Teacher gets 6 years for sex with teens

February 20th, 2008 by

A former middle school teacher was sent to prison for six years Tuesday for having sexual encounters with five teenage boys.


Town learns to live with water 3 hours a day

November 3rd, 2007 by

As twilight falls over this Tennessee town, Mayor Tony Reames drives up a dusty dirt road to the community’s towering water tank and begins his nightly ritual in front of a rusty metal valve.


We’re twinseparable! Happy with his brother, the boy who refused to die

November 3rd, 2007 by

They say twins share a strong bond - but the one between Gabriel and Ieuan Jones was unbreakable.


Lesbian parents win the right to both be called mum

November 3rd, 2007 by

Lesbians in a relationship will both be given the legal status of parents when one gives birth through fertility treatment, it has emerged.


Police hunt killer after British student is found butchered and part-naked in Italy

November 3rd, 2007 by

Police in Italy were today picking up vital clues in their hunt for a killer who slashed the throat of a British student murdered on a study year abroad.


Police ask for help identifying girl whose body washed ashore

November 2nd, 2007 by

Authorities in Texas are asking for the public’s help in identifying a small girl whose body washed ashore this week near Galveston stuffed in a large plastic storage box.


Eight-year-old’s horror after her ‘too tight’ holiday braids made all her hair fall out

November 2nd, 2007 by

Jodie Holdsworth decided she wanted a lasting memento of the family holiday on a Greek island. So the eight-year-old paid a local stylist to braid her hair.


He’s not undead, just unsober…

October 30th, 2007 by

Passengers on a German train mistook a Halloween reveler dressed up as a gore-covered zombie for a murder victim and called the police.


Oil eases as investors take profits from new peaks

October 30th, 2007 by

Oil prices fell nearly 1 percent to below $93 a barrel on Tuesday, fading from their latest record high as investors took profits from a rally driven by a Mexican supply outage and the spiralling dollar.


Ad for Online Nanny Lured Woman to Her Death

October 30th, 2007 by

A recent college graduate was lured to her death after responding to a Craigslist ad for a nanny, police said.