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According to court documents, alleged Florida cat-killer, teen Tyler Weinman, offered to tell police "about one or two cats" if they were willing to make "the rest go away." More »
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Responding to criticism from the Initiative for Black Germans, the Dresden Zoo has changed the name of one of its baby mandrills from "Obama" to "Okeke" — unfortunately, also a common African surname. • More »
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• Let's start with a feel good story today: High school seniors Vikky Cruz and Deoine Scott were voted best couple at their Bronx school, beating out the two opposite-sex couples in the running by a landslide. • More »
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Florida authorities are trying to determine whether Tyler Weinman, the teen accused of killing 19 cats, had accomplices. • More »
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The psychopathic cat killer that Megan reported on last month has been captured in South Florida. Police have charged 18-year-old Tyler Weinman with 19 counts of animal cruelty in connection with the gruesome spree. More »
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There's one sick fucker on the loose in South Florida: 20 cats have disappeared only to turn up skinned, eviscerated, dismembered, posed and/or missing pieces of their faces. The police are investigating because anyone that will do this to cats is either a serial killer or Bill Frist. [Miami Herald] More »
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Joe "The Cat Killer" Petcka was back in court today to ask a Manhattan judge for a retrial unless prosecutors reduce the charges against him to a no jail time, misdemeanor offense or drop the charges against him entirely. Petcka's previous trial on felony animal-cruelty charges after he beat his girlfriend's cat to death "in self-defense" ended in a mistrial last month. [NY Post] More »
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Joe "Cat-Killer" Petcka, the baseball player-cum-actor whose recent trial over the murder of his girlfriend's cat resulted in a hung jury last Friday, was on The Today Show this morning with his attorney. Petcka's claim during the trial was that he was defending himself against the cat (whose name was Norman) after the cat started to attack him and Petcka had swatted at the cat too forcefully. Matt Lauer didn't seem to be buying it, noting that Petcka is a "big guy" and then asking Petcka if he did to the cat what he couldn't do to his girlfriend. Petcka denied those claims and his lawyer said that, next time around, they hope they can find New Yorkers who "understand." Click the picture above to watch the clip. More »
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• Oxygen has bought the off-network rerun rights to the full library of America's Next Top Model, including current and future cycles. Episodes begin airing in January. • In South Africa, the banning of virginity inspection for girls under the age of 16 has caused progressives to clash with tribal rituals which are supported by Zulus (including Jacob Zuma), who view the testing as a way to curb AIDS and teen pregnancy. • After five days of deliberation over the Joe Petcka cat-killing case, the judge has ended the trial by declaring a hung jury. More »
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• The jurors deliberating on the case against Joe "Cat Killer" Petcka are still deadlocked after 1-1/2 days of deliberation. • A hearing about an English surgery assistant's "fitness to practice" reveals that he cursed at a woman in labor and said "Fucking hell, why can't women in this hospital give birth naturally?" • According to a study of 35 men, the antidepressant paroxetine (aka Paxil) can cause higher levels of sperm with damaged DNA, although it does not necessarily mean these men would have problems fathering a child. • More »
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Oh boy: Joseph Petcka, the New Yorker who is currently on trial for killing his girlfriend's cat, met up for a chat with the ever-s0 sympathetic New York Post columnist, Andrea Peyser. The two bonded over being the Number 1 and 2 Most Hated New Yorkers and Andrea wondered why people can't forgive him ("He killed a cat! Can't this guy get a break?").Petcka also noted that although he has lost his job and acting work ("cat killer" just doesn't seem to go over well with people, for some reason) he has found love with a new girlfriend who has "an awesome dog." [NY Post] More »
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In testimony that began yesterday, a former baseball player-turned-actor who had a brief appearance on Sex and the City was accused of killing his girlfriend's cat because he was jealous. Joe Petcka is on trial for aggravated cruelty to animals for killing the cat, named Norman, in March of 2007. Petcka's former girlfriend claims that, on the night of Norman's death, Petcka accused her of loving the cat more than him. Norman was found dead under Altobelli's bedside table with broken teeth, broken ribs, a broken leg, a torn tongue, massive internal injuries including a chest cavity filled with blood. [MSNBC] More »
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