A man who has spent 35 years in jail for stealing a $140 television set will be released in a few weeks. However, the 64-year-old man Junior Allen will have to work, comply with all laws and check in periodically with a parole officer for five years after his release.

Central Administrator - News Room Administrators AdministratorWILMINGTON, N. C. A North Carolina man found the tip of a severed human finger in a container of frozen custard.

Hla Htay, 40, has taken responsibility for two Bengal tiger cubs by breast-feeding them daily. Three times a day, Htay, mother of a seven-month-old baby boy, goes to the Yangon zoo where she holds 45-minute breast-feeding sessions for the animals, rejected by their natural mother. "The cubs are just like my babies," Hla Htay told Fuji TV as one of the baby cats suckled her breast. In mid-march, three cubs were born at the zoo. The mother killed one and refused to nurse the others. After many numerous, unsuccessful attempts to bottle feed, veterinarians decided to try breast-feeding. "They had some difficulties sucking the nipple on the bottle. When we tried to get the cubs to suck a lady's breast, it was alright," said a veterinarian. The zoo has said the sessions will stop by the end of April or when the tigers start teething.

South Koreans believe a person's blood type can determine their dating compatibility - making love very difficult for blood type-B men. South Korean magazines, TV shows and Internet chat rooms have been buzzing about blood types for years. But, these days, the subject of attention is just how difficult it is to strike up a relationship with type-B men. Associating blood types with personality traits has been going on for decades in North Asia. Most of the original interest started in Japan early in the 20th century and it has also taken off in South Korea. While many characteristics are associated with type-B people, the men are getting a reputation that includes, selfish, mercurial and absolutely useless as caring and devoted boyfriends. Type-B women, on the other hand, have bypassed the popular personality opinion. Last fall, a song from singer Kim Hyun-jung called "Type-B Men" soared to the top of the charts. The song had lyrics that said type-B men are quick to get angry and quick to make-up, but in the end, they will break your heart. Kim Nang, author of the best-selling book, "Dating a Type-B Man," lays out strategies for women of various blood types to deal with the pitfalls and pleasures of striking up relationships with type-B men. Another assault in pop culture came earlier this year with the release of the romantic comedy, "My Boyfriend is Type-B", which tells the frustrations of a type-A woman who falls in love with just such a man. In Asia, the subject of linking blood types to personality took off with the 1927 publication of a series of articles by Japanese scholar Takeji Furukawa called "The Study of Temperament Through Blood Type. " The concept hit pop culture and mass media in 1971 when Japanese writer Masahiko Nomi expanded upon Furukawa's ideas and wrote "Understanding Compatibility from Blood Types. " Today, such books on this idea are translated into Korean and filling bookshelves in Seoul. These days, South Korean women's magazines and Internet sites seem to be inundated with the subject of romance with type-B men. According to a recent nationwide survey conducted by Internet portal site www. xyinlove. co. kr, type-B men were considered to be the most difficult type to date and about 40 percent of women said they did not want to marry a type-B man. Kim Tae-suk, a doctor in the department of psychiatry at the Catholic University of Korea, said younger Koreans were buying into defining people by blood types because of what they see on TV, movies and in print. "I can definitively say there is no scientific evidence that links a person's blood type to their character," Kim said.

Authorities have arrested a convicted killer and located the wife of an assistant prison warden ten years after they vanished. 60-year old Randolph Dial was arrested at a mobile home in the east Texas town of Campti following a tip from the TV show "America's Most Wanted". He had been convicted of murdering a karate instructor in 1981. Investigators thought Bobbi Parker may have been taken against her will when she went missing August 30, 1994, but after being discovered working on a chicken ranch not far from where Dial was found, authorities say she doesn't seem interested in going back to her former life. The now 42-year old Parker and Dial have apparently been managing five large chicken houses near the Louisiana border, though officials cannot confirm the extent of their relationship over the past decade. Prior to his escape, Dial was confined to minimum security Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite where he used his skill as a renowned painter and sculptor with a master's degree in art to run the facility's pottery program. He also enjoyed extended privileges outside of the prison, including using a kiln at the Parker's home garage. Bobbi Parker's husband, Randy, says he saw Dial working in the garage the day his wife disappeared. A note was discovered when Parker came home for lunch saying Bobbi had gone to the grocery store. Later, Dial was reported missing as well as Bobbi Parker. Bobbi Parker did call her mother in tears telling her she couldn't talk, but would be home soon. A second call was made to her mother a day later telling her to call home and tell her kids she loved them and would be back soon. It was the last time there would be any reported contact. Randy Parker, who was a deputy warden at the facility, is now the warden at the William S. Key Correctional Center at Fort Supply, Oklahoma. Upon being located by FBI agents, Bobbi did ask about her husband and two daughters, though she gave no indication she plans to return. Shelby County Sheriff Newton Johnson says, "As far as I know, she has no intention of leaving. She said she wants to stay on the farm and raise chickens. "