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    LONDON (Reuters) – A British police officer who admitted having sex with one woman while on duty and propositioning another after she had been arrested was jailed for four months on Friday.

     

    Police constable Gary Bayldon, 48, who was married at the time, visited one woman for sex while working late shifts, calling the sessions "his meal break," Kingston Crown Court heard.

     

    He also asked a second woman to go the woods with him and caressed her hands while taking her fingerprints at the police station, the Press Association reported.

     

    The court heard that Bayldon began a relationship with 34-year-old Donna Cacutt after she called police to her home on the Isle of Wight when a man tried to take one of her children down the road. He was the officer sent to the scene.

     

    Prosecutor Barry Gregory said Bayldon began to see Cacutt regularly, at about the time his 20-year marriage was breaking down, but always when he was on duty.

     

    "He would visit her at her home, she would make him dinner and then they would have sex afterwards," Gregory said. "He would stay for an hour or so. He would call it his meal break."

     

    The relationship lasted for a year until September 2005 but ended with "some acrimony."

     

    Bayldon met the second woman, mother-of-two Suzanne Dunkling, 37, after being called out to a domestic incident involving her boyfriend at her home in October 2005.

     

    She was arrested and taken to the police station by Bayldon who told her he thought she was "gorgeous," the court heard.

     

    Gregory said Bayldon stroked and caressed her hand as he took her fingerprints and later invited her to a forest "for a chat" when he gave her a lift home in a police van.

     

    "She said 'no' because she knew full well he wanted her to go there for sex," Gregory said, adding that the police officer did kiss her, leaving her feeling "disgusted."

     

    Bayldon's lawyer Michael Boardman said his client had visited Cacutt during permitted breaks and had always kept his radio on so he could answer calls.

     

    He said the officer would pay for his "errors of judgment" for the rest of his life.

     

    Bayldon, from Newport on the Isle of Wight, pleaded guilty to three counts of willful misconduct in public office. He has since resigned his post with Hampshire Constabulary where he had served for more than 18 years.

     

    "You as a police officer have very considerable power and the respect of the community you serve in," Judge Charles Tilling said.

     

    "People look up to you. You abused that trust."

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    Obama wins California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington, giving him 324 electoral votes to McCain's 124 (AP). He will be the 44th president of the United States. After a tight battle against Republican Sen. John McCain, Obama has become the first African American president in the history of the United States.

     

    Obama is set to address his supporters from Chicago's Grant Park.

     

    Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware will be accompanying Obama to the White House as his vice president. Biden made his first unsuccessful bid for president in 1988, and again this year before dropping out. A six-term senator, Biden is the chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee. One of his adult sons from his first marriage is currently serving in Iraq.

     

    On June 4, Obama won the Democratic presidential nomination, beating Sen. Hillary Clinton in a tight primary race. The 47-year-old Democratic senator from Illinois stepped into the national spotlight in 2004, delivering the keynote address at the Democratic National

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    Man nabbed for DUI twice in less than 6 hours

     

    LANCASTER, Pa. – Police say a central Pennsylvania man was arrested on drunken driving charges twice in less than six hours. The man's first arrest came just before 11 a.m. Sunday after police said his car hit the back of a stopped vehicle in Manheim Township, Lancaster County.

     

    The man was arrested for suspected DUI. After he was processed, he was released to his girlfriend.

     

    The man was arrested again just before 4 p.m. after police said a second accident happened after he turned left in front of another vehicle.

     

    The 50-year-old was arraigned by a magisterial district judge after the second crash. Police said he was sent to Lancaster County Prison.

     

    There were no serious injuries in either crash.

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    CANBERRA (Reuters) – An Australian gambler who lost millions in a A$1.4 billion (577 million pound) gaming spree is suing one of the country's largest casinos, claiming he was targeted by managers despite a known gambling addiction.

     

    In a case which lawyers say could have implications stretching to China, gambling addict Harry Kakavas is suing Crown Casino in Melbourne for A$50 million damages after a mammoth 14-month baccarat binge in which he lost A$37 million.

     

    At the time in 2007, property developer Kakavas had been barred from every casino in Australia.

     

    But the Supreme Court in Victoria state was told that Crown's management did not "give a monkey's" about a prohibition in place since 2004, the Age newspaper said.

     

    Supreme Court documents said Kakavas wore a concealed recorder that captured Crown managers allegedly attempting to lure him back to its riverside baccarat tables.

     

    Crown is owned by Australian billionaire James Packer, who also operates Crown Macau and is developing a second casino project, The City of Dreams, in the Chinese territory. Last year the company reported profits of A$370 million.

     

    "We have no intention of responding to the allegations made publicly. We are defending the action vigorously," Crown spokesman Gary O'Neill told Reuters.

     

    Crown Chief Executive Rowen Craigie and Chief Operating Officer John Williams face accusations of unconscionable conduct while in charge of Crown, which this month reported revenue from table games and gaming machines up 4 percent as Packer looks to expand in Macau.

     

    Court documents in Melbourne alleged that emails detailed a Crown plan to lure back Kakavas after managers discovered he had lost millions of dollars gambling in Las Vegas.

     

    If found guilty, Crown could be judged to have breached Australia's Trade Practices Act, state gambling regulations and special laws covering the high-profile casino's operation.