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New Jersey Man Facing Jail Time for Running a Two-Acre Landfill in His Front Yard

Joseph Wallace is appealing a court decision that could see him serve three months in prison.

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Utah Man Found Dead in Freezer Left Note Saying His Wife Didn’t Kill Him

The case of Paul Edwards Mathers, whose corpse was found in a freezer at his wife’s home last November, led police to suspicions of homicide.

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Fired Police Chief Walks Home in His Underwear in Snow, Says “I Did as Ordered”

Richard Lee, the chief of police in tiny Croydon, New Hampshire, had to walk home from his last day of work in his underwear during a snowstorm after the city unexpectedly dissolved the department.

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Comedian Aboard Coronavirus Cruise Ship Fired After Ditching Quarantine And Returning to US

Frank King, a comedian who was working aboard the Holland America cruise ship that was quarantined after a former passenger tested positive for coronavirus, says that he was fired by the cruise line after sneaking out of quarantine and returning home to Oregon.

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Drunken Driver Hit Pedestrian and Drove to a Bar With Body in the Passenger Seat, Police Say

The pedestrian was hit so hard that the body flew through the car’s windshield, landing in the passenger seat.

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Ohio Couple Accused of Terminating Pregnancy With Mail-Order Medication, Hiding Fetus’ Corpse in Shoebox

Kalina V.E. Gillum and Braden C. Mull pled not guilty in court to charges of terminating Gillum’s pregnancy and then placing the corpse of the fetus in a shoebox.

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Judge Orders State to Pay $150,000 in Attorney’s Fees After Denying Kentucky Man ‘IM GOD’ License Plate

The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has been ordered to reimburse Ben Hart for attorney fees incurred as a result of a suit he filed against the state for denying his vanity plate.

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Florist Selling Anti-Coronavirus Bouquets for Valentine’s Day

A florist in the Philippines is capitalizing on the virus by selling Valentine’s Day bouquets containing hand sanitizer, face masks and surgical gloves.

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Drunken Airline Passenger Attempts to Eat Own Mobile Phone, Forces Emergency Landing

A passenger on an EasyJet flight from Manchester, England, to Iceland forced the plane to land unexpectedly after he harassed passengers and crew and attempted to eat his cell phone.

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Man Misdiagnoses Himself With Coronavirus, Takes Own Life to Protect Villagers

A man in the Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh reportedly died by suicide because he was convinced he had the novel coronavirus.

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Church Secretary Embezzled Over Half a Million Dollars to Pay for Wedding

Police say that Taisha Smith-DeJoseph embezzled more than half a million dollars from a New Jersey church and used the money to pay for her wedding, a car and other personal expenses.

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Canadian Army Considering Shortening Skirts to Attract More Female Enlistees

To increase female enrollment, the Canadian army is considering redesigning uniforms to shorten skirts and referring to medals as “bling.”

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Iranian Government Official Posts ‘Space Suit’ on Twitter That Turns Out to Be Kids Costume

Twitter users noticed the similarity of the suit in the photograph to an outfit available from several online retailers.

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Police Called After Oklahoma Neighbors Battle With Feces, Guns, Roomba Vacuum Cleaner

A dispute between two neighbors escalated to the point where one of them tried to smash down the fence separating their property with a robot vacuum cleaner.

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Art Critic Accidentally Destroys $19,000 Sculpture With a Soda Can

A critic at Mexico City’s Zona Maco art fair set a soda can down on a sculpture made of glass and found objects–only for the $19,000 artwork to fall to the ground and shatter.

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Colorado Boy Dies of Flu After Mom Tries Anti-Vaccine Facebook Group Suggestions to Use Elderberries and Thyme Instead of Doctor’s Flu Medicine

The death of Najee Jackson Jr. is coming under scrutiny after posts made by the mother in an anti-vaccine Facebook group indicate he was prescribed Tamiflu but the family chose natural “remedies” instead.

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Man Living for Weeks in Grocery Store Rafters Arrested, Found With ‘Very Expensive’ Cheese

Police have arrested a man who reportedly lived in the rafters of a Haggen Northwest Fresh Market in Auburn, Washington for several weeks.

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Man in Prison for Killing Son for Insurance Money Convicted of Also Killing Wife for Insurance Money

On Monday morning, a jury found Karl Karlsen, who is serving a prison sentence for the murder of his son, guilty of first-degree murder by arson in the 1991 death of his wife Christina.

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11-Year-Old Girl Fends Off Pedophile Policeman by Beating Him With Scooter

After a girl in Russia defended herself from an attempted sexual assault, the culprit was revealed to be a police officer.

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Man Accused of Feeding Pet Squirrel Meth to Make It Aggressive

Mickey Paulk allegedly fed a squirrel methamphetamine in order to create an “attack squirrel.”

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Kansas Man Looking for Keys in His Couch Finds 6-Foot Snake Instead

A man in Rose Hill, Kansas had an unpleasant surprise when he was looking for his keys in the sofa and came face to face with a six-foot boa constrictor.

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