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A St. Paul woman showed up to pick up her child from school Friday afternoon, and was arrested with a .30 blood-alcohol-content, police said. The 44-year-old woman arrived at Linwood Monroe Arts Plus, pre-K through eighth grade, about 12:30 p.m. with her 8-year-old son, said police spokesman Andy Skoogman. She was picking up another one of her children, Skoogman said, when the 8-year-old went into the school and told the principal that his mother was not in driving shape. The boy's mother remained in the car parked out front. The principal went to the woman's car, took her keys and...

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A British diplomat went berserk after a drinking binge on his flight home from tsunami aid work in Thailand, a court heard today. Colonel Peter Roberts, the British defence attaché in Thailand, hurled obscene abuse at other passengers in business class, threatened to kill cabin staff, grabbed at women, and struggled free of the plastic ties binding his wrists and ankles to subdue him, it was alleged. He was arrested when his flight landed at Heathrow and then tried to punch and kick police officers, Isleworth Crown Court in London heard. As fellow passengers and cabin staff tried to restrain...

A drunken holidaymaker has been dumped on a desert island after launching a foul-mouthed tirade at the crew of a passenger jet. The unwilling Robinson Crusoe will only be able to leave Porto Santo, a tiny patch of land off the North African coast, if he books a two-and-a-half hour ferry trip to Madeira. He will then have to book a flight to his intended destination, Tenerife, or return to Britain. Monarch Airlines has yet to decide whether to sue him for the cost of the unscheduled diversion, estimated at "many thousands of pounds". The unnamed passenger's difficulties began on...