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Drivers have been warned about caffeine excess after a man was jailed for leading police on a 50-mile car chase after drinking 20 cans of Red Bull.

Peter Edwards, 48, from King’s Lynn, was jailed for four months on Friday after Norwich Crown Court heard he was pursued across Cambs and Norfolk.

His car was seen “swerving from side to side” across the A10, the court heard.

Source: BBC News

LISBON – Parents need to be on their toes and keep their eyes on what children are viewing on the Internet. Salem Township Constable Dan Valentine issued a warning to parents in the county: Be familiar with what children are looking at on the Internet and limit what they are doing.

He said that a Web site called myspace.com was brought to his attention by some parents. After investigating myspace.com and a few others, he agrees this site and others are nothing but dangerous for children.

“Web sites themselves are not dangerous, but non-supervised ones, where children can post whatever they want, present serious and dangerous issues for kids,” Valentine said in a press release.

Myspace.com is a popular site for children to post online Web pages. There are no regulations or requirements for people wanting to post information so young people post what they want. Unfortunately, some of this includes personal information, family information and pictures. There are no parental controls for the Web site.

Source: Herald Star

ST. LOUIS Jan 17, 2006 — Ken Ortmann, an alderman who owns a local tavern wants to lower the penalties for public urination before the Feb. 25 Mardi Gras Parade.

Ortmann said his bill would allow police to issue different citations for public urinators who try to be discreet than they might for those who are more open about it.

“There’s a difference between going in the middle of the street, in front of God and country, and somebody who is behind a Dumpster,” Ortmann said.

Source: ABC

Some at Stillwater, Minnesota Area High School had their doubts from the beginning. Joshua Gardner was able to get inside the school on multiple occasions — that is, until some student journalists uncovered his past. At first, his interest in the school didn’t seem terribly strange. He called himself a prospective student.

“He was pretty quiet,” sophomore Frank Carlson said. “But he seemed to talk with a little bit of an accent.” Caspian, as the visitor called himself, came to the school three times, according to a police report. “I ended up hearing he was a duke from England (who) was visiting America,” sophomore Reid Gilbertson said.

Source: Kare11

Jeremy Majorowicz thought something was wrong when he saw a dog sitting on railroad tracks for at least two hours. But he didn’t realize how wrong until he and several other men determined that the gray and white husky had been literally frozen to the ties in below zero weather.

The construction worker first saw the dog on the tracks before his crew called off work for the day Monday because of the cold, and headed to a restaurant. But the dog was still there when they returned 1 1/2 hours later.

“I like animals, and I didn’t want to see it get hurt,” Majorowicz said.

Source: SFGate

Clarksville Police are searching for three men they say kidnapped, raped, robbed and held captive a 79-year-old woman for six hours after she attempted to walk into a Madison Street pharmacy.

The woman told police she was approached at about 3:30 p.m. Monday by a knife-wielding man and forced into the back seat of her bronze 1989 Ford Escort, according to an incident report by Detective Sean Averitt.

Source: The Leaf Chronicle

A Wilmington woman took $10,000 to cover up the crime of a man who repeatedly raped her disabled teenage daughter for months, Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow said Thursday.

“I’ve been doing this for 28 years, and I’ve never come across a case with allegations of this nature,” Glasgow said after announcing the charges against Kimberly Riordan.

Source: Chicago Sun

Suppose you could erase bad memories from your mind. Suppose, as in a recent movie, your brain could be wiped clean of sad and traumatic thoughts.

That is science fiction. But real-world scientists are working on the next best thing. They have been testing a pill that, when given after a traumatic event like rape, may make the resulting memories less painful and intense.

Will it work? It is too soon to say. Still, it is not far-fetched to think that this drug someday might be passed out along with blankets and food at emergency shelters after disasters like the tsunami or Hurricane Katrina.

Source: Yahoo

Boaters made a gruesome discovery Friday when they found human body parts inside a suitcase that they fished out of the bay, according to the San Francisco Police Department.

“It appears to be a dismembered body,” said homicide Lt. John Hennessey.

Source: SFGate