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DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit-area man was convicted Thursday of murder in a plot to kill his wife so he could devote himself to a life of bondage and domination in an upper-class suburb with women who called him “Master Bob.” The salacious trial of Bob Bashara revealed his secret life in Grosse Pointe Park: […]

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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Perhaps Javorick Alexander Moore has a really long Christmas card list. Or a lot of pen pals. The 40-year-old Greensboro, North Carolina, man was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison for bank fraud after writing more than $58,000 in bad checks for postage stamps. Documents filed in federal court in […]

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STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) — Thieves have given students in metro Atlanta a new excuse for missing class: The battery was stolen from my school bus. Dekalb County Schools police say a total of 90 batteries have been stolen from the school buses since October. WSB-TV reports that some students at Stone Mountain Middle School […]

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ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — Chlorine gas sickened several people and forced the evacuation of thousands of guests from a suburban Chicago hotel early Sunday, including many dressed in cartoonish animal costumes for an annual furries convention who were ushered across the street to a convention center hosting a dog show. Nineteen people who became nauseous […]

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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A California surgeon has been disciplined for removing a prisoner’s healthy kidney and leaving the diseased one intact. The Orange County Register reported Tuesday that the state medical board placed Dr. Charles Coonan Streit on probation for three years. The board said Streit, a urologist who has had his license […]

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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man being arrested on charges of illegal marijuana possession told police he was Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington. Officers told 21-year-old Justin Lee Seay of Memphis he wasn’t fooling anyone — and quickly found that he had violated his probation on a separate case. The Daily News Journal reported […]

EUREKA, Calif. (AP) — Police in Northern California say a man robbed a gas station only to return hours later to give the money back and apologize. Eureka Police Sgt. Steve Watson said Sunday that 23-year-old Cyle Warren Abbott Jr. told officers he needed cash to leave town for a fresh start, but then realized […]

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LONDON (AP) — He might have got away with it if it hadn’t been for his supermarket loyalty card. A British fraudster who pretended to be quadriplegic and sometimes comatose for two years to avoid prosecution has been convicted after police caught him on camera driving and strolling around supermarkets. Alan Knight of Swansea, Wales, […]

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PAW PAW, Mich. (AP) — One is a building with bars. The other is a building with a bar. A very drunk woman apparently had trouble telling them apart and ended up in a southwestern Michigan jail cell. The Van Buren County sheriff’s department says a 39-year-old woman mistook the Van Buren County jail for […]

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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A convicted murderer sentenced to more than a half-century behind bars is suing the state of Connecticut, saying its ban on pornography in prison violates his constitutional rights. Dwight Pink Jr., 44, says in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in July that guards have used the policy to deny […]

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UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania woman has been sentenced to 9 to 24 months in state prison for taking advantage of county jail guards who were confused by her similar-sounding name and released her to a bail bondsman looking for another inmate. The (Uniontown) Herald-Standard reports 29-year-old Evelyn Grace Campbell was sentenced by […]

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A pastor in Alabama has come clean that he had AIDS and slept with members of his church without revealing his condition. A report from WSFA-TV details that the church’s pastor, Juan McFarland, made the confession recently to members of at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. He was removed as pastor of the […]