Baseball star's mother abducted
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The Venezuelan mother of major league baseball pitcher Ugueth Urbina is kidnapped near Caracas.
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RICHMOND, Jan. 22 -- Alicia Kozakiewicz was 13 when she was abducted and assaulted in a Herndon basement by a man she met online. Four days after her disappearance, a team of law enforcement officers who specialize in cybercrime tracked her down.
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A woman posing as a nurse abducted a 3-day-old girl in need of medical attention from a hospital in Lubbock, Texas, on Saturday, police said. Baby Mychel Darthard-Dawodu's security bracelet was removed, the hospital administrator said. Police are hunting the suspected kidnapper -- a 5-foot-3-inch African-American woman seen on security cameras in pink nurse's scrubs with purple and blue flowers.
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SANTOS -- Kidnappers freed on Friday the mother of Santos forward Robinho, one of Brazil&#39;s most talented young players, 40 days after seizing her at gunpoint while she was attending a barbecue.
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Armed men kidnap the mother of Robinho, one of Brazilian football's brightest young stars.
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Police say they believe a 19-year-old college student who mysteriously disappeared from a friend's home over the weekend was kidnapped.
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NEWTON -- A French journalist with a US passport and family ties to the Boston area has been kidnapped in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, his friends and associates said yesterday.
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An Arab-Israeli television producer for CNN was abducted at gunpoint by a group of Palestinians yesterday after being pulled from a network van in Gaza City.
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A woman who told police she saw a newborn  boy tossed out of a car onto a street in North Lauderdale,  Florida, is the child's mother and made up the bizarre story,  police said on Friday.
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A woman who authorities say slit the throat of a young mother and stole her baby was charged Wednesday with kidnapping and assault as authorities cast doubt on her claims that she had recently lost her own baby.
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Kidnappers have freed the mother of Robinho, six weeks after seizing her at gunpoint from a party in Sao Paulo. Marina Lima de Souza, 43, was found in the west of the city overnight, according to Brazilian news reports.
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WASHINGTON -- Former major leaguer Chuck Knoblauch showed up to be interviewed Friday by congressional lawyers investigating drugs in baseball, toting his toddler son in his arms and accompanied by a lawyer.
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A kidnapped 14-year-old girl texts her mother from her keeper's cell phone. Authorities rescue her, using the message to help target their search area.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - The mother of one of three  American contractors abducted by guerrillas in Colombia 18  months ago on Tuesday called on President Alvaro Uribe to  negotiate his release and that of other kidnapping victims  throughout the country.
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One of Brazil&#39;s brightest new football talents yesterday made a plea for the return of his mother who was kidnapped at gunpoint at the weekend.
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"Papa! Papa! Papa!" cried the voice on Rodolfo Melchor's cell phone. Then: "Honey, it's me, I've been kidnapped!"
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Orioles pitcher Sidney Ponson has been detained in his native Aruba on suspicion of assault, police announced on Sunday.