FEARS FOR CO-ED LAUREN SPIERER MOUNT IN INDIANA

WHERE is Lauren? With America's Most Wanted  on the case and almost everyone in Indiana looking for New York born and raised co-ed Lauren Spierer, cops are still waiting for a break. Although they are interviewing 10 persons of interest. Now, a private search team has been brought in by the 20-year-old's wealthy parents who have also offered a $100,000 reward. SEARCH FOR LAUREN SPIERER

PARTY MOM CASEY ANTHONY CLOSER TO DEATH ROW

GRIM. That's the only way to describe Week 3 of Casey Anthony's first-degree murder trial. Anthony, 25, is charged with murdering her her toddler daughter Caylee in 2008. This week, the prosecution paraded a veritable marching band of expert witnesses that seemed to inch the Party Mom ever closer to death row. Gruesome videos, bugs, what animals did to Caylee... it was all there.
The Chicago Tribune has a day-by-day roundup of the week's doings in a Florida courtroom:

MONDAY: Dr. Arpad Vass, a top scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee,

COP ERIC SCHMITZ SHOOTS, KILLS TROUBLED SON

THEY were the perfect family, that's what everyone said.  Lt. Eric Schmitz, 56, a veteran cop with the Hatfield Township police force, was regarded by peers and friends as the perfect cop and the perfect father.  Teachers at North Penn High School praised his son Stephen, 17, as a caring and intelligent student. The perfect family, however, was ripped apart in tragic circumstances this week when Eric Schmitz shot and killed his youngest child during a stormy confrontation.
Stephen Schmitz had a history of mental health issues and apparently attacked his father in a fit of rage using a hunting knife.  Eric Schmitz

CRIME BRIEFS: SAID BIYAD, MARSHAL KILLED & MORE

AL-QAEDA KILLER BEHIND '98 SLAUGHTER DEAD: Another one bites the dust. This time it's Fazul Abdullar Mohammed's turn. The Al Qaeda planner was behind the deadly embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. No more. He got whacked in Somali. It's just the latest blow for the death cult since it's messiah, Osama bin Laden was killed last month.
MOST WANTED MAN IN AFRICA DEAD

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US MARSHAL GUNNED DOWN IN NC: A veteran police officer serving with the US Marshals on a fugitive task force was shot and killed Thursday.Warren 'Sneak' Davis had been attempting to serve a

MTV TEEN MOM AMBER PORTWOOD TAKES A GUILTY PLEA

WELL, it's back to beating up dopey feckless boyfriends and generally being a role model to knocked up American teens for Amber Portwood. The "star" of MTV reality trash-a-ramma Teen Mom received probation after copping to two domestic assault charges against big dumb Gary Shirley, her on again off again fiancee (who got her knocked up.) Portwood was charged an episode of the show showed her slapping, choking and kicking Gary while their child was present.
Madison Superior Court Judge David Happe tells The Herald Bulletin: that as part of the plea deal he approved Thursday prosecutors dropped a felony child neglect charge against Portwood.

Happe also ordered Portwood to undergo 30 days of inpatient therapy, obtain her high school diploma and put $10,000 in a college fund for her 2-year-old daughter.

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