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Posted 11/17/09 by InsayneJayne
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A 27-year-old Anchorage man has been convicted of robbing his mother at gunpoint because she didn't give him money to help pay a $430 parking ticket. The Anchorage district attorney said Friday that Cheng Saelee was also convicted of illegally contacting his mother from jail and trying to get her to drop the charges.
Prosecutor Gustaf Olson said Saelee was arrested in Nove. . .
Posted 11/17/09 by InsayneJayne
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A CNN correspondent said Monday she was detained by Chinese security guards in Shanghai for two hours for displaying a T-shirt on camera depicting US President Barack Obama as Mao Zedong.
Emily Chang, a Beijing-based correspondent for the US television network, said in a blog post on CNN.com that she hunted down the shirt after hearing they had been banned amid fears they ". . .
Posted 11/17/09 by InsayneJayne
HERMANTOWN, Minn. -- Police in Minnesota said a man struck an employee with a backhoe because he did not believe the worker was performing his duties properly.
Investigators said Michael Billman, co-owner of Billman's Home Center in Hermantown, Minn., was in the excavator at a construction site Wednesday and began arguing with an employee who was working in a trench, KQDS-TV, Duluth, Minn.,. . .
Posted 11/17/09 by InsayneJayne
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. -- Police in Tennessee said a woman arrested on a charge of driving under the influence apparently mistook an officer for a server at a Sonic Drive-In.
Investigators said a 911 caller Saturday reported a woman slumped over a steering wheel was driving out of Ingle's Market in Elizabethton and nearly striking several vehicles, the Johnson City (Tenn.) Press reported Friday.. . .
Posted 11/17/09 by InsayneJayne
The lion may have appeared wild, but it had clearly learnt one or two things about cars after years of watching curious visitors drive past.
As the white Toyota came to a halt in the Lion Safari Park in Johannesburg, it slowly padded over while the family inside watched in excitement, unaware of what was about to happen.
Their glee turned to horror as the 300lb lion firmly took the rear. . .
Posted 11/16/09 by InsayneJayne
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Posted 11/16/09 by InsayneJayne
A British woman who trapped her pedophile husband by posing as a teenage girl on the internet has been praised by a children's charity, Sky News reported.
David Anthony Roberts, 69, asked a girl he believed to be aged 14 to have sex with him, not realizing he was having an online conversation with his wife Cheryl.
Cheryl Roberts was so shocked she called in the police and The National Soci. . .
Posted 11/16/09 by InsayneJayne
Lorry driver Jason Ripley was almost killed when he was impaled on a pole which came within inches of piercing his heart.
The pole smashed through the windscreen of his truck and continued through his chest.
The father-of-two remained conscious long enough to telephone his disbelieving boss to say: "I've had a bit of an accident."
Mr Ripley, 39, said he owed his life to paramedics who. . .
