SpongeBob Kidnappers Seek Ransom for Doll
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Have you seen this sponge? Police are looking for a blow-up figure of SpongeBob SquarePants swiped from a Minnesota Burger King.
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Russian authorities are trying to negotiate with the armed group holding at least 200 hostages, many of them children. The heavily armed militants stormed the school in Beslan on Wednesday and are demanding
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A Somali clan elder has met with a French journalist being held by kidnappers who have increased their ransom demand to $1 million, the elder said Wednesday.
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A convicted sex offender wanted for allegedly kidnapping an 11-year-old boy from his school in Florida was arrested Sunday, two days after the boy was found safe.
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SPRING HILL, Tennessee - Town officials have restored a woman's business license weeks after accusing her of trying to sell a sex toy - a vibrating yellow-ducky sponge - at a flea market.
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A bizarre apology from the beleaguered toymaker makes it seem desperate heading into the holiday season.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon  - A seven year-old Lebanese boy has been kidnapped on his way home from school in Iraq with his captors demanding a 150,000 dollar ransom for his release, Lebanese officials said yesterday.
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Tammi Houton, like a lot of parents yesterday, found herself surprised that peril could lurk behind some of the most familiar faces in children's toys. Elmo? Dora the Explorer? SpongeBob SquarePants?
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Art experts think two priceless paintings stolen from a Norway museum might be returned...only if a hefty ransom is paid. They say the ransom on Edvard Munch&#39;s &quot;The Scream&quot; and &quot;Madonna&quot; could be as high as a hundred million dollars.
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BAGHDAD: A Turkish shipping magnate and three others were kidnapped as violence in Iraq yesterday claimed six more lives. A Turkish private NTV television channel said that the kidnappers have demanded a $25 million (BD9.5m) ransom.
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Gunmen holding a three-year-old British girl hostage in the Niger Delta make a ransom demand, her mother says.
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Officials pushed to get food and water to children and adult hostages that may number more than 1,000 held in a school here for a third day by militants who are demanding independence for the Russian republic of Chechnya.
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Nigerian authorities intensify efforts to free a three-year-old British girl kidnapped in the Niger Delta.
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Volunteers work on inflating the Sponge Bob Square Pants balloon Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004 on 81st Street near Central Park in New York.
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Authorities in Nepal appealed to villagers on Monday for help in finding a helicopter chartered by conservation group WWF, nearly two days after it disappeared in bad weather with 24 people on board.
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The family of a British hostage in Iraq  renew appeals for authorities to negotiate with the  kidnappers.
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BOSASSO, Somalia  - A gang in Somalia has demanded a ransom for two foreign aid workers who were kidnapped this week, the president of Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region said on Sunday.