SUMMER MUGSHOT MADNESS! HARVARD PROF NABBED

OK, just kidding. We didn't really think you'd believe the gentleman in the mugshot was one of America's so-called best and brightest. What did he do? We have no idea but it's pretty clear, he's knocking the hell out of the baseball that is life.

LESLIE NICHOLS RECORDED SICK SEX ACTS WITH GIRL, 8

MEET THE sickest woman in America: July 12th, 2011 edition. Former U.S. Marine Leslie Nichols, 41, entered a no contest plea in the sexual molestation of an 8-year-old girl in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Trial heard the victim's babysitter suspected the child was being sexually abused in 2009. And it gets more twisted.
The one-time Leatherneck confessed to cops that she instructed the child to perform sex acts. Detectives discovered the maniacal Marine used a webcam to record the depraved acts of the blonde and the child. She then sent the images to pal Michael Jenkins. He has been tried in military court and sentenced to 40 years in military prison. The victim's father was serving overseas when the attacks occurred.

TENN. POOL PARTY ENDS IN BEATDOWNS, STABBING

WELL, WE'VE never had stabbings at any of our pool parties but to each his or her own we say. Cops in Murfreesboro, Tennessee are now probing a stabbings and assaults that occurred at a pool party on the weekend.  Cops say a group of men, including Pectic Webster, 21; Terry Braxton; and Christopher Morant, told them a man, later identified as Justin Hughes, 23, of Murfreesboro, came up to them and started yelling racial slurs at them. Hughes is white and the other men are black. Bad news.

ROB NOWAK CASTRATION SLAY TRIAL: SEX CULT DID IT

THE DEFENSE team for a California man on trial in a grisly Michigan dismemberment murder is blaming a bizarre sex cult for the vile deed. Robert Nowak, 51, is on trial for murdering Troy Moross, 26, in February 2001. He had been castrated in a "precise surgical fashion." Detectives linked Nowak to the murder after he was  busted for a burglary in California and his DNA was a hit. However, his mouthpiece says Moross was murdered and mutilated by a weird sex cult who got their kicks by the sickening acts.
According to the Detroit Free Press: Federal agents with Immigration and Custom Enforcement have been investigating the cult, and have seized thousands of photos of mutilations and torture.
Dr. Kanubhai Virani, medical examiner for Oakland County, said that in

KIDNAPPED DARRICK CHARLES BROWN SAFE

A TERRIFYING kidnapping off the streets of Baltimore has unleashed a massive manhunt--happily, the child has been found safe and sound. Cops say 8-year-old Darrick Charles Brown was abducted off the street Monday night while walking with pals. He was later found unharmed at an abandoned house. One suspect is in custody and cops have released a photo of Raheem Taylor, 21, who they also want to question. The light green, newer model Ford Taurus with two people inside stopped near the group of kids, and one of the people

LINDSAY LOHAN 'ENJOYED' HOUSE ARREST

ENJOYED HERSELF

FORMER actress Lindsay Lohan "enjoyed" being under house arrest because it kept her out of the public eye she said. The troubled party girl, who has astonishingly managed to keep her hands clean since her release said she was grateful as her cushy sentence gave her a chance to stay out of the limelight.
She spent a massive 35 days confined to her Santa Monica home monitored by ankle bracelet, instead of receiving jail time for stealing a $2500 necklace from an upmarket LA Jewelry store and violating the terms of her 2007 conviction for driving under the influence (DUI) last month.
Speaking of her celebrity justice she told Australia's 2DayFM radio station: "I enjoyed it, actually, as I was able to get a lot of work done from home, and it was very nice not to have to worry about cameras being outside."

CRAZED PARENTS CHARGED WITH BASEBALL BRAWL

AUSMUS

CARLSON

THE bats swung, then the fists flew as an ugly brawl broke out during a youth baseball tournament which ended with one player in hospital.
Three parents, including the town prosecutor in Castle Rock, CO ended up being charged after a disputed umpire's call sparked a furious fight.
And now Andrew Lee Carlson, his wife, Shannon and Christy Ausmus, a prosecutor contracted by the town of have been charged in the June 26 melee.

LAWYER FEARS FOR CASEY ANTHONY'S SAFETY

FEARS

MASON

CASEY Anthony's lawyer fears for her safety when she is released from jail after being acquitted of murdering her two-year-old daughter Caylee. 
It's thought the one time party mom will be released this weekend, but once she's free her lawyer Cheney Mason fears for her safety. 
He said: "We're all concerned about her safety and her future. I don't know that anything is ever beyond repair. But I think with her parents that's pretty well burned."
He added that he didn't know where she would go after she was released next weekend telling NBC I don't know and if I did I wouldn't tell you.

LAURIANO LAWRENCE LOVATO JAILED FOR SHOOTING CAR

IT  was like this scene from Fawlty Towers except Lauriano Lawrence Lovata shot his car and accidentally sparked a police standoff.

Lauraino Lawrence Lovato lost it with his Chevy Camaro, and shot it when it wouldn't start, firing three rounds through the windshield and into the dashboard reports the Kingman Daily Miner.

SHOT ROBBER; PHARMACIST JEROME ERSLAND GETS LIFE

"INJUSTICE"

SLAUGHTERED

A PHARMACIST who blasted a teen armed robber has been sentenced to life for shooting a teenager who tried to rob him.  Jerome Ersland, 59, called the sentence "an injustice of monumental proportion" after he was convicted in the death of 16-year-old Antwun Parker and his lawyer vowed to appeal. 

Along with pal, Jevontia Ingram, who was 14 at the time of the robbery an armed Parker walked into the Oklahoma City's Reliable pharmacy and attempted to hold it.  They didn't bank on Ersland, pulling a gun and shooting, blasting

MANY KNEW CHRISTIAN CHOATE WAS BEING TORTURED

AN EXPLOSIVE report in an Indiana newspaper over the weekend reveals that more than 13 people knew that Christian Choate was being tortured, abused and held in a dog cage. The Times of Munster said none of the people said a word to cops. Just one went to the Indiana Department of Child Services.
The 13-year-old boy died in 2009 after enduring eyars of torture, abuse and cruelty at the hands of his father, Riley Choate and stepmother, Kimberly Kubina. The sad, short life and death of Christian went unreported until cops dug up his body in May

3 MONTHS AFTER KIDNAPPING: WHERE'S HOLLY BOBO?

THREE MONTHS. That's what Wednesday will mark. Three months since pretty blonde Tennessee nursing student Holly Bobo, 20, was snatched from her rural home by a man dressed in camouflage. So far, cops from the TBI appear to have run up against a series of brick walls and the trail--if not frozen--is ice cold. Despite thousands of volunteers scouring the woods near her home, clues have been few. For the family of Holly, the last three months have been agonzing and has also left her famous cousin, country star Whitney Duncan, in pieces as well.
Holly's mom Karen said: "Sundays are the hardest days because we were together, our whole family, all day long. Usually on Sunday we were doing things."

LAUREN GIDDINGS LAST SEEN ON DINER VIDEO: COPS

GEORGIA detectives believe dismembered law graduate Lauren Giddings was last seen on a restaurant surveillance video at 6:30 p.m., then sent an email from her home computer at 10:30 p.m.
The new information comes after hundreds of people gathered on the weekend to honor the dead woman's memory. Family, friends, and her professors attended a Catholic Mass. After the bread was broken, Lauren's last words were read from her journal she kept during her time as a law student. Her professor, Sarah Gerwig-Moore, shared them at the end of the mass.
She recited: "I forget sometimes at my job at it's most basic sense it's people going through horrible time in their lives. Of course they're upset."
 The pretty blonde's dismembered remains were found outside her Macon

BANANA ATTACKS MAN IN GORILLA MASCOT COSTUME

IT WAS a battle for the ages in Strongville, Ohio. Someone in a banana costume attacked wireless company's gorilla mascot! The banana remains at large. Manager Brad Parham said: "I noticed a kid in the bushes. Then he just emerged, dressed up as a banana, and sprinted as fast as he could at our gorilla. The kid just speared our gorilla." REVENGE OF THE BANANA

ARMED ROBBER WORE SPONGEBOB PAJAMAS

AS attire for bank robberies goes, we've got to give it to this guy - he certainly came up with something novel. 

Decked out in SpongeBob Squarepants pajama pants and a blue McDonalds work shirt he walked into a store armed with an assault rifle and held it up. 

Along with his pal, who had least had the decency to put on some real clothes, the suspect described as about 5-foot-6, weighing 200 to 220 pounds, with short hair and a light complexion, got away with an