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Police are said to be skeptical of a Milwaukee man’s claims that he was horsing around when he was shot in the groin by his mother while wearing a ski mask. According to the Journal Sentinel The 21-year-old man’s criminal record for drug and weapon offenses has investigators questioning...
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When Noel and Margaret Foreman’s son offered to help them invest £120,000 that they had earned from the sale of a house, they thought it would be a good way to make some extra money for their retirement. Unbeknown to them, their son Neil harbored serious resentments regarding disparity...
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A Sicilian man, who was looking for a way out of spending New Year’s Eve with his wife and relatives, probably could have come up with something better than getting thrown in jail. The 35-year-old soon-to-be divorcee first tried just asking the local police if he could be arrested...
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A 32-year-old Chinese man has signed a contract that allows his wife, a kung fu practitioner, to beat him once a week. The man, who has been identified by the Chongqing Evening News as Zhang, created the contract in an attempt to limit the amount of abuse he suffers...
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As Edwin Ortiz stood preparing to say “I do” among 17 other couples in the southern town of Mira Flores, Peru, something unexpected happened. Two female relatives of his ex-partner (possibly his wife) attacked him. According to the AP, the two women, who were described as “burly,” pounded his...
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The Guardian reports that a straight British couple who do not wish to be married were told that they could not enter into a civil partnership because they are not gay. Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle, both 25 and both public servants, found their application for civil partnership rejected...
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An advertising campaign by Holiday Inn has earned the ire of UK advocacy groups after running a promotion whereby people could score discounts to “offload” mothers-in-law. UPI reports that the campaign, which will be in place across Britain in the holiday season December 23 and 29 offers a substantial...
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Stanley G. Hilton is living proof of the seemingly endless supply of litigants with potentially questionable motivations in the United States....
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A family dinner gone wrong landed Chavonna Gough of Sacramento, California in custody when the younger of her two teenage sons (aged 16 and 19) made the mistake of eating the last pork chop....
