DOYLESTOWN, Pa. – A white suburban mother who placed a 911 call claiming two black men had carjacked her ? but instead flew to Disney World with her child to escape a looming arrest ? was sent to prison this week for nine to 23 months.
Bonnie Sweeten, 38, pleaded guilty in Bucks County Court to identity theft and filing a false police report, misdemeanors that typically bring probation.
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Which country can you make the most money in?
It pays to work in Switzerland: employees in Zurich and Geneva have the highest net wages in the world, a study by banking group UBS shows, while those in India’s Mumbai take home the lowest.
The Swiss cities were also ranked among the top five most expensive in the world in the bank’s 2009 “Price and Earnings” international study.
“With its extremely high gross wages and comparatively low tax rates, Switzerland is a very employee-friendly country,” the Swiss bank said in a statement.
The study, published every three years, compares the income and purchasing power of employees in 73 cities across the globe, highlighting wide discrepancies in wages between different regions, and even within the same country.
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The famous penis shark caught and released in November 2008 from Flamingo Bay in Everglades National Park in South Florida.
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Jaycee Lee Dugard, an 11-year-old girl abducted from her South Lake Tahoe home in 1991, has been found alive in the Bay Area and two people reportedly have been detained in connection with the case.
The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office this morning confirmed the identity of the 29-year-old woman who walked into a Bay Area police station claiming to be Dugard.
Further, in an extraordinary sequence of events today, federal and local law agencies renewed their focus on the 18-year-old mystery surrounding what happened to the blond, blue-eyed girl who was abducted while walking to school June 10, 1991.
Reports out of the Bay Area indicated a man and a woman were in custody in Martinez and that a search warrant was being executed at a home in Antioch.
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Shelia Phillips doesn’t see the New Orleans that Mayor Ray Nagin talks about, the one on its way to having just as many people and a more diverse economy than it did before Hurricane Katrina. How could she?
From the front porch of her house in the devastated Lower 9th Ward, it’s hard to see past the vegetation slowly swallowing the property across the way. Nearby homes are boarded up or still bear the fading tattoos left by search and rescue teams nearly four years ago. The fence around a playground a few blocks down is padlocked.
“I just want to see people again,” she said recently, swatting bugs in the muggy heat.
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Ian Stafford, 58, was charged with three counts of burglary after women told police their bras and knickers had vanished.
One worried woman is said to have installed a secret camera in her bedroom and when police saw the footage they saw a semi-naked man going through her drawers.
The video showed the man putting on her knickers and performing a sex act. Sources said that police had recovered a haul of underwear.
Stafford resigned as a councillor immediately after his arrest. He was elected Mayor of Preesall and Knott End, in Lancashire, England, four years ago.
The part-time handyman and gardener will appear in court next month.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ? Birmingham’s mayor offered a blanket pardon this week to thousands of demonstrators charged in this cauldron of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, a mostly symbolic forgiveness he acknowledges few may actually want.
Many blacks who braved police dogs and fire hoses say they carry their misdemeanor record with them as a badge of honor.
The King of Pop will be buried on what would have been his 51st birthday, a spokesman for Michael Jackson’s family said Tuesday.
Jackson will be buried at a private ceremony at Forest Lawn-Glendale on Aug. 29, spokesman Ken Sunshine said in a statement. Guests will be limited to family and close friends, Sunshine said.
McLEAN, Va. ? Jayson Blair knows his new profession ? life coach ? smacks some people in the face like a bad punchline.
“People say, ‘Wait a minute. You’re a life coach?’ That makes no sense,’” says Blair, the ex-journalist best known for foisting plagiarism and fabrications into the pages of The New York Times. “Then they think about my life experiences and what I’ve been through and they say ‘Wait a minute. It does make sense.’”
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the last surviving brother in an enduring political dynasty and one of the most influential senators in history, died Tuesday night at his home on Cape Cod after a yearlong struggle with brain cancer. He was 77.
A retired South Carolina state employee who spent two bucks on the lottery was all smiles Tuesday as he claimed a $260 million Powerball jackpot.
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