Oct 31st, 2008 · Political sign stealing has become something of a problem this election year. In Michigan, neighbors are stealing Obama and McCain signs from each other. Now some theft victims are retaliating. Producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister have this story from their neighborhood.
Oct 23rd, 2008 · A Maryland man apparently left his fingerprints at the scene of a robbery. One fingerprint in particular. Police say he used a machete to hold up an alleged brothel in Washington D.C. But before he left, one of the victims grabbed the machete and chopped off the robber's right thumb. Police fingerprinted the thumb, and later matched it to the suspect.
Oct 22nd, 2008 · Eleven people suspected of witchcraft were killed in May, but questions linger over whether neighbors believed the victims were witches. The belief in witchcraft thrives in the Kisii tribe, and reprisals are becoming increasingly violent.
Oct 22nd, 2008 · The presidential campaigns have fallen victim to a common copyright problem on the Internet. News networks complained that campaign commercials were using their footage and they demanded YouTube take them off its site. Free speech advocates say this is a high profile case that's part of an ongoing problem.
Oct 19th, 2008 · Victims of air bag fraud have found beer cans, packing peanuts and paper where their air bag should have been. Who's watching out for consumers, and how can you avoid such scams?
Oct 17th, 2008 · Volunteers are searching for remains of victims from the Spanish Civil War in an effort to bring posthumous justice to those who were killed in the 1930s conflict. Time is against them, as there are few remaining survivors who remember what actually happened.
Oct 15th, 2008 · Three teenaged thieves in Britain got more than they bargained for. The boys snatched a purse away from Janet Lane while she sat on a park bench. But what first looked like an easy theft quickly became a high speed pursuit. Lane took off after them, eventually catching one of the boys by the collar.Turns out the thieves didn't count on their 68-year-old victim being a high school cross-country champion who had never given up running.
Oct 13th, 2008 · Thousands of pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square for the canonization of four new saints Sunday. That includes the first Indian woman, Sister Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception. Her sainthood is seen as a moral boost to Christians in India who have been victims of violence by Hindus. Pope Benedict said her short life was marked by, "extreme physical and spiritual suffering." In her own writing, she said, "I consider a day in which I have not suffered as a day lost to me."