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A few years ago a lady in the small Cornish town of Fowey felt that a local bus stop shelter needed smartening up……….but instead of just sitting around and moaning she and her neighbours did something about it…

A German nursing home has come up with a novel idea to stop Alzheimer's patients from wandering off: a phantom bus stop. The idea emerged after the centre was forced to rely on police to retrieve patients who wanted to return to their homes and families but had forgotten that in many cases neither existed any longer. "If we can’t find them then we have to alert the police,” said Benrath's director Richard Neureither. “It can be particularly dangerous if this happens in winter and they spend the night out in the cold.” Without powers to detain patients, he said,...

"Are Chicago Bomb Scares Related? Authorities Investigate Mysterious Packages Discovered At Multiple Locations Across City" Reporting Suzanne Le Mignot CHICAGO (CBS) SNIPPET: "Also, overnight, officers found a suspicious cylinder at a bus shelter at Columbus and North Water. A bomb and arson robot was used to check it out, and the cylinder was blown up."

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"Air Force strikes in Gaza" SNIPPET: "IDF retaliates for deadly Qassam attack: Air Force hits several Gaza targets, including metal foundry, smuggling tunnel; Vice PM Shalom says Israel to offer strong response to rocket attack that killed Thai worker Thursday" SNIPPET: "IDF aircraft struck at least four targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday, a day after a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave killed a Thai worker in Israel, Hamas security officials and witnesses said." SNIPPET: "Israel also sent a letter of complaint to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who is due to visit Israel at the weekend,...

Police in Jersey City have arrested an ex-con they say has been urinating on women at a bus stop in Journal Square, a source said Wednesday. Nitinkumar Patel, 27, has urinated on at least seven women in the last three months, a law enforcement source said. He was caught Wednesday morning while urinating on a 16-year-old girl at the bus stop, a law enforcement source said. Two victims have identified Patel, the source said. He spent almost six years in prison for aggravated assault convictions, according to the New Jersey Department of Corrections. Patel was released in January 2009.

SUMMERVILLE -- For the past two weeks, children in a Summerville neighborhood have been getting on and off the school bus in front of a registered sex offender's house. A couple with three children - ages 14, 12 and 9 - asked officials in Dorchester District 2 to move the bus stop, and district leaders agreed to do it. Starting Tuesday morning, the stop will be moved to a nearby corner "that's in the best interest of all children in the area," said district spokeswoman Pat Raynor. Dave Flournoy, who asked that the stop be moved, said he appreciates the...

DETROIT – Detroit police say at least seven teenagers have been shot near a high school and two are in critical condition. Detroit Police spokesman Rod Liggons tells WXYZ-TV the victims were shot Tuesday afternoon at a bus stop by gunmen who emerged from a green minivan. Detroit Public Schools Police Chief Roderick Grimes says at least five students attending classes at Cody High School were shot. He says two are in critical condition...

Fox 2 has learned that at least four Cody High School students in Detroit have been shot at the corner of W. Warren and Southfield Road. Police say as many as six people may have been been shot. We're told summer school had just let out at nearby Cody High School. A Detroit Public School spokesperson confirms that four of the shooting victims are Cody High School students. We have not yet identified the other victims. Earlier video shows a woman being handcuffed and placed in a police car, then taken away. We do not know at this time if...

Fake bus stop keeps Alzheimer's patients from wandering off By Harry de Quetteville in Berlin Last Updated: 11:11PM BST 03/06/2008 German nursing homes are using a novel strategy to stop Alzheimer's patients from wandering off: phantom bus stops. The idea was first tried at Benrath Senior Centre in Düsseldorf, which pitched an exact replica of a standard stop outside, with one small difference: buses do not use it. The centre had been forced to rely on police to retrieve patients who wanted to return to their often non-existent homes and families. Then Benrath teamed up with a local care association...

HYDERABAD, India: The police continued to find and defuse bombs throughout the southern Indian city of Hyderabad on Sunday, a day after a pair of synchronized explosions ripped through two popular gathering spots, killing at least 42 people and wounding scores of others. State and national officials are calling the blasts in Hyderabad, a city with a history of Muslim-Hindu tensions, acts of terrorism. After the attacks, the police defused 19 more bombs - all fitted with timers and placed in plastic bags - at bus stops, movie theaters, road intersections and pedestrian bridges. The police said each of the...

St. Paul police on Monday announced the arrests of a father and son from Anoka County in connection with a Sept. 17 kidnapping and sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl. Police said there is a "clear connection" to that incident and to another incident the previous day in which a car followed a 13-year-old girl who was walking home. The men also will be investigated for a possible role in three other child abductions or attempted child-abduction cases earlier this month, according to Paul Schnell, police department spokesman.

5 Teens Charged in Taped Assault By Tony Plohetski AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Thursday, January 16, 2003 With their video camera rolling, five teenagers beat, kicked and laughed at a special education student as he waited at a bus stop, police said. Then, they said, the attackers "laughed hysterically" as they sped away. The planning and carrying out of the Dec. 19 assault -- all captured on a 30-minute videotape -- led to the arrest of five Anderson High School students this week. With bail set at $15,000 each, they remained in jail late Wednesday on charges of assault and engaging in...