Lawyer has sex with client, then bills her

A Minnesota lawyer has been suspended indefinitely for billing a divorce client for time they spent having sex.The state Supreme Court invoked the suspension against Thomas P. Lowe, 58, of Eagan, in a ruling last Thursday, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported Tuesday. Lowe will have to wait at least 15 months before getting an opportunity to seek reinstatement.The newspaper said Lowe had known the woman for many years. He became her attorney in her divorce case after she came to him in August 201

Jan. 16, 2013

Screaming students spark tradition

Students at Sweden‘s Uppsala University let off steam by screaming out their windows, sparking a tradition across Swedish campuses.No one knows exactly how the tradition, known as the Flogsta roar, started, but every night at 10 p.m., students in the Flogsta neighborhood near Uppsala University open their windows and scream, The Local.se reported.Some believe that the nightly event is just a way for students to relieve stress, others say it started as a way of honoring an Uppsala student who com

Jan. 14, 2013

NYC iPhone owner tricks thief using dating app

A New York City musician used a combination of technology, seduction, a hammer and a bribe to reclaim his missing iPhone from a confused crook.Jazz trombonist Nadav Nirenberg says he left the phone in a livery cab on New Year‘s Eve. The next morning, the 27-year-old learned via email that someone was sending messages to women using a dating app on the phone.Nirenberg logged on to the service and offered the man a date posing as a woman. He even posted a picture of a pretty girl.When the culprit

Jan. 6, 2013

Man eats 28 raw eggs, dies

A Tunisian man may have won his bet--to eat 28 raw eggs--but in doing so, he lost his life.Dhaou Fatnassi, a 20-year-old man from the town of Kairouan, swallowed more than two dozen raw eggs on a dare from his friends.According to Tunesia‘s Shems FM radio, the friends called an ambulance after realizing something was wrong, but it was too late.“Doctors were called in after the young man felt strong stomach pains, but he died before medical assistance could reach him,” the report said.An official

Dec. 28, 2012

Toy store worker alleges sexual abuse

A New York City woman, who made $60,000 a year managing a toy store, is suing her ex-boss for an alleged master-slave sex relationship, court papers show.Twenty-six-year-old Amanda Reyes, the former manager at Fantastic Kids Toys in Manhattan, who had her rent paid among other expenses in addition to her salary, alleged her 60-something boss, Steven Reis, fired her after she tried to end twice-a-week rough-sex sessions with him, the New York Daily News reported.Court papers said the toy store ow

Dec. 26, 2012

Man ordered to pay $28,000 strip club tab

A New York court ordered a man to pay the $28,109.60 tab he accumulated in a single night at Larry Flynt‘s Hustler Club.William Ilg had filed a lawsuit against the strip club, alleging he was being fraudulently charged because the number of drinks he was served left him “no longer capable of conducting financial transactions,” the New York Daily News reported Thursday.However, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Manuel Mendez tossed out the lawsuit, which was filed in 2011, and ordered him to pay th

Dec. 17, 2012

Deadly spiders mistakenly shipped to U.K.

A shipping container that arrived in Norfolk, England, was infested with deadly black widow spiders, shocking workers unloading it.The container, which was infested with hundreds of the spiders, originated in Arizona, where the spiders are more common, The Mirror reported Saturday.The container firm called in local pest control experts to get rid of the spiders.“It is not something you expect to see, especially in the outback of Norfolk. Our guys are used to checking for wildlife, so when they s

Dec. 17, 2012

Woman admits leaving newborn in toilet

A South Carolina woman who left her newborn son in the toilet where she gave birth to him while she was at the circus has pleaded guilty to injuring him.Jessica Ann Blackham, 26, of Easley was given a five-year suspended sentence Wednesday, the Greenville News reported. She must spend a year in home confinement and three years on probation.Blackham, who was 24 at the time, said she did not realize she was pregnant when she delivered the baby at the Bi-Lo Center in Greenville.“I love my son dearl

Dec. 14, 2012

Woman, 21, gives birth to girl on N.Y. zoo’s wildlife path

New York zoo employees called upon their first aid training Friday as they helped to deliver a baby on a wildlife exhibit path -- a human baby, this time. Zoo Education Coordinator Liz Schmidt said she was teaching about reindeer to preschool children and their parents at Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse when she received a call about a woman, 21, in labor approximately 500 yards away near the bear exhibit, the Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standard reported. “I honestly didn‘t expect her to deliver at t

Dec. 10, 2012

Flight attendant quits over Facebook coffee threat

A Cathay Pacific flight attendant has quit her job after writing on her Facebook page that she wanted to throw coffee on a passenger who is the youngest daughter of Thailand‘s ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.The flight attendant caused a stir in the Thai online communities last week for posting hostile comments about Paetongtarn Shinawatra. She also posted a picture of Paetongtarn’s seating number.The Hong Kong-based airline posted Monday on its Thailand Facebook page that the stewardes

Dec. 4, 2012

Mom takes sick girl, 11, from hospital

Arizona authorities said they were looking for a young leukemia patient whose mother allegedly took her from the hospital a day before her scheduled discharge.Phoenix police said the 11-year-old girl, identified only as Emily, has a catheter in her heart that could get infected and jeopardize her life, ABC News reported Sunday.Surveillance video shows Emily, who recently fought off an infection and had an arm amputated, walking out of the Phoenix Children‘s Hospital Wednesday night, ABC News sai

Dec. 3, 2012

Belgian man finds out his wife was a man

A Belgian man said he recently learned that his wife was actually a transgender woman.The 64-year-old husband, identified only as Jan, told a local newspaper that he learned the news after 19 years of marriage when a cousin from his wife’s Indonesian family finally confessed the truth.Belgian daily newspaper Nieuwsblad reported that Jan described his wife as “very beautiful and feminine.”“I thought she was an attractive woman, and she was all woman -- she had no male traits. She was always a goo

Nov. 27, 2012

Bug-eating contest winner choked to death

A Florida man who died after wolfing down worms and cockroaches to win a contest choked to death, autopsy results released Monday showed.Broward County Medical Examiner Craig Mallak said the death of Edward Archbold, 32, of West Palm Beach, was an accident, The Miami Herald reported.Mallak said Archbold‘s airway was clogged with “arthropod body parts” and he died of asphyxia. The autopsy ruled out toxic substances as the cause of death, the newspaper said.Authorities had said previously Archbold

Nov. 27, 2012

19 bodies found in northern Mexico border state

Nineteen bodies have been discovered in Mexico‘s northern border state of Chihuahua, officials reported Sunday, including 11 apparently long-dead men found in mass graves and eight others who were tortured and killed in recent days.The state prosecutor’s office for missing people said 11 bodies were found in Ejido Jesus Carranza, near the U.S. border about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of Ciudad Juarez. The area of sand dunes is a popular spot for picnickers from Juarez, which is just acros

Nov. 26, 2012

Catholic brother accused of sex crimes flees: report

A former Catholic brother wanted in Australia on more than 250 child sex charges was reported Monday to have fled New Zealand for Sri Lanka before his extradition could be secured.Bernard McGrath is facing 252 child sex charges in Australia relating to his time in church-run institutions in the 1970s and 1980s and was due to be extradited from New Zealand earlier this year.But McGrath‘s brother Clem told Australia’s Fairfax newspapers he had flown out of Christchurch several months ago after bei

Nov. 26, 2012

Russian burglar camped out in ceiling

Russian police suspect an accused burglar hid inside a false ceiling at an electronics store for a full day before he allegedly stole laptops and cellphones.The suspect didn‘t get far because he apparently retreated back to his hidden lair to wait until the coast was clear before making his escape.“The detained said he had hid there the day before,” the Interior Ministry said in a written statement. “At night, he stole the devices, got into his improvised hideout and started waiting for an oppor

Nov. 25, 2012

Doctor dad delivers own son in car

A Florida doctor said he delivered his son in the parking lot of a hospital when he and his wife were unable to get to the emergency room on time.Dr. Timothy Hawkes, an orthopedic resident at Broward Health Medical Center, said he began the delivery with one hand while speeding to the hospital with his wife, Katelin, in the passenger seat of his Scion XB, and the baby was born in the facility‘s parking lot at 1:20 a.m. Tuesday, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Thursday.“I am used to press

Nov. 23, 2012

Police: Fake dentist kissed buttocks

Authorities in Florida said a man allegedly posed as a dentist and kissed the buttocks of a female patient after giving her an injection.Hollywood police said John Collazos, 47, who has also been arrested for practicing dentistry without a license in Davie, was arrested Monday on a similar charge over a Nov. 19, 2010, incident when he treated an unidentified woman in Hollywood, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Thursday.Investigators said Collazos had the woman come to an apartment he had

Nov. 23, 2012

Teens charged with killing elderly widow

Two London teenagers face murder charges now that an elderly widow who was the victim of a daytime mugging has died, police said Wednesday.The pair, ages 14 and 15, are also suspected of another robbery on Tuesday, the day after Paula Castle was mugged in an alley in Greenford, a suburban neighborhood in western London, The Daily Telegraph reported.Witnesses said two men came up behind Castle, 85, and seized her purse, knocking her down. The handbag was found nearby.The teenagers were arrested W

Nov. 22, 2012

Australian ‘collar bomber’ jailed for at least 10 years

An Australian investment banker who attached a fake bomb around the neck of a Sydney schoolgirl in a bid to extort money from her wealthy family was Tuesday jailed for at least 10 years.Paul Peters, 52, who was arrested and extradited from the United States in September last year with the help of the FBI, pleaded guilty to aggravated breaking and entering, and detaining the teenager for advantage.The father-of-three made global headlines when he broke into the multimillion-dollar Pulver family h

Nov. 20, 2012