Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Police find man living in woman's attic WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- A Pennsylvania woman alleges a man police discovered in her attic had been stealing food and clothing from the home she shares with her three children. Advertisement Stacey Ferrance said she suspected theft after her laptop computer and iPod went missing and phoned police after finding a footprint on the wall of her bedroom closet, which contains the door to the attic, The (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) Times Leader reported Monday. Police said the man, identified as Stanley Carter, 21, came out of the attic Friday and surrendered himself to officers after hearing a police dog inside Ferrance's home. "When he came down from the attic, he was wearing my daughter's pants and my sweatshirt and sneakers," Ferrance said. "It's not something I would expect, someone living in my attic. It's disturbing." Ferrance said Carter had formerly stayed with her neighbors, who have a door to the same shared attic inside their home. She said she believed the neighbors had reported Carter, who is from Arkansas, missing Dec. 19. Advertisement "He had everything up there," she said. "He had candles, food; he wrapped himself in blankets and insulation to sleep." Carter was charged with multiple counts of burglary, theft, receiving stolen property and criminal trespass. He was taken to the Luzerne County Correctional Facility in lieu of $25,000 bail. California newborn weighs 14 lbs., 2 oz. LAGUNA HILLS, Calif., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Doctors said a 14-pound, 2-ounce boy born at a Laguna Hills, Calif., hospital may be the largest baby ever delivered in Orange County. Saddleback Memorial Medical Center doctors said the child born Tuesday to Sara and Richard Sault is the heaviest baby to be born at the hospital and an informal check of other hospitals in the county found no larger infants on record, The Orange County Register reported Monday. Hospital officials said two doctors were needed to lift the child, named Richard Jr., during Sault's Caesarean section and the big baby barely fit into the largest diapers available at the hospital. Dr. Ronald Naglie, a neonatologist at Saddleback Memorial, said Richard Jr. is "certainly the biggest newborn I've encountered" in his 30 years of working with infants. The Guinness Book of World Records lists the largest-ever surviving infant as weighing 22.5 pounds at birth. Advertisement Web game leads to bomb scare URBANA, Ohio, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Police in Urbana, Ohio, say an Internet game played like a scavenger hunt caused a bomb scare and forced the evacuation of a retail area. The bomb squad was summoned Sunday night after witnesses told police they saw a man place something under the metal base of a lamp pole, The Dayton (Ohio) Daily News reported Monday. The 35-mm film canisters subsequently found under the base of the pole turned out to be part of an Internet game called "geocaching" in which players find hidden objects by using global positioning systems to track coordinates listed on Web sites, police said. The canisters contained slips of paper with the names of players who had found the canisters, police said. Shot misses dog, hits neighbor JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Authorities in Jacksonville, Fla., say a woman who fired a pistol at a dog missed and inadvertently shot her neighbor in the back. Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Lt. Ron Norse said the woman, who was not named, fired a shot at a pit bull she thought was attacking her son, but the bullet instead bounced off a driveway, burrowed through the wall of a neighboring modular home and lodged itself in a woman's back, the Jacksonville Times-Union reported Monday. Advertisement Norse said the injured woman was taken to a hospital with a non-life-threatening wound. He said no arrest was made in the incident.
