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The following articles have been tagged with "Skaraborg":

Swedish teens in shock child rape reversal

Society: 19 Apr 12
A 19-year-old woman from central Sweden who accused a 13-year-old boy of raping her has instead been convicted for sexually exploiting a minor. READ »

Six Danes die in Sweden holiday home fire

National: 9 Apr 12
Six Danes, including two children, have died after the remote holiday home they were staying in burned to the ground near Tidaholm, western Sweden. READ »

Woman fined for crotch grab assault

National: 27 Jan 12
A scorned Swedish woman who got back at her ex-husband by hijacking his Facebook account to indicate he was gay and then later attacked him by grabbing his testicles and biting him has been convicted for the assault. READ »

Naked man in 'pot-fuelled' train sex attack

Society: 23 Nov 11
A 30-year-old man from western Sweden has been detained after he allegedly smoked marijuana before stripping down naked on a train and demanding passengers have sex with him. 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 »

Thieves charged after pooping at crime scene

Society: 19 Oct 11
Three piles of human excrement left at a crime scene in central Sweden served as key evidence in the case against two men charged for tying up and robbing a strawberry farmer earlier this year. READ »

Growing demands for Ohly to step down

Politics: 5 Jul 11
A growing number of leading Left Party members want to see the party's head, Lars Ohly, step down before the next election in 2014. Over half of district leaders want a new head, according to a Swedish newspaper report. READ »

Swedish museum head in prison for bribes

Society: 26 Feb 11
A former museum head from Skövde in central Sweden has been sent to prison for accepting bribes. READ »

Swedish birds 'scared to death': veterinarian

Science & Technology: 5 Jan 11
A county veterinarian has speculated that the birds that fell from the sky in central Sweden on Tuesday may have been frightened by fireworks, then run over by a car after landing on the road in the dark. READ »

Workers canned for 'disloyal' Facebook post

National: 3 Jan 11
Three workers at at a Volvo engine plant in central Sweden were given their marching orders after one of them described his place of work as a 'madhouse' in a Facebook status update. READ »

Refugee child denied care by Swedish hospital

National: 24 Nov 10
A hospital in central Sweden refused to perform an operation on a 16-year-old unaccompanied refugee boy because the doctor didn't think the hospital would be reimbursed for the procedure. READ »

Nighttime skier crashes into promenading elk

Society: 18 Mar 10
A cross-country skier crashed into an elk on Tuesday evening while out exercising by torchlight near Skövde in western Sweden. READ »

Guilty verdict for child rape teacher

National: 22 Jan 10
A male high school teacher in Skövde, south west Sweden, has been found guilty of a string of sex crimes with a pupil and sentenced to two and a half years in prison. READ »

Teacher charged with sex crimes against pupils

National: 20 Nov 09
A male high school teacher in Skövde, western Sweden, has been arrested and charged with a string of sexual offences including child rape. READ »

Suspected sheep slaughter in pizzeria

National: 6 Oct 09
Authorities in central Sweden have shuttered a pizzeria after a witness reported seeing four live sheep being led into the establishment’s basement. Police suspect one of the animals may have been slaughtered. READ »

Teen convicted for murder of 86-year-old

National: 3 Aug 09
A 19-year-old Swedish man was sentenced to nine years in prison on Monday for having beaten an 86-year-old man so severely that he died several weeks later. READ »

Thief steals caravan complete with sleeping owner

National: 21 Jun 09
A thief made off with a caravan in Skövde in southern Sweden on Saturday night. To his surprise he later found that the caravan's owner was asleep inside at the time. READ »

Hungry ravens kill fourteen calves in central Sweden

Society: 13 May 09
An aggressive conspiracy of ravens is wreaking havoc on farmers in central Sweden, having killed more than a dozen animals in the last 3 months. READ »

Glass found in Falun sausage

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. READ »

Man arrested for running over police officer

National: 14 Jul 08
A man has been arrested on suspicion of the attempted murder of a traffic police officer near Mariestad in central Sweden on Sunday. READ »

Gothenburg mulls public perfume ban

Society: 21 Mar 08
The 49 municipalities in the Gothenburg region are considering introducing a complete perfume ban in the region's hospitals. READ »

Chicken theft nets fine and suspended sentence

National: 21 Mar 08
Animal rights activists have been fined and served a two-year suspended sentence for the theft of 12 hens. READ »

Woman fined for biting man's penis

National: 14 Nov 07
A 22-year-old woman has been found guilty of biting a man's penis at a fast-food outlet in Falköping in March. READ »

Ice causes road accidents

National: 26 Oct 07
Icy roads in southern and western Sweden caused a number of accidents on Friday morning, as temperatures plunged below zero. READ »

Stepfather appeals rape verdict

National: 5 Jul 07
A 40 year old man who was jailed for six years for having sex with his stepdaughter 200 times is appealing against the sentence - as is his victim and the prosecutor. READ »

Motorist killed in collision with train

National: 19 Apr 07
A motorist was killed on Thursday morning when a train crashed into a car at a level crossing in western Sweden. READ »

Swedish countryside goes double Dutch

Society: 13 Mar 07
An increasingly number of Dutch people are moving from their crowded homeland to the open spaces of rural Sweden. Swedish regions are fighting to attract what is viewed as a very desirable immigrant group. READ »

Sahlin enjoys support of majority within party

National: 15 Jan 07
Mona Sahlin has the backing of enough party districts to ensure that she will succeed Göran Persson as the next leader of the Social Democrats. READ »

Guilty Sjödin refuses to resign

Politics: 13 Oct 06
Anna Sjödin says she won't quit as Social Democrat youth leader, despite being found guilty of drunkenly assaulting a bouncer at a Stockholm bar and using racial insults. READ »

Arrests over pre-school arson attacks

National: 22 Sep 06
Three people have been arrested in Skövde over a spate of arson attacks on pre-schools in the town. At least one of those arrested was a teenage boy, according to reports. READ »

Skövde schools in arson mystery

National: 13 Sep 06
Another nursery school was set on fire in Skövde on Tuesday night. It is the fifth such incident in three weeks in the area. READ »

Second pre-school fire in Skövde

National: 10 Sep 06
A nursery school in Skövde was ravaged by fire on Sunday morning - for the second time in three weeks. Police suspect arson. READ »

Persson 'disgusted' by Liberal violation

Politics: 5 Sep 06
Prime minister Göran Persson has said he is 'disgusted' by the attempts of people within the Liberal Party youth movement to access the Social Democrats' internal computer network. READ »

Press officer behind Liberals' computer scandal

Politics: 4 Sep 06
The Young Liberals employee who admitted to gaining unauthorized access to the Social Democrats' internal computer network was the organisation's press officer, Per Jodenius, it has emerged. READ »

Animal hospital could do human x-rays

Science & Technology: 13 Jun 06
A novel solution is being considered to reduce lines at a hospital in south-western Sweden – send patients to have their MRI scans at an animal hospital. READ »

Poker sites used in fraud scheme

National: 20 Apr 06
Nine Skaraborg residents have each lost an average of 10,000 kronor playing internet poker - despite the fact that not one of them has ever visited the poker sites. READ »

Police identify bus crash dead

National: 28 Jan 06
See also:Eight dead in bus crash
Swedish police have started identifying those who died in a bus crash near Arboga on Saturday, as the death toll reaches nine. A further 26 people are in hospital with serious injuries. READ »

New problem with stolen number plates

National: 17 Jan 06
Car owners who have never so much as set foot in central Stockholm have nevertheless received demands to pay the congestion charge. Their number plates have been stolen and photographed on another car passing a payment point. READ »

Swedish food prices continue to fall

National: 7 Jul 05
Stockholmers can no longer bemoan the cost of herring and meatballs: for years the dearest place to buy food in Sweden, the capital is now the eleventh cheapest region in the country. READ »

Rape suspect officer investigated for secrecy breach

National: 13 Apr 05
A senior officer of the Swedish armed forces is being investigated for mishandling sensitive state secrets. The same man is already suspected of beating and raping his wife over a ten year period. READ »

Swedish Santa "a paedophile"

National: 1 Dec 04
Forgiveness is the theme in a Skaraborg parish as a convicted paedophile is selected as this year's Santa Claus and the congregation looks forward to this year's naivety. Sorry, nativity. READ »


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