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1. Founder of toxic day-care captured in Ireland

   Two years after fleeing to Ireland to escape charges of embezzlement in North Carolina, Julie Lawlor has been captured. Lawlor, 38, gained notoriety as a founder of Kiddie Kollege, the Franklinville day-care center that exposed nearly 100 infants and children to toxic mercury vapors between 2004 and 2006. During her time on the lam, Lawlor became known as a femme fatale in Dublin and Cork, where several men accused her of duping them into marriage proposals. She was the darling of the Sunday World, an Irish tabloid that last year reported Lawlor had posed as a multimillionaire American. She already had been married four times and has four children.

2. Traffic victims need to step up; Very few take the time to go to court, resulting in many charges being tossed out

   In the wild kingdom of Traffic Court, a "CW" is the rarest of birds -- you can be in court all morning and never spot one. "CW" is courthouse shorthand for "complaining witness." If someone's driving like a goof and rear-ends your car or runs you over, the ticket will likely get thrown out unless you appear in court to make your complaint. Imagine a packed courtroom, with a crowd of slouchy, grouchy people dressed in jeans and grubby novelty T-shirts, lined up before the bench. The judge and attorneys talk fast to work through the line. Here's some sample dialogue:

3. School aide charged with bomb threat ; Classes held after building checked

   A program assistant who taught fifth-graders at Bow Memorial School was arrested yesterday after she called in a bomb threat before coming to work, the police and school administrators said.