A Utah sheriff’s office is floating a unique and unproven idea for keeping senior citizens with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia safe – give them ankle monitors normally used on criminals on house arrest or parole.

THE SNIPER who terrorised Washington, DC, John Allen Muhammad, was sentenced yesterday to six consecutive life terms in prison with no possibility of parole, a sentence prosecutors consider insurance in case his Virginia death sentence is ever overturned.

A girl was killed today when her coat became caught in a car door and she was dragged for about three miles along rural roads.