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Dog saves abandoned baby

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© Sunthorn PongpaoPui, a 2-year-old dog, who saves the life of a newborn baby girl.
Ayutthaya - A pedigree Thai dog carried a plastic bag containing a newborn baby girl believed to have been left in a roadside dump back to its home on Monday morning, saving her from inevitable death.

Sudarat Thongmak said the two-year-old male, a Bangkaew named Pui, took the white plastic bag from a site in tambon Sala Loi in Tha Rua district to the house and barked loudly to get attention.

Sudarat, 12, heard the noise and was the first to see the baby.

After hearing the dog barking she went down the stairs and discovered the bag on the patio.

She opened it and was shocked to find a newborn baby with its umbilical cord still attached. It was clearly very weak and she ran to get her mum, Pummarat, and her father, Kummerd. The parents rushed the baby to Tha Rua hospital.

Mrs Pummarat said Pui always wanders around the community especially a wood grove near the house. She and her husband believe the dog found the bag there.

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Snake expert says "Turtleman" show staged cottonmouth scene


Danvillr, Kentucky - It's a frightening discovery, venomous snakes found in and around a community pool. That's what Ernie Brown Jr., famously known as "Turtleman", found during an episode of his popular show Call of the Wildman, which runs on Animal Planet

The show aired Sunday night but now some experts are questioning if it was staged. The director of The Kentucky Reptile Zoo says what viewers witnessed may have been entertaining, but he says it wasn't entirely accurate.

During the season two premier Turtleman came face to face with two cottonmouths at the Danville community pool. But snake expert Jim Harrison says there's no way those snakes should have been there in the first place.

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Alleged Anonymous hacker raided by FBI after exposing Ohio rape scandal

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A 26-year-old Kentucky man says the FBI raided his home earlier this year in an attempt to investigate two hacker groups and the role they played in exposing the players linked to a high-profile rape case in Steubenville, Ohio.

An aspiring rapper from Winchester, KY named Deric Lostutter revealed Thursday that agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a search of his home two months ago and seized computers, electronics and other items pursuant to a warrant signed April 15 by a federal judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

Lostutter has not been charged with any crime yet, but the FBI combed through his house in search of items pertaining to the hacktivist group Anonymous and an offshoot, KnightSec.

According to the warrant, Lostutter is likely the target of an investigation into KnightSec's online campaign earlier this year to collect, analyze and distribute information about the gang rape of a teenage girl the previous summer in the town of Steubenville, around 400 miles away from Winchester near Ohio's border with Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

The 16-year-old victim, whose name has not been published due to her age and the brutal nature of the crime, testified in court that she didn't even know she had been assaulted until she learned about the incident on social media the following day last August. Images began circulating the next morning of a seemingly lifeless body being dragged by teenagers across the room of a party, and several witnesses tweeted accounts of a high school rager that went terribly awry.

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Elderly New York man fed up with government oppression tries to commit suicide outside studio of popular live TV show

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© @ShawnaMunger via TwitterA man with a knife cut his wrists outside the filming of the 'Today' show on Thursday.
A Queens man slashed his wrists in front of the crowd outside the "Today" show studio in Rockefeller Center Thursday, saying the Internal Revenue Service was out to get him.

Pak Chong Mar, 76, sliced himself with a knife around 7:50 a.m., shouting "the IRS is watching me," as the show was about to begin its 8 o'clock hour outside, according to the NYPD and The Associated Press. Security guards and police tackled him, and he was taken to Bellevue Hospital Center. The NYPD said he was in stable condition.

The show moved inside to start the hour, with host Matt Lauer explaining why they went inside.

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Texas says it's OK to shoot an escort if she won't have sex with you

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A jury in Bexar County, Texas just acquitted Ezekiel Gilbert of charges that he murdered a 23-year-old Craigslist escort - agreeing that because he was attempting to retrieve the $150 he'd paid to Lenora Ivie Frago, who wouldn't have sex with him, his actions were justified.

Gilbert had admitted to shooting Frago in the neck on Christmas Eve 2009, when she accepted $150 from Gilbert and left his home without having sex with him. Frago, who was paralyzed by the shooting, died several months later.

Gilbert's defense argued that the shooting wasn't meant to kill, and that Gilbert's actions were justified, because he believed that sex was included as part of the fee. Texas law allows people "to use deadly force to recover property during a nighttime theft."

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Lawsuits piling up over fired rogue Utah highway patrol trooper


An increasing number of lawsuits are being filed over fired Utah Highway Patrol trooper Lisa Steed. People who claim they have been wrongly convicted are trying to clear their names.

Steed's case is raising questions about what the innocent can do to protect their rights when stopped by police, even on a minor traffic violation.

Chad Ray was one of Lisa Steed's DUI convictions. On March 8, 2010, he had picked up his drunk brother and was headed home when Steed stopped him.

"I passed the walking tests," Ray said.

Though Ray said he wasn't drunk and passed all subsequent tests, he was arrested. And his drunk brother? Left along the side of the freeway.

"I said, 'Are you really going to leave my brother on the freeway like that?' She said, 'It ain't my problem,' " he said.

Ray ultimately chose to fight his conviction when he saw news of Steed's troubles. His lawsuit is one of three so far involving Steed that prosecutors are not contesting. Attorney Mike Studebaker has filed on 21 other cases like Ray's, and he's looking into more than 90 others.

"We will file as many post-conviction cases as need to be filed," Studebaker said.

Studebaker explained the basic game plan for these post-conviction lawsuits, known as "petitions for post-conviction relief," is to argue that due to the misconduct that has been revealed about Steed, the convictions should be vacated.

Studebaker said details of Steed's record should have been disclosed to defense lawyers.

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25,000 Belgians stage rally in Brussels, protesting government's austerity measures

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© Press TVBelgian protesters march in Brussels on June 6, 2013.
More than 25,000 Belgians have staged a rally in Brussels, protesting against the government's austerity measures while demanding equal status for workers and employees.

The march on Thursday was organized by the Socialist and Christian Democratic unions, which estimated the number of protestors at 35,000.
"Austerity is not the solution, it is the problem. We must change course. [There] should be more and better jobs," Secretary of the Christian Democratic Union Claude Rollin said.
The protesters also expressed opposition to a proposal presented by Prime Minister Elio di Rupo's government to freeze wages for public sector workers for two years.

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Man tasered while attempting to save infant son from a house fire


A father was tazed by San Antonio police while trying to save his infant boy from a house fire.

The incident occurred at around 2:30 a.m. Sunday during a house fire in the 100 block of Morningview Drive.

Investigators said the parents of the eight-month-old boy had dropped off their children at their grandparents' house. Somehow, a fire got started inside the home shortly thereafter.

The grandparents managed to grab one boy and rush to safety. That's when they realized one boy was still trapped inside.

Emergency crews and the children's parents arrived on the scene at around that time.

The boy's father tried several times to enter the burning home, but police held him back and ended up tazing him. SAPD said it was for his own safety.

The infant died from injuries sustained during the blaze.

Arson is under investigation. Police said the stories just don't add up.

No criminal charges have been filed.

The family is now looking for a new place to stay.

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Minnesota cheerleader accused of sex trafficking, prostitution of 16-year-old teammate

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© Hennepin County Jail/APMontia Marie Parker, 18, a suburban Minneapolis high school cheerleader, is accused of prostituting a younger student by creating an online ad and taking her to see potential customers, pocketing $60 in one case. She faces felony charges of sex trafficking and promoting prostitution.
A high school cheerleader has been arrested for allegedly pimping out a fellow member of her Minnesota pom-pom squad.

Montia Parker, 18, of Maple Grove, Minn., is due in Hennepin County District Court to face felony charges of sex trafficking and promoting prostitution on June 12.

Parker, a senior at Hopkins High School in Minnetonka, Minn., allegedly contacted a fellow cheerleader after she overheard her talking with girls on the team about trying to make money, the complaint stated.

Through text messages, Parker allegedly asked her sophomore teammate if she would be willing to have sex for money. The victim told Parker that she'd be willing to give men oral sex for money, according to the complaint.

Parker allegedly advised the teen to take photos of herself that were "not too nasty but kinda cute" and to send them to her. Parker told the girl to wear "different outfits" and "show a little skin," the complaint stated.

Using the photos the victim sent her, Parker created an ad for the 16-year-old on Backpage.com, according to the complaint.

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Heartless: City of Abbotsford, British Columbia, spreads manure over gathering place for homeless people

'War on the homeless' treats homeless like 'animals,' local advocate says


The City of Abbotsford has apologized for spreading chicken manure over a popular gathering place for the homeless in an apparent bid to drive them out of the city.

"I am deeply sorry for our actions," city manager George Murray wrote in an email obtained by CBC News.

"As city manager, I take this situation very seriously and retain full responsibility for the manner in which we dealt with this incident."

The practice of using chicken manure to drive away the homeless came to light after local advocate James W. Breckenridge wrote a column titled "This Stinks" in the Abbotsford Today community newspaper.