CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Wildlife rangers have helped an Australian family deal with an uninvited guest: a 5-foot-6-inch (1.7-meter) crocodile that wandered into their living room.
The juvenile saltwater crocodile wandered into a home in Bees Creek, a suburb of the northern Australian city of Darwin. Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported that the family found it in a partially enclosed …
Melamine-tainted dairy products were pulled from convenience store shelves in southern China more than a year after hundreds of thousands of children had been sickened in a massive milk safety scandal, a government spokeswoman said Monday.
The announcement calls into question the effectiveness of a crackdown launched by Chinese officials to improve product safety after a number of scandals, including the contamination of baby formula in 2008 and the recent discovery of the toxic metal cadmium in cheap jewelry.
Frozen milk products and cartons of milk dating from early 2009 were taken off the shelves after health inspectors tested them and found melamine, …
Murder charges against a 10-year-old boy in the death of his 5-year-old foster brother were dropped Friday by prosecutors, who saidthey had no case because they've been barred from using a statementhe gave police.
The move came after Juvenile Court Judge Marjorie C. Laws lastmonth threw out a confession the boy, then 9, gave police andprosecutors shortly after the March 1998 beating death of DavidJones.
Laws said the boy was too young, suggestible and intellectuallyslow to have waived his rights before confessing.
"Without the statement, there was little to go forward on," saidBob Benjamin, spokesman for Cook County State's Attorney RichardDevine.
If he …
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| Toronto | 2 4 1—7 |
First Period_1, Toronto, Connolly 2 (Lupul), 1:39. 2, Washington, Laich 3 (Chimera, Carlson), 2:30. 3, Toronto, Frattin 1 (Colborne, Franson), 19:16. Penalties_Semin, Was (diving), :47; Crabb, Tor (tripping), :47; Schultz, Was (interference), 8:04.
Second Period_4, Toronto, Bozak 2 (Lupul, Phaneuf), 1:18 (pp). 5, Toronto, Kessel 14 (Bozak, Lupul), 5:29. 6, Toronto, Lupul 10 (Phaneuf, Kessel), 17:12 (pp). 7, Toronto, Franson 1 (Connolly), 19:29 (pp). Penalties_Hendricks, Was (slashing), :17; Gunnarsson, Tor (tripping), 8:55; …
The date is etched in blood in Utah and Mormon church history and, on a more intimate level, the family trees of people like Karen Maxwell, a mother of eight and choir teacher from Salt Lake City.
On Sept. 11, 1857, Mormon militiamen led the slaughter of 120 men, women and children on a wagon train bound for California in an incident known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
Chief among the instigators was Isaac Haight, a local militia and church leader. Several generations later, Karen Maxwell would come to know of him as her grandfather's grandfather.
For years, Mormon church officials downplayed the role Mormons played in the mass killing, first …
LATEST results for the past two weekends were as follows:Pontardawe Golf Club 70, Pick 65; Ivy Bush 66, Bont CC Reds 60; BontCC Blues 68, King Hotel 62; Hendy RFC 65, Temple Bar 70; Red Cow 61,Panty Social 68; …
NANJING, China - Hungarian Julia Sebestyen edged Emily Hughes to win the Cup of China women's title Saturday.
Hughes, sister of 2002 Olympic gold medalist Sarah Hughes, led after Thursday's short program and appeared to be ready to win. But mistakes caused her to be downgraded on some jumps and left her third in the free skate.
Russians Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin scored a convincing win in the free dance and overtook Americans Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto, the Olympic ice dance silver medalists, for the overall title.
Domnina and Shabalin had a total of 188.41 points and 93.13 in the free dance, even after 1-point deduction for an extended lift.
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