Rich Dog

Headline: Widow leaves £7m to dog rescuers
From: Scotsman.com
Date of clip: 20.12.8
Caption: Candy Man Lawyer Arrested

SO MUCH for a dog's life. Animal welfare groups are in the money after a rich widow left them a staggering £7 million in her will.

Grace Smith's two pampered former rescue dogs, Winnie the lurcher and Harry the collie, enjoyed the finest cuts of steak and are now set for life after Mrs Smith also left them a fortune.

Headline: Lawyer Arrested For Giving Client A Piece Of Candy
From: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 20.12.8
Caption: Candy Man Lawyer Arrested

A lawyer has been arrested after he reportedly ignored orders not to give his shackled client a piece of candy in court, a Yavapai County sheriff's official said. Damon Rossi, 38, was arrested at his home on Thursday, a day after he asked two detention officers if he could feed his client a piece of candy, sheriff's spokesman Dwight D'Evelyn said on Friday. Rossi went ahead and gave the inmate the food despite being warned against it, reportedly asking the officers "what are you going to do, arrest me?"

Headline: Aussie repays $11 loan - 40 years later
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 20.12.8
Caption: Better Late Than Never

A BRITON who lent $11 to a cash-strapped Australian while travelling through Europe has had his loan repaid - nearly 40 years later, a report said.

Jim Webb, 72, was in the Belgian coastal town of Ostend in April 1969 with a friend when he met Gary Fenton who asked for a loan to pay for a ferry journey back to Britain.

Mr Fenton promised to repay Mr Webb and noted down his address when the trio landed in England.

Last Sunday Mr Webb returned to his home in Sheffield to find a hand-delivered package with $439 - $11 for each year the loan had not been paid - and a note that read: "To Jim Webb, a good man. From Gary Fenton, a tardy payer of debts."

"I was quite emotional when I read it," Mr Webb told the BBC. "In this day and age promises are made and promises are broken and you lose your faith in human nature.

Headline: Teacher 'flashed breasts at students'
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 20.12.8
Caption: Naughty Teacher

A FEMALE teacher has been removed from a high school amid allegations she drank alcohol with students and exposed her breasts.
Yesterday, the NSW Department of Education and Training said it had taken action against the woman from the Northern Beaches Secondary College Balgowlah Boys Campus because of the teacher's alleged "behaviour towards students".

Education officials launched an investigation after the woman was ordered not to return to the school in August. Police and the Department of Community Services were informed.

Headline: Trio Fired For Sink Stunt
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 19.12.8
Caption: SPLISH SPLASH, I'M TAKING A BATH

The girls, from Anderson, California, had stripped to their bare essentials to enjoy the make-shift jacuzzi.
Bosses at KFC did not stumble upon the stunt until one of the trio posted a "KFC moments" gallery on her public MySpace profile.
Three fast food workers at a KFC outlet have been fired after posting pictures of themselves bathing in the restaurant's sinks... The girls, from Anderson, California, had stripped to their bare essentials to enjoy the make-shift jacuzzi.

Headline: Woman gives birth to 18th child
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 19.12.8
Caption: No Birth Control Here

A WOMAN who has already had 17 kids with names beginning with the letter J has given birth to her 18th child - a girl named Jordyn-Grace Makiya Duggar. The latest addition to Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar's brood was delivered by Caesarean section at Mercy Medical Centre in Rogers, Arkansas overnight.

Headline: Mum killer requests longer sentence
From: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 19.12.8
Caption: You don't hear this everyday.

A MAN who had sought the maximum jail term for murdering his mother has said his sentence of at least 17 years is "manifestly inadequate".
Adam Patrick Owens, 36, had pleaded guilty to the stabbing murder of his mother, 69-year-old environmentalist Doris Owens, in her home at Swanhaven, on the New South Wales south coast, in September 2006.
Earlier this month, he told the NSW Supreme Court his only regret was that he hadn't murdered her 20 years earlier, and that he would do it again if he had his time over..