex offenders are nabbed for failing to register their location, they often go back to doing exactly what they did before being caught. They continue to not register. A review of noncompliant sex offender files from the U.S. Marshals Service, the lead federal agency helping state and local cops locate the fugitives, shows that 1,400 offenders were arrested numerous times or for multiple outstanding warrants. To be sure, many if not most sex offenders comply with the reporting requirements and residency restrictions a growing number of states are placing on the convicts. But many don’t, and a review of their arrest records highlights the slice of sex offenders who persistently evade law enforcement.

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http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2010/nov/01/sex-offenders-worst/

Man arrested on suspicion of rape, child porn

EUGENE, Ore. –Police accuse Chad Gerald Schacht, who teaches at a Springfield middle school and coaches at a Eugene high school, of sexually abusing a 15-year-old student . Schacht, 40, is a teacher at Agnes Stewert Middle School. But it was his activities as a cross country coach at Sheldon High which sparked an investigation by the Violent Crimes Unit of the Eugene Police Department. Staffers at Sheldon received information about the alleged abuse, and reported it to police.

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