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(CBS/AP) Russia took the first steps toward a troop pullback from Georgia on Tuesday but at the same time paraded blindfolded and bound Georgian prisoners on armored vehicles and seized four U.S. Humvees. The mixed signals came as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her 25 NATO counterparts met in emergency session in Belgium and demanded Russia fulfill its promise to withdraw its forces from the small former Soviet republic. "The Russian president hasn’t kept his promise to abide by the terms of the ceasefire," Rice told CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan in an exclusive interview...

LOS ANGELES - A confessed burglar described by police as one of the most prolific thieves in Los Angeles history was resentenced Tuesday to 7 1/2 years in prison. In an effort to win the slightly reduced sentence, Ignacio DelRio, also known as Ricardo Caveda, also drew a map that led police to some $400,000.. "He confessed to 1,000 burglaries, and I have been able to find 180 victims so far," police Detective Robert Longacre said after the sentencing. Longacre declined to name any of the victims but said they included well-known people in the movie industry and at least...

A Chicago-area Roman Catholic priest was charged Friday with stealing from his former North Side parish. Rev. Steven Patte, 64, pleaded not guilty in Cook County Circuit Judge William Lacy's courtroom.... The eight-count indictment charged Patte stole a little more than $12,000 from St. Ita's Parish.... A Chicago police detective who belonged to the parish's finance committee grew suspicious about accounting discrepancies and placed a marked $100 bill in the collection plate, sources familiar with the case said. Later, when the bill disappeared, Patte was confronted and allegedly admitted that he took the money for his personal use, the sources...

ELKVIEW, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Kanawha County Sheriff's Deputies are asking for the public's help to identify a man they say stole nearly $2,000 in high-end beef. The crime happened at the Elkview Kroger on Sunday, July 27, between 10:15 p.m. and 10:45 p.m. Lieutenant Sean Crosier says the suspect loaded his shopping cart with expensive steaks and entire loins, then walked out through the loading dock at the back of the store. In all, $1,930 worth of meat was stolen, according to Crosier. Anyone with information about the suspect in the picture is asked to call the Kanawha County Sheriff's...

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA: An Indonesian cleaner who pleaded that he robbed the petrol station he worked in because he needed money for his elderly father's surgery was jailed 36 months and ordered to be whipped twice. Muhammad Marzani Ismail, 25, was also jailed 12 months and ordered to be given one stroke of the rotan for not having a valid travel document. The jail terms run concurrently from his date of arrest on May 21. He admitted robbing Nor Azurra Azhar at the Petronas petrol station in Sentul of RM12,000, cigarettes worth RM300 and prepaid cards amounting to RM700 with...

A Culpeper pastor faces a possible 310-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to felony fraud charges. The Rev. Charles Shifflett, pastor of First Baptist Church in Culpeper and former pastor of Calvary Baptist Church there, pleaded guilty to a total of 20 felonies and one misdemeanor, prosecutors announced today. Nine of the charges involving obtaining money by false pretenses from Calvary Baptist Church from 2002-05, while Shifflett was the pastor. He also pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud involving a workers compensation award, and five counts of obtaining money under false pretenses from two separate insurance companies, and three...

Crime, I don’t condone it, but sometimes you do feel sorry for the perp. Take for instance this story of an animal lover looking to provide for his pets. ( TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese animal-lover on welfare went to extremes to provide for his many pets by robbing convenience stores while wearing the mask of a dog, police said Monday. Takaharu Kawata — branded by Japanese media as “The Dogman” — was caught on a surveillance camera wearing an oversized black-and-white canine mask while brandishing a knife.) OK…I feel I need to step in here. Please take a look...

Army Sgt. Aeren Nauman served on active duty for nearly two years, part of that time in Iraq, and even stood to recite the Infantryman's Creed at a memorial service for a fallen comrade. But when he decided to buy a home on his return to the Twin Cities last fall, he found his credit ruined by identity theft. The alleged thief: his dad. "What kind of dad is this?" asked Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman after his office charged the father, Leonard Gus Nauman, 61, of Long Lake. "He waits until his kid is overseas; he creates these forged...

An Australian criminal who was so nervous during a hold-up that he was physically sick has been incriminated by his own vomit. Police took DNA from the pool of sick and matched it to Ahmed Habib Jalloul, 20. He was found guilty of the aggravated robbery of a post office in Adelaide, South Australia. An Adelaide court was told that Jalloul vomited "out of fear" during the raid on the post office last April. He fled the scene in a stolen car with two accomplices and £1,730 in cash. Police conducted forensic analysis of the vomit and matched it with...

A thief made the mistake of a lifetime recently. He broke into professional female boxer Derdre Rodriguez's house and tried to steal her PS3, PSP and videogames as she lay sleeping. She woke up, saw the robber climbing out of her window, chased him down, smashed his head in with an ice chipper, then, in the most awesome coupe-de-grace ever, the former pugilist forced the thief to pick up the stolen electronics he'd dropped during the chase (A PlayStation 3, a PSP, cell phones and videogames). She then made him wait in the house for the cops to show up...

UNEMPLOYED immigrant Nawaz Sharif, 37, built a seven-bedroom mansion in Pakistan after scalping the UK for thousands in benefit fraud, credit card and passport scams. Police, immigration and benefits officials arrested Sharif, who came to the UK in the late 80s, at his home in Slough, Berks. They found more than 35 forged credit cards and 30 passports, numerous envelopes stuffed with hundreds of thousands of pounds in cash and two copies of Home Office stamps used to allow immigrants permission to stay in Britain. The dad of three was jailed for five years at Reading in 2006.

DETROIT, Mich. - Rescue 4 has learned from sources close to Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick that a legal defense fund is in the works for the mayor and will be set up soon. City employees are being asked to give between $100 and $1,500. And city contractors are being asked to give between $10,000 and $100,000. Business leaders tell Rescue 4 they were contacted in the days before Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy brought charges on Kilpatrick.

WBBM Newsradio 780's Bernie Tafoya reporting. CHICAGO (CBS) -- Chicago Police say no one could make this story up; a would-be-thief gave his victims his phone number. An 18-year-old man entered a muffler shop in the 2600 block of North Laramie Avenue Monday and declared a robbery. He allegedly waved a gun around and demanded money, according to police. When he was told the money was in a safe and that the manager that knew how to open it was not there, the suspect had a brilliant idea; at least he thought it was brilliant. He gave the shop employees...

Mesmerising? The 'hypnotist' in action CCTV footage Police in Italy have issued footage of a man who is suspected of hypnotising supermarket checkout staff to hand over money from their cash registers. In every case, the last thing staff reportedly remember is the thief leaning over and saying: "Look into my eyes", before finding the till empty. In the latest incident captured on CCTV, he targeted a bank at Ancona in northern Italy, then calmly walked out. A female bank clerk reportedly handed over nearly 800 euros (£630). The cashier who was shown the video footage has no memory...

Knife thief runs from store, trips, stabs self(Xinhua) Updated: 2008-01-09 20:52 BEIJING -- A man running from a western Michigan store with stolen hunting knives hidden in his pants tripped, fell and stabbed himself in the stomach, police say. The suspect was hospitalized after Monday night's attempted theft from a Meijer Inc. superstore in the US city of Grand Rapids and is expected to face a misdemeanor shoplifting charge, police say. "The man was taken to the hospital," said Meijer spokesman Frank Giuliano. "We are cooperating with the investigation by police." The wounds did not appear to be life-threatening, The...

Couple Gets Letter, $20 from Woman Claiming She Took Dog Thursday, January 03, 2008 DALLAS — The holidays were sad enough for Kim Velevis and her husband after their lovable pug "Scooter" dug its way out of the backyard and disappeared on Christmas Eve. But the real blow came with the new year: A letter from an anonymous woman who had found the friendly dog and gave it to her daughter as a Christmas present. To compensate for Velevis' loss, a $20 bill was enclosed. "The puppy has a different name now, but he has plenty of food and toys....

CPD warns shoppers to protect valuables in cars CONYERS - Normally when you find a ticket on your windshield from a police officer it is not a good thing, but in Conyers a ticket could save you some money. Officers with the Conyers Police Department will be on foot patrol in the parking lots of major shopping areas in the city over the next couple of weeks. They will place yellow tickets on vehicles with packages or boxes of merchandise that are visible on the seats or floorboards of cars; in other words, vehicles that are easy targets for thieves....

SMYRNA, Ga. --Smyrna police have charged a live-in caretaker with murder in the death of a 63-year-old woman who they say was left lying on the bedroom floor for days. Police arrested 42-year-old Madonna Whitus on Monday. She also faces charges of violating protection of disabled adults and financial transaction card fraud. Police say Kathie Durant, who had a heart condition requiring a caregiver, fell out of bed around December 2nd and fractured her arm. Police say the caregiver allowed Durant to stay on the bedroom floor of her townhouse for days and gave her only milkshakes and soft drinks....

Harriette Walters, the former city worker accused of masterminding the largest theft in the D.C. government's history, is seeking to negotiate a guilty plea over the next 30 days, according to statements in court and sources close to the case. Walters's attorney told a judge yesterday that his client needed time to have "ongoing discussions" with prosecutors about her alleged role in the theft of $20 million or more from city coffers. The government had faced a Dec. 8 court-imposed deadline to bring an indictment against Walters, a required step if prosecutors take the case to trial. But Walters agreed...

LAS VEGAS - O.J. Simpson must face trial on kidnapping, armed robbery and other charges stemming from an alleged sports memorabilia heist, a justice of the peace ruled Wednesday. Justice of the Peace Joe M. Bonaventure ruled after a preliminary hearing of the charges and arguments against the case by attorneys for Simpson and co-defendants Clarence "C.J." Stewart and Charles "Charlie" Ehrlich. "This is what we expected," Simpson told The Associated Press before he left the courtroom. "If I have any disappointment it's that I wish a jury was here. As always, I rely on the jury system." No charges...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A burglar in Montgomery chose the wrong family to mess with, literally. Adrian and Tiffany McKinnon returned home on Tuesday after a week away to find that thieves had emptied almost everything the family of five owned, Tiffany McKinnon said through tears. "Tears just rolled down my face as I walked in and saw everything gone and piles of trash all over my home," she said. Adrian McKinnon sent his wife to see her sister while he inspected the piles left behind. As he walked back into the sunroom, a man walked through the back door straight...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German factory worker stole over a million screws from his employer and skewed the market with his cheap stolen goods, police said Friday. "In the end, it became obvious that screws were being sold for much less than they usually cost," said a spokesman for police in the southern city of Wuerzburg. Over two years, the 33-year-old assembly plant worker smuggled between 2,000 and 7,000 screws out of work each night, and auctioned them on an Internet site, police said. The scheme cost his firm around 110,000 euros ($156,000). The man confessed after officers raided his...

WEEHAWKEN, N.J. -- George Clooney suffered a broken rib and some scrapes on Friday when the motorcycle he and a friend were riding collided with a car as the actor tried to pass the other vehicle, authorities said. Weehawken Police Sgt. Sean Kelly said the collision occurred at 3:30 p.m. as Clooney and friend Sarah Larson were traveling north on Boulevard East and sped up to pass on the right a 1999 Mazda Millenia that was preparing to make a right turn. Kelly said it is not known if the driver of the other vehicle, who has not been identified,...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign said Monday it will return $850,000 in donations raised by Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu, who is under federal investigation for violating election laws. Clinton, D-N.Y., previously had planned only to give to charity $23,000 she received from Hsu for her presidential and senatorial campaigns and to her political action committee, HillPac. The FBI is investigating whether Hsu paid so-called straw donors to send campaign contributions to Clinton and other candidates, a law enforcement official said Monday. --

Dustin Chester was job hunting Tuesday — a day after The Home Depot fired him and the general manager for thwarting a thief from running away with a pocket full of stolen cash. Last week, the 24-year-old department manager confronted a man who was standing by a soda machine in front of the Murfreesboro store off Old Fort Parkway holding a crowbar and a wad of cash. When the suspect started running, Chester said his instincts took over. "When he ran, I ran after him," he said. Chester caught the thief and restrained him in the parking lot until police...

Elderly man awakens from beating, fires gun and hits alleged assailant The Associated Press Updated: 5:15 p.m. CT July 27, 2007 EL DORADO, Ark. - An elderly man beaten unconscious by an assailant wielding a soda can awoke and shot the man during an attempted robbery, police said. Willie Lee Hill, 93, told police he saw the robber while in his bedroom Wednesday night. Hill confronted the man and was struck at least 50 times, police said. He was knocked unconscious. Covered in blood, Hill regained consciousness a short time later and pulled a .38-caliber handgun on his attacker. The...

HOUSTON (AP) - A state lawmaker who opposed a bill giving Texans stronger right to defend themselves with deadly force pulled a gun and shot a man he says was trying to steal copper wiring from a construction site, police said Monday. Rep. Borris Miles told police he was fixing a leak on the second floor of the Houston house he's building Sunday night when he heard a noise downstairs and saw two men trying to steal the copper. After Miles confronted the pair, one of the men threw a pocketknife at him, Houston Police spokesman Victor Senties. Miles, a...

MILWAUKEE- A thief found out the hard way that robbing a woman isn't the best way to capture her heart. Two men robbed a U-Haul store around 3 p.m. Sunday, taking an unspecified amount of cash, according the store's owner. But instead of fleeing, one man lingered and tried to strike up a conversation with the woman he had just robbed. "He stuck around and was trying to get the female employee's number," U-Haul general manager Patrick Sobocinski said. "She said he was just saying, 'Hey baby, you're pretty fine.'" According to Sobocinski, one robber went behind the counter, put...

A thief fleeing a jewelry store was killed when his bicycle was struck by a bus, police said. Authorities said the 42-year-old man snatched a $2,000 gold chain from the Bronx jewelry store on Friday and was making his getaway. A store clerk and two bystanders were chasing the man on foot when he pedaled into an intersection and was hit by a fast-moving bus, police said. The suspect was taken to a hospital, where he died from head injuries. Five passengers who were jostled when the bus slammed on its brakes were also examined at the hospital. "He lost...

Scandal: By voluntarily surrendering his law license, Clinton White House aide Sandy Berger has avoided cross-examination in Trouser-gate. This is the behavior of a man who's still hiding something. The former national security adviser is guilty of stealing classified documents, but it seems there's be more here than the simple or inadvertent theft of few innocuous papers. Berger admitted that while reviewing top-secret dossiers from the Clinton years in the National Archives in preparation for his 2003 testimony before the 9/11 Commission hearings, he stuffed five copies of a memo linked to the Clinton administration's record on terrorism in his...

Teacher Accused Of Stealing Student's Coat, Putting It On eBay By HOLLY DANKS And MELISSA NAVAS  — Thursday May 03, 2007   Teacher Elizabeth Logan is accused of stealing a third-grader's coat and trying to sell it on eBay     HILLSBORO, Ore. — "I told her, 'Be sure not to lose this coat,''' the third-grader's mother remembers reminding the girl."It's expensive, and I usually didn't let her wear it to school. But it was cold.''The 8-year-old promised. But on Jan. 10 she came home in tears. She had become warm during recess on the Jackson Elementary School playground and took...

Maine Mouse taunts man, steals his dentures Never underestimate a mouse's determination. There's a mouse in Bill Exner's house that he says he has captured three times. Each time, the mouse escaped, and the last time the rodent made off with his lower dentures. Exner, 68, of Waterville, Maine, said he and his wife Shirley scoured his bedroom after the dentures disappeared from his night stand. ---ADVERTISEMENT--- "We moved the bed, moved the dressers and the night stand and tore the closet apart," he said. "I said, 'I knew that little stinker stole my teeth' - I just knew it."...

A 62-year-old woman known as the "Black Widow" is being held in a North Carolina jail on $1.5 million bond for relatively petty charges, while police race to unravel a web of mysteries — including the deaths of her two husbands and a female "best friend" — before time runs out and "she's outta here."

Until two years ago, the Roman Catholic diocese of Palm Beach, Fla., ran audits of its parishes only when they changed pastors. It was a risky, even foolhardy policy when you consider that a parish like St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church, in Delray Beach, hadn't changed pastors in 40 years. In September 2003, upon the retirement of St. Vincent's pastor, the Rev. John Skehan, diocesan accountant Denis Hamel dutifully showed up to inspect the books and the procedures for counting Sunday collections. The new pastor, the Rev. Francis Guinan--a close buddy of Skehan's--told him to beat it. But the new...

Comedian Al Franken said today he will run for U.S. Senate in 2008, confirming his long-suspected plans to seek the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican Sen. Norm Coleman. Franken's announcement came on the final day of his radio show on Air America. The former "Saturday Night Live'' performer's celebrity instantly makes him a heavyweight contender and brings national attention to the Minnesota race. "Minnesotans have a right to be skeptical about whether I'm ready for this challenge, and to wonder how seriously I would take the responsibility that I'm asking you to give me,'' Franken said in a video clip...

WASHINGTON. Some classified documents that were unlawfully removed from the National Archives three years ago may never have reached their intended destination -- the Sept. 11 commission, a House Republican report concluded Tuesday. The report contradicted Justice Department conclusions that the commission received all the necessary documents. The records were reviewed at the archives by the Clinton administration's national security adviser, Sandy Berger, who pleaded guilty in April 2005 to unlawfully removing several documents.

Investigation into pilfered documents reveals former president signed letter President Bill Clinton signed a letter authorizing former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger's access to classified documents that later came up missing, according to a newly released investigation report by the National Archives and Records Administration. The sensitive drafts of the National Security Council's "Millennium After Action Review" on the Clinton administration's handling of the al-Qaida terror threats in December 1999 suspiciously disappeared after Berger said he intended to "determine if Executive Privilege needed to be exerted prior to documents being provided to the 9/11 Commission." Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft testified...

Scandalous new details of how Bill Clinton’s national security advisor schemed to remove highly classified terrorism documents from the National Archives paint the picture of a desperate man who tried to bully a trash collector into helping him commit the crime. Sandy Berger took the sensitive documents in 2003 as he prepared to testify, on behalf of the Clinton Administration, before the September 11 Commission. He stole the documents, hid them under a construction trailer and later tried to get a trash collector to retrieve them. Berger pleaded guilty to unlawfully removing the classified files and got a tiny slap...

Bill Clinton's former National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger, has already recanted his initial claim that he removed documents from the National Archives "inadvertently" back in 2003 while preparing for testimony to the 9/11 Commission. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in 2005 and paid a $50,000 fine. But now the report of the Archives' Inspector General has come to light, and it suggests Mr. Berger knew he was engaged in a bit of hugger-mugger when he secreted the after-action memos he was reviewing out of the building. According to the report, obtained by the Associated Press through a Freedom of...

Equal Justice: Sandy Berger deliberately pilfered and hid classified documents. So why is Scooter Libby the one facing prison time? And why aren't these docs on the front page of the New York Times? National Archives Inspector General Paul Brachfield on Wednesday released a report showing that in 2004 Berger, President Clinton's national security adviser, "knowingly removed classified documents from the National Archives and Records Administration and stored and retained such documents at places," including temporarily under a construction trailer outside the main National Archives building. This seems to blatantly contradict the feeble mea culpa Berger issued when in the...

Former National Security Adviser Samuel R. Berger, fined $50,000 for taking classified documents from the National Archives, hid the papers under a construction trailer where they later could easily be retrieved, a report yesterday said. The National Archives Office of Inspector General said that during a 2003 visit to the facility, Mr. Berger left the building unescorted for a break, during which time he "placed the documents under a trailer in an accessible construction area outside Archives 1 (the main Archives building)." The report said Mr. Berger acknowledged that he later retrieved the documents from the construction area and brought...

November 24, 2006 Stolen Dinner Costs Mother Thanksgiving Behind Bars By ERIC FERKENHOFF VALPARAISO, Ind., Nov. 23 — For most people, Thanksgiving is a day to be surrounded by those dearest to them. For Donna Shelby that would have included fawning over her daughter, who was 6 months old on Thursday. Eventually, Ms. Shelby, 19, did get there. But it was early evening before she received her walking papers and was set free from the Porter County Jail, where she spent some of the day scrubbing dishes for a crowd of inmates. That time with thieves, thugs and addicts instead...

Case reveals workings of body-snatching ring that earned almost $5 million by plundering corpsesTHE daughter of Alistair Cooke called for the world to focus on the sale of body parts yesterday after the undertaker who cremated the legendary Letter from America broadcaster pleaded guilty to a ghoulish scheme to harvest his corpse. Susan Cooke Kittredge told The Times that the revelations about her father — whose arms and legs were stolen after his death for use in surgery — lifted the lid on an issue of global concern. “It’s a conversation we are going to have to have as human...

Madonna has revealed she's "never been happier" after an emotional trip to Malawi to adopt a 13-month-old baby. After being allowed to take little David Banda home, the superstar added: 'It's so worth it. He's just the best baby ever. Guy and I have never been happier.' Madonna set for further adoption hurdles in Britain Madonna, 48, wants David to be a brother to her children, Lourdes, nine, and Rocco, five. And she has already got her eyes on a three-year-old girl from the same village as David. Describing the moment she saw her, she said: "I looked at this...

This is a partial transcript of "The Big Story With John Gibson," October 10, 2006, that has been edited for clarity. JOHN GIBSON, HOST: Late today, Republican Sen. John McCain blamed the husband of his potential 2008 rival for the Korean nuke crisis. At a news conference in Michigan McCain said, "President Bill Clinton failed to stop the country from developing the bomb in the 1990s." (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, R-ARIZ.: I would remind Sen. Clinton and other Democrats critical of the Bush administration policies that the framework agreement that her husband's administration negotiated was a failure. Now...

TAYLOR, AR - The Columbia County Sheriff's Office says that a Louisiana man was electrocuted when he was apparently trying to steal electrical wire. Roger Godwin of Sarepta, Louisiana., died Thursday after he was electrocuted along a county road near Taylor. The sheriff's office says they received reports of someone stealing electrical wire in Columbia County. Then, Thursday morning, officers were dispatched to the Springhill Medical Center in Springhill, Louisiana., where Godwin was pronounced dead. According the sheriff's office, officers found an aluminum ladder, wire cutters and a pair of eyeglasses in the area of Godwin's suspected electrocution. (Copyright 2006...

1-4 yrs. for Father Flim-Flam Pays back 100G in huge ripoff BY BARBARA ROSS and JOSE MARTINEZ DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Msgr. John Woolsey heads for Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday before he was sentenced to one to four years in prison for stealing from East Side parish. The Manhattan monsignor known as "Father Flim-Flam" was contrite for his sins yesterday - but he'll still have to serve his penance in prison. Msgr. John Woolsey was led off in handcuffs to start his 1-to-4-year prison term, prompting several of his supporters to weep in Manhattan Supreme Court. The 69-year-old priest, who...

William Clinton did not leave the White House. He oozed out of it, leaving a trail of reeking corruption that left even his most faithful defenders gagging in revulsion. First, to escape prosecution for perjury in the Monica Lewinsky case, Clinton admitted lying under oath, had his law license suspended, and paid a US$25,000 fine. Next, the Clintons made off with $180,000 of White House furnishings, and a truckload of gifts from influence-seekers, including expensive tables from a certain Mrs. Denise Rich. Then, at midnight on his last day in office, Clinton pardoned 140 criminals. Drug dealers formed the largest...

Sarkozy embarrassed as Algerian thief is arrested By Colin Randall in Paris (Filed: 31/08/2006) An Algerian thief saved from deportation by France's interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, made a spectacular return to crime. Police opened fire after a stolen BMW driven by Cherif Bouchelaleg sped towards a checkpoint protecting the prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, at Sallanches, near the borders with Switzerland and Italy. The incident — in which Bouchelaleg, 36, was arrested after jumping from the car and trying to escape on foot — embarrassed Mr Sarkozy, a presidential hopeful who has made much of exerting control over France's borders....

(AP) MERRILL, Wis. Authorities say a man reportedly trying to reconnect electrical service to a home was hit with 14,400 volts of electricity. The Lincoln County Sheriff's Department says the 36-year-old man then fell 30 feet from a ladder into the back of a truck. The Wausau man is in critical condition Sunday at the burn unit of University of Wisconsin-Madison Hospital. Authorities believe that Saturday he was attempting to illegally connect electrical service at a home in the Town of Corning. Wisconsin Public Service Corporation had shut off power to the home earlier in the week due to nonpayment....