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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...