AN UPDATE ON A PREVIOUS STORY: MOTHER CUTS OF BOY'S GENITALS

HEADLINE: Mom Gets 99 Years for Cutting Off Son's Genitals
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: FOXNews.com 18.8.9
CAPTION: AN UPDATE ON A PREVIOUS STORY POSTED

HOUSTON — A Houston-area mother convicted of mutilating her infant by cutting off his genitals two years ago was sentenced Monday to 99 years in prison.
But minutes after the jury's sentence was read, Katherine Nadal, 28, yelled out that she did not hurt her son, prompting the boy's father to storm out of the courtroom.
Jurors deliberated for two hours Monday night before returning the sentence, which also included a $10,000 fine. The same jury had convicted her last week of first-degree felony injury to a child. ...

HEADLINE: Duodecmom? Woman Allegedly Expecting 12 Babies
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: FOXNews.com 17.8.9
CAPTION: WHY NOT HAVE 13, THEN YOU WOULD HAVE A BAKER'S DOZEN

A woman is pregnant with a record-breaking 12 babies, the Sun reported Monday.
The teacher, who has not yet been named, is expecting six boys and six girls, according to reports. She conceived the babies following fertility treatments, after suffering a number of miscarriages.
Fertility experts confirmed the extraordinary pregnancy in Gafsa, Tunisia, was possible, but carried "colossal" risks.
"The woman could have been receiving ovulation induction treatment, which stimulates egg production. You don't have the same control as with IVF," said Dr. Mark Hamilton, of the British Fertility Society.

HEADLINE: Man arrested for drive-by faeces attack
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 17.8.9
CAPTION: WHEN IT HITS THE FAN, IT HITS THE FAN

A 39-year-old construction worker has been arrested for throwing his own faeces at women passers-by from a motorcycle in two separate attacks in western Japan, police said today.
The man turned himself in yesterday after making the second drive-by attack in Settsu, a satellite city near Osaka, and was detained on suspicion of assault, a municipal police spokesman said.
The worker, identified as Tatsuya Moriguchi, committed a similar assault in the same city on August 3, the police official said.
"The suspect has told investigators he did it because he felt frustrated when his work didn't go well,'' the official said

HEADLINE: Swimmers are told to wear burkinis
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: telegraph.co.uk 17.8.9
CAPTION: COVER UP OR NO DIVE

Under the rules, swimmers – including non-Muslims – are barred from entering the pool in normal swimming attire. Instead they are told that they must comply with the "modest" code of dress required by Islamic custom, with women covered from the neck to the ankles and men, who swim separately, covered from the navel to the knees. The phenomenon runs counter to developments in France, where last week a woman was evicted from a public pool for wearing a burkini – the headscarf, tunic and trouser outfit which allows Muslim women to preserve their modesty in the water.

HEADLINE: Thief leaves name, address behind
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 17.8.9
CAPTION: ANOTHER STUPID THIEF

A MAN vying for the title of New Zealand's most incompetent criminal left his name and contact details with a shop before robbing it and fleeing.
The man - a regular customer of the music shop in the southern city of Christchurch - grabbed handfuls of banknotes from the till with four surveillance cameras trained on him, the shop's manager told The Press newspaper.
Manager Garry Knight said although the shop assistant was distracted with helping another customer, two other people in the store witnessed the theft on Friday.
"It's comical.''
Just minutes before the robbery, the man had approached the assistant, saying he wanted a copy of Pink Floyd's album The Wall held for him.
He wrote his name and contact details down for the assistant.

HEADLINE: Man Jailed After Burglars Find Child Porn on Laptop
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: FOXNews.com 16.8.9
CAPTION: THEY MIGHT BE CROOKS BUT THEY DON'T PUT UP WITH THIS CRAP

A British man has been sentenced to three-and-a-half-years in prison after burglars found images of child pornography on his stolen laptop and turned it over to the police.
Richard Coverdale was convicted of downloading pictures of child abuse as well as exposing himself to an unsuspecting teenage girl over the internet while posing as a 14-year-old boy, according to Gazettelive.com.
Police started investigating the 24-year-old convicted arsonist after burglars discovered the images on a laptop they stole from Coverdale's house in August 2008 and contacted police, the Web site reported.
According to prosecutors, the officers found 13 illegal photos and 65 illegal videos on the computer and uncovered online conversations between Coverdale and a 14-year-old girl, during which Coverdale pretended to be a fictitious 14-year-old boy named Danny, Gazettelive.com reported.

HEADLINE: Girl Fined For Selling Lemonade Without a Permit
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: FOXNews.com 16.8.9
CAPTION: SOON, ONE WON'T BE ABLE TO SHIT WITHOUT A PERMIT

Three sourpuss Parks Department agents put the squeeze on a 10-year-old girl in Riverside Park yesterday, slapping the tyke with a $50 ticket for hawking lemonade without a permit.
Clementine Lee, who lives just blocks from the Upper West Side park, had dreamed of opening a lemonade stand since last year and took advantage of yesterday's beautiful weather to set up shop.
"It was such a hot day I figured people would want a cold drink," the aspiring juvenile juice mogul told The Post.
Business was booming for Clementine and her photographer dad, Richard, 49, for the first 20 minutes at the stand on West 73rd Street and Riverside Drive.
The father-daughter team was able to sell 10 glasses of the ice-cold drink for 50 cents each and the dozen chocolate chip cookies they baked.
But their day turned into the pits at 3 p.m. when the heartless pack of city sticklers iced their operation.
"They approached us nonchalantly but then surrounded us," the peeved papa recalled. "They were very hostile as soon as they approached, saying 'Where's your permit? Where's your permit?' "
When Richard admitted he didn't have the right to sell on Parks property, the agents immediately slapped the dad and daughter with a summons for selling food without a license, which carries a maximum fine of $200.

HEADLINE: Caffeine the Australian drug of choice
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 16.8.9
CAPTION: It's the world's drug of choice, not just Australia

AUSTRALIANS are more addicted to caffeine than to any other substance, with research showing many people enjoy the equivalent of four cups of coffee a day.
Experts say the ritual morning coffee is the nation's top addiction, beating vices like problem gambling, alcohol and illicit drugs - "ice", cannabis, ecstasy, cocaine and heroin.

A University of NSW National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) spokesman said the average daily caffeine intake was 240mg - equal to four cups of coffee a day.

Headline: Mum 'hid dead son in fridge for two years'
Clip: news.com.au 30.4.9
Caption: Very sick

A JAPANESE woman has been arrested on suspicion of hiding the body of her four-year-old son in a refrigerator for nearly two years, police say.
Miyuki Otsuka, 33, turned herself in to police in western Hyogo prefecture on Wednesday, and police later found a decomposed body in a plastic bag in her fridge...

Headline: Okla. Bomber Sues Prison For Constipation
Clip: FOXNews.com 30.4.9
Caption: Why not tell him to stick it up his &*^

The Smoking Gun Web site reports on a lawsuit against his jailers filed by Terry Nichols, the domestic terrorist who teamed up with Timothy McVeigh to murder 168 people in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

According to the court documents on the Smoking Gun Web site, Terry Nichols, 54, says the low-fiber prison diet has given him "chronic constipation, bleeding, hemorrhoids."

Headline: California Woman: My Father Was the Zodiac Killer
Clip: FOXNews.com 30.4.9
Caption: AND SHE'S PROUD?

A Southern California woman said Wednesday that her late father was the infamous Zodiac killer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay area four decades ago.San Francisco homicide investigators said they will check into the information from Deborah Perez...

Headline: Deputy Quits After Wife, Mom-in-law Take Squad Car
Clip: CBSnews.com 29.4.9
Caption: Granny Joyrides in Cop Car

A Polk County deputy has turned in his badge after his wife and mother-in-law took his patrol car out for a joyride....

Headline: Judge Rules Inmate Can't Change Name to 'Sinner'
Clip: FOXNews.com 29.4.9
Caption: I'm Just a Sinner In a Rock and Roll Band

LINCOLN, Neb. — No, the judge said to a 23-year-old Nebraska prison inmate.
You can't call yourself "Sinner Lawrence Bilskirnir."
Court documents say Jonathan L. Thomas cited his Norse religion in seeking the name change, saying he "is a heathen and Thor is his 'High God."'
But Lancaster County District Judge Steve Burns says government agencies need to closely track Thomas because of his criminal record and because there are three child-support cases against him.
Burns says Thomas' reasons do not satisfy the legal requirements.

Headline: Radio Shack Employee Punches Customer Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 29.4.9
Caption: No Returns Just a Punch

A Radio Shack employee in Eau Claire is facing disorderly conduct and battery charges for punching a customer.

Police say the customer was trying to return an item Sunday, but the employee wouldn't let him. The customer then asked to talk to a manager.

That's when the 52-year-old male employee began punching the man. A bystander called 911.

Healine: Woman has legs broken for her career
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 29.4.9
Caption: Break a Leg

ONE of Queensland's youngest pollies has told how she spent nine months in Russia for bone-breaking growth surgery because of insecurities about her size.

Logan councillor Hajnal Ban, 31, had each of her legs broken in four places for the leg-lengthening procedure, remaining in hospital as she grew about 1mm a day to increase her 154cm frame to 162cm.

She previously detailed her experience in a book, God Made Me Small, Surgery Made Me Tall, but used a false name and wore a wig and glasses to hide her identity.

Now she has spoken exclusively to The Courier-Mail about the $40,000 procedure and why she used the pseudonym Sara Vornamen to tell her tale.

Headline: Glow in dark pups 'not just a novelty'
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 28.4.9
Caption: Gives a whole new meaning to flashlights

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Headline: N.D. Mom Accused of Breast-Feeding While Drunk
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 28.4.9
Caption: CASE: BFWD

A North Dakota mother has pleaded not guilty to child neglect after prosecutors alleged she was drunk while breast-feeding her 6-week-old baby.

Prosecutor Carmell Mattison says alcohol was not the only factor in the felony charge against 27-year-old Stacey Anvarinia, who appeared in court Monday. She is free on bond.

Mattison says the mother "wasn't in a position to care for the child properly."

Anvarinia was arrested Feb. 13 after police answered a domestic disturbance call at her Grand Forks home. The prosecutor said officers witnessed Anvarinia breast-feeding the baby and asked her to stop because she was intoxicated.

Headline: Thieves steal car with leopard in boot
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 28.4.9
Caption: STOLE SUV AND LEAPARD TO BOOT

THIEVES who stole a man's car in Saint Petersburg are in for a surprise. There is a baby leopard in the boot.
"My driver and I were in the process of settling the leopard in the trunk of my Mercedes... when three masked assailants attacked us. They managed to get away with the car," the car's owner Mikhail Barakin said.

Mr Barakin is offering a reward of €70,000 ($128,664.64) for the return of his exotic pet, an Asian Leopard Cat, worth more to him than the Mercedes SUV.

Headline: Gone With the Wind: Pet Chihuahua Blows Away
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 28.4.9
Caption: Bye Bye Doggie

WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Tinker Bell has been reunited with her owners after a 70-mph gust of wind picked up the six-pound Chihuahua and tossed her out of sight.

Dorothy and Lavern Utley credit a pet psychic for guiding them on Monday to a wooded area nearly a mile from where 8-month-old Tinker Bell had been last seen. The brown long-haired dog was dirty and hungry but otherwise OK.

The Utleys, of Rochester, had set up an outdoor display Saturday at a flea market in Waterford Township, 25 miles northwest of Detroit.

Tinker Bell was standing on their platform trailer when she was swept away.

Headline: Finger cut off and eaten in wage protest
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 28.4.9
Caption: Finger Food

A SERBIAN union official who chopped off his finger and ate it in a protest over wages that in some cases have not been paid in years, said today he did it to show how desperate he and other workers were.
"We, the workers have nothing to eat, we had to seek some sort of alternative food and I gave them an example," Zoran Bulatovic said.

"It hurt like hell."

Mr Bulatovic, a union leader at the Raska Holding textile factory in Novi Pazar in southwest Serbia, used a hacksaw to cut off most of his left-hand little finger on Friday.

Mr Bulatovic said he decided to act after his deputy, "a single mother of three, was the first to say she would cut off her finger. I could not allow her to do that," he said.

State-owned Raska Holding was a major textile producer in the late 1980s with a workforce of 4000.

It suffered during the collapse of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and a loss of markets and mismanagement during a decade of wars and sanctions led to massive job cuts, leaving the company with just 100 workers.

Mom Becomes Sexy Daughter

Headline: Mom Drops $15G on Surgery to Look Like Daughter
Origin of Clip: FOXnews.com 16.4.9
Caption: Mom Becomes Sexy Daughter

At first glance it is hard to tell British mother and daughter Janet and Jane Cunliffe apart. But it is not due to genetics. Mom Janet, 50, has spent almost $15,000 on plastic surgery in an attempt to look identical to her 28-year-old daughter, The Daily Mail reported.

"Seeing how attractive Jane is made me want to get my looks back," Janet told the Mail. "Now instead of mum and daughter we look more like twins. I had good genes and good skin, but I needed a helping hand to make me feel better about myself."

Last September she flew to Croatia to have plastic surgery on her nose and eyes. She also got breast implants and had her lips plumped.

After she added blonde hair extensions she said men would mistake her and Jane for sisters.

Headline: Teen Stabbed to Death by Woman in Wheelchair
Origin of Clip: FOXnews.com 16.4.9
Caption: How?

Los Angeles police say a 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death by a woman in a wheelchair possibly twice her age after the pair got into a fight over a man.

Officer Karen Rayner says officers recieved several reports of the incident Wednesday afternoon on a street in South Los Angeles.

Rayner says "it sounds like it was a donnybrook of a lot of people fighting."

The victim was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead

Headline: Man Allegedly Stabs Brother Over Pork And Beans
Origin of Clip: CBSnews.com 16.4.9
Caption: NO BEANS ABOUT IT

A sheriff's deputy said a 54-year-old man stabbed his 63-year-old brother during an argument in their kitchen over a can of pork and beans. Sheriff's spokeswoman Cindy Chadwick said the suspect was booked Tuesday on one count of aggravated battery.

Chadwick said the brother was treated at a medical center for stab wounds in his left arm and shoulder blade.

Headline: Man Jailed For Urinating On Woman During Flight
Origin of Clip: CBSnews.com 15.4.9
Caption: This one is sickly weird

A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to three weeks in jail for urinating on a 66-year-old woman during a Continental Airlines flight last month from Los Angeles to Honolulu. Jerome Kenneth Kingzio, a resident of the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, was sentenced after pleading guilty Tuesday to assault charges in federal court in Honolulu.

The victim was headed to Hawaii on March 21 for a scuba diving vacation and was watching an in-flight movie when Kingzio stood up and began urinating on her. He had been drinking on the flight.

Headline: Police Say 'doc' Used Vet Gear To Perform Implants
Origin of Clip: CBSnews.com 15.4.9
Caption: Doggy Style Breast Implants

A Spanish man accused of using veterinary equipment to perform cosmetic surgery is in the doghouse. Catalonian regional police said they arrested the 63-year-old Barcelona native for allegedly practicing medicine without a license in filthy conditions at his home.
The police said in a statement released Wednesday that the man charged his human patients between euro250 and euro500 ($330 to $660) to perform breast or buttocks implants and used a veterinary tool normally used to inject animals.

Headline: Woman: Why My Husband Donated His Face
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 15.4.9
Caption: Changing face

The wife of a Massachusetts man whose tissue was donated for the nation's second face transplant said her husband told her before heart transplant surgery that he wanted to donate his organs if he didn't survive the operation.

Susan Whitman told The Boston Globe for a story in Wednesday's editions that she was surprised, however, when organ bank officials asked if she would approve of the donation of Joseph Helfgot's face.

PHOTOS: FACE TRANSPLANTS (WARNING: Contains some graphic photos)

Whitman and their four children held a conference call and quickly agreed it was the "right thing to do."

Helfgot, 60, learned to appreciate the value of life from his Holocaust survivor parents, friends and family said.

Headline: Doctors 'find tree in man's lung'
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 15.4.9
Caption: Excuse me sir, you seem to have a tree growing inside you.

SURPRISED surgeons performing a lung cancer operation apparently found a 5cm fir tree growing inside the patient.
The Daily Mail reports doctors thought Russian man Artyom Sidorkin, 28, had a tumour after he complained of extreme pain in his chest and had been coughing up blood.

The x-ray image shows what looks like a large tumour in his lung.

During the operation, surgeon Vladimir Kamashev said he thought he was hallucinating when he saw the fir tree needles inside the tissue.

Medical staff said the 5cm tree is too big to be swallowed and believe Mr Sidorkin had inhaled a seed which later sprouted.

Headline: Mums and babies break out of jail
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 15.4.9
Caption: The Great Escape

SIX mothers escaped with their newborn babies from a prison maternity ward, say authorities in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo.

The fugitive mothers were recaptured after they used improvised knives to overpower guards and drugged guard dogs to flee the secure facility, Associated Press reports.

Mom Says My Son Needs Sex

Headline: Mom Helping Son With Down Syndrome Lose Virginity
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 17.3.9
Caption: Mom Says My Son Needs Sex

A mother is appealing for women to have sex with her adopted Down syndrome son.

Lucy Baxter, of Abingdon, Oxfordshire in southern England, says she will even pay for a prostitute so he can lose his virginity.

The mother has now set up a Web page for her son, Otto, appealing for potential dates to come forward.

Baxter has three other adopted sons with Down syndrome and works with Mencap, the U.K.'s leading charity for people with disabilities.

"I'd like all my boys to find love and enjoy sex," she said. "I always look at what other people are doing and why shouldn't they do the same things?

Headline: Clusters of Homeless Settle in Airport Terminals
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 17.3.9
Caption: Sign of the Times

Life has taken Roger Gleen up and down the East Coast, and on this night the weary traveler settles into a chair in the corner of the world's busiest airport.

His bags propped neatly beside him, Gleen is among a dozen or so ticketless passengers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, folks with no destination in mind.

They're Hartsfield's homeless, and like their counterparts in other major terminals, they've successfully resisted most efforts to clear them out.

"We have to go sooner or later," Gleen admits. "But you have people (who have) been coming to the airport for years."

Clusters of homeless have long settled in terminals from Philadelphia to Chicago, ideal round-the-clock shelters for men and women displaced by cities trying to clean up their downtowns.

Headline: Jail Becomes Inmates' Party-Filled 'Animal House'
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 16.3.9
Caption: Who would want to escape from this jail?

MONTAGUE, Texas — For months, perhaps longer, the Montague County Jail was "Animal House" meets Mayberry.

Inside the small brick building across from the courthouse, inmates had the run of the place, having sex with their jailer girlfriends, bringing in recliners, taking drugs and chatting on cell phones supplied by friends or guards, according to authorities. They also disabled some of the surveillance cameras and made weapons out of nails.

The doors to two groups of cells didn't lock, but apparently no one tried to escape — perhaps because they had everything they needed inside.

Headline: Malaysian Mistakes Woman For A Monkey, Shoots Her
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 16.3.9
Caption: Yea Right, Tell Me Another One

Police said a man in Malaysia shot his neighbor as she picked sapodilla fruit in his tree thinking she was a monkey. Police chief in eastern Pahang state Yahaya Othman said the woman was gathering fruit Thursday when her neighbor shot her. Yahaya said the man came home and saw rustling in the tree and fired into it. "Then there was screaming ... and only then did he know it was his neighbor."

He said the woman was hospitalized with a wound to the abdomen but her condition was stable Friday.

Headline: Nudists give newlyweds cheeky reception
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 16.3.9
Caption: Naked Cyclists Converge of Newlyweds with no hitch except for the two who just got hitched.

A NEWLY married couple got a wedding picture with a difference when naked cyclists converged on their photo session at Victoria's State Parliament yesterday.

World Naked Bike Ride organiser Heidi Hill said the newlyweds grabbed the chance to get a photo when the cyclists reached the mid-way point of their annual ride yesterday, the Melbourne Leader reports.

“They were having photos taken on the steps of Parliament House and all of a sudden we showed up and they had to have a photos with us,” Ms Hill said.

Ms Hill said the naked bike ride through Melbourne’s streets went off without a hitch.

Headline: Man Arrested After Trying to Sell Paris Hilton's Phone
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 15.3.9
Caption: For sale: One Hilton Phone

A hotel manager was arrested after he tried to sell Paris Hilton's cell phone on Craigslist, the New York Post reported.

Marc Marrouche's was arrested March 5, after the buyer who offered $5,000 for the phone ended up being an undercover cop, the Post reported.

Headline: Inmate Jailed With Killer He Testified Against Killed
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 15.3.9
Caption: DDDDAAAAHHHH

McALESTER, Okla. — A 23-year-old inmate beaten to death at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary had been put in a cell with convicted killer he had testified against.
Prison spokesman Jerry Massie says Paul Duran Jr. fought with one cellmate and then was put in a cell with Jessie James Dalton.
Duran was found beaten to death about 15 minutes later.
Massie says the two were not supposed to be put in the same cell and prison officials are trying to determine how it happened.

Headline: Want greens with that? Prank on the nose
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 15.3.9
Caption: Stuff and Sack

A SUBWAY sandwich bar worker was sacked after a video was posted on YouTube of him stuffing lettuce leaves up his nose, before putting them back in the serving tray.

Briton Richard Shannon, who also put salad leaves in his mouth and spat them out, was arrested after a "disgusted" customer recognised the 22-year-old on the internet.

The woman went to the global chain's outlet in Brownhills, West Midlands, and hurled a chair at him. Shannon admitted contaminating or interfering with goods with intent to cause economic loss, alarm or injury but claimed the incident, filmed by a friend on a mobile phone, was a prank and the lettuce had been discarded.

Headline: Long Lost Postcard Found in Mailbox After 47 Years
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 14.3.9
Caption: Slow in coming

HUDSON, Ohio — A woman's postcard bearing greetings from Montana has finally arrived in northeastern Ohio — 47 years later.

Insurance agent Dave Conn opened his post office box in the community of Hudson last week and found the mailing sent from Helena, Mont., in 1962.

It was sent to Marion White, the previous renter of the box, who had died in 1988. The writer signed the postcard "Fran" and mentioned having "had a marvelous time in Montana."

After asking around, Conn says he determined the card must have come from White's well-traveled friend Frances Murphey, a longtime reporter at the Akron Beacon Journal. She died in 1998 at age 75.

Headline: Filmmaker to implant camera in eye
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 14.3.9
Caption: The camera of the Eye

A ONE-eyed filmmaker is going to implant a camera in his eye to make a film from his point of view.

Rob Spence, a documentary filmmaker from Canada, has been unable to use his right eye since it was damaged in a firearms accident as a child.

After wearing an eyepatch for many years, he recently got a prosthetic eye implanted – and decided he wanted to become what he calls an "Eyeborg" – a part-human, part-camera cyborg.

"I was looking at the small camera on my cellphone, and I got to thinking about the Bionic Man," he said in a recent video on his website.

"I want to turn my prosthetic eye into a wireless camera,"

Headline: No sex while nude - that's the rules
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 14.3.9
Caption: Just because you're nude

NUDISTS have issued a "no overt sex" edict for unofficial nude beaches in response to a rising backlash over swingers parties.

Headline: Texas School District Ditches Homework

Why Do Children have Access To Guns?

Headline: Mother killed by six-year-old son
Clip from: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25060122-23109,00.html
Date of clip: 16.2.9
Caption: Why Do Children have Access To Guns?

A SIX -YEAR-OLD boy has accidentally shot his mother dead with his father's gun at their home in Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby.
The unnamed mother "from a prominent Port Moresby family" died on the way to hospital on Sunday afternoon, PNG's Post Courier newspaper reports.

The boy and his young brother were playing in the living room with their father's loaded gun when it went off and shot their mother in the chest.

Headline: Four-year-old 'broke into school, stole pens'
Clip from: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5739401.ece
Date of clip: 16.2.9
Caption: Where were the f..ing parents????

POLICE say a four-year-old was among a group of children who broke into an Alice Springs school, smashing windows and stealing pens.
A teacher at Living Waters School contacted police after he visited the school about 6pm (CST) on Sunday and found five juveniles on the premises.

The offenders broke into the school by smashing a window before stealing various items, such as paints and pens, police said. The children fled when they saw the teacher but police apprehended the group a short time later.

Two of the children are eight years old, one is six and another is four.

Police said the age of the fifth child, who was the oldest in the group, was yet to be determined.

Officers took the children home and reports were made to the office of NT Families and Children.

Headline: Woman's airport fury an online hit
Clip from: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5739401.ece
Date of clip: 15.2.9
Caption: Why Don't You Cry

A VIDEO of a hysterical passenger screaming at airline staff and writhing on the floor after missing a flight at Hong Kong airport has become a YouTube hit.
The three-minute clip of the furious woman had racked up close to 40,000 hits in three days on the video-sharing site.

The video starts with the screaming woman running towards the departure gate and bouncing off ...

Headline: New:Aliens 'may be living among us'
Clip from: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5739401.ece
Date of clip: 15.2.9
Caption: Are you a space creature?

Aliens may be living among us, but we do not know it because they are microbes that do not have the standard biochemistry of Earth-dwelling organisms.
As well as the many forms of life based on DNA that are known to science, the Earth may have been home to a second creation of organisms that make up an unremarked realm of “life as we don’t know it”, according to Paul Davies, of Arizona State University, a cosmologist and theorist of extraterrestrial life...

Headline: Man Hoping To Get Fired Allegedly Trashes Eatery
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 15.2.9
Caption: Brownies and Cookies Thrower

A restaurant worker was accused of trashing the place in an attempt to get fired and collect unemployment compensation. A criminal complaint filed Thursday said a 35-year-old man showed up at a Qdoba restaurant and started throwing brownies and cookies on the floor...

Headline: Burglary Victim Drives Off in Thieves' Getaway Van
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 15.2.9
Caption: Ironic twist

BELLEVUE, Washington — A man in Washington state made sure a pair of burglars did not get away with his three flat-screen televisions — he moved their getaway car.

Patrick Rosario was in the basement of his Bellevue home on Tuesday when he heard the burglars upstairs.

The Seattle Times reported the 32-year-old Rosario, who had been laid off from his job as a Washington Mutual bank manager, called police while he sneaked out of the house.

He saw a white van sitting in front of his house with the motor running and the keys in the ignition, and he got in and drove it to a friend's house.

Very Sick

Headline: Girl: Mom Allowed Dad to Rape, Impregnate Sister
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 6.2.9
Caption: Very Sick

HARRISONVILLE, Mo. — The older sister of a girl allegedly molested and impregnated four times by their father said Thursday their mother allowed the abuse and should face more than a child-endangerment charge.

"I want her to get more charges," the 20-year-old said outside a western Missouri courthouse. "I want her to pay as much as my father. I don't want either of them to get away with a slap on the wrist."

The mother is charged with one count of endangering the welfare of a child. Cass County prosecutors said additional charges were possible but declined to elaborate. The woman is free on $10,000 bond.

Headline: Woman told to 'check-in dead husband'
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 5.2.9
Caption: Sad Situation

"Must be transported respectfully"
A BRISBANE family is in shock after an airline told the mother she could only take her husband's ashes to India as checked luggage, contrary to Sikh tradition.

Nashater Hayer and her daughter Debbie are scheduled to fly to the Indian state of Punjab on Sunday to throw Kewal Singh Hayer's ashes into the Kiratpur River, but the airline will not let Mrs Hayer carry the urn with her.

Headline: Woman, 60, Reportedly Gives Birth to Twins
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 5.2.9
Caption: Granny Pops Twins

CALGARY, Alberta — A 60-year-old woman in the Western Canadian city of Calgary has given birth to twins after going to India for fertility treatments, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp reported on its website on Thursday.

The report said the twins, both boys, were seven weeks prematurely delivered by Caesarean section. Though one is breathing with the help of special equipment, doctors said the twins are doing well but will be kept in hospital until they gain weight and both can breathe on their own.

Headline: Careful! These Statues Could Get You Pregnant
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 5.2.9
Caption: BIRTH CONTROL FOR STATUES

Starting a family might be a little easier with a trip to Ripley's Believe It or Not museum in Myrtle Beach. The museum on Thursday opens a monthlong display of its fertility statues.

The 5-foot tall wooden statues were acquired on the Ivory Coast of West Africa in 1993. The company says they were then placed in its corporate headquarters in Orlando, Fla., and within months, 13 women became pregnant.

Mommy Dearest Cheerleader

Headline: Mum posed as daughter to be cheerleader
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 14.1.9
Caption: Mommy Dearest Cheerleader

A 34-year-old mother was so desperate to be part of a US high school's cheerleading squad that she posed as her 15-year-old daughter.

Wendy Brown was committed today to a mental health facility for three years by a court in the midwest US state of Wisconsin after being found not guilty of identity theft because of mental impairment, news agency AP reports.

According to court documents Brown "stated she that wanted to get her high school degree and be a cheerleader because she had no childhood and was trying to regain a part of her life she missed."

Brown enrolled at Ashwaubenon High School using her daughter's ID and attended cheerleading practices before school started, received a cheerleader's locker and went to a pool party at the cheerleading coach's house.

Headline: Court: Teachers Can Have Sex With 18-Year-Old Pupils
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Date of clip: 13.1.9
Caption: Teachers Can F*** Students Until They Drop - only for those 18 and older

Washington state law does not bar teachers from having sex with 18-year-old students.

That's the decision of a three-judge panel of the Washington Court of Appeals, which on Tuesday ordered the dismissal of a case brought against Hoquiam High School's former choir teacher.

The teacher, Matthew Hirschfelder, was charged with first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor. He challenged a judge's refusal to dismiss his case. The appeals court unanimously agreed that the state law is vague, and that the Legislature only intended to forbid sexual contact between school employees and students who are 16 or 17.

Headline: Firefighters Burn Own Firehouse Down for 2nd Time
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Date of clip: 13.1.9
Caption: Giong For Three Times?

German firefighters lost all their engines for a second time after their station burned to the ground in a fire they are believed to have set themselves, the Austrian Times reported.

The weekend blaze in Syke, northern Germany, was reportedly set by the firefighters themselves in a training exercise accident. However, faulty wiring could have been to blame.

It took 250 firefighters from the surrounding areas to bring the flames under control, the Austrian Times reported. All six fire engines were lost in the inferno.

This was not the first time the bumbling fire brigade lost its headquarters...

Headline: Student 'auctioning virginity for millions'
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 13.1.9
Caption: Girl auctions virginity

MORE than 10,000 men have reportedly pledged more than $5 million online to claim the virginity of a 22-year-old San Diego student.

Natalie Dylan is being chased by besotted men across the world keen to spend a massive sum for one night of passion.

The chastity sale was first reported in September by US radio shock jock Howard Stern, but since then interest in her has rocketed with record hits to her MySpace page.

''I am shocked by how far this has gone,'' the 22-year-old told The Daily Mail.

''It's shocking that men will pay so much for someone's virginity, which isn't even prized so highly anymore."

Headline: Police: Minn. Woman Tried to Set Boyfriend on Fire
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Date of clip: 13.1.9
Caption: Woman Tries to BBQ Boyfriend

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — A St. Cloud woman is in jail after police say she tried to set her boyfriend on fire using a lighter and air freshener.

Investigators say the 49-year-old woman is accused of pouring fingernail polish remover on the victim and the blanket covering him, then trying to light him on fire.

The victim was able to take the air freshener from the woman. Police say she then hit him on the back of the head and bit him several times. As the man tried to call police, the woman allegedly ripped the phone cord out of the wall.

The woman is in the Stearns County Jail on suspicion of domestic assault and interfering with a 911 call.

Monkee See, Monkey Do

Headline: Woman, Mom Convicted Of Smuggling Monkey Into US
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 9.12.8
Caption: Monkee See, Monkey Do

A Spokane woman and her mother have been convicted in federal court on charges of sneaking a rhesus monkey into the United States from Thailand. Gypsy Lawson, 29, hid the sedated young rhesus macaque under her blouse, pretending to be pregnant when she successfully passed through U.S. Customs in Los Angeles after a trip to Bangkok, Thailand.
Her mother, Fran Ogren, 55, of Northport, Wash., also went on the trip in November 2007.
The two women were found guilty Monday by a 12-member jury on separate charges of conspiracy and smuggling goods into the United States. Sentencing is set for March 3.

Headline: Blood Alcohol Tester Charged In Nevada With DUI
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 9.12.8
Caption: Drunk Drunk Tester

A contract worker for a Nevada sheriff's department is accused of driving drunk to a jail to test a suspect's blood alcohol content.

Fifty-three-year-old Kathleen Cherry told a Carson City sheriff's deputy who smelled alcohol on her breath that she had one margarita before driving Friday night.

She's accused of failing field sobriety tests and registering a blood alcohol content over the state's legal limit of 0.08 percent.

Cherry is a phlebotomist, trained to draw blood for lab tests. She was booked on a misdemeanor drunken driving charge, and her bail was set at more than $1,000.

HEADLINE: Washington Priest Chases Thief, Recovers Church Funds
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Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: The Long Arm of Religion

A Washington priest went sprinting through the streets, just before Mass, to recover collection money that a thief swiped from the church safe.

"I said, 'Hey, I'm going to go catch a thief,"' the Rev. Bill Hegedusich told startled congregants at St. Peter's church on Capitol Hill as he bounded through the church door Sunday morning.

Hegedusich said the man had taken two bags of money, totaling about $125, from an unlocked safe.

The 48-year-old marathon runner, clad in his black shirt and white clerical collar, said he chased the man for about two blocks and yelled at him to return the money. The man threw one bag on the ground and kept running.

Hegedusich returned with the single bag. He estimated that he recovered about $60.

Headline: Woman has first child ... at age 70
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Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: A Mother of a Grandma

AN Indian woman has given birth to her first child at the age of 70 after IVF treatment, local media reports.
Rajo Devi, who married 50 years ago, gave birth to a baby girl on November 28 after in vitro fertilisation, said Anurag Bishnoi, a doctor at the Hisar fertility centre in Haryana state.
"Rajo Devi and (her husband) Bala Ram approached the centre for treatment and the embryo transfer was done on April 19," he told the Hindustan Times.
"Both the mother and child are in good health."
Ms Devi's husband, aged 72, had also wed his wife's sister after 10 years of his first marriage did not result in children.
His second wife also failed to become pregnant.
It was not clear whose egg and sperm were used in the successful treatment.
"We longed for a child all these years and now we are very happy to have one in the twilight years of our life," Ms Devi told the Times of India.

Headline: Men Are Red-Faced, Women Greenish
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: Green Under The Gills

There's a new color palette for sex, and it's Christmas-y.
New research suggests while male faces are red, female faces have a greenish tint.
The results, detailed online this week in the journal Psychological Science, suggest that along with other facial cues, such as shape, color can be used to pick out a guy from a gal.

Headline: Field Trips Nixed After Students See Classmate Autopsy
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Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: We Know That Stiff

PONTIAC, Mich. — A medical examiner's office in Michigan has canceled public school tours after a high school group watched the autopsy of a 14-year-old girl from their district.

The Detroit News reports Monday that Oakland County officials decided to stop the tours in Pontiac after they were contacted by the girl's parents, who were very upset about the March tour.

Mike Zehnder, the county's director of public services, says it was "a poor decision" to let the tour go on.

Headline: Rhino escapes zoo pen in search for love
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: Horny

A RANDY rhinoceros escaped its enclosure today and went looking for love - but has been sedated near a perimeter fence.
The escapee - an 18-year-old male white rhino named Satara - was reported to have escaped Monarto Zoo, east of Adelaide, around just after 1pm (CST) today.

Relieved zoo keepers then reported the amorous animal lacked an adequate sense of direction and was not able to gain access to the female object of his desire, AdelaideNow reports

Headline: Man stole police car to sell its tyres
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: Dumb Ass

A MAN who stole an empty police car crashed it into a garbage dumpster at the end of a two-hour joy ride
"When I found the car and I saw it had the key in the ignition, well, I just got in," foiled car thief Alejandro Juarez said in Aguascalientes, Mexico.

"I was thinking about taking off the tyres so I could sell them," he said.

"But then I was thinking first I would take it for a spin - and then bam, I got a bit distracted and crashed," Mr Juarez said.

Headline: 'Tis the season to dump grannies - doctors
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: Bye, Bye Grannies

ELDERLY Victorians are being dumped in hospital emergency departments as their relatives go on holidays.

Frontline hospital staff have lifted the lid on the shocking practice of "granny dumping", saying it is on the increase and peaks over the Christmas period.

There are calls for an urgent inquiry as worried emergency department workers warn the practice is robbing genuine patients of vital beds.

Last Monday, a woman in her 70s was delivered by ambulance to the Northern Hospital's emergency department, where her relatives requested she stay for three weeks.