Halloween in Cleveland is a whole lot scarier with a serial killer on the loose. Cleveland police are now on the hunt for 50-year-old Anthony Sowell after the remains of as many as six people were found at the registered sex offenders home.

He is wanted in connection for an alleged attack on a woman in his home in September. When police arrived at the home on Thursday with a search warrant, they found two bodies on the third floor. Because the bodies were in advanced stages of decomposition, the bodies have not yet been identified and their genders not yet determined.

Friday afternoon a third body was uncovered Friday afternoon in a shallow grave in the basement of the home. Cadaver dogs uncovered additional shallow graves in the home's backyard. Investigators say they plan to continue searching the home for more evidence.

Sowell remains at large and on the run. He is considered to be extremely dangerous. He is 6 feet tall and 155 pounds. He wears eyeglasses and frequently sports a mustache. He does not drive a car, and is known to collect and cash in scrap metal. He spent 15 years in prison for a rape dating back to 1989.

Anyone with information on Sowell's whereabouts is asked to contact US Marshals Service Fugitive hotline at 1-866-4-WANTED.

Here's a news story that you don't hear too often in Cleveland. Like a scene from The Sopranos, robbers armed with assault rifles busted into a Cleveland apartment on Monday evening during a game of high-stakes poker, forcing the players to take off their pants before running off with more than $11,000.

Police reports indicate that one of the seven players went outside to smoke when he was confronted by a man pointing a gun at his face. Two suspects then entered the apartment, took the players' money and wallets, and then forced them to remove their pants. Not quite finished with them yet, the suspects then doused the players in pepper spray.

The players made the mistake of listing the card game on a poker web site.

Mayumi Heene, the mother of "balloon boy" Falcon Heene, admits that she and her husband lied to police about their son floating off into the skies in a homemade balloon. Last Saturday, she told a sheriff's investigator that she and her husband Richard knew all along that the 6-year-old boy was hiding in the family's Colorado home while police and rescuers chased it, believing the boy was trapped inside.

All this was revealed in a search warrant affidavit released Friday, which also reveals that the parents planned the hoax for about two weeks and that the balloon was constructed for the stunt.

Investigator Robert Hefferman said:

"The motive for the fabricated story was to make the Heene family more marketable for future media interest. She and Richard had instructed their three children to lie to authorities as well as the media regarding the hoax."

On October 15, the balloon drama dominated TV as the networks followed the progression of the drifting balloon as it floated thousands miles into the air before landing three hours later over a hundred miles from the family's home in Fort Collins.

The U.S. Congress has granted final approval to new legislation that would allow widows and widowers of full US citizens to move from American visa to permanent resident.

A legal provision known as "widow's penalty", was most recently highlighted by the story of a Japanese widow and the baby of a marine killed in Iraq.

Sargent Michael H. Ferschke were married by phone during his deployment to Iraq. One month later, Ferschke died. The couple had a child together, but she and the baby faced being sent back to Japan because U.S. law did not recognize their standing, and would not permit them to move from the status of American visa to residency.

On Tuesday, Congress approved legislation that would effectively abolish the provision. The measure is also a part of a larger Homeland Security bill which Presiden Barack Obama is expected to soon sign.

Under the new law, widows and widowers would be allowed to submit petitions seeking permanent American residency.

Sam Jones III, an actor on the popular CW program "Smallville", is going to need a lot more than the help of Superman. He was arrested Wednesday morning in a federal drug string, and according to the Drug Enforcement Agency, he is accused of being a "co-conspirator" in several major drug deals last year.

According to court documents, Jones, who played Clark Kent's best friend on "Smallville", and several others devised a plan to purchase and distribute more than 10,000 oxycodone pills.

He was taken into custody by DEA agents who described him as the "Hollywood connection" to the scheme. He has been charged with conspiracy to possess illegal drugs with the intent to distribute, and if convicted faces up to 20 years in federal prison.

On Thursday morning, rapper Lil Wayne pleaded guilty to attempted possession of a weapon in the second degree. He had previously pleaded not guilty to the charges, and surprised everyone when he decided that it would be in his best interest to plead guilty and take a plea bargain.

The NYPD filed charges against Lil Wayne after finding a .40 caliber handgun on his tour bus in July 2007. After the court ruled that DNA evidence found on the gun was admissible, this is when he changed his mind and took the plea bargain. Had he been found guilty in trial, which was set to begin in January 2010, he faced a three and a half year sentence.

It is expected that Lil Wayne will serve anywhere from eight months to a year in prison. New York is notoriously hard on gun charges, as evidenced by the recent case against Plaxico Burress who received a two year prison sentence last month.

According to TMZ, cops searched his tour bus after smelling marijuana after his show at the Beacon Theatre. As police approached the bus, he allegedly tossed a Louis Vuitton bag with the gun inside.

In a big departure from the policies of the George W. Bush era, the Justice Department issued a new policy memo to prosecutors on Monday telling them that pot-smoking patients and their sanctioned suppliers should not be targeted for federal prosecution in states that permit medical marijuana. In the 3-page legal memo, federal prosecutors are told it is not a good use of their time to arrest those who use or provide medical marijuana in strict compliance with state law.

The guidelines issued by the Justice Department, however, make it quite clear that federal agents can and will go after those who's marijuana distribution goes beyond what is permitted under state law, and those who use medical marijuana as a cover for other crimes.

Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement.

"It will not be a priority to use federal resources to prosecute patients with serious illnesses or their caregivers who are complying with state laws on medical marijuana, but we will not tolerate drug traffickers who hide behind claims of compliance with state law to mask activities that are clearly illegal."

The sheriff's department and child protection services are taking a much closer look at the Heenes family after their six-year-old son said that they had pulled the now-infamous balloon stunt "for a show."

At a press conference Saturday morning, Sheriff Jim Alderen said:

"I would say this not a typical American family. They engeage in behaviors a lot of us don't. Obviously, it's very different family dynamics than most of us experience."

The 6-year-old was interviewed on television, and said that he had stayed in hiding because he thought they were "doing this for a show." This remark has raised quite a bit of interest and gives some creedence to the possibility of the entire thing being a hoax.

Alderen continued:

"We want to reinterview them, clarify that, and put that to rest."

If it turns out that the balloon incident was in fact a hoax, Alderen assures that justice will be sought:

"If this turns out to be a false report, we certainly would seek criminal restitution. But we would have to be convinced, and it would have to be proven in court, not just based on speculation."

"If this is determined to be a hoax, the only thing we really have is making a false report to authorities, which is a misdemeanor."

On Thursday, a federal prosecutor claimed that a female doctor funneled drugs to Anna Nicole Smith to fuel their lesbian love affair. Los Angeles District Attorney Renee Rose made the startling accusation during a preliminary hearing against the former Playmate's lawyer and two doctors, who are charged with conspiring to illegally supply drugs to the model.

The three individuals - Howard K. Stern, Dr.Khristine Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor - have all pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Rose asserted:

"There was a sexual relationship that happened in the past and possibly carrying into the future. It was the motive for Dr. Eroshevich to provide excessive medication to Anna Nicole Smith."

"There are ulterior motives for Dr. Eroshevich's actions. That medicine keeps her addicted, so Dr. Eroshevich becomes the most important person in her life. She keeps her addicted."

The allegation came during questioning of Smith's bodyguard, Maurice "Moe" Brighthaupt.

Sean Carney, another prosecutor, added that the DA would call experts on medical ethics to comment on the doctor's alleged breakdown of doctor-patient relationships:

The realities of the war on terror have hit Sesame Street, where Elmo is coping with the death of his heroic uncle Jack. The upcoming Sesame Workshop video features Elmo's war veteran dad, Louie, is aimed specifically at US military families coping with the loss of a parent during the on-going wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Sesame Street consulted with the Defense Department for the script to avoid any explicit mention of combat or the war for the sake of healing children. This segment is part of a documentary that is scheduled to air on PBS in April, which also includes the stories of four real families who have suffered a loss.

In one of the scenes, Elmo is on a family picnic with Aunt Jill and cousin Jessie and forgets about his uncle's death, asking "Where's Uncle Jack?" Elmo's mom reminds him that Uncle Jack died, which caused some obvious discomfort for Jessie. Then, Elmo's dad Louie sits down with Jessie to encourage her to talk about her feelings:

"It helps to talk to someone about the way we feel, like we're talking now. Sometimes it feels better than keeping it all inside," he says.

Elmo's dad, Louie, knows all too well- he has deployed before.