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FORT LAUDERDALE — A Miramar woman was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in federal prison for trying to hire a hit man to kill her ex-husband. Mercedes Morales, 58, talked about having her former spouse hacked to death with a chainsaw because she believed his betrayal led to her serving prison time for laundering drug money, according to court documents. Her plan for revenge came unraveled when it turned out the man she thought would kill her ex-husband was a government informant.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- An explosion was reported at a closed gas station in the 1400 block of Dixie Highway. Louisville police said several people reported an explosion at the corner of Dixie Highway and Standard Avenue around 12:15 p.m. Thursday. The explosion damaged a truck. Officials said a man was using a chainsaw between the gas station and another building and the sparks set residual gas fumes on fire. There were no injuries reported. According to Louisville police spokeswoman Carey Klain, Steven Askew, the man with the chainsaw, was there to steal piping. Askew, 48, is charged with first-degree wanton...

Police have made an arrest in relation to a "weapons-laden" vehicle near a G20 venue in downtown Toronto. A 53-year-old man was arrested near the Novotel hotel on The Esplanade, near Yonge Street. The weapons confiscated included: a chainsaw, sledge hammer, baseball bat and a crossbow. Some fuel containers were also in the vehicle, which police removed.

Woman wanted her ex-hubby chopped up with a chainsaW Dropping a dime on your wife to the feds is cold hearted, so Fred Coral had to know that retribution was coming. He probably didn't know he would be financing it. The FBI claims his former wife, Mercedes Morales, paid a hitman with a $5,000 diamond ring to kill Coral for turning her into police in 2003 for money laundering, according to the Miami Herald. Agents arrested 57-year-old Morales on Monday in Miramar and she is charged with plotting to murder her ex. The ring was likely the wedding ring Coral...

Police Say Texan Decapitated Wife With Chainsaw DALLAS - Police are searching for a suburban Dallas man accused of decapitating his wife with a chainsaw. Lewisville police have issued an arrest warrant for 49-year-old Jose Fernando Corona that charges him with the murder of his wife, Maria Corona. The slain 44-year-old mother of six was discovered in the street near her home Monday. A bloody trail ran from her headless body to her house. Police found two chainsaws with blood and tissue matter nearby, one of them still running. The Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday that Lewisville police Capt. Kevin...

Hat Tip: Special Freepmailer Note: Video included. SAN MATEO, Calif. (KCBS) -- The teenager accused of bringing a sword and a chainsaw, along with 10 pipe bombs to his former high school is being charged with the crime as an adult. San Mateo County Assistant District Attorney Karen Guidotti tells KCBS that 17-year-old Alex Youshock was charged Wednesday. Authorities believe he detonated two pipe bombs at the school on Monday while armed with a chain saw, a sword, and explosives. No one was hurt in incident. Guidotti says Youshock is being charged as adult because authorities believe the attack was...

SHARON, SC (NBC) - It's a horrific crime one that's hard to even hear: a dog killed, its body cut up with a chainsaw. The little boy from South Carolina who owned him is devastated. His mother says she can't bear to tell him the truth. The little boy has a backyard full of things that are fun, but one thing is missing: his dog named Buddy. Jennifer McAlister has a picture frame full of the dogs she's loved, but she loved Buddy the best. She bought the lab for her son Gage on his birthday. "We went and Gage...

BILLINGS, Mont. — Wildlife officials are trying to determine why a mountain lion attacked a Colorado man who says he used a chain saw to fight off the animal during a camping trip with his wife and two toddlers in northwestern Wyoming.

December 5, 2008 The bayonet is largely a weapon of last resort - when the rifle jams, the ammunition runs out or the fighting gets to close quarters, you've still got something sharp and pointy to get the job done old-school. They've pretty much disappeared from today's more high-tech battlefields, but that doesn't mean there aren't mavericks out there still pushing the envelope - and we can't think of many inventions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/invention we've seen lately that would be more exciting to a 10-year-old schoolboy than this: the chainsaw bayonet. Whether you view this as blatant redneck idiocy or the coolest...

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UC Berkeley police tried to remove a man living in an oak tree near the main entrance to campus on Monday, but they came away empty-handed. The man, who goes by the name Fresh, is living in the tree to protest various school policies. Police brought out two ladders and a cherry picker to try to convince him to come out, but he evaded them by climbing higher, according to police and the man's supporters on the ground. Fresh has been living in the tree just north of Sather Gate with a hammock, water jugs and a bucket for human...

It’s cool to be “Green” right now. NBC devoted a week of programming gimmicks to being “Green,” with recycling and environmental efforts taking over some part of all of their hit shows. Meanwhile, Al Gore won a Nobel Peace Prize and Overture studios shipped out sapling trees with their fall preview kits. Just two signs we’ve seen in the last few weeks that being environmentally conscious is suddenly the right place to be. New York City is following in the trend this year with their oversized Christmas tree. The Rockefeller Center perennial will use LED lighting (light emitting diodes) to...

To Deputy Sheriff Michael Knights, the dispatcher’s call sounded like something out of a slasher movie: a report of a man standing on a street corner threatening passing motorists with a chain saw. "You know how in the ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ the guy raised his chain saw up and revved it? That’s what he was doing," Knights said Wednesday. "Alcohol was involved." Maine State Police Trooper Thomas Fiske said they took the chain saw away from Dube at gunpoint. Knights confiscated it after seeing that Dube was threatening motorists ... Fiske said he was mystified as to why Dube was...

Deaf lesbian chainsaw murder shocks US April 09, 2007 THE trial in South Dakota of a deaf, black lesbian accused of murdering a rival and dismembering her with a chainsaw has shocked the rural midwestern US state. Daphne Wright, 43, could become the first woman sent to death row in South Dakota, which has not executed a prisoner in more than 60 years. Wright is accused of kidnapping and murdering a heterosexual deaf woman, Darlene VanderGiesen, 42, whom she thought was spending too much time with her girlfriend. Emotional testimony and gruesome exhibits filled the first week of her trial,...

A hapless US Air Force pilot had to be physically cut free from the cockpit of his F-22A Raptor when the canopy resolutely refused to open, Flight International reports. The mini-drama unfolded on 10 April at the 27th Fighter Squadron's base at Langley AFB, Virginia, when the canopy "became stuck in the down and locked position and could not be opened manually after the pilot cycled the mechanism several times, following a pre-flight warning that the canopy was unlocked". Accordingly, an emergency team of ground operatives moved in after five hours and attacked the $134m Raptor with a decidedly unstealthy...

Aussie chainsaw croc runs amok   Saltwater crocs are known to attack boats with outboard motors A crocodile in northern Australia has chased a storm-clearance worker up a tree and made off with his chainsaw.The 4.4m (14.5ft) saltwater crocodile called Brutus apparently took exception to the noise of the saw. The worker was clearing a tree that fell on the crocodile enclosure at the Corroboree Park Tavern, 80km (50 miles) east of the northern city of Darwin. Brutus chewed on the chainsaw for 90 minutes, reducing it to pieces. Neither man nor beast was injured. Northern Australia has an...

A 4.4-metre crocodile has chased a man up a tree in the Northern Territory while the man was cleaning-up debris left by cyclone Monica. The owner of the Corroboree Park Tavern, Peter Shappert, says the man was trying to remove a tree that had fallen against the saltwater crocodile pen. Mr Shappert says the crocodile, named Brutis, managed to take possession of the chainsaw the man was using. "He's been a bit upset with the noise, so he's come shooting out of the pond, run up the tree and tried to grab Freddy the chainsaw man," he said. "So he's...

An Ottawa man is in serious condition and was airlifted to the burn unit at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto after accidentally setting himself on fire yesterday morning while trying to cut open a gas tank with a chainsaw....

I used to think that any fool would know the difference between an FBI investigation and a real U.S. military action, but that's before the Clinton administration. Eight years of Bill and Hillary Clinton forever changed my views about the political world. I used to think liberals were interesting, and in a way entertaining. Today I have concluded that if they're in power, they're dangerous to the national security. But even more dangerous are the ignorant citizens who vote for liberal policies. Why? Because they are "used" by dishonest politicians seeking to move a flawed and failed agenda forward. ...

Grand Island police went to the man's business about 5PM Tuesday to serve a federal arrest warrant for being a felon in possession of a firearm, said Deb Collins a Nebraska State Patrol spokeswoman.Paul Smidt Jr. 40, refused officers acess to the building, Smidt Lawn Care, anD barricaded himself inside. Negoiations continued until after midnight when officers got into the building. Smidt, armed with a chain saw, barricaded himself in a bathroom at the back of the business.Officers got into the bathroom and orderd Smidt to drop the chainsaw. When he refused, an officer fired a non-lethal beanbag at Smidt,...