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About that pistol whipping...Safia Z. Jilani was indicted for faking an assault. She said a gunman pistol whipped her after she spoke at a diversity rally. An Elmhurst College student was indicted this week for lying about an assault on campus.The Daily Herald reported, via ROP: A DuPage County grand jury indicted a Muslim student at Elmhurst College on suspicion she lied when reporting a masked gunman assaulted her on campus, hours after she spoke at a diversity rally urging tolerance. Safia Z. Jilani, 19, of Oak Brook is expected to plead not guilty Monday when arraigned on a...

A Muslim student who said a masked gunman assaulted her after he wrote anti-Muslim slurs in a women's restroom at Elmhurst College has been arrested for filing a false police report, officials said today. A week after the incident roiled the small college, Elmhurst Police Chief Steve Neubauer said officers had cited Safia Z. Jilani, 19, of Oak Brook, on a single count of filing a false police report. Filing a false police report is a Class 4 felony, punishable by one to three years in prison. The announcement -- made jointly by Elmhurst Police, the college and the DuPage...

The US Secret Service has investigated an alleged death threat against Democrat Barack Obama that was yelled out on Monday at a rally for his Republican rival John McCain and running mate Sarah Palin. The probe by the service that protects US presidents, past and present, visiting world leaders and US presidential candidates, stems from a report by The Washington Post about a shout, “kill him,” heard during the rally when Obama’s name came up. The alleged threat was made when Palin was speaking of Obama’s relations with former 1960s radical Bill Ayers, whose group “The Weathermen” carried out a...

This is definitely a vanity post. My first, but it has been bothering me for several days and I have toget it off my chest. It does have serious social implications, however, and I hope not uninteresting to Freepers. Last Saturday night, my brother (46) and I (43) decided to go to a movie, King Fu Panda. Being an animated feature, we were wary of screaming kids so we specifically chose a showtime after 10PM. Four guys came in at the last minute and sat four seats away, with empty seats between us. Five minutes into the movie, the guy...

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - North Carolina's Republican Party on Thursday withdrew an advertisement critical of Democrat Barack Obama's links to a controversial preacher, Republican John McCain's campaign said. McCain senior adviser Charlie Black said he had been informed by the Republican National Committee's representative in North Carolina, that the state party had agreed to withdraw the ad. McCain, the Republicans' presumptive presidential nominee, had appealed to the state party to withdraw the ad, saying he wanted to run a respectful campaign. Obama has come under fire for attending a Chicago church for two decades where the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was...

Rape is a four-letter word. When police get a report of one, it flies to the top of their priority list. Even, police say, when that reaction is exploited. Sexual assaults, like other crimes, are sometimes falsely reported. People pretend to have been raped for reasons ranging from a cry for attention to hiding an infidelity. In a recent Grapevine case, police believe a woman who reported being raped in her apartment may have been looking for an excuse to break her lease. After committing more than a week of resources to the investigation, Grapevine officers concluded that the evidence...

PARIS (AP) - The head of terrorist network al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, has died, according to information from the Saudi police, transmitted by the Directorate-General of External Services (DGSE), and reported on the Lorraine daily newspaper L'Est republicain in its Saturday edition. "According to a commonly reliable source, the Saudi police believes that Osama Bin Laden has died," said a September 21st confidential note from the DGSE classified as "defense." L'Est republicain will publish it in its Saturday edition. The note, specified the daily newspaper, would be re-printed "un-edited." According to the note to be published by the L'Est...

Santa Ana, CA -- A 29-year-old Orange County woman was charged Wednesday with falsely accusing six men of kidnapping her at gunpoint and raping her. An indictment returned by an Orange County grand jury also accuses Tamara Anne Moonier of Dana Point with fraudulently receiving $1,850 from a state emergency fund for crime victims. She is scheduled to be arraigned July 8 on two felony counts of making a false police report and one count each of perjury and grand theft. If convicted on all counts she could be sentenced to as much as four years and eight months in...

Woman Charged With Filing False Sex Assault Report Call To Police Forces Lockdown At Local School POSTED: 1:23 pm EDT June 3, 2005 UPDATED: 1:27 pm EDT June 3, 2005 A local woman was charged after police said she filed a false report that she was sexually assaulted by her husband. Lakietha Evette Coleman, 32, was arraigned Tuesday in 35th District Court on a charge of filing a false police report, a felony punishable by up to four years in prison. Canton police told The Ann Arbor News that Coleman called 911 on April 29 and claimed that she had...

Zach Chase thought the police cars seemed out of place. One car was pulled off of University Avenue in Provo with its lights flashing. Chase saw a man dressed in a denim jacket and carrying a bulging backpack. The man was edging toward him and was staring into his eyes. "I got the feeling, 'Oh no, those cops are looking for him,' " Chase, of Provo, later helped West Valley police identify the figure in the shadows as Norman Gaddis, a 38-year-old man with a history of violent crime and driving under the influence. Chase would spend the next two...

Woman accused of lying in I-696 rape claim 4/22/2005, 7:52 a.m. ET The Associated Press FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. (AP) — A 24-year-old Macomb County woman has been charged with filing a false police report for reporting that she was raped after getting a flat tire on Interstate 696 in suburban Detroit. Sabrina Zerzycki of Clinton Township was released on a $10,000 personal bond Thursday after being arraigned before 47th District Judge James Brady, The Detroit News, Detroit Free Press and The Daily Oakland Press of Pontiac reported. Shortly after Zerzycki's report, police warned motorists to be wary of accepting help...

PORTSMOUTH — A girl who told police a man abducted her in Shea Terrace on Monday and forced her to partially undress before dropping her off again at a neighborhood street corner made it all up. Police said they had closed their investigation after a detective spoke with the girl’s mother Friday afternoon. Detective Lindsay A. Voorhees, a spokeswoman, said the department, for now, is not pressing charges against the 12 -year-old girl for the false report. “The incident didn’t happen,” Voorhees said, declining to discuss why the girl made up the story earlier this week. Then, police said the...

USSEIRAT REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip, Oct. 21 — It is not unusual for Israelis and Palestinians to have opposing versions of reality. But it is unusual for both sides to display the kind of concrete, if conflicting, evidence that they presented today for the violence that convulsed these streets on Monday night. Advertisement The Palestinians here had their grief and their rage, their seven dead and their many wounded. The Israeli Air Force had its videotape. Palestinian witness after Palestinian witness told the same story: An Israeli rocket struck near a car; then, after two, three or perhaps five minutes...

The woman sounded frantic, and her 911 call to the police in Meriden, Conn., on Saturday night was nightmarish: she had been raped by four or five men, she said, then locked in the trunk of their car. She was being driven around — she did not know where — and was calling from a cellphone. In the next few hours, the woman made six calls to the police dispatcher as detectives tried desperately to find her, their resources already stretched thin by two homicides in three days in a city that usually reports no more than three killings a...

LUBBOCK, Texas - A university professor was arrested Wednesday for allegedly telling authorities that 30 vials of plague were missing when he knew they had been destroyed, the U.S. attorney's office said. The mysterious episode at Texas Tech University triggered a terrorism-alert plan and showed how jittery Americans are over the threat of a biological attack. Dr. Thomas C. Butler, chief of the infectious diseases division of the department of internal medicine, was arrested late Wednesday on a complaint of making a false statement to a federal agent. U.S. Attorney Dick Baker said the professor said the vials were missing...

<p>EAGLE, Colorado (AP) -- Jurors acquitted a former stripper-turned-mayor on a felony charge of tampering with evidence, but found her guilty of a falsely reporting that she was attacked near her home.</p> <p>The jury returned the verdict for former Georgetown Mayor Koleen Brooks about 11 p.m. Thursday.</p>