OKC Woman Arrested For Husband's Murder

Xin Xin Liu, News9.com

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City police are investigating a homicide after they found a man's body at an apartment complex in Oklahoma City Saturday.

This happened at Countryside Village Apartment Complex, located near the 9500 block of South Shields Boulevard.

Police said they received a call at around 8 a.m. from Carolyn Spead, who claimed she had killed her husband. As officers arrived, they found 40-year-old Terry Spead dead at the scene.

Spead is now in Oklahoma County jail on first degree murder complaint.

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Suspect Sought In Fatal Stabbing

By: Lauren Evans & Andy Long
Published: September 10, 2011
Updated: September 11, 2011 - 7:21 AM »  Comments | Post a Comment COLUMBUS, Ohio --

Medic pronounced a stabbing victim dead at a residence on the southeast side and they have a suspect in custody.

Columbus Police officers were dispatched to the 2400 block of Benie Court on a report of a stabbing.

Officers found the victim, 16-year-old Khalil Prater lying on the sidewalk with stab wounds to his upper body.

Prater was pronounced dead on the scene by medics.

Police arrested Jerome J. Looney Jr., 28,  and charged him with 1 count of murder. Looney is scheduled to appear in court on Monday.

Police said that the Looney and Prater were involved in a fight which led to Prater being stabbed.

This was the city’s 64th homicide of 2011.

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Father Finds 11-Year-Old Boy; CPD Cancels Alert

By: Andy Long
Published: September 10, 2011
Updated: September 10, 2011 - 3:43 PM »  Comments | Post a Comment COLUMBUS, Ohio --

Columbus Police cancels a missing persons case after an 11-year-old boy is found safe.

Adil Adil, 11, was reported missing around 6 p.m. Friday.

Adil’s father located the boy at about 10 a.m. Saturday, and Columbus police closed the case.

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Crime Stoppers Looking For A Downtown Thief

By: Liz Lane
Published: September 08, 2011
Updated: September 08, 2011 - 11:39 PM »  Comments | Post a Comment COLUMBUS, Ohio --

Central Ohio Crime Stoppers needs the public’s help in a theft that happened at a Downtown business.

On Thursday, Aug. 18, a man walked into the Astor and Black Custom Suit business at 81 S. 5th St. by prying open the deadbolt to the front door.

Once inside, the suspect went into an office and removed a laptop computer. 

The same suspect entered the same business on June 11 at 9:05 p.m., by the same method, and once again stole a laptop computer and power tools. 

In the June 11 burglary, the suspect drove a white Ford Ranger and parked in front of the business.

Crime Stoppers has posted a reward of up to $2,000.00 for any information received by September 18, 2011, leading to the arrest and/or indictment of the persons responsible for this crime.  Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 461-TIPS (8477) or go to our website at www.stopcrime.org and e-mail your tip.  You can text a tip to “CRIMES” (274637), key word CMH.

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Crime Stopping Looking For Air Conditioner Thief

By: Liz Lane
Published: September 05, 2011
Updated: September 06, 2011 - 7:59 AM »  Comments | Post a Comment NEWARK, Ohio --

Licking County Crime Stoppers is offering up to $1,000 for anyone with information leading to an arrest in a theft at a Newark business. 

Newark police reports that between July 30 and Aug. 1 someone broke into a fenced area at Dor Mar Heating and Cooling, 228 E. Main St., and stole 20 air-conditioning units. 

The suspect's vehicle is described as a black 1984 Ford van. 

Anyone with information should call Licking County Crime Stoppers at 740-349-6888 or 888-488-9058.   

A special coding system protects the identity of the caller but allows for the reward to be issued at a later time.      

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Bloodsucking creatures, nationhood, and crime scenes are among topics of exhibitions.

Bloodsucking creatures, nationhood, and crime scenes are among topics of exhibitions. - Philly.com CollectionsBloodsucking creatures, nationhood, and crime scenes are among topics of exhibitions.September 11, 2011Hazel Ying Lee, whose story is part of "Fighting for…

Museumgoers this fall will be able to piece together crime-scene evidence via mass spectrometry, ponder bloodsucking creatures of the imagination, and consider the imperfect mosaic of nationhood as a parade of diverse and unusual exhibitions and programs marches through the region's specialized museums.

Offerings include the start of a yearlong project seeking to "imagine Africa," a show of works exploring the African American imagination, an outdoor exhibition focusing on worldwide malnutrition, and a portable greenhouse of the future, complete with room for future fossils - a kind of museum-to-be.

In addition, the front of the first floor of the newly renovated Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent will open, with the rest of the museum to follow in the spring. Such varied displays and events promise to keep visitors busy piecing together past, present, and future - not simply looking and moving on.

Stephan Salisbury, Inquirer culture writer

 

Greenhouse and Cabinet of Future Fossils Empress Josephine's greenhouse, featured in the current exhibition at the American Philosophical Society, has inspired a portable, "organic" greenhouse constructed for the society's garden. It will serve as the staging area for a "sound installation," a theater production, and many other activities this fall.

Architect Jenny Sabin cooked up the Greenhouse and Cabinet of Future Fossils; composer Kyle Bartlett created the sound environment, Chaotic Menagerie. And a play called A Paper Garden: An Idiosyncratic and Indefatigable Account of Empress Josephine and André Michaux's Love of Botany is being performed as part of the Live Arts Festival/Philly Fringe.

Greenhouse runs through Dec. 3 in the Jefferson Garden of the American Philosophical Society. A Paper Garden is performed there weekends, the last performances at 1 and 3 p.m. Saturday. (215-440-3400 or www.amphilsoc.org)

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Top 10 Weirdest Twin Crime Stories

Identical suspects! Sibling rivalry! Folie à deux! When it comes to twins and crime, real life often seems to mimic 'CSI'

By Kai Ma Friday, Aug. 26, 2011

In a turn of events that sounds straight out of a CSI plot, murder charges were recently dropped against 19-year-old Orlando Nembhard, who was arrested after Sir Xavier Brooks was fatally shot in February outside a nightclub in Chandler, Ariz. There were plenty of witnesses at Leonardo's Da Vinci Code, a now defunct hip-hop club, but Nembhard has an identical twin, Brandon, who was also at the scene, and some allege that he was the one who pulled the trigger. "While there is evidence that one of the twins is involved, prosecutors are unable to go forward at this point in time," Maricopa County attorney Bill Montgomery wrote in a press release. For now both brothers are free. If the murder weapon is ever found in this case, the identical twins will complicate the use of forensic evidence. And this isn't the only time real life seems to mimic made-for-TV drama. Here are the top 10 twin-crime stories.

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