A Canadian contractor is looking for donations to fund a funeral after finding a mummified baby in the wall of a Toronto home.
Home renovator Bob Kinghorn found the tiny body, wrapped in an 80-year-old newspaper, as he was running a wire through the three-storey Kintyre Ave. home, in one of Toronto’s older neighbourhoods.
“I opened [...]
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Contractor finds mummified baby in Toronto home
Woman finds 3-foot python in cabinet
Firefighters helped remove a three-foot python from a home after a woman collecting plastic bags for a food pantry found it while cleaning a cabinet.
Lula Sain called a neighbor for help, but “when he came in and saw it, he almost jumped out of his skin.” Fire Capt. Jimmy Sandage eventually collected the non-venomous snake.
“Once [...]
Inmate convicted of indecent exposure
A Broward County jail inmate was convicted of indecent exposure after a guard complained that he had masturbated in his cell.
A jury took 45 minutes to convict Terry Lee Alexander, 20, of the misdemeanor on Wednesday. Judge Fred Berman sentenced him to 60 days in the county jail. He had faced up to a year.
In [...]
Malaysian mother offers to do jail time with son
A Malaysian mother wants to join her son in jail to make sure he receives insulin injections three times a day, as well as anti-rejection drugs for a transplanted kidney.
“I don’t want him to die in jail,” a tearful Chew Ten Hee, 67, told the New Straits Times newspaper, adding that her son, Sim [...]
Cows wander onto Interstate 95 in Rhode Island
Transportation officials have vowed to figure out how a group of cows wander onto Interstate 95, most recently on Tuesday morning when several Holsteins stopped rush hour traffic.
The cows from Brook-Knoll Farm walked onto the highway near Exit 2 about 8 a.m. State Police stopped traffic while two troopers used air horns to shoo away [...]
Rio police arrested for mugging U.S. cops on holiday
Rio de Janeiro police arrested two fellow officers on Thursday accused of extorting money from two American tourists who happened to be San Francisco cops on vacation.
“One of the victims identified the officers and they are under administrative arrest for now,” a police spokeswoman in Rio said. The crime-ridden city is swarming with tourists [...]
Computer program can learn baby talk
A computer program that learns to decode sounds from different languages in the same way that a baby does helps to shed new light on how people learn to talk, researchers said on Tuesday.
They said the finding casts doubt on theories that babies are born knowing all the possible sounds in all of the [...]