Internet baby sale mother jailed


A woman who tried to sell her unborn baby over the internet to two childless couples has been jailed for two years.

Moira Greenslade, 33, of Keighley, West Yorkshire, made £2,500 after offering to give her child to two couples she contacted through a surrogacy website.

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Middle school principal on leave after arrest on pot, alcohol charge


Kathy White, the highly-regarded principal of Eliot Middle School, faces charges of drunken driving and possession of marijuana after a concerned motorist tracked her meandering passage from Interstate 95 through Clinton.

Police said a glass half full of wine was found in the cup holder in her car, and a bag containing marijuana and half-smoked marijuana cigarettes was in plain view on the front seat when she was stopped Sunday night.

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Man Files Police Complaint Against Elephant


The father of a 10-year-old boy filed a police complaint after a circus elephant trampled his child's bicycle, a police spokesman said.

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Police Officer with Handbag Fetish Convicted


A German court convicted a police sergeant with a fetish for women's handbags on 15 counts of theft and sentenced him to two and a half years in jail, a court in the eastern town of Gera said Wednesday.

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Wegen "sexueller Störung" - Polizist wird zum Handtaschenräuber


Ein 49-jähriger Polizist aus Thüringen wurde heute zu 2 1/2 Jahren Haft verurteilt. Ihm wurden 15 Handtaschendiebstähle vorgeworfen.

Er fühle sich wegen einer 'abnormen sexuellen Neigung' zu Handtaschen hingezogen, sagte der inzwischen suspendierte Polizist vor der Verkündung des Urteils. Seine Verantwortlichkeit für 1.000 weitere Handtaschendiebstähle wird noch geprüft.

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'Creed' Guitars Worth $150,000 Stolen


Four guitars worth more than $150,000 were stolen from the Miami Beach home of one of the members of the rock band Creed, police say.

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Man arrested after hotel room is coated in Vaseline


Talk about a slippery suspect. A man is accused of applying Vaseline petroleum jelly to every surface in his room at a Motel Six near Binghamton, New York.

After Roger Chamberlain checked out last week, the cleaning crew discovered mattresses and bedding were slathered with the slippery stuff. Vaseline covered the TV set, furniture, carpeting and towels – and everything else in the room.

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German police raid five homes in Sasser case


German police have widened the hunt for the vandals responsible for the distribution of the infamous Sasser and NetSky worms by raiding the homes of five new suspects. All are close to the home of Sven Jaschan, the prime suspect.

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Teens Arrange Street Fight On Internet


In a computer-age version of "West Side Story," rival gang members battled it out in the street in a rumble organized over the Internet.

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Verhaftete Werbefiguren und sündigende Nonnen


In Wiri, Neuseeland, schreckt die Polizei nicht davor zurück, die Werbefigur Ronald McDonald zu verhaften. Es wird ihr vorgeworfen, vor Hamburger-Filialen Greenpeace-Werbematerial verteilt zu haben.

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Hard-up German police buy petrol in Poland


Hard-up police in Eastern Germany are dodging taxes by buying their petrol in Poland.

Police spokesman Detlef Lueben said officers in the Oder district of Frankfurt took the step because of rising petrol prices.

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X-ray proved robber's guilt


A man has been arrested in Brazil after an x-ray proved he stole a woman's necklace.

The man snatched the necklace from the neck of a woman in the city of Belo Horizonte and ran off.

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