Wis. women accused of receiving 11 pounds of twigs soaked with opium through the mail

October 14th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian airport police detained a Philippine national who is seven months pregnant after she was allegedly caught carrying a cocaine-soaked jacket, news reports said Wednesday. The 24-year-old woman was detained Friday at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport after officers checked her fleece-lined jacket and said they found it was soaked with about 2 kg of liquid cocaine, the Star newspaper said.

August 26th, 2009 Myanmar reports major drug bust near Thai borderYANGON, Myanmar — Police in Myanmar seized more than 100 blocks of heroin and nearly 3 million methamphetamine tablets near the border with Thailand in one of the military-ruled country's largest drug seizures, a state-run newspaper said Wednesday. An anti-drug squad confiscated two guns and ammunition and arrested four people in the raid Monday on two houses in the northeastern town of Tachileik, the Myanma Ahlin newspaper said.

August 13th, 2009 Fla. man accused of swindling women out of $400KFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A 55-year-old South Florida man allegedly swindled some $400,000 from two New York women he was engaged to at the same time.

August 11th, 2009 Woman accused of assaulting boyfriend speaks outMILWAUKEE — A woman accused of helping lure a boyfriend to a hotel room and gluing his penis to his stomach as punishment for his cheating ways says she and the other women went to the motel to tell him "the gig was up." Therese Ziemann told NBC's "Today" show on Tuesday that she and the other three women accused of holding the man against his will in a Green Bay, Wis., hotel room did not collaborate, and that there was no ringleader among them. Prosecutors say the women, including the man's wife and another girlfriend, lured the man to the motel on July 30 to punish him for cheating.

August 4th, 2009 Minn. mother accused of starving disabled daughterSANDSTONE, Minn. — A Minnesota woman is accused of starving her developmentally disabled 10-year-old daughter, who died in 2006.

July 23rd, 2009 Australian postal worker accused of keeping mailSYDNEY — Australian police have arrested a postal worker who they say delivered thousands of customers' letters — to himself. Residents in the Sydney suburb of Roseville had complained for months that they weren't receiving their mail, New South Wales state police Detective Inspector Peter Yeomans said Thursday.

July 16th, 2009 Anchorage officer accused of rape while on dutyANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Anchorage police officer has been accused of sexually assaulting multiple women while he was on duty. Anthony Rollins, a 13-year veteran and former department spokesman, was indicted by a grand jury and arrested Wednesday.

July 2nd, 2009 A look at poppy production in southern AfghanistanHelmand province, where 4,000 U.S. Marines launched a major anti-Taliban offensive Thursday, is the world's largest cultivator of opium poppies — the crop used to make heroin.

June 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Four people, including a Nigerian national, were arrested here for allegedly defrauding people online by taking money for delivering "gifts" worth millions of pounds that never materialized, police said Saturday. On interrogation, the accused narrated a well-knit plan of cheating the public through e-mails by offering them handsome gift packs in foreign currency.

June 24th, 2009 Bolivia: 8 Mennonite men accused of raping womenLA PAZ, Bolivia — Eight men from a Mennonite farming community in eastern Bolivia have been accused of raping dozens of females at the settlement, a prosecutor said Tuesday, indicating at least one victim was an underage girl. Prosecutor Freddy Perez told The Associated Press that 60 women, from 11 to 47 years old, have accused the men of rape.

June 20th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - A man suspected of involvement in the Frontier Mail blast in 1997 committed suicide by hanging himself in his prison cell in Ghaziabad, police said Saturday. The death occurred Friday in the Dasna jail in Ghaziabad where Shakeel was lodged after he was convicted by a Delhi court to 10 years' imprisonment in another terror related case in 1998.

June 15th, 2009 AP Poll: For wedding guests, ceremony is fave partNEW YORK — Planning a wedding, and want to make sure your guests are happy? Think about ditching the receiving line. That's the least popular aspect of a wedding from a guest's perspective, according to an Associated Press-Brides.com poll released Monday.

June 10th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Two women from Nepal were arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district with about 25 kg of opium worth Rs.5 million, police said Wednesday. The women were nabbed Tuesday evening.

May 13th, 2009 DA: Baby found in gasoline-soaked home doing fineSTEVENS POINT, Wis. — The infant daughter of a Wisconsin man accused of killing her mother and two siblings is doing fine after her rescue from a gasoline-soaked home, officials said Tuesday.

May 4th, 2009 Toddlers found in gas-soaked home were shotSTEVENS POINT, Wis. — A Wisconsin coroner says two toddlers found dead in their gasoline-soaked home last week were shot in the head and their mother was the victim of a complex homicide.