Monthly Archives: December 2006

Marijuana-for-homework mum gets 3 months

A woman who admitted smoking marijuana daily with her 13-year-old son to reward him for completing his homework was sentenced to three months in prison. Amanda Lynn Livelsberger, 30, was also ordered Tuesday to spend nine months on house arrest and a year on probation. Livelsberger pleaded guilty on Sept. 11 to three misdemeanor counts [...]

The X-rated Christmas tree

Joke Alan Parkin put the willies up his neighbours – with this naughty 10ft Christmas tree. Not content with adding just a couple of baubles, Alan, 47, decorated the fir with red and white fairy lights outside his home in aptly named Penistone. But his jolly green giant didn’t exactly excite fellow residents and they [...]

“Gospel Song” rapist jailed

A man who sang gospels while he sexually assaulted and beat a woman and then left her for dead in a trash bin in St. Louis was sentenced Friday to two life sentences plus 200 years in prison. Gus Grady Jr., 52, who was once declared a criminal sexual psychopath, was convicted in September of [...]