The following articles have been tagged with "Falun":
Science & Technology: 20 Apr 13
Sweden's weather agency SMHI has warned that the floods that caused severe disruptions in and around Uppsala on Friday will intensify, and weather warnings were issued for the south, too.
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National: 19 Apr 13
Rail services from Stockholm to Uppsala have suffered serious disruption on Friday after the melting snow caused extensive flooding in the university town and surrounding areas.
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Travel: 29 Jan 13
With Sweden hunkering down for another stretch of winter weather, The Local offfers a run down of Swedish ski areas, where new snow brings fists raised in glee, rather than anger.
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Society: 18 Jan 13
A woman in southern Sweden has been charged for attempted assault after attacking a man with a frying pan full of Swedish sausages.
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National: 7 Jan 13
Police break the rules in taking too long to investigate sexual and violent abuse against children in Sweden, according to a new report.
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Society: 8 Dec 12
The grave was not dug, the pallbearers never showed up, the church bells were broken and the priest suggested that the deceased woman should be cremated instead of buried, leaving one Falun family upset and confused at the lack of coordination between the church and the undertaker.
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Business & Money: 7 Nov 12
Swedish telecom giant Ericsson announced on Wednesday that it would be cutting 1,550 jobs nationwide over a range of sectors, in an effort to reduce costs.
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Society: 9 Oct 12
A lunch lady whose food was "too good" for students at a Swedish school will be able to continue offering her tasty concoctions after local authorities said the episode was a "misunderstanding" -- an explanation that doesn't sit well with the cook.
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Society: 8 Oct 12
Students in central Sweden have taken to Facebook in a show of support for their school's head cook whose food was recently deemed "too good" by local authorities.
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Society: 6 Oct 12
A talented cook at a school in central Sweden has been told to stop baking fresh bread and to cut back on vegetable buffets because it was unfair that students at other schools didn't also have access to the unusually tasty offerings.
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Society: 30 Jul 12
A young Swede's attempt to steal a car on Saturday night ended in a lake near Falun in central Sweden after the tipsy teen attempted to swim away from pursuing police officers.
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National: 16 Jul 12
A woman used Facebook to identify the man she believes raped her in a park in western Sweden on Saturday morning, one of three rapes reported in less than 24 hours in the area at the weekend.
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Lifestyle: 1 Jun 12
An aging WWII veteran who ditched his plane off the Swedish coast in 1943 has been able to share his harrowing tale thanks to an article on The Local about an airman who landed on a cow in a field in southern Sweden.
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National: 29 May 12
A man in his twenties was attacked with an axe on Monday night, prompting police in central Sweden to launch a manhunt to apprehend the perpetrator.
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Science & Technology: 26 May 12
Swedes were enjoying a real taste of summer heat on Friday with thermometers indicated record highs in some areas of the country, with more of the same promised over the weekend.
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Society: 16 Apr 12
A Friday night taco dinner at the Lindström household in central Sweden didn't turn out as planned after hundreds of crawling brown maggots emerged from a container of canned corn.
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National: 22 Mar 12
Armed men were spotted on a roof in central Sweden on Wednesday afternoon, prompting five police cars to rush to the scene only to discover the supposed sniper was part a group of eager media students shooting a film.
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National: 21 Feb 12
Carina Höglund, mother to 2008’s 10-year-old murder victim Engla, is suing the government for its inability to protect her daughter in what she claimed was a preventable attack.
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National: 9 Dec 11
Parents in Falun, in central Sweden, are keeping closer tabs on their children after a man tried to drag a 13-year-old boy into a car on Thursday.
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Business & Money: 15 Nov 11
Healthcare provider Carema, recently ditched by the City of Stockholm after a series of revelations of neglect, has denied reports that staff left a dementia patient to die alone in front of a television.
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National: 13 Nov 11
A dying man's last hours were spent alone in front of the television. The storm surrounding the private care company Carema continues to grow, as geriatric homes Norshöjden and Korsnäsgården are accused of several severe flaws.
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National: 13 Sep 11
On Tuesday the trial against 24 people for possessing and distributing child pornography opened in Sweden, in a case that has drawn widespread attention as all but one of the defendants are women.
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Society: 5 Aug 11
Rather than send an ambulance to respond to a call from an injured woman in Borlänge in central Sweden, emergency services operator SOS Alarm elected to call on an elderly couple living nearby to check on her instead.
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Society: 25 Jun 11
Midsummer came and went amid the usual flurry of accidents and drunkenness, but with few serious incidents for police to deal with around the country.
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National: 20 May 11
A Swedish prosecutor on Friday indicted 23 women and one man for possessing and distributing child pornography, in a case that has drawn widespread attention because so many of the defendants are women.
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Lifestyle: 18 Mar 11
UK comedian and air guitar specialist Danny Robins, also known by his alter-ego DJ Danny, talks to contributor Anita Badejo about his plans to get Swedish audiences to take off all their clothes during his upcoming tour.
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Analysis & Opinion: 27 Jan 11
Read the last correspondence Swedish author Stieg Larsson with his brother Joakim, sent by email just three weeks before the Millennium trilogy author died in 2004.
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National: 26 Dec 10
Swedish police officers have had a busy Christmas night, with plenty of drunkenness and assault reported throughout the country.
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National: 21 Dec 10
Swedish mass murderer Mattias Flink, convicted of killing seven people, is set to be released in 2019 after the appeals court extended the term of his life sentence from 32 to 36 years.
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National: 24 Nov 10
The court of appeal has cut the penalty served to former Uppsala police chief Göran Lindberg to six years for a series of serious sex offences.
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National: 12 Sep 10
The police had a sample of former police chief and convicted sex offender Göran Lindberg's DNA, and other personal information as early as 2007 but did not follow up the information, according to a new report.
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National: 19 Aug 10
Göran Lindberg, the former Uppsala county police chief convicted in July for a string of sex crimes, has appealed his six and half year prison sentence.
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National: 30 Jul 10
Göran Lindberg, once one of Sweden's most senior police officers, has been jailed for six and a half years for a string of sex crimes.
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National: 27 Jul 10
Although mass murderer Mattias Flink's life sentence was commuted to 32 years earlier this month, the prosecution wants Flink stay in prison.
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National: 14 Jul 10
Mats Alm, who was cleared of murdering fiancée Linda Chen, has been found guilty of moving and hiding her body after her death.
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National: 7 Jul 10
Falun district court ruled on Wednesday to release Mattias Alm, who was cleared of the murder of his partner Linda Chen late in May, from prison while he awaits sentencing on other counts on July 14th.
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National: 7 Jul 10
Swedish mass murderer Mattias Flink's life sentence will be commuted to 32 years in prison and he could be released in just over five years, Örebro District Court ruled on Wednesday.
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National: 30 Jun 10
Swedish mass murderer Mattias Flink, who shot and killed seven people in Falun in central Sweden in June 1994, claimed on Wednesday that he reflects on his crimes "every day" as proceedings began to consider limiting his life sentence.
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National: 28 Jun 10
A 48-year-old woman dubbed the "Black Widow" has been sentenced to life in prison for murder, attempted murder and aggravated arson in Grängesberg in central Sweden in January.
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National: 28 Jun 10
A Swedish court has decided to make public most of the police investigation into alleged sex crimes by former police chief Göran Lindberg, whose high profile trial begins on Tuesday.
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Society: 28 Jun 10
Five people died on Swedish roads over the Midsummer weekend, representing a significant decline on recent years.
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National: 29 May 10
Mattias Alm, 35, is free to claim the one million kronor ($130,000) joint life insurance policy he signed with his 32-year-old fiancée Linda Chen now that a court has cleared him of her murder.
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National: 28 May 10
Mats Alm, 35, has been found not guilty in a preliminary ruling by Falun district court of the murder of his 32-year-old fiancée Linda Chen.
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National: 28 May 10
A prosecutor has dropped the charges of murder against convicted serial killer Thomas Quick for the 1988 slaying of an Israeli tourist. Quick has recently retracted earlier statements in which he claimed to have killed more than twenty people.
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National: 29 Mar 10
The trial of a 34-year-old Swedish man for the murder of his 32-year-old fiancée has opened in Falun in central Sweden, in a case whose intricate mystery has generated massive interest.
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Science & Technology: 2 Mar 10
A new bacteria thought to be a cause of meningitis has been found in ticks, new Swedish research shows.
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National: 12 Feb 10
The allegations directed at a former Swedish police chief suspected of rape continued to grow on Friday with at least seven women and girls now thought to be involved in the case.
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National: 28 Jan 10
A former police chief suspected of rape in an expanding sex ring investigation was remanded in custody on Thursday, despite his claims of innocence. A number of other well-known men are also said to be under investigation.
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National: 27 Jan 10
A former high-ranking police official has been arrested in central Sweden on suspicion of raping a woman and attempting to rape several children.
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National: 30 Oct 09
A 16-year-old girl from Falun in central Sweden has died following a hiking accident in the French Alps.
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National: 22 Sep 09
The fiancé of a woman missing in Falun in north-central Sweden, was remanded in custody on Tuesday by the Dalarna District Court on suspicions of having killed the woman he was set to marry.
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National: 19 Sep 09
A body believed to be that of a 32-year woman from Falun, missing since early August, was discovered on Friday, hours after her fiancé was found in a state of shock by a roadside between Rättvik and Falun in central Sweden.
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National: 19 Aug 09
Officers from the National Murder Commission have joined the search for the 32-year-old woman who went missing from her home in Falun in the beginning of August.
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National: 9 Aug 09
Swedish emergency services are to launch an internal investigation after a one-year-old boy who received second degree burns was denied an ambulance.
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National: 7 Aug 09
A Swedish father who couldn't swim was rescued by his five-year-old son at an outdoor swimming pool in Falun in central Sweden on Sunday.
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Society: 1 Jul 09
The CEO of a municipal housing company in Dalarna in central Sweden has been reprimanded after pornographic pictures popped up during a recent presentation to the company’s board.
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Science & Technology: 28 May 09
A 16-year-old Iraqi immigrant in central Sweden has single-handedly figured out a formula with Bernoulli numbers that is normally reserved for much more seasoned mathematicians.
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National: 25 Apr 09
Police have announced that the man found dead last Tuesday in Marnästjärn i Ludvika was Jimmy Bäckman, a 22-year-old resident of Ludvika who disappeared last November.
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National: 18 Apr 09
The Swedish press weighs in on prosecutorial victory yesterday in the Pirate Bay case. Although the guilty verdict was not surprising, they write, the harsh sentencing was.
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National: 16 Apr 09
A father of three from Dalarna in central Sweden has been charged with attempted murder for trying to poison his children with the exhaust from a running car.
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Politics: 13 Apr 09
Lars Ohly, the leader of the Swedish Left party, was rushed to hospital on Friday. After experiencing stomach pains Ohly underwent an emergency operation.
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National: 9 Apr 09
A Swedish policeman was sentenced on Thursday to 18 months in prison for sexually abusing two young brothers, media reported.
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Science & Technology: 5 Apr 09
With the first few sunny spring days upon us, the winter blues may already have been banished for another year. A new study gives scientific support to a method that may help to keep them away.
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National: 2 Apr 09
A fragment of glass has been found in a Falun sausage bought from a store in Karlsborg on March 20th. The new alarm comes after further reports of glass found in chicken products.
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Society: 31 Mar 09
A bus driver in Falun in central Sweden has been charged for licking the faces of young girls while on duty.
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Travel: 19 Mar 09
Every week we quiz our regular panelists about a particular aspect of life in Sweden. This week: the country's top travel destinations.
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National: 18 Jan 09
A 65-year-old man died as a result of his snowmobile crashing through thin ice on a lake near Rättvik in central Sweden on Saturday evening. One of several accidents across the country over the weekend.
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Lifestyle: 27 Nov 08
The Djungeltrumman club editor's tips.
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Lifestyle: 28 Oct 08
Discover the night-time jewels of the city in the south with the aid of recommendations from The Local in association with entertainment guide Djungeltrumman.
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National: 27 Oct 08
An appeal by convicted mass murderer Mattias Flink to have his life sentence reduced was denied on Monday by the Göta Court of Appeal.
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Lifestyle: 7 Oct 08
Get your Malmö club compass pointing in the right direction with night life pathfinders Djungeltrumman.
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National: 6 Oct 08
Anders Eklund has been sentenced to life in prison for the murders of Engla Juncosa Höglund and Pernilla Hellgren.
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National: 4 Sep 08
Anders Eklund, the man who has confessed to the murders of Engla Juncosa Höglund, 10, and Pernilla Hellgren, 31, is likely to face a lengthy prison sentence after the results of a psychiatric evaluation deemed him not to be seriously mentally ill.
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National: 3 Sep 08
Mattias Flink, currently in prison for killing seven people back in 1994, will not have his life sentence reduced to 24 years, the Örebro District Court ruled on Wednesday
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National: 30 Jul 08
Two men were stabbed in Rättvik in north central Sweden on Tuesday night as police worked to maintain order during the town's annual Classic Car Week.
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National: 22 Jul 08
The mother of murdered 10-year-old Engla Juncosa Höglund came face to face with her daughter's killer, Anders Eklund, as the trial entered its second day.
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National: 21 Jul 08
Anders Eklund admitted in Stockholm district court today that he raped 31-year-old Pernilla Hellgren in Falun in 2000 before killing her.
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National: 18 Jul 08
Murder charges have been filed against 42-year-old Anders Eklund, the truck driver accused of killing 10-year-old Engla Juncosa Högland in April.
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National: 9 Jul 08
A recommendation that child murderer Anders Eklund should serve a jail sentence should be overturned, his lawyer has said.
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National: 1 Jul 08
Anders Eklund, the man who has admitting to the killing of 10-year-old Engla Juncosa Höglund, is likely to face a lengthy jail term after forensic psychiatrists ruled he was not in need of psychiatric care.
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National: 9 Jun 08
Mass murderer Mattias Flink, who shot seven people to death in Falun in central Sweden in 1994, is to undergo a new assessment of his risk to society.
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Lifestyle: 26 May 08
Most Swedes will be bemused to learn they have a national Australian Football team. Nic Townsend meets the Swedish Elks before they travel to Melbourne for the International Cup.
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Business & Money: 21 May 08
A local politician from Stockholm has been taken into custody in Falun in central Sweden on suspicions of helping a motorcycle gang launder money.
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National: 18 May 08
Heavy snow falls were seen in many parts of northern Sweden on Saturday as winter made a comeback.
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Society: 15 May 08
When a grandfather saw his granddaughter talking on a mobile phone while holding her newborn child, he became furious.
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National: 8 May 08
The Swedish Data Inspection Board is to team up with the National Police Board in a bid to improve the effectiveness of the police's criminal register.
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National: 1 May 08
A district court in Falun in central Sweden has ruled that it is permitted to smoke on one’s balcony.
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National: 19 Apr 08
Anders Eklund, the man who has confessed to the murders of 10-year-old Engla Juncosa and 31-year-old Pernilla Hellgren was remanded into custody on Friday.
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National: 17 Apr 08
A remand hearing for Anders Eklund has been scheduled for Friday. Police are examining whether he might be linked to any unsolved murders.
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National: 16 Apr 08
Police have admitted to unwittingly giving Anders Eklund, shown in a 1995 file photo, an opportunity to remove evidence from his car just hours before his arrest.
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National: 15 Apr 08
During further questioning on Monday, murderer Anders Eklund claimed the killing of 10-year-old Engla Höglund was an accident.
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National: 14 Apr 08
Police admitted they made a mistake by not following up on a tip they received about the man who confessed to killing 10-year-old Engla Höglund.
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National: 14 Apr 08
Residents of Stjärnsund in Dalarna are grieving over the murder of 10-year-old Engla Höglund following a confession on Sunday by 42-year-old Anders Eklund, who was suspected last November in another unsolved murder.
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National: 13 Apr 08
The 42-year-old suspected of having kidnapped 10-year-old Engla Höglund has confessed to killing the girl and to killing a 31-year-old woman back in 2000.
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National: 13 Apr 08
The 42-year-old man suspected of abducting 10-year-old Engla Höglund will be interrogated by officers from the National Investigation Department while members of the National Home Guard continued searching for the missing girl.
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National: 9 Apr 08
Suspicions against the truck driver arrested for kidnapping 10-year-old Engla Höglund remain weak, as police consider searching new areas.
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National: 26 Mar 08
A man has been attacked by a bear in the woods in Dalarna in central Sweden.
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National: 23 Feb 08
A 19-year-old man has confessed to killing a 15-year-old girl in Mora last weekend.
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National: 21 Feb 08
Police have arrested a man in his twenties in connection with the brutal murder of a 15-year-old girl.
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Politics: 30 Jan 08
Politicians have accused the Chinese embassy of attempting to block a musical show set to hit Swedish shores this spring.
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