A woman convicted of murder was given permission to take her infant daughter to prison with her, enabling her to look after the baby during her four-year sentence. Imprisoned for fatally shooting her common-law husband in their Prince George home back in 2006, Lisa Anne Whitford, 37, gave birth to her baby last March, while she was being held in custody.

Teachers and officials at a coed British school were shocked to see a class with an all-boy attendance on the first day of school. For the first time since it opened 30 years ago Bassetts Farm, a primary school with a population equally split between girls and boys, suddenly had a class of 20 4-year old boys, an occurrence that is still puzzling people.

A training manual issued by Canada's Foreign Affairs Department lists Guantanamo Bay, the U. S. detention camp in Cuba, as a suspected torture and abuse site - alongside Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Syria. A Canadian citizen, Omar Khadr, awaits trial in Guantanamo for allegedly killing an American medic in Afghanistan in 2002 and has been in detention for five years since he was 15 years old, CBC News reported.

State mailers with labels bearing the Social Security numbers of recipients were sent again to tens of thousands of people in Wisconsin repeating the same mistake that happened only 13 months ago. EDS Corp. , a Texas-based private vendor contracted to prepare the state mail, discovered on Monday that the mailing labels of benefits brochures sent to 260,000 Medicaid, SeniorCare and BadgerCare members had the recipients' social security numbers printed on it. The firm stopped mailing the brochures to 225,000 other recipients on Tuesday.

A man planning to run in the Republican primary for the West Virginia state Senate has withdrawn after accidentally registering himself as a Democrat, ten years ago. Ronald Jean Moltere, 64, recently discovered the mistake he made a decade ago. He explained that he never found out about the mistake because he had always voted in the general elections, and never in the primaries.