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Unhappy Meal: 'Food Activists' Behead Ronald McDonald

Ronald McDonald is the victim of a crime -- and this time the Hamburglar isn't to blame. A group of artists and activists in Finland kidnapped a Ronald McDonald sculpture from a McDonald's restaurant and, despite the efforts of police, managed to behead a version of the fast-food icon in a grisly recording shot in the...

What if Taliban Kidnapped Harry? Royals Slam Drama

(Oct. 7) -- Buckingham Palace is in a lather over a British TV drama depicting what might happen if Prince Harry were to be kidnapped while on duty in Afghanistan, U.K. media report. Channel 4's "The Taking of Prince Harry," scheduled to air Oct. 21, has Harry, played by Sebastian Reid, captured by the Taliban and taken...

Good Samaritans Praised for Rescuing Abducted Girl

(Oct. 5) -- Authorities in California are crediting two "good Samaritans" with helping rescue an 8-year-old girl who was abducted outside her Fresno home and sexually assaulted. "I want to say thank you to the citizens of Fresno and the good Samaritans," Police Chief Jerry Dyer told reporters. "They are heroes." Fresno...

Amber Nicklas, Missing for Nearly 7 Years, Is Found Safe

(July 15) -- A missing California girl who was abducted from her foster family nearly seven years ago was found safe in a home in Phoenix, police said. Amber Nicklas, now 7, was a toddler when three of her biological aunts allegedly kidnapped her from a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant in Norwalk, Calif., in 2003 during a...

Background on kidnap

In criminal law, kidnapping is the taking away or transportation of a person against that person's will, usually to hold the person in false imprisonment, a confinement without legal authority.

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