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Ky. man tries to steal from police station

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- A Kentucky man is facing charges for allegedly stealing candy, a police hat and a two hypodermic needles from an Ohio police headquarters, officials said.

Derek Kidd, 32, and his girlfriend were allowed inside the Middletown Police Department's detectives area Dec. 2 to make a phone call after having been released 45 minutes earlier on charges of disorderly conduct in an unrelated incident, the Middletown Journal reported last week.

While his girlfriend placed the call, Kidd allegedly stole the items, the police report said.

Kidd tried to conceal the police cap under his own cap, Maj. Mark Hoffman said.

Kidd was arrested and charged with theft and possession of drug abuse instruments.

"I said he was arrested for being stupid," Hoffman said he told Kidd's girlfriend when, crying, she asked what her boyfriend had done.

Bread-eating chef vindicated

LONDON, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The head chef at a London hospital, fired for eating a piece of garlic bread destined for the trash, has been awarded $41,000 in compensation.

London's Evening Standard reported Tuesday an employment tribunal judge ruled Hamid Elkhiyari was entitled to the payment for his dismissal by Kingston Hospital management last February

While his bosses had labeled him a thief, Elkhiyari, 53, said he only ate the morsel because he had been unable to take a proper lunch break during a record snowfall that kept many co-workers from getting to work.

"It is ridiculous," the chef said. "Service had finished so everything was being cleaned away to throw into the bin. So I had a piece of garlic bread."

Six days later, he was fired.

Elkhiyari went to court, charging racial discrimination by hospital contractor ISF Mediclean and the tribunal agreed.

Hero pilot's hat to benefit two schools

DANVILLE, Calif., Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the US Airways pilot whose forced landing in the Hudson River made him a hero, is selling a hat to benefit California schools.

The person who makes the winning bid on eBay will get the hat, autographed by Sullenberger, a plastic box to protect it and a handwritten note from the pilot and his wife, Lorrie, thanking the buyer for making a contribution to education, the Contra Costa (Calif.) Times reported. Proceeds from the sale are going to the San Ramon high school where Sullenberger's daughters are students and to a sister school in East Oakland, across the Bay from San Francisco, Allie Herson of Barbary Coast Consulting said.

Herson said Sullenberg has owned the hat for a long time, although he was not wearing it, or any other, in January when he landed in the Hudson.

Sullenberger's plane lost engine power after a bird strike during takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York. Without time to reach LaGuardia or another airport, he brought the plane down in the river, and all passengers and crew were able to evacuate before it sank.

He has since written "Highest Duty: My Search For What Really Matters."

World's smallest mom has third child

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 8 (UPI) -- A Kentucky woman known as the world's smallest mother says she has given birth to her third child, a healthy baby boy.

Stacey Herald, 35, said she defied her doctors' orders for the third time in three years and gave birth Nov. 28 to 2-pound, 10-ounce Malachi, The Sun reported Tuesday.

Herald stands at only 2 feet, 4 inches tall due to Osteogenesis Imperfecta, also known as brittle bone disease. She said doctors advised her that having children could kill her. However, she said she defied their orders to have children Kateri, 3, Makya, 18 months, and newborn Malachi.

Doctors said they induced labor at 32 weeks of pregnancy because they feared he was growing too large for the mother to carry, the British newspaper said. Herald said Malachi is healthy but remains under supervision at a hospital.

"Malachi is having trouble feeding and some circulation problems, but the doctors say he's doing well," she said. "I feel heartbroken every time we have to go home and leave him in the hospital. We're looking forward to the day he's strong enough to come home."