Drug-sniffing dog ignores bribe
A driver stopped for speeding tried to distract a drug sniffing dog by throwing dog biscuits from his car, state police said. »
Saturday, Sep. 17, 2005
Tuesday, Sep. 13, 2005
Charity may be winner in Oracle lawsuit
Lawrence Ellison, the chief executive of Oracle, has reached a tentative agreement under which he would pay $100 million to charity to resolve a lawsuit charging that he engaged in insider trading in 2001, a lawyer involved in the case said. »
Tuesday, Sep. 6, 2005
Come home, my hero – mum
AUSTRALIAN hurricane hero Bud Hopes has been given an order by his mother – come home. »
Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005
2 cops prove there are still heroes
DEFENSE Secretary Avelino Cruz Jr. may have had Police Officer 2 Guinan Ibrahim and PO1 Jose Calibuso in mind when he said the other day that heroes were not necessarily to be found in the trenches. »
Woman’s Dog Attacked Two Attempted Robbers
Sarasota County Sheriff’s officials say a woman’s dog helped them stop two suspects in an attempted robbery. »
Friday, Aug. 26, 2005
Armed police rescue boy kidnapped in London
Armed police freed a 15-year boy kidnapped on a north London street and held hostage, Scotland Yard said on Friday. »
Taichung police rescue 10 yo kidnap victim
A 10-year-old kidnap victim was rescued by Taichung police yesterday after an eight-day ordeal, a Chinese-language newspaper reported yesterday. »
Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2005
Police honor citizen hero, 14 others
Perhaps rage fueled Noel Hickey. »
Deputies rescue kidnapped woman
Sheriff’s deputies rescued a kidnapping victim yesterday, minutes after she had been forced into a car at gunpoint by her ex-boyfriend, authorities said. »
Stolen Adult Trikes Returned, new donated
A group of teenagers is in trouble in the Town of Menasha. Police say they are the ones responsible for stealing two adult tricycles made for people with special needs. »
Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2005
Burglar Caught After Calling Mom
A home invasion was solved by a phone’s redial button when an accused burglar in this west Georgia town allegedly used the phone to call his mother for a ride after breaking in. »
Monday, Aug. 15, 2005
Violinist reunited with stolen violin
A violin built in the mid 18th century has been reunited with its owner after being offered to a London auction house. The instrument built in 1760 by Edward Lewis was stolen from the car of violinist Alan Brind in June 2004. »
Ring stolen 1 generation ago returned to sports legend
CARLISLE-born soccer legend Kevin Beattie has been reunited with a ring stolen from him at the height of his career a generation ago. »
Sunday, Aug. 14, 2005
CCTV video mixes maps and images
Smart software is taking CCTV into the domain of 3D gaming by combining graphics, map data, and different camera views in one composite image. »
Saturday, Aug. 13, 2005
Bank Robber Leaves His Wallet At The Scene Of The Crime
Police didn’t have a hard time tracking down the man they say robbed a Trustmark Bank this week because the suspect apparently left his wallet and identification at the scene of the crime. »
Missing toddler reunited with mother
A fifteen-month-old boy has been reunited with his mother after he was allegedly snatched from his parents in Sydney this morning. »
Friday, Aug. 12, 2005
Dog Specially Trained to Sniff-Out Rapists
Detectives in Sweden develop a new investigative tool for rape cases - a sperm-sniffing police dog. »
Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2005
Bank Teller Tackles Would-Be Robber
After an attempted holdup at a bank Monday, police said a bank teller followed the would-be crook outside and tackled him. »
Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2005
Girl, 4, reunited with mom; father lured back to U.S.
A 4-year-old girl illegally taken to Egypt during a custody dispute is back with her Jersey City mother after investigators lured the toddler’s father back to the United States, officials say. »
Sunday, Jul. 31, 2005
Man nails internet lottery conman
Another internet lottery fraud? What’s new? But here, a Gulbarga man made a Nigerian fraudster emerge out of the cyberscreen and put him in the police net in Gulbarga on Saturday. Arunachal Bhat, a resident of Vidyanagar in Gulbarga and a hotel owner, came across the “UK National Lottery” while surfing the internet a f e w m o n t h s ago and played it. He received an email by a Charles, who claimed himself as an agent of the Lottery residing in New Delhi saying he has won the Rs 36-crore lottery. »
Wednesday, Jul. 27, 2005
Farmer escapes from killers
A farm worker and his accomplices were arrested after they tried to kill the man’s former employer, police said on Tuesday. »
Monday, Jul. 25, 2005
Burglary suspect returned stolen merchandise
Through the years, Anderson County Sheriff Greg Taylor and sheriff’s investigator Jay Russell thought they had seen it all. »
Friday, Jul. 22, 2005
FBI seize 310 lottery scam emailers
In a joint initiative by Spanish authorities and the FBI, some 310 people have been arrested in connection with a vast ‘Nigerian email’ lottery scam which netted some £207m in ill-gotten gains, according to reports. »
Tuesday, Jul. 12, 2005
Shreveport Parents Reunited With Their Daughter
A happy ending Monday afternoon for a Shreveport family after their daughter was kidnapped over the weekend. »
Tuesday, Jun. 28, 2005
Cashier Thwarts Robbery By Trapping Man’s Thumb In Cash Drawer
A quick-thinking Denny’s cashier thwarted a robbery by slamming the man’s thumb in the cash drawer, trapping him while she yelled for help, police said. »
Saturday, Jun. 25, 2005
Teacher helps officer subdue suspect
When he returns to Hayward Elementary School this fall, art teacher Paul Rajski will have a good “what-I-did-on-my-summer” story to tell. »
Thursday, Jun. 23, 2005
Judge calls for return of cat-o-nine, sentences rapist to 40 yrs. hard labour
A Trinidad High Court judge has called for the return of the cat-o-nine tails to punish rapists, saying that the use of the birch has done little to stem the tide of cases involving sexual offences that are flooding the courts. »
Saturday, Jun. 18, 2005
New York wants license plates to identify drunken drivers
Convicted drunken drivers may soon be required to display special license plates that would identify them to police. »
Did you hear? Lottery pays debts first
A man won over $50,000 in the South Carolina Education Lottery recently but never got a penny of the prize. »
Sunday, Jun. 12, 2005
Child Protective Services remove child denied cancer treatment
Medical tests on Friday showed that cancer had returned to a 12-year-old girl whose parents were in court to fight radiation treatment because they believed her illness was in remission. »