A 19-year-old Bend man has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his stepfather in the elbow with a kitchen knife early this morning, police reported.   Jerid A. Helm - DCJ photo Shortly after 4:15 a.m. September 17, officers were dispatched to the report of a stabbing at 61003 Targee Drive, a news release prepared by Bend Police’s Ben A. Gregory stated. Officers determined that Jerid A. Helm, 19, had allegedly stabbed his stepfather in the left elbow ... [full story]

ST. LOUIS -- St. Louis police sources confirmed that a large amount of money, possibly more than $40,000, was stolen from an evidence vault. The theft -- the second within the police department this year -- occurred in the property-custody room in the basement of St. Louis Police Headquarters, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Monday. Lt. Col. Roy Joachimstaler, chief of detectives, confirmed that internal and criminal investigations were under way into the disappearance of ... [full story]

BELGRADE, Serbia — A court in western Serbia sentenced a 49-year-old man to three years in jail for raping an under-age boy. Judge Nadezda Zivic of the District Court in Valjevo, 56 miles southwest of Belgrade, ruled Ciric was drunk when he forced his young neighbor to the sexual act at a fun fair on the outskirts of Valjevo, the Serbian news agency Tanjug said Monday. Zivic said she passed the minimum sentence because Ciric ... [full story]

LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas police say former NFL star and actor O.J. Simpson will be held without bail until a Thursday court appearance on robbery, weapons and other charges. Simpson, 60, was arrested at a Las Vegas hotel Sunday and charged with two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon and one count each of armed burglary and conspiracy to commit burglary, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police ... [full story]

DES MOINES, IA -- Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton unveiled her healthcare reform package Monday that would require all Americans be insured. 'It puts the consumer in the driver`s seat by offering more choices and lowering costs,' Clinton, D-N.Y., said on her Web site. She unveiled her proposal at a Des Moines hospital. Clinton said her plan would include tax credits to help defray premium costs and could be transported if an insured person ... [full story]

SUN CITY, Fla. -- The owners of a Sun City, Fla., petting zoo said attackers broke into the facility, stole as many as five pigs and stabbed two others.Cornelia Winn said Big Pig, a particularly docile 400-pound animal, was stabbed at least 10 times, the Tampa (Fla.) Tribune reported Monday.Winn said two of Big Pig’s wounds were about 2 inches deep, and one was 7 or 8 inches long.She said a second pig, a pregnant ... [full story]

OSAKA, Japan -- Passengers on the Orochi suspended roller coaster at Japan's Expoland got a serious scare when the coaster did not stop to let them off. Osaka's Expoland had just recently re-opened after a roller coaster derailed and killed a woman in May when the ride malfunctioned and carried its passengers around the track twice, the Mainichi daily News reported. This time, no one was hurt when the Orochi roller coaster failed to stop ... [full story]

WARSAW, Poland — Polish doctors in the southern town of Trzebnica operated for six hours to reattach the arm of an 8-year-old boy who had the limb torn off by a washing machine. Doctors said chances were good that the boy, identified only as Dominik, would have use of his reattached arm in the future, Polish Radio reported Monday. It wasn’t immediately known how the boy had his arm amputated by the washing machine, the ... [full story]

PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said he would appreciate it if the Czech government continued training Iraqi police, Prague Radio said Monday. Zebari, on a three-day visit to Prague, is to sign a cooperation agreement with his Czech counterpart Karel Schwarzenberg. Czech military police trained several thousands of Iraqi border police and customs officers in Iraq in the from December 2003 to January 2007. Zebari warned an early withdrawal of U.S. ... [full story]

LONDON -- Three men were found guilty in Britain of running a worldwide conspiracy selling fake Viagra and hair restoration medicine.The men were found guilty of extorting millions of dollars in the largest case of its kind to be heard in the Britain, said experts at the Britain’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency. The pills were manufactured illegally in factories in China, Pakistan and Asia and sold for up to $40 a tablet, The ... [full story]