1.   One police source said Petrovits hatched the plot to take the child before he was born.

2.   Police sources revealed earlier that the three-page ransom note had been handwritten on paper from a legal pad found in the home.

3.   Poachers in search of antlers are preying on red deer on Exmoor, according to local police sources.

4.   Authorities were still searching for a man in connection with the serial sniper case who police sources say is the prime suspect.

5.   Based on information provided to the Globe from a separate police source, the Globe reported Wednesday that investigators wanted to question McNeill in connection with the stabbing.

6.   Begala has extended the coin metaphor from an informant calling the police to a police source calling the press.

7.   Boston police sources say many of the witnesses who recall seeing Holmer have provided contradicting accounts.

8.   A police source alleges Clark was offered, but turned down, a bribe.

9.   A police source says the IRA looked for bodies on Black Mountain, but could not find any.

10.   A police source has said that Condit admitted the affair to investigators, but not until the third time they questioned him, nearly two months after Levy disappeared.