Posted October 4, 2007 
Comments(0) A thief has stolen a life-size cardboard cut-out of a policeman that was intended to deter shoplifters at a supermarket.
Police say the cardboard cut-out replica of PC Bob Molloy had been doing a great job of deterring shoplifters in Long Eaton, Derbyshire.
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Posted July 25, 2007 Comments(0) GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- A young Florida girl who thought she was calling a sexual assault helpline got the complete opposite on the other end of the phone.
The 8-year-old girl was upset about the inappropriate behavior of another child. So, her mother told her to call the number for the North Central Florida Assault Center listed in the phone book and on the Attorney’s General’s office website.
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Posted July 19, 2007 Comments(0) CINCINNATI — A man with a needle sticking out of his arm crashed Wednesday afternoon into a Clifton Heights drug treatment center, witnesses said.
The driver, whose name has not been released, was arrested and taken to a hospital for treatment of unspecified injuries.
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Posted June 4, 2007 Comments(0) FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) - A 22-year-old Fond du Lac woman is arrested for drunken driving after her car hit the back of a beer truck.
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Posted March 1, 2007 Comments(0) A man charged with robbing a bank, for the second time since 2005, tried to show police the loot, but discovered he had been robbed, Fayetteville police said.
Joseph Thomas Mulkerin, 46, was arrested at a Bragg Boulevard motel Tuesday and charged with common law robbery of $2,179 from the Wachovia branch on Green Street, said police spokeswoman Jamie Smith.
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Posted February 27, 2007 Comments(0) At least 11 people died and more than 100 people were injured at an annual spring festival in eastern Pakistan celebrated with the flying of thousands of colourful kites, officials said today.
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Posted February 14, 2007 Comments(0) WASHINGTON - Medical researchers need more marijuana sources because government supplies aren’t meeting scientific demand, a federal judge has ruled.
In an emphatic but nonbinding opinion, the Drug Enforcement Administration’s own judge is recommending that a University of Massachusetts professor be allowed to grow a legal pot crop. The real winners could be those suffering from painful and wasting diseases, proponents believe.
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