Parents charged with abducting bride
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The parents of a bride-to-be told their daughter they were taking her on a shopping trip, but then drove to Colorado and kept her there until she missed the nuptials, officials said.
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A 24-year-old mother, who was charged in connection with an alleged plot to blow up US-bound airliners, was remanded in custody for two weeks.
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An Indian-born couple appear in court charged with keeping two Indonesian women as slaves in their US home.
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Woman charged with manslaughter over fatal mauling of five-year-old.
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Here's an up-to-the-minute round-up from Europe of what has been doing in the ongoing potboiler regarding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, the missing 3-year-old girl who allegedly was kidnapped from her room at a Portuguese vacation resort in May. Should you have had your head buried in the sand during the past few months or were abducted by aliens, first the background: Madeleine's parents, Gerry and Kate McCann had allegedly put all of their children to bed in a room at the Portuguese vacation village and were "relaxing with friends" over a few drinks at a tapas bar close to their room. Yes, the children were alone, unsupervised, but "being checked up on regularly" by their doting Doctor-parents. Varying accounts exist of how much alcohol was consumed during the evening. At the last bed-check, allegedly around 10 pm, Mrs. McCann allegedly discovered Maddie to be missing. Early reports indicated she returned to the tapas bar shouting hysterically "They've taken her, they've taken her." A massive month-long manhunt ensured and failed to turn up any clue of the little girl, despite leads pouring in, sightings of her in places as far away as Belgium. Vowing not to leave Portugal until Maddie was returned to them, the McCanns fled Portugal for the safety of Britain last week when Portuguese authorities stopped just shy of directly accusing the couple of having either accidentally or purposely killed their daughter and covered up the toddler's death with a fake abduction story. Since then, the accusations have been flying, tensions mounting and tempers here on Topix in the various fora running hot and heavy. And now, as a public service from Europe, a round-up of the latest headlines concerning the disappearance/death/kidnapping/murder/story of Madeleine McCann, age 3... (more) *********************************************
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A Florida couple accused of torturing and starving five adopted children &#151; including pulling out their toenails and subjecting them to electric shocks &#151; were captured Friday in southeastern Utah after police tracked them through their cell phones, officials said.
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Suspect tried to blackmail girl's parents, says paper, in what could be first big development in weeks.
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BARTOW, Fla. - A 31-year-old woman is accused of faking her own abduction to win back an ex-boyfriend. Gretchen Morales was arrested Monday and charged with filing a false police report, child neglect and contributing to the delinquency of a child, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said.
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SURREY , B.C. (CP) - Six charges were laid Monday against a man in connection with the kidnapping and sexual assault last week of an 11-year-old girl.
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Federal authorities on Friday night charged a Melvern, Kan., woman with killing another woman and taking a baby from her womb. US Attorney Todd Graves said Lisa M. Montgomery
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Scott Peterson&#39;s parents testified Monday that they were to blame for some of his strange behavior leading up to his arrest for the murders of his pregnant wife and unborn son.
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Parents have not received details of police evidence.
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ABECHE, Chad  - Chad's authorities brought abduction and fraud charges on Tuesday against nine French and seven Spanish nationals it accused of illegally trying to fly 103 African children to Europe.
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - A 13-year-old boy was charged with abducting an exotic dancer when she showed up for an appointment at what turned out to be a vacant house with no electricity, police said Monday.  When the woman entered the house at 6:30 p.m. on Nov.
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The foster parents of a 3-year-old disabled boy who died after being wrapped in a blanket and packing tape for two days were indicted Wednesday on murder and kidnapping charges.
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Parents of a British girl who disappeared during a vacation in Portugal have been told they will not immediately face new police questioning over their daughter's fate, a family spokesman and the public prosecutor's office in Portugal said Wednesday.
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A 30-year-old woman is suing her adoptive parents for kidnapping in a case that opened in an Argentine court Tuesday, becoming the first child of disappeared political prisoners to press such charges.