Clip from: CNN.com
Date of clip: 18.2.9
Caption: Forsale Kidney - Sold
NEW YORK (CNN) -- One morning a couple of months ago at Westchester Medical Center, Dawn Verdick gave Daniel Flood one of her kidneys.
Daniel Flood received a kidney from Dawn Verdick. They were brought together through Craigslist. Verdick and Flood were not friends or family. In fact, they were total strangers from the East and West coasts. But that's not the most unusual aspect of this case.
The patient and donor were brought together after Flood's three daughters placed an ad on Craigslist, the online classifieds site that offers everything from autos to real estate and guitar lessons to massage.
"Please help us, my dad needs a kidney!" began their posting in the site's volunteer section.
Headine: Missing dentures washed up on beach
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 18.2.9
Caption: A Teeth of a Story
PHILLIP Worth may be a bit long in the tooth to believe in Long John Silver's gold but you could forgive him for believing in the tooth fairy.
How else could he explain losing his dentures while surfing at Terrigal only to find them - 26 hours later - washed in by the tide the following day, The Daily Telegraph reports.
Headline: Bike Labeled 'Pipe Bomb' Causes Chaos at Airport
Clip from: FOXnews.com
Date of clip: 18.2.9
Caption: A sign of the times.
If you saw a bicycle with a sticker that read "This Bike is a Pipe Bomb," would you be worried?
If so, imagine the frenzy such a bicycle caused at the airport in Memphis, drawing the response of police and fire personnel prepared for an explosion, MyFOX Memphis reported.
The sticker was fixed to a bicycle chained outside the airport's Terminal C on Monday, prompting police to take the bike's owner into custody and restrict access to the space around the two-wheeled vehicle.
Headline: Wis. Boy's Essay Leads To Charge Against His Dad
Clip from: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 17.2.9
Caption: Ass For A Father
A father allegedly shot his 9-year-old son in the buttocks with a BB gun, a revelation that came to light after the boy wrote a school essay about the incident. The boy had written an essay about the "painful afternoon my Dad shot me with a BB gun." The elementary-school teacher turned the essay over to authorities.
Prosecutors charged the 36-year-old father on Friday with one felony count of child abuse. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 6 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
The criminal complaint said the father told an investigator he shot the boy after the child didn't move fast enough from blocking the TV. He said he aimed at his son's rear pocket because he thought it would be more padded.
Headline: Man kidnaps and handcuffs woman, reads her the Bible
Clip from: timseonline.co.uk
Date of clip: 17.2.9
Caption: Spiritual Rape
TOLEDO, Ohio - A man held a woman captive in handcuffs and an adult diaper for three days while he read Bible passages to her, police said.
Troy Brisport, 34, was charged with kidnapping and felonious assault. Bail was set Tuesday at $400,000.
He picked up the woman Wednesday night in Detroit after she told him she had nowhere to stay, and brought her to his home in Toledo, about 90 kilometres away, police said..
Headline: Jerry Springer to star in Chicago
Clip from: timesonline.co.uk
Date of clip: 17.2.9
Caption: Very strange, but strange follows this man
In an unlikely career move, Jerry Springer is to swap American TV for the London stage after accepting the part of lawyer Billy Flynn in the West End musical Chicago.
The onetime Mayor of Cincinnati turned lowbrow chat show host will begin a six-week run at the Cambridge Theatre in June, but today acknowledged he was a strange choice for the role.
Headline: Man 'tried to fly with 14kg of heroin'
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 17.2.9
Caption: An extra baggage charge may have applied here.
AUTHORITIES say they have disrupted a global drug ring after arresting a 21-year-old Malaysian man at Sydney airport over a 14kg heroin haul.
The man was arrested by officers from the Joint Asian Crime Group (JACG) yesterday as he was about to board an international flight.
Officers charged the man with the possession and supply of a large commercial quantity of a prohibited drug, which was tested and found to be high-quality heroin.
The investigation began last month following the arrest of two Singaporeans for the same offences.
Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Tim Morris said the arrest showed the value of cooperation between crime fighting agencies.
Headline: Virgin forbids train station kissing
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 16.2.9
Caption: No Smooching
A RAILWAY station is trying to stop kisses on the curb when people get dropped off.
The train station in northern England has put up a "No Kissing" sign because local businesses said the smooching was slowing up the crowed the drop-off point, news agency AP reports.
Virgin Rail put up the sign when it refurbished the station.
Passengers who want to share a bit of physical affection should park their cars nearby to indulge in goodbye embraces, Virgin Rail says
Headline: Who's Poppa? Pubescents Duke It Out
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 16.2.9
Caption: Cradle Robs Cradle
At least three teens are claiming to be the father of a baby girl born to a 15-year-old, after one of them was reported to be the youngest father in Britain.
Alfie Patten, 13, was first reported to be the father of Chantelle Steadman's week-old daughter Maisie, and didn't doubt he was until now, the U.K.'s Telegraph newspaper reported.
"Now that is in his mind and I'm not happy," his mother Nicola Patten, 43, told the newspaper. "I don't know where they get this from. I mean, that's my son, that's his baby."
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.
