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A woman mistakenly drove up the pedestrian path on the Maroochy Bridge. Photo: Contributed

Have you heard the one about the female American patrol officer who drove her police vehicle through wet concrete.

And then there is the one about the woman who mistook a street-level French subway entrance as a parking spot.

Now the Sunshine Coast has its own crazy driver story – complete with photographic evidence.
Photo Gallery: Caught in the wrong lane

Caught in the wrong lane


It seems that a 28-year-old Kallangur woman became confused while attempting to drive onto the Maroochy River Bridge on April 9.

Main Roads contractors couldn’t believe their eyes when they saw the woman drive onto the Godfreys Road bicycle ramp.

The woman continued to drive across the raised pedestrian footpath, which is separated from the actual traffic lanes by a guard rail to the other side of the bridge.

The workmen were able to take photos of the act through the passenger side window of their car as they followed the woman’s journey from the actual traffic lane across the bridge.

The woman, who works as a delivery driver for a pet transport service, pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention on Tuesday and was fined $350 and a conviction was recorded.

Dad of Adelaide neglect case kids wants custody

THE former partner of an Adelaide mother of 12 charged with child negelect says he wants to take custody of their 10 children.

He told The Advertiser yesterday that he did not realise the conditions they were living in and only learned anything of their situation when his former partner pleaded with him to drive from interstate to Adelaide and collect the children on Monday as police closed in.

But he said when he arrived in Adelaide to take them back home, the mother relented.

"She begged me to go there," he said.

"I arrived in Adelaide and saw my kids in the front yard and was told I had to leave. I drove back with nothing."

He said the conditions in which they lived were unacceptable.

"I think it's wrong," he said. "I am angry about it.

"It is not anywhere children should be."

The father said all he wanted was for his children to be happy and healthy.

He said his relationship with the woman ended in October 2005 after she left for Adelaide with a former friend.

Although the pair had lived apart for much of their 13-year relationship, they did not battle for custody through the courts.

Woman stabs her dog 6 times

Australia.
The RSPCA says it expects to lay charges against a 21-year-old woman whose dog was found stabbed to death.

Police and the RSCPA attended a Gosnells property yesterday where they found a dead German Shepherd dog with six stab wounds to its abdomen.

Richard Barry from the RSPCA says three other animals were taken from the house.

"The RSPCA seized two cats and another German Shepherd that belong to the women and they are now residents at the Malaga Shelter where they will remain until we have finished our investigation," he said.

Serial fraudster and thief

USA, SOUTHINGTON — - A woman already facing charges involving theft from her former employer, her mother and the town is now accused of fraudulently obtaining a $125,000 bank loan.

Lori Wadman, 43, is charged with first-degree larceny and second-degree forgery. Police say she forged her husband's signature to obtain the loan. Sgt. Lowell DePalma said she did this in February 2004, but it was not reported to police until May.

Wadman, of 1048 Marion Ave., was arrested June 18 and is scheduled to be arraigned on the new charges July 7 in Superior Court in Bristol

This new case comes on top of many other larceny, forgery and identity theft charges against Wadman.

In the earlier cases, Wadman was accused of stealing an estimated $197,000 from Connecticut Cap and Seal when she was employed as its secretary from 2002 to 2006. She is also accused of getting a credit card in her mother's name and charging about $20,000 on it, including a $5,950 payment to a bail bondsman. Police say Wadman also stole $835 from the town's community services department.

Woman throws hot cooking oil on husband

Baltimore, USA

A Carroll County woman accused of throwing hot cooking oil on her husband before fleeing the state was being held yesterday at the Carroll County Detention Center, according to police.

Mary J. Phillips, 43, of Westminster has been charged with two counts each of first-degree assault, second-degree assault and reckless endangerment in two separate incidents, according to Westminster police.

Phillips is accused of throwing hot oil on her husband, Daniel Patrick Phillips, 45, this month. She fled and was later found by Pennsylvania State Police.

Phillips was held in York County before being returned to Maryland, police said.

Detectives determined that a May 28 incident at the Phillips home, during which Daniel Phillips was burned with hot water, was not an accident as initially reported, police said, leading to additional charges against his wife.

Daniel Phillips was reported in stable condition yesterday at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, where he was taken for treatment of burns to his face and torso.

Texas woman attacks horse

An Austin Police Department horse used in the line of duty is recovering after police tell us a woman partying on 6th Street over the weekend attacked him.

Corsha Beasley, 21, hit Dusty the horse in left eye with her high-heeled shoe then she hit the officer riding him, according to a court document.

"While the officer had bent down to detain the person, she struck the officer in the face on the left side of the mouth which caused him pain and left a welt on his face," Det. James Messing said.

Getting away with murder

A woman who prosecutors said was an accessory to a killing was acquitted yesterday of murder charges, though she was convicted of a misdemeanor in the case.

Charlene Blackman, 42, of West Babylon, has been at the center of a controversy ever since the Nassau district attorney's office decided to charge her with second-degree murder in the death of Peter Jones, even though police were treating her as a witness.

Soon after Ricardo Marsden, 19, of Hempstead, was charged with killing Jones in a botched robbery attempt, Blackman told police that she had visited Jones just before his death Sept. 3, 2006.

Blackman told police that Marsden had threatened her with a gun, forcing her to visit Jones in the middle of the night, then leave the door open when she left his Freeport apartment so that Marsden could go in and rob him.

But prosecutors said certain elements of Blackman's story didn't add up, and they suspected that she had conspired with Marsden in the robbery. Marsden has since been convicted of murder in the case and is awaiting sentence.

Blackman's attorney, Joseph LoPiccolo of Garden City, said he was thrilled that she can go home. "A woman who was facing life in jail ... walked away from a horrific incident in her life," he said.

Although Blackman was convicted of fourth-degree criminal facilitation, a misdemeanor, prosecutors also declared victory. They said they pursued the case despite difficult circumstances, and were vindicated because Blackman has been convicted of a crime.

Early in the case, Blackman's indictment was thrown out because Judge Meryl Berkowitz ruled that prosecutors should not have shown the grand jury a videotape of a prosecutor interviewing her.

Berkowitz is scheduled to sentence Blackman, who faces up to a year in jail, on Aug. 15 at Nassau County Court in Mineola.

Oklahoma Woman lies about home invasion

HENRYETTA — A woman who reported a home burglary, leading to a major manhunt today, admitted falsifying the story, authorities said.

The 18-year-old woman admitted that the story was false to troopers and police while a polygraph was being given in Okemah about 5:30 p.m., Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. George Brown said.

The woman had reported that a man had broken into her home near Henryetta, jumped from a second-floor window and left southbound from her house about 1:30 p.m. She also gave authorities a description of the supposed intruder, Brown said.

More than 50 law enforcement officers from seven agencies assisted in the manhunt that lasted more than three hours, Brown said. Besides officers on the ground, at least three aircraft and several search dogs could find no evidence of an intruder’s flight.

After the woman admitted to falsifying the story, the patrol left the woman in the custody of local law enforcement, Brown said.

Brown could not say if the woman had been arrested or if she was still in custody.

Woman gets $165,000 for tripping over.

A WOMAN who needed a plate and screws implanted in her broken arm after tripping on uneven pavement has won $165,000 from a western Sydney council.

Joan Ann Angel, 67, fractured her left arm and injured her hip when she tripped on the footpath on George Street, South Windsor, in July 2004.

Ms Angel fell with such force her head bounced on the concrete.

She sued Hawkesbury City Council in the New South Wales District Court but lost after the judge ruled the raised slab had posed an "obvious risk''.

The NSW Court of Appeal today overturned the decision and found the council liable for Ms Angel's injury.

Chief Justice Jim Spigelman and four other appeal judges awarded her $165,178.20 in damages.
The court found shadows cast by nearby trees had obscured Ms Angel's view of the uneven slab, which was 5cm high where she tripped.

An admission by a council officer the day after the accident that the area was "earmarked for repairs'' and that Ms Angel "got there before we did'' was particularly relevant to liability, the court ruled.

USA: Serial Killer - 5 dead husbands

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A sheriff's investigator in Florida says police are re-examining the death of a man who is among a North Carolina woman's five dead spouses.

Lt. Nancy Alvarez of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday her investigators are trying to find medical examiner's records for Richard Sills. Sills was shot to death in the home he shared with his wife, Betty, in Big Coppitt, Fla. in 1965.

At the time, police said he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police said his wife was the only other person in the room.

His wife hasn't been charged with any crime in his death. But 76-year-old Betty Neumar was recently charged in North Carolina with trying to hire a hit man to kill another husband.

A telephone message left for Neumar's attorney was not returned.

Los Angles Threats to kill hostage

Grover Beach police officers were called to the 300 block of Highway 1 at the Le Sage Riviera RV Park. The roommate of a woman living at the park told officers the woman threatened to kill her and then kill herself.

A SWAT team was dispatched, and negotiators made contact with 62-year-old Susan Huston, who eventually surrendered.

Huston was treated at a nearby hospital before being booked on charges of making criminal threats.

USA: completely unprovoked

About 8:50 a.m. Monday, Lehi police Capt. Harold Terry stopped Kelly Wark's car near 1000 E. Main St. Store clerks had reported to police she might be driving under the influence.
Police say Wark spoke briefly with Terry from behind the wheel, then drew a .38-caliber pistol and shot him twice on the left side of his head. Two other Lehi officers then shot and killed Wark outside her car.
An investigation into the shootings is ongoing.

Child Neglect

Another case of alleged child neglect emerged on Wednesday as state governments defended their handling of a woman charged with leaving five children in squalor in Adelaide.

Both the South Australian and Victorian governments are under scrutiny over their handling of the case of a 28-year-old mother of seven charged with criminal neglect in Adelaide.

The fact that South Australian authorities were not warned she had earlier lived in similar squalid conditions in Geelong has raised questions about loopholes in child protection laws.

Meanwhile, another case of alleged neglect has come to light, with a 35-year-old woman charged after police discovered four children, the youngest aged five, alone in a Canberra house.

ACT police arrested the woman after an allegation she had breached a protection order.

As well as four counts of neglecting a child, she was also charged with threatening to kill a person.

"At the residence police will allege they found four children aged five, seven, 10 and 13, at home alone and living in unhygienic conditions," ACT police said in a statement.

The three boys and one girl were taken into the custody of ACT Care and Protection.

The new cases follow that of a Brisbane mother and father charged last week with murder, torture and failing to provide the necessities of life, after their twin toddlers were found dead in their home.

In Adelaide, the pregnant mother-of-seven appeared in court on Tuesday on five counts of criminal neglect, two counts of acts to endanger life and three counts of acts likely to cause harm.

The charges relate to five of her children - a boy aged four, two boys aged five, a six-year-old boy and a seven-year-old girl - who were among 21 children found living in squalid conditions in two houses in Adelaide's north on Sunday night.

Authorities returned to one of the houses on Wednesday to remove a number of animals, including a piglet.

The woman and her children moved to Adelaide from Victoria only three months ago, raising questions as to why SA authorities weren't notified of the history of her case.

She came to the attention of authorities only after she called an ambulance for one of her sons on Sunday.

Six of her children were subsequently admitted to hospital, with four reported to be up and about on Wednesday and the other two responding to treatment.

Victorian Premier John Brumby said his government had dealt properly with the woman's case.

He said the family's file from the time they lived in Geelong was not passed on to SA authorities because their case had been closed a year ago.

"The reason the file would be closed is because in the Department of Human Services' views, those issues, the child protection issues, have been addressed and therefore the file was closed," he said.

"Since the file was closed when the family moved to South Australia it would be quite inappropriate for the Victorian government to transfer a closed file to another government.

"That family is entitled to some presumptions about how they live in South Australia."

Premier Mike Rann told the South Australian parliament that his government would remove children from their parents if it was in the best interests of the children.

"What has happened is a disgrace, a dysfunctional family, the children must be put first," he said.

"If I am advised that it is in the interests of those children to be taken away from a mother who does not know how to be a mother, then so be it - there will absolutely be no hesitation on this government's part to take away the children of someone who is unfit to be a parent.

"If that offends people, that is tough luck."

What women want

THREE out of four young women think about shopping nearly as often as men think about sex, a British survey has found.

They think about buying new clothes or shoes every 60 seconds, according to a survey by cosmopolitan.co.uk.

Other studies have claimed that men think about sex every 52 seconds.

Two out of five respondents to the shopping survey described themselves as shoe and bag 'addicts', while more than one in ten focussed their thoughts on accessories or make-up, Britain’s Daily Mail reports

Just over 60 per cent said they would put their purchases on their credit card, while 8 per cent were prepared to use money that had been put aside for rent or the mortgage.

On average, those surveyed said they spent at least 30 per cent of their annual income on clothes.

The shopping survey interviewed 778 women aged 19 to 45. Almost half of the women surveyed said they kept their partners in the dark about the level of their spending.

Kate Creasy, editor of cosmopolitan.co.uk, told the Daily Mail it seemed the thrill was in the chase for many women. Nearly half of them said they don't wear everything in their wardrobe, while 10 per cent became bored with new clothes within a fortnight.

“No sooner have they bagged the "it item" of the season than they're chasing the next shopping rush,” Ms Creasy said.

Brooke Hogan 'Freaked Out' By Mom's Younger Lover

Hulk Hogan's daughter Brooke has spoken out about her distaste for her mother Linda Bollea's new relationship with a lover 29 years her junior.

Brooke is shocked by her mom's choice of suitor, insisting she doesn't agree with Bollea moving on to a younger lover so soon after the breakdown of her marriage with wrestling legend Hulk Hogan.

Linda Bollea filed for divorce from her wrestling star husband -- real name Terry Bollea -- in November last year after 23 years of marriage.

Brooke tells E! Online, "I'm totally freaked out. I personally don't like it at all or condone it, but she's my mom, so I have to show her support."

And Brooke was further shocked to discover her mum's young boyfriend was a fellow schoolmate who was in the year below her at school.

She explains, "I went to school with him. He was a grade under me. ... Me and Nick know him well. Me and Nick are two years apart, and he was right between us (in school)."

Perth mother murders her 4 week old son

The Perth Magistrates Court has been told charges against a 39 year old woman over the death of her baby, may be upgraded to murder.

Rebecca Doreen Morley is currently charged with causing grievous bodily harm to her four week old son.

An ambulance was called to the family's Leederville home in the early morning.

The baby was taken to Royal Perth Hospital but later died.

Ms Morley has made a brief appearance in court.

The police prosecutor said the charge may be upgraded once the results of a post mortem examination were known.

Ms Morley was remanded into the care of a police officer who took her to Graylands hospital.

She is due back in court next week.

MP repeatedly kicked her rival

LABOR MP Belinda Neal was sent off the soccer pitch and suspended for two matches for repeatedly kicking a rival player just two weeks before she allegedly abused staff at a nightclub.

Striker Amy Parslow yesterday said she feared permanent damage to her right ankle and leg after being seriously injured by Ms Neal during a match at Umina Oval on May 25.

The Entrance/Bateau Bay United Soccer Club's first grade player said she further feared Ms Neal, who was playing for the Umina United women's side, would be "waiting for me in the car park" after she was sent from the field by the referee.

The incident was referred to the Central Coast Football Judiciary and Ms Neal was handed a two-match suspension.

It is understood Ms Neal still has one match to sit out, because of rain that washed out many of last weekend's games.

The violent on-field action has shocked not only The Entrance/Bateau Bay United Soccer Club, but also many who play alongside Ms Neal in her own beloved Umina United Club.

President of The Entrance/Bateau Bay United Soccer Club, Peter Tierney,said he was "standing right in front of it" when the incident occurred.

The Umina club ended up beating The Entrance/Bateau Bay with a score of 2-0.

Still nursing her bruises from the unprovoked attack, Ms Parslow, 20, said she could not recall how many times Ms Neal had kicked her, but believed it was more than once.

"She had the ball and I came in for a slide tackle. We've then collided and I've fallen on the ground and she's turned around and started kicking into me while I was on the ground," Ms Parslow said.

"I was on the floor and I just curled up because she started kicking into me.

"I still have bruising on my right leg. I couldn't walk on my right ankle for a couple of days."

Ms Parslow said prior to the attack Ms Neal had been "very pushy" during the game.

"I don't mind being pushed, but she got over the top with it all and started swearing at me on the sly," she said.

While Ms Parslow said her injuries would heal, it was the children who were watching the match on the sidelines that she was concerned for.

"There were kids watching this game from the sideline. That's not the sort of behaviour you want to be encouraging," Ms Parslow said.

"There are juniors in my club. Whatever they see us doing they're going to think it's OK, and they're going to get in trouble for it.

"She (Ms Neal) is old enough to be my mother.

"It's like kicking your daughter. I just can't believe somebody her age would start kicking into me.

"It's not something you would expect from somebody in a first grade team.

"I was half expecting her to be waiting for me out in the car park.

"Whether it had have been Belinda or somebody else it doesn't matter. But I've let the tribunal deal with it now, so it's over."

Ms Parslow said she regarded herself as a good sport, particularly after winning the Central Coast Soccer Association Sportsperson of the Year award in 2006 and being nominated for the very same award in 2005.

Ms Neal was contacted for comment yesterday but declined to respond.

Representatives for the Umina United Soccer Club and Central Coast Football would not comment on the matter yesterday.

Drunk baby born 15 times over limit

A POLISH mother who was intoxicated during labour has given birth to a baby girl who was almost 15 times over the adult drink-driving limit.
Doctors at a hospital in Otwock, on the outskirts of Warsaw, called in the police after the clearly drunk expectant mother checked in to give birth yesterday.

"A blood test showed that the 38-year-old woman had a level of 1.2 grams of alcohol at the time of birth," said police spokeswoman Dorota Tietz.

A level of 1.2 grams of alcohol per 1000 grams of blood is the equivalent of a bottle of wine or two litres of beer for an adult drinker, but its impact is compounded in a newborn's tiny body.

As a result, the infant was found to have a level of 2.9 grams, police said.

In comparison, blood-alcohol limit for drivers in Poland is 0.2 grams.

The mother could face up to five years in prison on charges of having endangered the life and health of her child, Ms Tietz said.

"The baby's life is not in immediate danger, but doctors fear the impact on her development," she said.

Lengthy trial folds as forewoman plays Sudoku

These accused were/are facing life behind bars. The forewoman is quite frank since she correctly determined there would be no consequences for her or her friends on the jury.

A THREE-month drugs trial has been aborted at a cost of "millions" after the jury's forewoman admitted playing the number game Sudoku for at least half of the trial.

The District Court trial in Sydney, which cannot be identified for legal reasons, was aborted late yesterday, on the 66th day of evidence, after Judge Peter Zahra was told one of the accused men had noticed the jury playing the game.

The forewoman was brought into the court and asked by Judge Zahra to estimate for how much of the trial she had been playing the game.

"I don't know, at least half of it I'd say, I usually have it at hand," she said, explaining that "maybe four or five" others on the jury played Sudoku or other games.

She added: "Yes, and we discuss it sometimes, or the word games out of the newspaper sometimes are written down as well."

The judge asked: "Do jurors bring those games into court. And they're playing those games during the course of the evidence?"

"Yes," the forewoman replied.

The woman said she had begun playing Sudoku "quite early on" in the trial, "probably when the surveillance evidence was on" which was estimated to be a couple of weeks after the trial began.

More than 100 witnesses had been called so far.

The forewoman went on to say that the puzzles would be copied into their notebooks and other jurors would "read it over (their) shoulder or look next to them".

The judge said the activities of the jury were "breathtaking", especially given regular directions that the jury ensure the "integrity of the trial".

Legal sources estimated the cost to the taxpayer would run into "millions".

One said it was generally estimated that the cost of a District Court trial per day was well in excess of $20,000.

On that figure, this trial would have cost close to $2 million.

In making his decision to discharge the jury, Judge Zahra said it was clear both the Crown and defence cases had been affected.

"(The juror) appears obviously quite frank and it is not only obviously the Sudoku puzzle, but it appears a number of them come armed with the view to completing a word puzzle during the course of the day and then, during the breaks, discuss what their conclusions are or what they have concluded from the puzzle itself," he said.

"It appears that this has occurred very much for a significant period of the trial. The only word I can use is breathtaking - despite my repeated directions to them that they are judges and that they must also have an obligation to preserve the integrity of the trial process, to quite openly defy that."

Extraordinarily, the case had almost collapsed once before after a sheriff's officer was accused of making comments within earshot of the jury as one of the men standing trial was giving evidence -- but Judge Zahra rejected an application to discharge the jury as it could not be proven anything was said or overheard. The case returns to court in two weeks.

If this biy had been in his bilogical father's cusotdy he would still be alive.

Two people in the US have been charged with beating a three-year-old boy who died in their care, despite repeated visits from city officials and concerns by neighbours that the child was being abused.

Kyle Smith was sodomised, beaten, doused with cold water and forced to do push-ups and march in place as punishment, according to court papers. His numerous injuries included a torn tongue, bruises to his back, buttocks, legs and scrotum, and lacerations inside his anus.

The boy was pronounced dead at a hospital Friday after police were called to the Brooklyn apartment where he lived with Nymeen Cheatham, 30, and her companion Lemar Martin, 25, who were not the boy's parents.

The death has been ruled a homicide. Cheatham and Martin were arrested Saturday and arraigned on Sunday on charges including assault and endangering the welfare of a child.

Jonah Bruno, a spokesman for Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes, said charges against Cheatham and Martin could be upgraded following an investigation.

A judge ordered that they be held without bail.

Neighbours told the Daily News that they saw the boy being abused and now regret failing to report it to authorities.

"Everyone could have said something but nobody did," Hason Parker told the paper. "Now this little boy is dead."

Parker said he once saw Cheatham screaming at Kyle outside in the cold.

"It was 15 degrees (-10 Celsius) and she had this heavy jacket on and he was in pyjama shorts and a tank," Parker said.

"The little boy was shivering and crying."

Police and social workers from the city's Administration for Children's Services had visited the home and reported no signs of abuse.

Cheatham and Martin did not have legal custody of Kyle, but he was living with them after his drug-addicted mother gave him up last year.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said officers were called to the home four times since late 2007, all for issues related to visitation with Kyle's biological father, Darien Smith.

Sheila Stainback, a spokeswoman for ACS, said the agency conducted a court-ordered investigation of the home last October after Cheatham filed for legal custody of Kyle.

"We found the house in order and the child happy and healthy at that time," she said.

Cheatham did not pursue legal custody, and ACS had no further official role in the matter.

Cheatham's and Martin's apartment is in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant section, the same neighbourhood where seven-year-old Nixzmary Brown was killed in January 2006. The scrawny and battered girl was bound to a chair, starved and forced to urinate in a litter box before she was killed with a fatal blow to the head.

That case shocked the city and created pressure for reforms at ACS. The agency hired 20 "protective agents" with previous law enforcement experience to serve as consultants and help caseworkers improve their investigative skills.

The city also started a campaign to try to get New Yorkers to report suspected abuse.

Stainback said no one reported Cheatham or Martin for abuse.

Female fallout ends in stabbing

June 10, 2008 - 10:00AM

A woman was stabbed in the head and another is missing, possibly hurt, after an argument between three women in Sydney's west turned nasty last night, police say.

A police spokeswoman said the three women were at a unit in Gibbons Street in Auburn about 11pm when an argument broke out and a 21-year-old woman was stabbed.

"Police are concerned for the welfare of a 22-year-old woman who might be injured and may require medical assistance."

The spokeswoman said the 22-year-old was believed to have been involved in the physical argument but was gone by the time police arrived.

She is believed to be injured, but not seriously.

A NSW Ambulance spokesman said the woman stabbed in the head was taken to Westmead Hospital for treatment.

Her injuries were not believed to be life threatening.

Police said they would speak to the third woman in the flat at the time of the argument today.

Flemington police duty officer David Minarik said a "normal, household kitchen knife" had been found at the flat.

Chief Inspector Minarik said at 10am that police had still not spoken to the 22-year-old woman.

Woman living in man's closet as a parasite

In the town of Kasuya, Fukuoka, Japan, a 58-year-old woman was arrested after surveillance tape from inside an unnamed man’s home showed her living in his closet.

According to police, Tatsuko Horikawa had been living in his closet for over one year. One day when the man left, she walked through his front door which had been left unlocked. From then on, she would take small amounts of food from the kitchen and even take showers. When the man noticed food missing, he set up cameras to catch what he thought was someone robbing him.

The woman had placed a small bed mattress into a enclosed shelf area inside the closet to sleep on and when police searched the apartment, they found her curled up in the closet.

“We searched the house … checking everywhere someone could possibly hide. When we slid open the shelf closet, there she was, nervously curled up on her side,” said Hiroki Itakura, a police spokesman.

The woman, who was described by police as “neat and clean”, will be charged with trespassing.

Maybe a few judges are just starting to think women should be responsible for their decisions

A 30-year-old Lake Elsinore barmaid who allegedly caused the death of an off-duty sheriff's deputy riding with her when she crashed her car must stand trial for murder, a judge ruled today.

Jessica Marie Cuevas, of Menifee, is accused of second-degree murder in
the death of Riverside County sheriff's Deputy Clay Peters, 36, of Fallbrook,
on May 5.

Cuevas was originally charged with gross vehicular manslaughter while driving under the influence but Deputy District Attorney John Davis successfully argued before Riverside Superior Court Judge John Monterosso that she should stand trial on the more serious charge of murder because of her occupation.

As part of her job at the Bikini Beach bar in Lake Elsinore, Cuevas had received specialized training in how to spot intoxicated patrons and should have known the dangers of drinking and driving.

Cuevas now faces 15 years to life in prison, instead of the six for the manslaughter charge.

Monterosso raised Cuevas' bail to $1 million from $75,000.

According to testimony today at a preliminary hearing, Cuevas and Peters
had been drinking vodka and cranberry cocktails before getting into her Honda
sedan.

Cuevas lost control of the car while driving at about 60 mph on Lake Street in Lake Elsinore and struck a cement pole, kept going and struck a tree, according to sheriff's traffic Deputy Fred Bommer.

A picture displayed during Bommer's testimony showed Peters pinned inside the car, a tree intruding into the passenger side window.

When the picture came up on a viewing screen, Cuevas put her head down and began to cry.

Bommer testified that Cuevas told her the couple had been socializing at a Lake Elsinore motel and having some drinks before they left to go to her job, where Peters was supposed to talk to her boss at the Bikini Beach Bar.

It was unclear what the talk was to be about, but it was not about a job for Peters, Davis said outside court.

The boss was not there and the couple left without drinking anything, Cuevas told Bommer.

The two then stopped at a friend's house, and had left there and were driving on Lake Street, when the deputy began ``groping'' Cuevas and she lost control of the car.

``Jason was playfully groping her and she tried to slap his hand away,'' Bommer said.

Bommer also testified that investigators searching the motel room Cuevas and Peters had used found a fifth of Vodka ``virtually empty.''

A copy of a receipt produced by the prosecution at today's hearing indicated the bottle had been bought that night at a supermarket.

Bommer said a preliminary investigation showed that no brakes had been applied after the car hit the pole and before it wrapped around a tree.

Cuevas broke her leg in the crash and was still on crutches today.

Blood testing specialist Maureen Black testified that Cuevas had a blood alcohol level of .14 percent when she was tested less than two hours after the crash.

The legal limit is .08, she said.

Black said a person with a blood alcohol level of .14 percent loses judgment behind the wheel of a vehicle.

``Peripheral vision could be lost,'' Black said.

``There would be slower eye movement,'' Black said, adding that color discrimination and driving skills would be severely restricted.

The alcohol level could induce a driver to ``throw caution to the wind,'' Black said.

Fake ID

6/6/08
A Hesperia woman came into the Hesperia sheriff's station to be fingerprinted for a new job and found herself arrested instead.

Damaris Hernandez, 38, came into the Hesperia station of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department on Thursday, June 5. She was there to be fingerprinted for employment purposes, but when she handed her driver's license to the clerk, the clerk believed it to be a forged driver's license.

The clerk turned over the license to Deputy Frank Hardin, who allegedly discovered Hernandez also had a fake Social Security card in her possession.

Hernandez was arrested and booked at Victor Valley Jail on charges of passing a fictitious document and signing a false Social Security card.

Health Care Fraud - over $3.1million

6/6/08 COVINA - FBI and IRS agents arrested a registered nurse Friday on suspicion of running a scam that defrauded Medicare out of about $12million, officials said.

Felcoranenda "Nenda" Estudillo, 50, was arrested at her Covina home, said Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office.

"This is the second-largest home health care fraud case that we've had ever," Mrozek said.

The fraud allegedly was carried out from West Covina-based Wescove Home Health Services, a business that Estudillo owned, Mrozek said.

Wescove Home closed its doors in late 2003 after the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services recommended its provider status be terminated and Medicare suspended payments to the business. Since then, investigators have been building a case against Estudillo.

The indictment against Estudillo lists 36 counts, including health care fraud, conspiracy, money laundering, cash structuring and falsifying records, Mrozek said.

The indictment alleges "Wescove billed Medicare for home health services provided to beneficiaries who were not confined to their homes, did not qualify for or need those types of services, or never received services," Mrozek said.

Estudillo allegedly paid "marketers" kickbacks between $300 and $4,800 to help recruit beneficiaries, depending on how much Wescove could bill Medicare for the services solicited.

At least six such marketers were paid more than $3.1 million in such kickbacks,
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Estudillo is the only person indicted in the alleged scheme, assistant U.S. Attorney Consuelo Woodhead said.

However, several major marketers in the scheme are also being investigated, Woodhead said.

Most of Wescove's employees are believed to have been involved in the scheme, Woodhead said. The alleged fraud accounted for the vast majority of the company's business.

Not counting the patients, dozens of employees and marketers were involved. Hundreds of patients were also involved, she said.

The hundreds of patients "vary in their level of culpability," Woodhead said. Some did not understand what was happening and were taken advantage of, she said, while others appeared savvy and knew exactly what they were doing.

Many patients also received kickbacks from Estudillo for participating in the scam, she said.

Estudillo made an initial appearance in federal court in Los Angeles on Friday, Woodhead said. She is due back in court Wednesday for a bail hearing and June 16 for arraignment.

Asleep at the wheel

A WOMAN whose husband died when she fell asleep at the wheel of their car was told today that a serious charge against her had been dropped.
Henrietta McEwan, 57, was accused of causing death by dangerous driving after the head-on smash at Pathhead, Midlothian, in 2006 which claimed two lives and injured five others, including Mrs McEwan.

A trial had been fixed for the High Court in Edinburgh at the end of July.

Woman drives into police officer

Norwich - Police arrested a woman Friday after she struck a police officer with her car. Norwich police said police were investigating a disturbance in the area of Pearl Street. When they attempted to communicate with Assimina Armenakes, who was in her car, she refused to stop. When she tried to drive away she drove into officer Andre Rosedale's knee.

Rosedale did not require medical attention. State police assisted the Norwich police in apprehending Armenakes, 57, of 63 Westwood Park. She was charged with assault on a police officer.

Gridlock foils woman's escape

MANATEE --
A Tampa woman speeding from officers in Hillsborough County had to give up her getaway when she drove into the closed portion of Interstate 75 in Manatee.

Florida Department of Transportation officers said about 1:40 p.m. Thursday, Martina Hood, 31, reached speeds of more than 140 mph on I-75 speeding from them after they tried to pull her over in Hillsborough County.

The officers chased Hood south into Manatee where she pulled away from officers already driving 147 mph, according to a reports.

Florida Highway Patrol troopers eventually tracked Hood down after she had to stop in gridlocked traffic at I-75 and U.S. 301, reports said.

The I-75 bridge over U.S. 301 has been closed since a tanker careened from the highway down onto U.S. 301 Wednesday.

Hood was arrested on a charge of reckless driving and taken to the Manatee County jail.

Woman made son 11 hold hands in boiling water

The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 06/07/2008 08:46:21 AM EDT

EASTON, Pa.—Police say an Easton woman made her 11-year-old son hold his hands in a pot of boiling water while she questioned him about what he told a social worker.

Investigators say 30-year-old Yanira Arias-Ortiz wanted to know whether the boy told a caseworker that his father lived with them.

Arias-Ortiz filled a metal pot with water and placed it on the stove. She allegedly ordered the boy to put his hands in while it boiled, and then began questioning him.

She was sent to Northampton County Prison on $25,000 bail.

He did not show enough affection so her set out to comepletely destroy him with false rape charges.

A woman admitted on tape she had consensual sex with a doctor but later accused him of raping her, a court has heard.

The tape was admitted as evidence earlier in the Zwelitsha trial of prominent King William's Town doctor Sizwe Mxenge, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of rape, but has only now been released.

It was a recording of a telephone conversation between Mxenge and his accuser, who may not be named, on November 1, 2006 - two days after the alleged rape took place.

This was also the day the alleged rape was reported to the King William's Town police.

The 33-year-old married woman, a patient of Mxenge , accused the doctor of forcing her to perform a sexual act with him before he had non-consensual sex with her at his Bhisho hospital doctor's residence.

The Lovedale College student claims it all started when she visited Mxenge's surgery to be treated for abdominal, breast and neck pains.

She alleges that after examining her, Mxenge gave her injections and five tablets to take, after which she fell asleep.

When she woke up, she claims the doctor offered to drive her home as it was after office hours. Instead of taking her to her Sweetwaters home, Mxenge drove to Bhisho where he allegedly raped her before releasing her later that night.

But in the tape, she admits she was not raped and that the two had had consensual sex.

The tape starts off with Mxenge returning the woman's call as he had received a message that she called him while he was busy with a patient.

Responding to questions about why she had laid a charge with the police, the woman answers that she did so because he did not show care or affection for her after their sexual encounter and she was therefore angry at him.

"The main reason is because you did not care. You could not just act as if nothing had happened," she said.

Woman Runs From Police, Killed Crossing The Street

A woman was struck by a vehicle while crossing Ina Road near Interstate 10 Thursday night. Department of Public Safety Officers were attempting to stop a vehicle for a traffic violation.

The car pulled to the side of the road, then all of the occupants fled on foot, according to Marana Police.

Police say the woman running away, when she was struck by a vehicle headed eastbound on Ina. She was taken to a local hospital where she later died.

The victim's name has not been released, pending notifying next of kin.

The driver of the car remained at the scene after the accident and is not likely to face any charges, said police.

No jail for woman who stole from school council

Saturday, June 07, 2008

The former treasurer of Queensland Downs Elementary parent council will not have to go to jail for defrauding the group of more than $29,000.

Kimberley Ann Wilk was handed a conditional jail sentence of two years less a day, to be served in the community, on Friday by provincial court Judge Judith Shriar.

She will have to pay back the money, $3,000 of it right away and the rest at $500 a month until it has all been returned.

Shriar said it was aggravating that it was a trust theft and "was planned, as opposed to impulsive."

She also noted the parents' group was particularly vulnerable to being a victim of crime and that it has been harmed by lost revenue -- because it has not been able to get another casino fundraiser since -- and in its reputation.

Woman accused of burning husband

7th June 2008
A warrant has been issued for a Carroll County woman who is alleged to have thrown hot cooking oil on her husband, Westminster police said yesterday.

Daniel Patrick Phillips, 45, of the 1800 block of Ewing Drive, was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center for treatment, police said. He was reported in good condition.

Mary Julieanne Phillips, 43, fled after the incident, which occurred about 2:30 a.m. yesterday. Phillips was found about 5:30 a.m. near Loganville, Pa., Pennsylvania State Police said. She is in custody, pending extradition. police said. She is charged with first- and second-degree assault and reckless endangerment.

Docs beat up pregnant woman’s father, then go on strike

Statesman News Service
BURDWAN, June 6: Junior doctors of Burdwan Medical College and Hospital were accused of beating up the father of a pregnant woman who died yesterday at the hospital allegedly due to medical negligence. When the victim's father lodged a complaint against the doctors, they went on indefinite strike from this morning.
The BMCH, which has failed to negotiate with the striking doctors, has decided to seek a judicial probe.
According to reports, a 28 year-old pregnant woman, Puja Mahanta was rushed to the BMCH at about 8 p.m. yesterday in critical condition by her father, Mr Banshi Mahanta, a wage labourer. Puja, according to her kin, was initially refused treatment by the doctors who wanted her to go back home as her delivery time was yet to come. The victim's mother said: "She was virtually gasping for breath and couldn't be taken back home. After about 30 minutes, the doctors agreed to admit her.” But Puja was allegedly left unattended for about three hours and she finally succumbed at 1 a.m. Mr Mahanta, a resident of Ranisayar locality, accosted the physician in-charge Dr Shankar Nag and blamed the death on his negligence. Describing the aftermath, Mr Mahanta said: "The moment I told them that my daughter died of their negligence, Dr Nag and a group of junior doctors dragged me into a room and started beating me up. They tore off my shirt and a few (of them) set lighted cigarettes on my back and neck.” The junior doctors immediately called a strike from Friday morning. About 150 junior doctors joined the stir.
Dr Tamal Kanti Ghosh, superintendent, BMCH said that the hospital was trying to convince the junior doctors to resume work but they refused to obey. He said: “We have decided to seek a judicial probe into the charges brought against the doctors here.”

York County woman arrested for deserting U.S. Army

Associated Press - June 7, 2008 2:15 PM ET

YORK, Neb. (AP) - A York County woman has been arrested for desertion after leaving a U.S. Army base on the East Coast.

York County Sheriff Dale Radcliff says 18-year-old Laura Troutman was being held in the county jail until military officials arrive.

Radcliff says Troutman was picked up on a U.S. military warrant for desertion issued in February.

Troutman's case will be handled by a military court. She faces up to five years in prison.

Convicted of negligent homicide while drunk, woman has cocktails.

Kalispell woman convicted after fatal crash arrested again after drinking cocktails in Bigfork bar
Posted on June 7
By the Associated Press


KALISPELL - A woman convicted in a 2006 crash that killed a Bigfork man has been arrested after authorities followed up on a report that she was seen drinking a cocktail.

A jury convicted Kalispell resident Steffanie Schauf in April and she was released to await sentencing June 20. One condition of her release was that she not drink alcohol. The Flathead County Sheriff’s Department arrested the 27-year-old Schauf on Friday, after investigating a report that she was drinking in the bar area of a Bigfork restaurant.

The jury convicted her of negligent homicide, negligent vehicular assault and criminal endangerment. Prosecutors had pressed for a stiffer conviction, including vehicular homicide while under the influence of alcohol.
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Early on July 1, 2006, Schauf was driving a sports car that hit the back of a pickup truck and sent it down an embankment south of Whitefish. The crash threw 24-year-old Brett Adams of Bigfork from the truck and he later died of brain injuries. Two other people in the pickup were injured. Schauf’s car caught fire and passing motorists pulled her from it.

Prosecutors said her blood-alcohol level was more than four times the legal limit for driving in Montana.

Considerations for the jury included conflicting testimony about the level of her alcohol consumption before the crash, whether drunkenness or a head injury contributed to her combative behavior after the collision and whether the pickup’s brakes were applied before her car struck the vehicle.

Woman rapist abucts victim as well as 2 young children

Police were searching for a 28-year-old married woman and a 16-year-old boy who quit their jobs on the same day and allegedly exchanged sexual text messages before disappearing with two children, MyFOXGulfCoast.com reported on Friday.

Greg Leavitt said he last saw his wife, Angela Leavitt, on Tuesday on Chuckwagon Lane in Milton, Fla. Angela Leavitt is believed to have disappeared with the teen, with whom police say she is sexually involved.

"I have two children out there and getting them and the teenager back safe — that's the whole point of this," said Greg Leavitt of his children, Haley, 8, and Damion, 9, and the minor, the story reported.

Santa Rosa County police said they had intercepted text messages between Angela Leavitt and the boy that were sexual in nature and indicated the woman said she wanted to have his child, according to a Thursday report in the Northwest Florida Daily News. Police said the two allegedly had sex at least three times, once at the Leavitts’ home.

Police said an arrest warrant was issued after they interviewed the two but found they were missing when they went to serve the warrant at Angela Leavitt’s house, according to the Northwest Florida Daily News.

Greg Leavitt said they probably are in a gray 2005 Dodge Durango.

Anyone with information on their whereabouts is asked to call the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office.

Lake Stevens woman escapes after bail bondsman shoots at pickup

LAKE STEVENS -- A bail bond agent fired several shots outside a Lake Stevens grocery store Friday afternoon as he tried to arrest a woman wanted on misdemeanor traffic warrants.

The woman, 25, of Lake Stevens allegedly tried to run over the agent with a pickup truck. Police are still investigating exactly what happened.

The woman was able to drive off and police still were looking for her Friday evening.

Police do not believe the woman was hurt, Lake Stevens Police Chief Randy Celori said.

The bail bond agent, Nathan Hingson, co-owner of Bail Bond by Nate of Lynnwood, said he had some cuts and bruises from the melee. He was not arrested after the gunfire.

Around 3 p.m., Hingson said he approached the woman who was in an older, large pickup outside Norm's Market at the corner of Lundeen Parkway and 101st Avenue NE.

Hingson tried to arrest her and she didn't comply, Celori said.

Hingson said he told the woman to get out her truck. When she didn't and started the engine, Hingson said he punched out the window to get the keys.

He said the woman started to drag him through the parking lot.

That's when, he said, he pulled his gun and told her to stop or he would shoot. He shot at her tires, he said.

"It's a big deal. I was more shaken after the fact than when it happened," he said.

Police said they believe at least eight shots were fired at the truck but the woman still was able to drive off. Hingson said he fired twice.

The woman ditched the truck a few blocks away and then ran off, Celori said. She's wanted on multiple local misdemeanor warrants, including driving with a suspended license, drunken driving and making a false statement to police.

"She was a typical problem client," Hingson said. The woman used his company to post a bail bond to get out of the Lynnwood jail and has failed to show up for court dates.

Hingson and police said the bail bondsman is cooperating with the investigation. Detectives will collect additional evidence and forward a report to Snohomish County prosecutors to determine if his use of deadly force was legally justified.

Bail bond agents are required to take special firearms training and are permitted to use firearms under Washington law. They still must meet a similar criteria that police use for deciding when it's appropriate to shoot someone, Celori said.

The police chief said the bail bond agent did not notify his department in advance of his plans to work in the city.

"I don't like it all," Celori said.

Lake Stevens has had issues with bail bond agents before, but nothing this "extreme," Celori said.

Last month, bail bond agents fatally shot a man in Lakewood in Pierce County. They said the suspect tried to run them over. That incident remains under investigation.

Hingson said he typically would have notified police in advance but stumbled upon the woman and things happened too quickly.

In 18 years of working as a bounty hunter, Hingson said Friday was the first time he's had to use his firearm.

The mid-afternoon incident was unsettling for people working and shopping at the store.

Barb Halverson was ringing up customers when the sound of gunfire rang out.

"I told everybody to get down," she said. Halverson called 911 and stayed on the line with dispatchers until officers arrived.

For Karen Haaseth, 63, a trip to buy cigarettes turned terrifying.

She parked next to the suspect's truck. Haaseth's car apparently was damaged in the melee.

Haaseth was about to leave the store when she heard yelling and then the "pop, pop, pop, pop" of gunfire.

"God, I didn't know where to run," she said.

She didn't like a firearm being shot so close to the store. Bullets could have ricocheted and hurt innocent people, she said.

"I don't think that was too smart. I'm sure there was another way he could have handled it," Haaseth said.

In a baltantly sexist ruling the female parent gets bail but the male parent stays in jail - even though no one will vouche for her.

The woman charged in the abandonment of baby Angelica-Leslie was granted conditional bail yesterday in a decision her attorney called "a miracle."

Clad in a dark green prison track suit, the woman appeared at a lengthy bail hearing at a Finch Ave. W. courthouse shortly after her husband, also charged in the case, was remanded in custody in a quick hearing of his own.

After several hours of arguments from Crown and defence attorneys, the woman grinned and nodded enthusiastically at her lawyer when Justice Frederic Campling agreed to her release.

Her bail on $10,000 recognizance came despite the fact she had no family or friends willing to step forward as a surety for her.

Conditions on her release included stipulations on where she could live, as well as a restriction forbidding her from leaving the province.

She must also report to either Toronto or Waterloo regional police once a week, and must inform Toronto police before changing addresses.

She's also required to deliver any passports, visas or other travel documents in her possession to Waterloo police by early next week.

Her release came as a surprise, said attorney Alfred Herman, who represents both accused.

"This was a miracle," he said following the decision.

Noticeably absent from the ruling was any restriction keeping her from visiting her husband, or any restrictions keeping her from seeing the three children who were removed from the couple's home at the time of their arrests.

The children, all younger than 6, have been placed in the care of Waterloo Region children's services.

The woman and her husband are each charged with abandoning a child younger than 10, failing to provide the necessities of life, assault causing bodily harm and criminal negligence in connection with the January abandonment of the baby known as Angelica-Leslie.

The girl, about 8 months old at the time, was left in the stairwell of a parking lot outside a Finch Ave. E. and Leslie St shopping plaza. Police estimated the temperature at the time as being -14C.

Both accused appear next in court on June 20.

Stealing from work for 8 years

QUEENSBURY—The former vice president of a land development company is accused of stealing $320,000 from her employer over an eight year period.

State Police claim that Diane M. Miller, 56, of Coach Road, Argyle, allegedly wrote unauthorized checks to herself and others between 2000 and earlier this year while working for Guido Passarelli, owner and president of Terre Majestic Inc. Miller has been charged with second degree grand larceny. She was arraigned before Queensbury town justice Robert McNally and although she has never been arrested previously, McNally set her bail at $200,000 cash or $400,000 bond.

According to police, the alleged theft was discovered when company officials became suspicious that money was missing and hired an accountant to review the company’s financial records.

The mis use and lies of protection orders is wide spread

Associated Press - June 7, 2008 8:45 PM ET

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) - A Grand Island woman who filed a protection order against Hastings Mayor Matt Rossen has withdrawn it, saying their conflict has been resolved.

Katrina Letheby filed the order May 30 in Hall County District Court. In it, she said Rossen called her 16 times in one day and sent her numerous text messages, threatened to ruin her career and told her son that she was suicidal.

She asked to have the complaint withdrawn three days later.

Rossen said he and his wife, Shelli, had been attending counseling sessions with Letheby, a mental health professional.

He said the protection order was frivolous, and was not related to his job as mayor.

Rossen was appointed mayor of Hastings in 2005, after Rick Sheehy resigned to become lieutenant governor. He's running for re-election against former city councilman Vern Powers.

Woman abandons boy at airport

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DFW Airport security officers have found the woman who disappeared Friday morning, leaving her son behind in the airport terminal.

According to a release, officers received tips Saturday morning at about 7 a.m. about a woman walking towards the airport rental car center. Shortly after they found Joland Newberg in the same place where she was last seen Friday.

Newberg was taken in for questioning and a psychiatric evaluation related to her disappearance. She now faces charges for abandoning and endangering a child.

Friday morning Newberg arrived at DFW Airport from Arkansas with her 12-year-old son. The pair had a connecting flight to California.

The boy reported his mother missing at about 8:45 a.m. He said she disappeared while he was in the restroom in Terminal A.

Child Protective Services is caring for the boy during the investigation.

Woman's stabbing spree on her own mother

Morrisville, N.C. — A 28-year-old woman is dead after being shot by police on Saturday.

Around 7 p.m., police said they shot the woman, whose name has not been released, after they saw her chasing and stabbing her mother repeatedly with a knife on Kudrow Lane.

Officers told the woman to drop the knife, but when she did not they shot her, officials said.

Both the woman and her mother were transported to WakeMed. The daughter died at the hospital.

The woman’s mother, whose name has not been released, is in stable condition. She had multiple lacerations on her back and chest. She is expected to undergo surgery, officials said.

The daughter lived in the Preston Creekside condominiums on Kudrow Lane and the mother was visiting from India. An argument between the two in the condominium spilled into the front yard, police said. It is unknown why the two were arguing.

Mayor Jan Faulkner, who lives about a half-mile from the scene, went to the scene.

“This is the first time since I’ve been on the board in 12 years that something like this has happened to this extreme and we’re very concerned about the family that’s involved here,” Faulkner said.

Woman 38 strangles 54 year old but the motive isn't apparent.

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after another woman was found dead in Liverpool.

Pauline Beattie's body was discovered in the lounge of her home in Chapel Road, Anfield, by a man who also lived in the property.

A post-mortem examination showed the 54-year-old had been asphyxiated.

Police, who are appealing for information, have arrested a 38-year-old woman from the Anfield area on suspicion of murder.

Maid attempts to murder whole family and robs house.

Noida family drugged, woman dead Staff Reporter

NOIDA: A young woman was killed and her husband along with their two children was taken seriously ill here on Saturday after their domestic help allegedly drugged the family and decamped with jewellery, cash and other valuables from the house.

According to the police, prime suspect Akash had been hired by the family a couple of months ago at the instance of a relative.

The family lived on the first floor of a house on rent in Noida’s Sector 50. The bizarre incident came to light on Saturday morning when landlord Satish Madra went upstairs to inquire about them after he did not notice them for a long time. To his utter shock, he found Ajay Naini, his wife Sandhya Naini and their children Rakshak and Sarah lying unconscious and all cupboards in the house open and rooms ransacked. Mr. Madra immediately alerted the Nainis’ relatives. The victims were rushed to Prayag Hospital where Sandhya was declared brought dead. The condition of the other three members of the family was described as serious.

“We tried to massage their hands and feet and poured water on them in a bid to revive them, but to no avail. We then called for an ambulance from a nearby hospital. On reaching hospital, Sandhya was declared brought dead,” said a close relative of the family.

The hands and legs of Sandhya were tied up and there were injury marks on her neck. She is suspected to have died of suffocation. Alprax, a type of tranquilizer, was used to poison the family, a doctor said.

Another help of the family, Rajinder, said: “We all had dal- chawal for dinner on Friday night. When I got up in the morning, I was semi-conscious and feeling giddy.”

A senior police officer said: “Some cash and jewellery are reportedly missing indicating that robbery was the motive behind the poisoning.”

India: woman murders her 4 daughters

Shanti and Sujana of village Surewala near Uklana town had six daughters. Sujana eked his living by driving a truck and married off his two older daughters sometime back. As the others grew, so did his worries.

Then today, his wife took their 4 remaining daughters and pulled them with her in front of a train today. The five held hands and jumped before a train near Uklana town on Saturday. All were killed instantaneously.

Woman infested with bird mites

They look like tiny black specks and their bites feel like pinpricks.

And worst of all for Nina Bradica, the bird mites that have infested her chest and pelvis feel like they are everywhere, she said.

Bradica, 47, was in quarantine Friday at Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow because of the bird mites - common, parasitic arachnids spread by wild birds.

Woman bashes and murders 6 week old daughter

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A 24-year-old woman is considered competent to stand trial in the abuse and death of her 6-week-old daughter last summer.

Dane County Circuit Judge Dan Moeser issued the ruling on Friday.

Ee Lee is charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the death of Anastasia Vang.

Lee had been at Winnebago Health Institute receiving treatment since Moeser ordered a competency evaluation in November.

She'll be in the Dane County Jail under $50,000 cash bail while awaiting trial.

Prosecutors say Lee slammed the baby's head against a table and stuffed a blanket in her mouth.

A state investigation later found the Dane County Department of Human Services failed to properly respond to the abuse of the baby.

The neighbourly attitude of a 64 year old woman

Associated Press

3:05 PM CDT, June 7, 2008

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa - A 64-year old Clear Lake woman has been arrested for allegedly popping the car tires of her neighbor six times during the past three months.

Georgia Norem was charged with felony criminal mischief. Her neighbor, Paul Lanning, has had to replace 14 punctured tires since February at a cost of $1,225.

Lanning said the incidents happened while he was sleeping. Police had no suspects, so last month Clear Lake police enlisted the help of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation.

Recording equipment was installed near Lanning's apartment. Clear Lake police chief Greg Peterson says the police were surprised at what they saw when they reviewed a recording of the latest incident.

Sydney woman murders young man by deliberately ramming her car into a group of people.

A 37-year-old Sydney woman accused of deliberately ramming her car into a group of people in Sydney's north, killing a man, has appeared in court.

Sarah May Ward, from Pymble, appeared via a video link in the Parramatta Bail Court today.

There was no application for bail and her case was adjourned to the Central Local Court on Wednesday (June 11).

The magistrate said, given the severity of the charges, bail was unlikely to have been granted.

Ms Ward has been charged with murder after allegedly ploughing her Toyoto Lexcen sedan into a group of young people in St Leonards, killing 21-year-old Turramurra man, Eli Westlake.

The incident occurred in Lithgow St about 4.20am (AEST) yesterday morning.

Ms Ward also is charged with dangerous driving causing death, mid-level drink driving and other driving offences.

I hope she is also charge with attempting to murder or injure the other people in the group.