Alleged burglar warms up bottle for crying baby

November 20, 2009, 4:59pm

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – An 18-year-old is in police custody after he warmed up a bottle for a crying baby inside the house he was allegedly robbing. Indianapolis police arrested the suspect at Arlington High School on Tuesday after receiving a tip from a television viewer saw surveillance video on a newscast.

Detectives said two suspects forced their way into a home on Friday morning and began ransacking the house. Police said that when a baby started crying, one of them warmed a bottle in a microwave oven and gave it to a child to feed the baby.

The suspect was being held on charges of burglary, robbery, criminal confinement and pointing a firearm.

Cow falls into woman's pool

SPARTANBURG, South Carolina (AP) – Call it udder shock.

A woman from South Carolina who went out to investigate a giant splash in her backyard discovered a 650-pound cow in her swimming pool.

In a report made by WSPA-TV, the cow fell into Kathy Wydareny’s covered pool on Monday night. The Anderson resident said the cow belonged to her neighbor.

Wydareny said she was startled by a “giant whoosh” and took a flashlight out to investigate. She called 911 after spotting the cow.

It took five men from the county rescue team to free the cow using a sling.

Wydareny believes the cow got loose and just kept walking, thinking the pool cover was solid ground.

Toddler helps mom give birth

OLIVE BRANCH, Mississippi (AP) – A two-year-old in North Mississippi has done something few toddlers have -- he helped his mother give birth to his brother.

Bobbye Favazza told The Commercial Appeal she went into labor Friday and gave birth on the family’s living room couch in Olive Branch. She said her toddler, Jeremiha Taylor, got her a towel and caught the baby before firefighters arrived to cut the umbilical cord.

Favazza gave birth to a seven-pound, four-ounce baby boy, Kamron Taylor.

She was supposedly scheduled for a caesarian section on Dec. 6.

Celebrity baby names may cause future embarassment

LONDON (Reuters) – A London-based translation firm is offering parents-to-be the chance to check the meaning of prospective baby names in other languages to avoid inadvertently causing their offspring future embarrassment.

Celebrity couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes might have thought twice about naming their daughter Suri if they’d known that it means “pickpocket” in Japanese, “turned sour” in French, and “horse mackerels” in Italian, suggest Today Translations.

For 1,000 pounds ($1,678), the company’s linguists will carry out a “basic name translation audit” of names, checking their meaning in 100 languages, or more for an additional cost.

While open to everyone, the firm said it expects the service is likely to attract celebrity clients, who are known for giving their babies unusual names.

Man gets lost, drives for nine hours

CANBERRA (Reuters) – An elderly man who went out to fetch a morning newspaper ended up driving nearly 640 kilometers after getting lost and taking a wrong turn on to a major Australian highway, police said.

Eighty one-year-old Eric Steward eventually stopped and asked for directions after driving for nine hours, from the New South Wales country town of Yass to Geelong in the southern Victoria state.

Steward, who did not know where he was, eventually approached a policeman at a gasoline station and asked for help.