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Bat-wielding woman hid bootleg liquor store

National: 7 May 12
When police arrested a 20-year-old woman from southern Sweden for bashing up her boyfriend’s car with a baseball bat, they found a fully-functioning bootlegging operation in her house. READ »

Police probe boarding school 'nipple burning'

Education: 24 Nov 11
Prestigious Swedish boarding school Lundsberg, alma mater of Prince Carl Philip and many other high society members, has been reported to the police after a bullying scandal which involved the burning of a pupil's nipples. READ »

Student's nipples burned with electric fly swatter

National: 10 Nov 11
A bullying scandal has rocked prestigious Swedish boarding school Lundsberg, alma mater of Sweden's Prince Carl Philip and many others among the upper echelons of Swedish society. READ »

Gruesome details retold in 'honour killing' retrial

National: 13 Jun 11
The re-trial of the so-called Högsby 'honour killing' opened in southern Sweden on Monday with the parents of the man previously convicted for brutally stabbing, beating, and scalding the 20-year-old victim to death now also under suspicion. READ »

Sweden mulls legality of the baseball bat

Sport: 22 Feb 11
Sweden's Supreme Court is to consider whether wielding a baseball bat in a public place is against the law. READ »

Jewelry thief dies in getaway car smash-up

National: 30 Sep 10
A man who robbed a jewelry shop in western Sweden died after the gang's luxury getaway car smashed into a lamp post. Two of the man’s accomplices were also injured in the violent crash. READ »

Angry Swede attacks neighbour with tree branch

National: 15 Apr 09
An angry man attacked his neighbour in the Gothenburg suburb of Hisingen on Wednesday. The man's chosen weapon was a large branch from a tree. READ »

Man beaten in vicious hate crime

National: 19 Jan 09
A man with an immigrant background was insulted before being brutally beaten with a baseball bat in the town Arnö, outside of Nyköping in eastern Sweden. READ »

Campsite brawl spills over to nearby highway

National: 30 Jul 08
What started as a scuffle at a campground in southern Sweden Tuesday night ended with multiple car wrecks and six people sent to hospital. READ »

Stockholm art gallery guide: May 9 - 15

Lifestyle: 8 May 08
Weekend art exhibition tips from Kalendarium. READ »

Men get eight years for 'sadistic' kidnapping

National: 25 Mar 08
Two men have each been sentenced to eight years after forcing a man at needlepoint to sign over ownership of a car, a motorbike and a ride-on lawnmower. READ »

Man gets 11 years for parking lot murder

National: 12 Nov 07
A 22-year-old man has been sentenced to eleven years in prison for the brutal murder of a 19-year-old man after their cars collided at a roundabout in Gothenburg last year. READ »

Teen Nazis convicted of brutal murder

National: 1 Nov 07
Two 16-year old members of a neo-Nazi group have been convicted of the murder of a physically disabled 55-year-old man. READ »

Motorist shot in head after traffic accident

National: 11 Oct 07
A 22-year-old man was charged on Wednesday with the brutal murder of a 19-year-old man. The younger man was shot twice in the head after the two men's cars had collided in a Gothenburg car park. READ »

Teen Nazis 'murdered disabled man'

National: 10 Oct 07
Two teenage boys have been charged with murdering a disabled 55-year-old man near Stockholm in June. The suspects are members of a known neo-Nazi group. READ »

Extremist gangs clash in central Gothenburg

National: 24 Feb 07
Two rival left wing and right wing gangs clashed on Kungsgatan in central Gothenburg at lunchtime on Saturday. READ »

Internet date ends in assault

National: 12 Jan 07
A student from Lund invited a woman he had met online to come over to his flat. But when she went out for a cigarette the date took an unwelcome turn. READ »

Eight hospitalised after Ystad gang fight

Society: 15 Oct 06
Two youth gangs from Ystad and Tomelilla in southern Skåne clashed on Saturday night in central Ystad, apparently as part of a feud between a group with a Swedish background and another group of immigrant origin. READ »

Four years for Högsby murder

National: 26 Apr 06
20 year old Abbas Rezai died after being beaten, stabbed and having hot oil poured over him. A Swedish court has sentenced his 18 year old killer to four years' youth detention. READ »

Feminists in brawl outside Stockholm sex club

Society: 8 May 05
A violent clash outside a Stockholm sex club between feminist protestors and the club's staff and clients leaves several people injured and leads to 24 arrests. READ »

Another police murder leaves Sweden feeling uneasy

National: 6 Aug 04
An off-duty policeman is murdered in Dalarna, allegedly by a man enjoying the benefits of Sweden's relaxed 'criminal care' system. READ »

Care failures behind killings

National: 14 May 04
Two tragedies in two days leave the papers concerned that the social safety net has some big holes. READ »


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Prime Minister Reinfeldt chats with The Local »

"If you missed it yesterday, here’s The Local’s editor David Landes snagging Prime Minister Reinfeldt for a chat before Princess Estelle’s baptism. Always nice to know the PM has time for TL!" READ »

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