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Pub's Bad Service Leads
to Arrest—of Irate Patrons

No skipping gratuity, restaurant says

9 hours, 53 minutes ago
(Newser) - Turns out that mandatory 18% gratuity for large parties at restaurants is mandatory enough that skipping it can get you arrested. A Philadelphia-area couple who found service at a pub was so scarce they essentially waited on themselves and their six friends ended up in cuffs when they refused to... More »

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theft • servers • restaurant • arrest • tipping • waitress • food services • gratuity • Bethlehem, Pa.

DANGEROUS HOOLIGANS



 25 Chicago Kids 
 Jailed After 
 Food Fight 

Students face criminal charges, and parents are outraged

Nov 11, 09 11:46 AM CST
(Newser) - Twenty-five Chicago students ages 11 to 15 had to cool their heels in jail for 5 hours last week after a food fight at their school apparently got out of hand. The kids face charges of misdemeanor reckless conduct, NBC Chicago reports. Parents are angry that their kids were treated... More »

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Chicago • misdemeanor • arrest • middle school • students • food fight • reckless conduct

BLOG POWER

 Emma 
 Thompson 
 Drops Support  
 of Polanski 

Web petitioners change actress' mind about case

Nov 5, 09 12:17 PM CST
(Newser) - Who says a blog can’t change anything? Not the folks at Shakesville , who assembled a petition opposing actress Emma Thompson’s decision to sign a petition of her own opposing Roman Polanksi’s arrest. Somehow, one member of the community finagled a meeting with Thompson, presented the document…and... More »

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Internet • rape • blog • arrest • blogger • Roman Polanski • Emma Thompson • petition

SPICOLI LITE

 Sean Penn's 
 Son Dodges 
 Drug Charges 

But Hopper may have been kicked out of another school for drugs

Nov 5, 09 8:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Sean Penn’s son, arrested last week at his Malibu high school, is not facing drug charges. Sources close to the investigation say he was picked up for drug possession, but tell Radar that the drugs—no names given—were medications prescribed to Hopper, and that the district attorney's office... More »

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entertainment • celebrity • prescription drugs • arrest • Sean Penn • Robin Wright Penn

DADDY'S LITTLE ANGEL

 Sean Penn's Son Arrested 

Teen son of Sean, Robin Wright Penn busted at school

Nov 4, 09 7:13 AM CST
(Newser) - Looks like the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Bad boy Sean Penn’s 16-year-old son was arrested last week, sources close to the investigation tell Radar . He was taken into custody at school in Malibu, but since he’s a minor, no word on whether charges have... More »

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entertainment • celebrity • arrest • Sean Penn • Robin Wright Penn

Airport Guard Arrested Over Obama Threats

Fellow NJ worker reportedly overheard him making remarks

Oct 21, 09 2:54 PM CDT
(AP) - A private security guard at Newark Liberty International Airport has been arrested on charges of threatening President Obama before the president was to fly there. A Continental Airlines employee reported overhearing John Brek make threatening comments at an airport coffee cart yesterday afternoon. The 55-year-old security guard was arrested several... More »

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death threats • Newark • airport security • arrest • security guards • Newark airport • President Obama

 Vicious Beating 
 of NY Gay 
 Caught 
 on Tape 

Jack Price remains in coma

Oct 14, 09 4:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - The brutal hate-crime beating of a gay man on a deserted Queens street was captured on a neighborhood surveillance video. Jack Price, 49, tries repeatedly to escape his attackers who continue to punch and stomp him on the tape. "From beginning to end, it was absolutely horrible," Price's... More »

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homophobia • crime • hate crime • arrest • taped beating • videotaped beating • gay • Jack Price

 Teens Pummel 
 Pom Queen in 
 Facebook Vid 

Two girls busted after football game melee

Oct 2, 09 3:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - In the latest event in the season of teen violence, two Maryland girls have been busted after their videotaped beating of a student was posted on Facebook. On the tape, the two teens tackle the leader of a pom squad at a Silver Spring football game and kick and punch... More »

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football • arrest • attack • assault • taped beating • videotaped beating • Derrion Albert • teen girls • pom squad

 US Cops Nab 
 International 
 Chameleon 
 Conman 

Smooth-talking Colombian scammed luxury hotels in many countries

Sep 30, 09 6:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Colombian fraudster wanted in seven countries has been arrested after entering the US from Canada on a phony passport. Juan Carlos Guzman-Betancourt, known to have at least 10 aliases, made his living scamming luxury hotels, often pretending to be a guest who had forgotten the combination to his safe... More »

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theft • Colombia • hotel • arrest • con man

ANALYSIS

On Terror Case, Rare Silence From Obama

Also a reversal of Bush attempts to 'conflate' threat to US: Ambinder

Sep 29, 09 7:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - The absence of a statement from the Obama administration on the arrest of terror suspect Najibullah Zazi is quite a contrast from a president Americans have gotten used to seeing just about every time they turn on the TV—and from the treatment such incidents received during the Bush administration,... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • terror plots • arrest • Obama administration • President Obama • Najibullah Zazi • exaggeration

(Newser) - Police today arrested three activists who were distributing a parody issue of the New York Post, Daily Finance reports. Volunteers all over New York were distributing the phony paper, which was intended to call attention to climate change. But when some tried distributing it in front of the More »

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climate change • censorship • New York Post • arrest • prank • liberal

(AP) - After days of suspicion, police arrested Raymond Clark III today in the killing of 24-year-old Yale University graduate student Annie Le. He was taken into custody at a hotel where he was staying in Cromwell, Conn., about about 25 miles north of New Haven, and his bond is set for... More »

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arrest • killings • Yale • Annie Le • Raymond Clark

Fugitive Holding Newlyweds Caught Napping

Pair gave Colo. suspect blankets, pillow; fled when he dozed

Sep 13, 09 8:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - A fugitive who’d dodged the law for days was nabbed when he fell asleep after taking a pair of newlyweds hostage in Kansas, AP reports. The couple gave the escaped con pillows and blankets and slipped out unharmed after he dozed off. Now, he’s set to return to... More »

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sleep • Kansas • fugitive • arrest • Colorado • hostage

Jade Goody's Widower Charged With Rape

Tweed has admitted alcohol abuse in dealing with reality star's death

Sep 5, 09 4:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jack Tweed, the troubled widower of late UK reality star Jade Goody, has been charged with raping a 19-year-old woman, the Daily Mail reports. Officers arrested the 22-year-old and a friend after the woman told police the men assaulted her in a bedroom at Tweed’s rented home. Tweed, who... More »

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United Kingdom • rape • alcohol abuse • arrest • Jade Goody • Jack Tweed

(AP) - The number of women charged with driving under the influence has increased nearly 30% during the past decade, Transportation Department officials said today, while the number of men fell 7.5% in the same period. The department says the number of impaired women involved in a fatal crash increased in... More »

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women • drunk driving • arrest • statistics • Department of Transportation • Ray LaHood • Diane Schuler

(Newser) - A 20-year-old man has been arrested for a pipe attack on the mayor of Milwaukee as he came to the aid of the mother of the suspect's girlfriend, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Mayor Tom Barrett, 55, suffered a broken hand and head injuries when he confronted the attacker and... More »

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Wisconsin • Milwaukee • arrest • attack • Tom Barrett • state fair

(Newser) - The girlfriend of Michael Douglas' elder son has been busted after trying to smuggle 19 glassine envelopes of heroin to her boyfriend, police told the New York Post. The drugs were hidden in a black bag carrying an electric toothbrush and delivered to Cameron Douglas, 30, at mother Diandra Douglas'... More »

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Manhattan • heroin • house arrest • arrest • smuggler • crystal meth • Michael Douglas • Diandra Douglas • drug smuggling • Cameron Douglas • drug arrest

 Pee-wee Staging Comeback 


Aug 11, 09 4:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Goofy kids character Pee-wee Herman will live again on a Los Angeles stage in a November comeback series by creator Paul Reubens, reports the Los Angeles Times. "I've put him away for a long time but part of him has always been with me," Reubens said in an... More »

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California • Los Angeles • indecent exposure • arrest • child pornography • actor • Pee-wee Herman • television program • kids television • Paul Reubens

 Douglas Son Busted for Meth 


Aug 4, 09 3:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Douglas' son has been arrested on suspicion of possessing a large amount of crystal meth with intention to sell, authorities told the New York Post. Cameron Douglas, 30, was busted last week at a Manhattan hotel in an undercover operation that allegedly nailed him with some $18,000 worth... More »

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crime • arrest • crystal meth • undercover investigation • undercover • Michael Douglas • drug charges • Cameron Douglas

Gates: I Can 
Joke About 
Arrest Now 

Harvard prof kidded Cambridge cop
at White House

Aug 2, 09 5:24 PM CDT
(AP) - A black Harvard scholar said today he has been able to joke about his arrest by a white police officer that led to a national debate on race, despite receiving death threats and bomb threats. In his first public appearance since meeting with Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley at the... More »

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racism • arrest • racial profiling • Henry Louis Gates Jr • James Crowley • Skip Gates

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