• Oh, boy! NYC moms sue, say baby sex tests wrong

NEW YORK (AP) — Six New York City mothers are suing the maker of a baby sex test that touted its product as “infallibly accurate,” saying the test results they received were wrong.

In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, the women claim they received incorrect results from the $275 Baby Gender Mentor test by Acu-Gen Biolab Inc., of Lowell, Mass.

The suit says the test maker advertised its product as the “gold standard for prenatal gender detection.”

The company’s Web site says the test can determine a baby’s sex as early as five to eight weeks’ gestation.

Lawyer Barry Gainey says the lawsuit charges the product’s makers and marketers with negligence and fraud, and seeks unspecified damages.

Officials at Acu-Gen Biolab Inc. could not be reached for comment Monday night.



• Airline sends Cleveland-bound girl, 10, to Newark

BOSTON (AP) — Continental Airlines is apologizing for sending a 10-year-old Massachusetts girl flying alone to New Jersey instead of Ohio.

Jonathan Kamens says he brought his daughter, Miriam, to Logan International Airport in Boston on Sunday. She was to fly to Cleveland to visit her grandparents.

He tells WBZ-TV that shortly after the plane landed in Ohio, his father-in-law called saying she had not arrived.

Kamens says for 45 minutes no one could tell him where his daughter was, setting off a panic among the family. She was finally located unharmed in Newark, N.J.

The airline says the error was caused by staff miscommunication. The two flights used the same doorway at the airport.

Kamens says the number of people who failed to do their jobs is “mindboggling.”



• 2 parrots stolen from Palm Beach hotel recovered

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Two endangered parrots stolen from the grounds of a luxury hotel in South Florida have been recovered.

Palm Beach police say a man left the two green-cheeked Amazon parrot chicks in a pet store Monday after the store’s owner refused to buy them. They are still searching for the suspect.

The birds are being rehabilitated at the Rare Species Conservatory Foundation.

The chicks were part of a flock of more than 100 wild birds at The Breakers resort in Palm Beach. Biologists monitor the birds with cameras aimed at their nests in hollowed-out trees. That’s how authorities learned the two chicks were missing.

Police say the suspect faces trespassing charges and violated an ordinance declaring the island town a bird sanctuary.