AMANDA KNOX VERDICT EXPECTED 3:30 P.M. EDT!

PM UPDATE: Italian officials expect they will have a verdict in Amanda Knox's murder appeal at 3:30 p.m. EDT. The Seattle woman is appealing her conviction in the vicious sex slaying of British exchange student Meredith Kercher in 2007.

LAUREN SPIERER'S DAD: 'WON'T LEAVE WITHOUT HER'

MISSING INDIANA University co-ed Lauren Spierer's parents have boldly declared they aren't leaving Bloomington without her. Robert and Charlene Spierer have been in the city since Lauren vanished June 3 after a night of drinking with friends. They've conducted searches and made public pleas for information about what happened to the pretty blonde but are still waiting for leads or suspects. And they deeply suspect her friends know more than they're telling cops.

CHILD PORN LOVER KEN KRETON STAYED IN FOR 4 YRS.

NOT KEN, ANOTHER PERV

MEET KEN 'Kreepy Ken' Kreton. Occupation: child porn enthusiast. The Canadian man who had a gee whiz sized stash of kiddie pron hadn't stepped outside his house in four years and spent a whopping 15 hours a day on his computer. Kreepy Ken, 61, pleaded guilty to two counts possessing child porn, distributing child porn and breaching a court order...wait for it...to not access the Internet.
Prosecutor Terry McComb said of the wheelchair-bound kiddie porn fiend: "Kreton (by name, cretin by nature) spent an unbelievably inordinate amount of time on his computer and very little time doing anything else.”
Kreepy Ken told the court he couldn't leave his house because...hahahaha...he was too busy monitoring alarms for his now

STEVIE B BUSTED FOR NOT PAYING CHILD SUPPORT

BAD DAD

HE may be best known for his song 'Because I Love You' but you have to wonder how Stevie B feels about his kids after he was busted on charges of owing $420,000 in unpaid child support. The dance music singer, who's hit song topped the Billboard charts in late 1990 was hauled off a Massachusetts stage where he was performing on tour. After singing 'Dream Girl' many of his hits from the later 80's and early 90s the singer who's real name is Steven Bernard Hill, 53, of Las Vegas was handcuffed by law enforcement officers.
Springfield Police Sgt. John M. Delaney said Hill told the Springfield Republican he was cooperative but surprised by the arrest, expressing concern that he might miss a weekend gig in Providence, R.I.
Authorities said the mother who's owed child-support payments lives in

FUGITIVE KILLER GEORGE WRIGHT CLAIMS NEW ID

THE FUGITIVE  killer busted after more than 40-years on the run is claiming that he should not be deported because he is a Portuguese citizen. U.S authorities are trying to deport George Wright, 68, to serve the remainder of his 15 to 30 year sentence for the 1969 murder of WW2 veteran and father of two William Patterson. It's thought he went on to hijack a plane and secure a $1 million ransom, one of the biggest at the time, for the 86 passengers on boards, before escaping to Algeria. Read more at our sister site COLD CASE USA.

AMANDA KNOX: 'I DO NOT WANT...MY LIFE TAKEN AWAY'

AMERICAN exchange student made her final, desperate appeal to an Italian court this morning to overturn her murder conviction in the grisly death of roommate Meredith Kercher, who officials believe was killed when a sex game went awry. MORE DETAILS AS THEY BECOME AVAILABLE

DANCING BEFORE DESTINY: AMANDA KNOX EXCLUSIVE.

SHE maybe facing the biggest week of her life this week but that didn't stop Amanda Knox dancing around to a rock band when they played in the Italian prison where she's being held, as these exclusive pictures show.

Arms aloft in the red T-shirt in the back, the Foxy Knoxy looks as though she doesn't have a care in the World just days before and Italian court will decide on her appeal against her murder conviction.

BILLY JOE HARRIS IS THE 'TWILIGHT RAPIST' COPS

'THE TWILIGHT RAPIST'

THE MAN suspected of being 'the twilight rapist' has been jailed for life, for the vicious sexual assault on a disabled older woman.   
Billy Joe Harris, broke into the home of the 59-year-old's assisted living facility in Edna, TX, where he carried out the horrific attack. 
Amazingly, the woman had her wits about her enough, to repeatedly scratch her attacker "in the hope of getting his DNA"  and her ploy worked. 
But when cops picked up the former prison worker, who mostly worked in the food service, he told them that the pair had been dating, even though he was married with a son. 
The jury didn't buy it taking less than 10 minutes to convict the man who cops believe is "The Twilight Rapist," so named because most of the attacks happened just before dawn.

MUGSHOT MANIA! GRAPE NUTS PITCHMAN PINCHED

OR IS it kindly old Mr. Smith from the candy store who always has a funny smell on his breath and sometimes says the craziest things in the funniest ways? Either way: Gramps is head 'o the day.

NEW BOOK: SATAN OBSESSED PROSECUTOR TURNED AMANDA KNOX CASE INTO A WITCHHUNT

TOMORROW is the day when Amanda Knox finds out if she will walk free out of an Italian courtroom or will spend the rest of her life in the the Bigga Housa. A new book by Nina Burleigh serialized today in the New York Post exposes the underlying hysteria behind the case.
Knox was convicted of taking part in a deadly sex game with her boyfriend and another man that left her roommate, British exchange student Meredith Kercher dead the day after Halloween in 2007.
Knox and her boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were the first people on the scene when the polizia arrived. But Burleight says the whole sordid saga in Italy is of media, misogyny, mistranslation, misbehavior -- but chiefly superstition. Kercher’s death was a terrible but

TEA PARTY BOSS STEVAN STEVLIC IN 2010 HOOKER BUST

CALL ME 'DADDY'

SPECIAL FOR TEA PARTY MEMBERS

SURPRISED? No. It was supposed to be the Super Bowl, World Series and Thanksgiving all rolled into one for the Tea Party, a veritable festival of angry white people fueled  by the billionaire Koch brothers. TeaCon was the idea of Chicago Tea Party Director Stevan Stevlic, an angry white man. But whoops!

PROMISCUOUS PREACHER HAD SON MURDER STEPMOM

A TEXAS preacher has been found guilty of urging his son to murder his wife. Tracy Burleson--a former pastor of New Mount Calvary Church in Houston--promised his son William Fuller cash to kill the preacher's former wife Paulette. Prosecutor Caroline Dozier told jurors in her summation: "William Fuller hated his stepmother, but he didn't kill her to frame his father. He did it because he loved his

POACHER MURDERS LA. WILDLIFE COP PAUL STUCKEY

 A COLD-BLOODED poacher night hunting in Louisiana shot to death a veteran wildlife officer, cops say.  According to law enforcement, the body of Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division Sgt. Paul Stuckey, 47, was found by fishermen near the banks of the Mississippi River outside St. Francisville. Stuckey had a shotgun wound to his chest as he lay dead next to his patrol vehicle.
In a statement, the agency said: "Our hearts go out to the Sgt. Stuckey family and his extended family of fellow agents will be there to help them through this tough time." Stuckey's last known communication with the department was at 2:15 a.m. identifying that he was responding to a night hunting complaint. POACHER GUNS DOWN WILFLIFE OFFICER

MUGSHOT MANIA! REM'S MICHAEL STIPE ARRESTED

MICHAEL STIPE! What are you doing in a place like this? Well, no, it's not Michael Stipe of the late great REM but dude is a definite lookalike albeit, less whimsical.

HOLLY BOBO'S MOM SLAMS EVIL RUMORS ABOUT BRO

THE FAMILY of missing Tennessee nursing student Holly Bobo are again pleading for information on the 20-year-old blonde beauty. She has been missing since April and cops appear to have hit a brick wall in the search for Holly. For her mom Karen, every day is like a nightmare replayed and typically begins with a call to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
She told WMCTV: "I call every day and ask 'is there anything you can tell me today. Of course their answer is not today. We're just not hearing anything and of course almost six months into it just gets more frustrating every day and harder every day."