Deadbeats win 450 thousand bucks from State, then hand it right back for child support owed

Nearly 300 people who were awarded more than $450,000 in a class action lawsuit over jailhouse strip searches handed the money back to the state to pay child support and related debts.

Former prisoners who believed they were illegally strip searched between 1996 and 2004 at the York County Jail were awarded $3.3 million in the 1,350-member, class-action settlement.

State officials discovered that 284 plaintiffs owed child support, and working with the state attorney general's office and U.S. District Court, recovered $463,000.

Of the total, $240,000 went to the children's families, and the rest went to state and federal governments to help repay the cost of public assistance during the time that support payments were not available, state officials said.

In the York County strip-search case, plaintiffs objected to a policy of making all prisoners, even those facing misdemeanor charges, disrobe. Jail officials said the searches were to uncover hidden weapons or other contraband.

When will teen girls learn not to carry dead babies around in their backpack?

A teenager who walked into a suburban hospital with a dead newborn in her backpack hours after giving birth has been charged with second-degree manslaughter, police said Friday. Zehra Catalbas, 18, of Mount Sinai pleaded not guilty at her arraignment on Thursday and was released on $10,000 bail. She apparently had kept her pregnancy secret until giving birth in the shower at her family's Long Island home Feb. 4, said Lt. Jack Fitzpatrick, a Suffolk County detective. Catalbas walked into Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson with the dead baby in her backpack and told doctors she was in pain. An autopsy showed the baby died of asphyxiation. Catalbas' father had a heart attack after being told what happened, but is recovering Fitzpatrick said. A call to Catalbas's attorney was not immediately returned Friday.

Cake robber returned once too often

A Chinese man was arrested after attempting to steal cakes at knifepoint three times in an hour from the same shop.

The 36-year-old burst into the cake shop at Changchun city, Jilin province, and told staff to give him some cakes.

"He came in with a knife and told us to freeze. Taking two cakes, he ran away," the shop manager told the Eastern Asia Economic News.

Considering the loss was so minor, the manager didn't call the police, but then, after only ten minutes, the robber returned and stole two more cakes.

This time, the manager called the police and officers were at the scene 30 minutes later when the man came back to the shop, asking staff to "load him with another two cakes".

At first, he told police he was a visitor and only spoke "foreign language", but he finally admitted he had just been hungry.