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15-year-old girl abducted by father and armed men

National: 8 Feb 12
A 15-year-old girl, taken into custody by social services last week, was removed on Sunday from her foster home by four armed men, one of which was her father. READ »

'Swedish needs a gender-neutral pronoun'

Analysis & Opinion: 8 Feb 12
The Swedish language is in need of a new pronoun free of preconceived notions about gender, argue a Swedish linguist and representatives from a publishing house set to release a children's book featuring the word “hen” rather than “han” (he) or hon (she). READ »

'Underclass-safari' post lands official in trouble

Business & Money: 1 Feb 12
Christian Democrat party official Patric Rylander has found himself in stormy weather after calling for an ”underclass-safari” on his Facebook page, in response to a recent tour of swanky Stockholm suburb Saltsjöbaden. READ »

Pigeons 'beheaded and eaten' in Swede's kitchen

National: 31 Jan 12
Pigeon owners in southern Sweden were met with a gruesome sight when they found their pet birds decapitated and apparently eaten by a mystery intruder. READ »

Shots fired in daring carjacking drama

National: 25 Jan 12
Two armed assailants prompted an intense police chase during which at least one shot was fired following a brazen carjacking on a highway roadside in central Sweden on Tuesday night. READ »

Fiery end for youth's ill-fated firework run

Society: 28 Dec 11
Four youths from southwestern Sweden were lucky to escape without injury after their just-purchased supply of New Year's fireworks inexplicably went off in their car. READ »

Agencies list Sweden's safest places

Society: 21 Dec 11
The safest municipality in Sweden is Habo, north of Jönköping in central Sweden, where the risk of having an accident or being subjected to a crime is the smallest in the country, according to a new report. READ »

Passenger saves bus from full-on collision

National: 18 Dec 11
When a bus driver took suddenly ill on Saturday, causing the vehicle to cross over into the wrong lane, a level-headed passenger grabbed hold of the wheel and drove the bus into a ditch, thereby avoiding a full-on collision. READ »

Two dead after bus collides with truck

National: 14 Dec 11
Two people are dead and several others injured following a collision between a truck and a bus on a two-lane road in central Sweden on Wednesday morning. READ »

Home fires increase during Swedish winter

National: 11 Dec 11
With advent, Lucia and Christmas, Swedish firefighters are kept busy during the month of December, with 12 percent of all recorded fires caused by candles left unattended. READ »

Sweden's best Christmas markets

Lifestyle: 24 Nov 11
Christmas markets are a feature of Yuletide in Sweden and The Local has put together a pick of the best, all featuring warm spiced "glögg" for the adults, and plenty of fun activites for the children. READ »

'Missing' Swedish teen was held by police

National: 15 Nov 11
A mother had to wait five days to find out that Swedish police had arrested her 18-year-old son, by which time she had already reported him as a missing person. READ »

Police rescue man from sealed luggage locker

National: 12 Nov 11
In the middle of the night a man called the Jönköping police station and requested their help in rescuing him from a sealed baggage locker at Nässjö's Central Station. READ »

Activist wrote threat letters in his own blood

Society: 28 Oct 11
A 21-year-old animal rights activist from western Sweden is facing charges for sending various threat letters -- some written in his own blood. He is also suspected of setting a hamburger restaurant on fire. READ »

Porn behind 11-year-old girl's abuse claims: court

National: 17 Oct 11
A man and a woman suspected of raping their three daughters have been released after a Swedish court ruled that testimony offered by their 11-year-old daughter could have stemmed from something she'd seen in a porn film. READ »

Parents force school to ditch 'costly' fruit break

Education: 11 Oct 11
Disgruntled parents have prompted a school in eastern Sweden to abandon in-class fruit breaks after complaining about the legality of requiring families to buy fruit for kids to bring to school. READ »

Daycare sends infant girl alone in taxi

Society: 7 Oct 11
A daycare centre in Jönköping, southern Sweden, sent an unaccompanied 15-month-old girl by taxi when she needed to be transported between care facilities. READ »

Massive increase in flats for sale

Business & Money: 4 Oct 11
The number of tenant-owner occupied apartments in Sweden is over 50 percent higher this year in comparison with last year, according to new figures published on Tuesday. READ »

Sweden mourns death of beloved hockey star

Sport: 8 Sep 11
Grief stricken Swedish ice hockey players and fans expressed their sorrow over the death of national team goaltender Stefan Liv, who was killed in a plane crash in Russia that decimated the Lokomotiv ice hockey team. READ »

Kidnapped Swede found with captors in lay-by

National: 8 Aug 11
Five men barged into a flat in the Rosengård suburb of Malmö, in the south of Sweden, early on Monday morning kidnapping one man after incapacitating two others. The man was later found in a car outside Jönköping. READ »

Warnings ahead of new wave of violent storms

Science & Technology: 10 Jun 11
A new line of thunderstorms is expected to bring more heavy rain to southern and central Sweden on Friday as the region struggles to cope with power outages and flooding from a previous batch of storms. READ »

Fewer Swedish teen girls getting abortions

Science & Technology: 8 Jun 11
Young women and girls in Sweden are getting fewer abortions, according to new figures, which also reveal a slight increase in controversial later-term abortions. READ »

Man stabbed to death at bikers' meet up

National: 5 Jun 11
A man in his forties was stabbed to death on Saturday night, following a fight at a large bikers' meet up in the south of Sweden. READ »

EHEC search 'detective work': Swedish specialist

Science & Technology: 3 Jun 11
Swedish scientists are concerned that it may be some time before the properties of the bacteria causing the current EHEC infection in Europe are fully understood. READ »

More EHEC cases reported in Sweden

National: 3 Jun 11
More Swedes have been infected with the virulent enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) bacteria which some health experts believe comes from an entirely new strain of the bacteria. READ »

Man found shot near isolated pedestrian path

National: 1 Jun 11
A man in his fifties with life-threatening gunshot wounds was found lying near a walking path in south central Sweden late Tuesday night in what police have classified as attempted murder. READ »

Swedish police called to fight beaver invasion

Society: 30 May 11
Police were called to help a homeowner deal with a wayward Swedish beaver that had found its way into the caller's garage on Monday morning. READ »

Swedish schools urged to utilise student English skills

Education: 24 May 11
Swedish schools fail to properly utilise students' English language skills, acquired through the consumption of film and music, according to a report by the Schools Inspectorate. READ »

Murder suspect sent 10,000 texts from jail

National: 5 May 11
A 31-year-old man recently convicted of stabbing a man to death used a smuggled mobile phone to send more than 10,000 text messages from inside his cell in a Swedish jail. The phone has yet to be found. READ »

Swedish insect shoots larvae into victims' eyes

Science & Technology: 4 May 11
A bumble bee-resembling fly hovering in front of your face could be an elk bot fly preparing to shoot larvae into your eyes, as the insect which until recently was only found in the north of Sweden is migrating south. READ »

Top marks for Stockholm School of Economics

Education: 23 Mar 11
Stockholm School of Economics has overtaken Karolinska Institutet in an annual ranking of Sweden's top 30 universities and colleges. READ »

Swedish bus firm backs on foreign language ban

Society: 8 Mar 11
Bus operator Keolis has abandoned plans to enforce a Swedish-only policy on drivers in Jönköping in central Sweden, with the company hierarchy stating that its staff should be free to enjoy their lunch in a language of their choice. READ »

Ten fall through ice on Swedish lake

Society: 21 Feb 11
At least 10 people fell through thin ice on Vättern, Sweden's second-largest lake, on Sunday, but no serious injuries were reported. READ »

Swedes drink less alcohol: study

Society: 19 Feb 11
Swedish average alcohol consumption declined in 2009, in comparison with 2008, but remains high in a historical perspective, a new report published on Friday showed. READ »

Sweden Democrat expelled from union

Politics: 18 Feb 11
A Sweden Democrat elected as a municipal councillor in southeastern Sweden has been expelled from a union representing transportation and security workers because of his involvement in the party. READ »

'Spy' PC at Swedish airport managed check in

National: 16 Feb 11
A computer found hidden at Jönköping Airport in central Sweden in a case of suspected industrial espionage has been found to have been part of routine cooperation between the IT department and an airline. READ »

Swedish boy, 6, stabbed for 'wearing pink'

Society: 11 Feb 11
A 6-year-old boy was stabbed in the neck at a preschool in Jönköping in central Sweden after being targeted by class bullies for his liking of pink clothes and nail polish. READ »

US state issues alert over Swedish email scam

Society: 8 Feb 11
The historic ties between Sweden and the US state of Minnesota play a central role in a new email scam targeting Swedish citizens. READ »

Student loans body reports 29 for fraud

Education: 1 Feb 11
Sweden's student loans body, CSN, has reported 29 people to the police on suspicion of committing serious fraud in connection with applications for studies at a UK university. READ »

Stockholm tops Swedish student debt league

Business & Money: 24 Jan 11
Residents of Stockholm continue to carry the highest levels of student debt in the country, according to new figures from Sweden’s student lending agency, CSN. READ »

More cheaters booted from Swedish colleges

Education: 17 Jan 11
The number of students expelled from Sweden's colleges and universities for cheating went up by nearly 50 percent in 2010 compared to the year before, new statistics show. READ »

Elderly Swedes bloodied in snow shovel brawl

National: 6 Jan 11
Two elderly men beat each other bloody with snow shovels during a fight in a residential neighbourhood in Jönköping in southern central Sweden. READ »

'Drunkenness aplenty, but little violence': police

Society: 1 Jan 11
Drunkenness aplenty, but not much blood, was Gotland's police station's summary of the events of New Year's Eve, a summary that seems to apply for much of Sweden. READ »

Winter once again wreaks havoc across Sweden

Science & Technology: 19 Dec 10
Swedes were coping with yet another round of fierce winter weather on Sunday as a band of snow showers moved north across the country, sending cars off the roads and dumping up to 20 centimetres of fresh snow in its wake. READ »

Disgraced Habo Finans CEO gets 5 years in jail

Business & Money: 2 Dec 10
The CEO of disgraced Habo Finans was sentenced to five years in prison for aggravated fraud and aggravated accounting fraud by Jönköping district court on Thursday. READ »

Sweden braces for record freeze

Science & Technology: 30 Nov 10
Stockholm is forecast to experience its coldest seasonal temperatures for over 100 years this week as winter weather takes hold of the country. READ »

Transport agency calls for caution after snow

National: 23 Nov 10
The Swedish Transport Agency has called for car drivers to choose alternative transport as snowfalls and rain cause traffic problems across Sweden. READ »

Sweden braces for new winter storm

Science & Technology: 22 Nov 10
Another blast of winter weather is set to sweep across much of Sweden in the coming days, bringing heavy snowfall and bone-chilling winds to many parts of the country. READ »

Left Party members seek Red-Green split

Politics: 2 Nov 10
Left Party leader Lars Ohly has insisted that the Red-Green coalition should continue its cooperation, although a majority of the party districts across the country want the party to break away on its own. READ »

Britain looks to Sweden for austerity plan ideas

Analysis & Opinion: 24 Oct 10
As Britain braces for massive spending cuts, observers say Prime Minister David Cameron should take note of Sweden's successful battle to shrink its huge deficit in the 1990s, writes AFP's Nina Larson. READ »

Snow causes slick roads in southern Sweden

Science & Technology: 21 Oct 10
The year’s first snowfall has resulted in slippery roads in many parts of southern Sweden, with some areas received up to 10 cenitmetres of wet snow. READ »

17,000 minks set free in southern Sweden

Society: 4 Oct 10
17,000 minks escaped from a farm in Skillingaryd in southern Sweden on Monday after a lock on the animals' cage was bust open. The minks are reported to be worth eight million kronor ($1.2 million). READ »

Fraud trial captivates local Swedish community

Business & Money: 30 Sep 10
Disgruntled savers from a small Swedish community flooded into a Jönköping court on Thursday to follow the case of Habo Finans, an investment firm which folded taking the savings of almost 780 people with it. READ »

Best schools in Sweden's far north: survey

Education: 8 Sep 10
Six towns in northern Sweden ranked among the top ten municipalities with the best schools in the country, according to a ranking by the Swedish Teachers' Union. READ »

Young woman found murdered, man arrested

National: 20 Aug 10
A woman was found murdered near a small town in Kronoberg in southern Sweden on Thursday evening after a police search. A 35-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of the killing. READ »

Police operation called off as gunmen escape

Society: 18 Aug 10
Police have called off a major operation around a summer cottage north of Smålandsstenar in Småland after failing to find those responsible for gunfire aimed at a police patrol in Hyltebruk early on Tuesday morning. READ »

Politicians say no to free biogas car over bribe risk

National: 11 Aug 10
Volkswagen and Eon were hoping to raise the profile of biogas-fuelled cars during the ongoing election campaign by loaning them free of charge to politicians but the risk of being seen as a bribe has put a stop to their plans. READ »

Parents fined by tax board for nameless son

Society: 20 Jul 10
The Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) has fined a couple 6,000 kronor ($816.25) for failing to give their 16-month-old son a name. READ »

Woman ordered husband to kill daughter

National: 16 Jul 10
A 30-year-old woman has been jailed for ten years for persuading her husband to murder his own three-year-old daughter. READ »

Dairy pays Greek man for Turkish yoghurt pic

Society: 14 Jul 10
A dairy in Jönköping in Sweden has paid almost two million kronor ($270,000) in compensation to a Greek man whose picture was used on a Turkish yoghurt product without permission. READ »

Sunday heat record proves lull before storm

National: 12 Jul 10
The weekend saw record temperatures across much of Sweden with Saturday's high beaten on Sunday by the 35 degrees recorded in Målilla in southern Sweden, before thunder and rain gave welcome respite on Sunday evening. READ »

Man walks free after stabbing wife

National: 3 Jul 10
A man who called the emergency services to say he had stabbed his wife twice in the chest has been cleared of any culpability after Jönköping district court ruled to drop the charges against him. READ »

Police kept busy on Midsummer Eve

National: 26 Jun 10
Police in many parts of Sweden were fully occupied on Midsummer Eve dealing with everything from drunken fights to half naked men driving a lawnmower on the motorway. READ »

Bungee jumping 'killed off' by new safety rules

National: 4 Jun 10
Strict new safety rules could spell the end of bungee jumping in Sweden, companies who organize the activity have warned. READ »

Woman 'murdered mother with a dog leash'

National: 2 Jun 10
A 33-year-old woman from southern Sweden has been charged with murdering her mother and another woman, in what police are saying is a very unusual case. READ »

Court ruling paves way for flood of 'Princes'

Society: 25 May 10
A Swedish appeals court has cleared the path for parents to name their children Prince (Prins) after rejecting a tax agency argument that the name was a professional title. READ »

Swedish abortions decline in 2009: report

Society: 19 May 10
The number of abortions performed in Sweden fell in 2009, for the first time in five years, new statistics from the National Board of Health and Welfare show. READ »

Preacher settles for dialogue over book-burning

Society: 15 May 10
A renegade preacher in southern Sweden has retracted his calls for the ritual burning in a town square of books penned by comedian Jonas Gardell on God and Jesus Christ. READ »

Flowers for King cause asthma attack

National: 4 May 10
At least one patient suffered an acute asthma attack at a Jönköping hospital after the facility made an exception to its rule banning flowers for a visit by King Carl XVI Gustaf. READ »

HV71 seal Swedish ice hockey final win

National: 25 Apr 10
HV71 left the capital clutching the Swedish ice hockey championship trophy on Saturday after a dramatic victory over Stockholm team Djurgården in game six of the final series. READ »

Stockholm universities top student wish list

Education: 23 Apr 10
Stockholm universities are among the top choices for students this autumn, with medicine, law and economics the most popular fields of study, according to a new report. READ »

Westerly winds bringing more ash to Sweden

National: 22 Apr 10
Malmö Sturup Airport reopened on Thursday morning, only to close again in the afternoon as volcanic ash continues to hinder air traffic in Sweden. READ »

Moonshine makers jailed in southern Sweden

National: 20 Apr 10
Eleven people have been convicted in southern Sweden for their involvement in the illicit distillation and sale of thousand of litres of bootleg booze. READ »

Greek man sues Swedish firm over Turkish yoghurt pic

Society: 9 Apr 10
A Greek man has sued a dairy firm in Jönköping in southern Sweden for 50 million kronor ($7 million) after his picture ended up on a Turkish yoghurt product. READ »

Foreigners buying more Swedish summer houses: report

Business & Money: 30 Mar 10
Foreigners own 33,168 summer houses in Sweden, an increase of four percent on 2008 and nine percent on 2007. Germans, Danes and Norwegians dominate the statistics, a new report shows. READ »

Swedish house prices top two million barrier

Business & Money: 17 Mar 10
The price of the average Swedish house has passed the two million kronor ($300,000) mark for the first time, new statistics show. READ »

Icy roads warning across Sweden

National: 2 Mar 10
Drivers have been warned to exert extra caution on Tuesday after icy roads caused a spate of accidents across Sweden. READ »

Record student intake at Swedish universities

Education: 1 Mar 10
Almost 300,000 students signed up for courses at Swedish universities in 2009 - the highest number ever, according to new statistics published on Monday. READ »

Warmer winds carry falling ice warning

National: 26 Feb 10
A sudden change in the weather in Sweden has led to a heightened risk of icy roads, while pedestrians are urged to watch out for falling ice and snow from buildings. READ »

Spring floods to threaten Sweden

National: 24 Feb 10
The Swedish meteorological service warns of the possibility of severe flooding with a spring thaw. At greatest risk are the areas of Götaland in southern Sweden and the mid-Sweden province of Södermanland. READ »

Ambulances getting stuck in deep snow

National: 22 Feb 10
Sweden's ambulances have not escaped the problems brought by heavy snow, and the switch from four-wheel-drive Volvos to rear-wheel-drive Mercedes vehicles is now under review. READ »

Transport hit as snowstorms ravage Sweden

National: 21 Feb 10
Sweden came to a near standstill over the weekend as wind-packed snowstorms blanketed a nation still recovering from earlier snowfalls. Citizens were advised to remain at home, until railway tracks and highways were cleared. READ »

Homeless need more help: Health minister

National: 30 Jan 10
Sweden's Public Health Minister Maria Larsson has called for new measures to help those living on the streets and a review of legislation to stop children being evicted from their homes. READ »

Sweden starts 2010 in typically messy fashion

National: 1 Jan 10
The early hours of 2010 were marked by fights, drunkenness, and fires in many parts of Sweden, as a well as traffic accidents and stray rockets. READ »

Afghan teens left in the cold by train operator

National: 29 Dec 09
The five Afghan teens found wandering in the cold near Sävsjö in southern Sweden had not been left in the forest by smugglers, it emerged on Monday, but had instead been kicked off a Swedish passenger train. READ »

Pensioners rally behind slap-happy 70-year-old

National: 17 Dec 09
Pensioners in south central Sweden are mobilizing in support of 70-year-old Ronald Fasth who was charged with assault for striking a 12-year-old boy in response to verbal insults from the youth. READ »

Preschool teacher held for alleged sexual abuse

National: 2 Dec 09
A preschool teacher at an independent Christian school in Jönköping in south central Sweden is in custody on suspicions of having sexually abused several children. READ »

Swedish Meats chair quits over pig scandal

National: 29 Nov 09
Lars Hultström has resigned as chair of Swedish Meats and all other leadership positions within the pig farming industry. Hultström owns one of the pig farms at the heart of an animal rights scandal. READ »

Residence permits for sale on black market

National: 26 Nov 09
Swedish residence permits can be purchased on the black market for €2,000 ($3,020) apiece, allowing buyers to travel freely throughout Europe. READ »

Swedish television primed for weekend of live e-sports

Science & Technology: 25 Nov 09
In an unprecedented move, Swedish public television will provide viewers with live, web-based broadcasts from the Dreamhack computer gaming convention, which kicks off this Thursday in Jönköping in southern Sweden. READ »

One in five kids in Malmö live in poverty: report

Society: 23 Nov 09
The southern Swedish city of Malmö has more children living in families with a low standard of living than in any other municipality in Sweden, new statistics show. READ »

Six airports to be sold in turbulent times

Business & Money: 20 Nov 09
Swedish Airports and Air Navigation Services (LFV) is to sell off six of its airports to municipalities or other local parties in connection with a reorganisation of the company in 2010. READ »

Porn and gaming sites common destinations for city workers: study

Society: 19 Nov 09
Surfing for porn, illegal file sharing, and online gambling are common activities for users of municipality-owned computers in Jönköping in central Sweden, a recent analysis shows. READ »

Swedish woman arrested over drug-stuffed hairbrushes

National: 23 Sep 09
A 22-year-old woman from Jönköping in central Sweden was arrested in Brazil at the weekend with more than two kilogrammes of cocaine hidden in several hairbrushes. READ »

School offers reward for student recruits

Education: 14 Aug 09
The perilous financial position for many independent schools in Jönköping in southern Sweden has led to one offering unusual monetary incentives to persuade friends to sign up. READ »

Suspected murder in central Jönköping

National: 11 Jul 09
Police suspect foul play after a man was taken to the hospital and declared dead in central Jönköping on Friday night. READ »

Krantz named as higher education minister

Politics: 17 Jun 09
Liberal Party Riksdag member Tobias Krantz will take over as Sweden’s Minister for Higher Education and Research, the Swedish government announced on Wednesday. READ »

Test sites named for Swedish language-learning bonus

Society: 11 Jun 09
Thirteen Swedish municipalities have been chosen to participate in the first phase of a plan to reward newly arrived immigrants who perform well in state-funded language classes. READ »

Unpaid stonemason reclaims gravestone

Society: 31 May 09
When a stonemason did not receive payment for his work he took the law into his own hands and repossessed the grave stone from a churchyard in Gnosjö in southern Sweden. READ »

Man convicted in teen suicide rape case

National: 18 May 09
A 42-year-old man charged with sex offences against a 15-year-old girl who committed suicide prior to the trial was sentenced to three years imprisonment by a Jönköping court on Monday. READ »


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