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Four young Swedes dead in Thai car crash

National: 2 Feb 12
Four Swedes in their early twenties have died in a traffic accident while holidaying in Thailand after their vehicle collided with a truck early on Wednesday morning. READ »

Sweden's 'silliest' place names revealed

Lifestyle: 7 Jan 12
Some people will always hesitate to reveal the name of their hometown, whether it's due to tragic history, bad reputation, or that the name itself is enough to make anyone blush. The Local’s Joel Linde has gathered a few of the latter from all over Sweden. READ »

Many still without power after storm Dagmar

National: 1 Jan 12
During the first day of 2012 there were still some 1,000 households in Sweden left with no power as a result of the storm Dagmar, which pummeled Sweden over Christmas. 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 »

Prankster convicted for office gas cloud blast

Business & Money: 16 Sep 11
An explosive workplace prank that injured four coworkers in western Sweden has resulted in a criminal conviction for the man behind the failed gag. READ »

Sweden Democrats caution members on Norway comments

Politics: 21 Aug 11
After a battery of high-profile blog posts and tweets regarding the gruesome massacre in Norway, party brass from Swedens Democrats urge members to take a stance of silence, according to a media report. READ »

'Sex chamber' rapist gets five years in prison

National: 15 Aug 11
The 47-year-old charged with kidnapping a woman and keeping her prisoner in an underground sex chamber in western Sweden was sentenced to 5 years in prison on Monday. READ »

Boy watched as granddad dragged out to sea

National: 10 Aug 11
A man in his seventies has been reported missing after having fallen overboard on a fishing trip near Varberg in western Sweden. The man's 11-year-old grandson tried to save him but was unable to hold on. READ »

'Multiculturalism not to blame': Jimmie Åkesson

Politics: 27 Jul 11
The head of the Sweden Democrats, who earlier condemned the attacks in Norway, on Wednesday rejected the comments of a local politician that they were a result of multiculturalism. READ »

Deadly disease threatens Swedish bees

Science & Technology: 26 Jul 11
The discovery of American foulbrood (AFB) among several bee broods in western Sweden have prompted a warning from agriculture officials concerned about containing the contagious illness. READ »

Sweden Democrats reject Norway attacks blame

National: 26 Jul 11
Sweden Democrat Erik Hellsborn has claimed that the twin attacks in Norway are the fault of "mass immigration" and "Islamisation", prompting condemnation from colleagues and denials that the party itself shares any blame. READ »

Train disruption to continue until Friday

National: 26 Jul 11
Delays in train services continue to affect travellers on key routes across Sweden, with disruption expected to last until Friday. READ »

'Sex chamber' trial opens behind closed doors

National: 13 Jun 11
The trial began on Monday of a 47-year-old man suspected of having held a woman prisoner in an underground sex-chamber in western 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 »

Charges filed against sex chamber suspect

National: 1 Jun 11
The 47-year-old man suspected of holding a woman prisoner in an underground sex-chamber in western Sweden was charged on Wednesday of kidnapping and aggravated rape. 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 »

Single transplant drains Swedish blood supplies

Science & Technology: 2 May 11
A single organ transplant operation in Gothenburg emptied blood supplies throughout southern Sweden, forcing the hospital to buy blood from Finland. READ »

Power cut as storms batter southern Sweden

Science & Technology: 8 Feb 11
Over 35,000 people were left without power on Monday night as storm winds swept across southern Sweden, leaving widespread traffic problems due to fallen trees and debris. READ »

Örebro rape suspect detained for 14 assaults

National: 11 Jan 11
A 24-year-old suspect who has been detained since October for probable cause for 10 assaults against women in Örebro was remanded in custody on Tuesday for four additional crimes. READ »

Pricey power threatens Swedish industry: CEO

Business & Money: 10 Dec 10
The head of a Swedish pulp manufacturer forced to shut down production has slammed the country's high energy prices, citing Sweden's lack of energy policy as a threat to the industry. READ »

Girl, 16, freed in 'truth or dare' underage sex case

Society: 10 Nov 10
A Swedish court has dismissed sexual abuse charges against a teenage girl who had sex with two underage boys after a game of 'truth and dare'. READ »

Swede charged for texting while driving

Society: 29 Oct 10
A Swedish man is likely the first in the country to be charged for reckless driving in connection with text messaging while driving. READ »

Girl, 16, charged for sex with underage boys

Society: 28 Oct 10
A teenage girl from Kungsbacka in western Sweden was charged on Tuesday with sexual abuse after having sex with two boys who were under the age of consent at the time. READ »

Granddad took wrong child from daycare

Society: 14 Oct 10
A grandfather who agreed to pick up his grandchild from a daycare in Örebro in central Sweden on Monday took the wrong child. READ »

Teacher acquitted for arm lock on 5-year-old

Education: 4 Oct 10
A female preschool teacher facing charges for molesting a 5-year-old boy was acquitted on Monday by the district court in Varberg in western Sweden. 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 »

Edfors to defend Thai golf title on Asian Tour

Sport: 1 Sep 10
Big-hitting Swedish star Johan Edfors has confirmed his title defence at the season finale of professional golf's Asian Tour at the end of the year. READ »

Opposition announces high-speed rail plans

National: 26 Apr 10
The left-green opposition parties have agreed to invest heavily in rail and public transport if they win the election in September, including the construction of high-speed railway lines. READ »

Kitty the cat survives nine-shot attack

National: 14 Apr 10
As if seeking to prove the verity of the old myth of a cat's nine lives, Kitty - a feline resident of Traneberg in western Sweden - is recovering after surviving nine shots to her head and torso. READ »

Six convicted over schoolgirl photo galleries

National: 6 Apr 10
Six young men have been found guilty of aggravated defamation by a court in western Sweden after posting compromising picture galleries of local schoolgirls to the internet. READ »

16-year-old arrested for attempted murder

National: 21 Mar 10
A 19-year-old male sustained serious injuries during a knife fight on Saturday night in the neighborhood of Varberga in Örebro in central Sweden. Another 16-year-old boy was later arrested for the assault. READ »

Spud missile offender found not guilty due to age

National: 23 Dec 09
A court in western Sweden has cleared a potato-gun-wielding 15-year-old boy of weapons charges due to his young age. READ »

No remand of accused Church of Sweden pastor

National: 19 Dec 09
On Friday, a court in western Sweden elected not to remand the 60-year-old Church of Sweden pastor accused sexually abusing two minor boys during an overseas trip with a group of candidates for confirmation. READ »

Church of Sweden pastor accused of rape

National: 17 Dec 09
A 60-year-old Church of Sweden pastor faces a remand hearing this Friday for the alleged sexual abuse of two children during an overseas trip with a group of candidates for confirmation. READ »

Swedish parents emerge victorious in bid to name son 'Q'

Society: 30 Sep 09
Overturning two previous rulings by lower courts, the Swedish Supreme Administrative Court has awarded two parents from central Sweden the right to name their son Q. READ »

Jeweller offered wife's stolen valuables

Society: 27 Aug 09
A man walked into a jeweller's shop in Falkenberg in western Sweden and wanted to sell some valuables. But the jeweller recognised the items as those stolen from his own wife the night before and called the police. READ »

Greenpeace launches cod-fishing protest

National: 11 Aug 09
Activists for environmental group Greenpeace have started dropping boulders into EU-protected cod fishing grounds off Sweden to impede bottom-trawling, a spokesperson has confirmed. READ »

Greenpeace to drop boulders in cod protest

National: 9 Aug 09
Greenpeace has announced its continued intention to drop boulders into two protected areas of the waters separating the Swedish and Danish mainlands in a bid to block cod-fishing and prevent bottom trawling. READ »

90-year-old affirmed right to national transportation service

National: 12 Jul 09
A 90-year-old Halmstad woman who was denied a car ride from the national transportation service to her son's house on Christmas Eve has had her day in court. READ »

EU gives failing grade to eight Swedish beaches

Society: 12 Jun 09
The water at eight Swedish bathing areas failed to meet European water quality standards last year, according an annual report from the European Commission. 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 »

Woman charged over seduction of pupil

Society: 25 Mar 09
A teacher in Kungsbacka in western Sweden has been indicted on charges of sexual harassment after allegedly sending nude photos and trying to seduce a 16-year-old pupil. READ »

Swedish woman charged for housing horse in her cellar

Society: 14 Mar 09
A 32-year-old woman in Halland in western Sweden has been banned from keeping animals after it was discovered that she was keeping a horse in the cellar of her house. READ »

Man assaulted with axe outside Swedish hospital

Society: 16 Feb 09
A man leaving an emergency room in Varberg in western Sweden on Sunday night was forced to readmit himself after being attacked by axe-wielding robbers outside the hospital. READ »

Swedish farm hit by anthrax outbreak

Science & Technology: 13 Dec 08
A farm in the vicinity of Varberg in western Sweden has been hit by an outbreak of anthrax. Thirteen cattle have so far died from the disease which has not been seen in Sweden since 1981 and is harmful to humans. READ »

Nine fishermen convicted of poaching

National: 5 Nov 08
A Swedish court has found nine fishermen guilty of illegally fishing more than 100 tonnes of cod in the country's largest ever poaching case. READ »

Arson suspected following car fires

National: 13 Oct 08
Eleven cars were completely destroyed and two more were damaged by smoke and flames following a fire at a car dealership in Varberg in western Sweden. READ »

Beltran guilty verdict upheld

Society: 10 Oct 08
Swedish-Chilean opera singer Tito Beltran has been found guilty by the Court of Appeal of charges of rape and sexually molesting a child. READ »

Alliance gears up for next election

Politics: 5 Oct 08
The leaders of the parties in Sweden’s governing Alliance are heading to Varberg in western Sweden in an attempt to repeat the approach – adopted by them in 2004 – that led to victory in parliamentary elections two years later. READ »

Prosecutor: 'Beltran could flee Sweden'

Society: 17 Sep 08
Swedish prosecutors called on Wednesday for opera star Tito Beltran to be remanded in custody pending a decision by the appeal court on whether to uphold a guilty verdict against the singer for rape. READ »

Beltran in court to appeal rape conviction

National: 3 Sep 08
Opera singer Tito Beltran appeared in court today to appeal his February conviction for the rape a teenage nanny and defend himself against renewed suspicions that he sexually molested a child. READ »

Massive illegal fishing trial underway in western Sweden

National: 27 Aug 08
Two of seventeen people charged with illegally fishing more than 100 tonnes of cod from Swedish waters admitted wrongdoing on Wednesday in one of Sweden’s largest ever fish poaching cases. READ »

Bust nets ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ accomplice

National: 21 Jul 08
Swedish police reported on Sunday that Clark Olofsson, one of Sweden’s most notorious career criminals, was among six suspects arrested in a massive narcotics raid over the weekend. READ »

Prosecutors ask government for emergency funding

National: 19 May 08
Sweden’s Prosecutor-General has gone straight to the government with a request for 59 million kronor ($9.8 million) to help with the Prosecution Authority’s financial crisis. READ »

Man sets new Swedish drunk driving record

Society: 15 May 08
A 22-year-old from Varberg in western Sweden may have arranged his own sad entry in the record books. READ »

Rain and theft leave motocross club stuck in the mud

Sport: 14 May 08
The Swedish Sidecar Motocross Championships in early May turned into a losing affair for the arrangers. READ »

Sniffing shrunken tea bags in a town in western Sweden

Travel: 14 Apr 08
In his book Cycling Back to Happiness, English journalist Bernie Friend covers 6,000 kilometres of northern Europe on a bicycle in a bid to overcome his paranoia. Here, in the first of three excerpts, he describes a close encounter with moist snuff. 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 »

Court to decide if suicide counts as real estate flaw

National: 13 Feb 08
A court in western Sweden is set to rule as to whether an unreported suicide can be considered a hidden flaw in a real estate transaction. READ »

Lonely hearts racketeer gets five years

National: 23 Jan 08
A Norwegian man has been sentenced to five years in jail for serious fraud. Many of his victims were women. READ »

Trial begins of opera star Beltran

National: 11 Jan 08
The trial has begun in Ystad of opera star Tito Beltran, who is accused of raping an 18-year-old nanny. READ »

Famous entertainer arrested for rape

National: 4 Dec 07
A 42-year-old entertainer suspected of raping a teenage girl has turned himself in to police in Gothenburg. READ »

Teen murder plot trial delayed

National: 3 Dec 07
A court in western Sweden has postponed the trial of a 16-year-old boy suspected of plotting to kill two girls his own age. READ »

Boy planned murder after online chat row

National: 26 Oct 07
A 16-year-old boy in Falkenberg decided to kill two teenage girls after a disagreement with them while chatting on the internet, a court has heard. READ »

Sleeping man fell from fortress

National: 11 Jun 07
A man is being treated for serious injuries after falling from the wall of a western Swedish fortress in the early hours of Monday morning. READ »

More Swedish beaches fail quality test

Science & Technology: 31 May 07
Seventeen Swedish beaches have been given the thumbs down by the European Commission after failing water quality tests. READ »

'Stay at home' warning after Skåne snow

National: 22 Feb 07
Heavy snow and strong winds have led to a warning to motorists in southern Sweden to stay at home. Some 180 accidents have been reported in Skåne alone over the past 24 hours. READ »

Many still without power after storm

National: 15 Jan 07
Over 200,000 households are still without electricity as a result of the storm that swept over Sweden on Sunday. The storm claimed three lives. READ »

Storm leaves three dead and 280,000 without power

National: 14 Jan 07
Storms battering western and southern Sweden gathered strength on Sunday, flattening trees and causing power cuts. Three people have died and over 280,000 households were without electricity on Sunday night. READ »

Shoplifting policeman 'will keep job'

National: 5 Jan 07
A policeman from southern Sweden convicted of theft and violent resistance after shoplifting from three stores. But top police sources say the man is likely to keep his job. READ »

Hurricane warning for southern Sweden

National: 1 Jan 07
The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) is warning that hurricane-force winds are possible over Skåne and western Sweden during the late afternoon and evening on New Year's Day. READ »

New year storm warning for southern Sweden

National: 31 Dec 06
A stormy start to 2007 is expected in southern Sweden as a low pressure system threatened to dampen traditional New Year fireworks celebrations. READ »

Road collapses after Gothenburg rain

National: 11 Dec 06
A road near Gothenburg Airport has collapsed due to torrential rain, as days of downpours take their toll on western Sweden's road and rail infrastructure. READ »

Rising waters threaten trains

National: 11 Dec 06
Flooding in large parts of western Sweden has forced train operator SJ to cancel many services in and out of Gothenburg. Levels in lakes and rivers are rising by up to 5 centimetres a day. READ »

Fire leads to nuclear reactor shutdown

National: 14 Nov 06
A reactor at the Ringhals nuclear power plant in south-western Sweden has been shut down after a fire. The fire has now been put out, but it could be some time before the reactor restarts. READ »

Flooding in Gothenburg after rain

National: 11 Nov 06
Many roads were flooded in western Sweden on Saturday morning after heavy rain overnight. Emergency services also received a large number of reports of flooded cellars. READ »

Peeing trucker finds TV stash in woods

National: 29 Sep 06
A trucker going for a pee in the woods in southern Sweden on Thursday got a surprise when he stumbled across a pile of 26 brand-new televisions. READ »

Bocksten Man shows his face after 700 years

National: 2 Jun 06
Visitors to a museum in southern Sweden can now come face to face with the 'Bocksten Man' for the first time since he died in the 14th century. READ »

73-year old fined for race tirade

Society: 25 Apr 06
A 73-year old woman launched into an unprovoked racial attack on a man in Varberg, calling him 'svartskalle' and 'neger'. READ »

Swedish school book depicting Muhammad withdrawn

National: 6 Feb 06
Swedish publishing company Liber on Monday stopped the sale of a religious education book which contained two images of the prophet Muhammad. READ »

Swedish bog man murdered - 700 years ago

National: 24 Jan 06
After seven hundred years, death of Sweden's oldest human skeleton, the Bocksten Man, has been solved. He was murdered - with three blows to the head. READ »

Ice warning as temperature drops

National: 24 Dec 05
Despite "unusual calm" on the roads so far this Christmas, meteorologists warn that things are about to turn slippery, especially in the south and middle of Sweden. READ »

Gothenburg police hunt third Ikea armed robber

National: 22 Sep 05
Police in Gothenburg have arrested two men following an armed raid on an Ikea store. They are seeking a third and say that more people could be involved. READ »

Tuberculosis scare spreads

Science & Technology: 26 Aug 05
Over 100 people with links to a pre-school in Bromma have now been tested for tuberculosis. Nine children are confirmed as being infected, a figure which is expected to rise. And in Halland, 50 children will be tested after an 8 year old boy catches the disease. READ »

Chicken Run

National: 13 Aug 04
Motorists on the E6 motorway find themselves playing an all-too-real game of chicken, and an overnight train loses half its carriages. READ »

Swedish film: quantity or quality?

Lifestyle: 15 Jul 04
The Swedish film industry banks on the 'Kurt Wallander' novels - they'll be churning out thirteen of them in the next two years. And operatic monkey business at Drottningholm Theatre unites critics. READ »

Radio Ga Ga

National: 9 Jul 04
The townsfolk of Varberg in the west of Sweden celebrate in their thousands as an old radio transmitter is given world heritage status. READ »

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