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Girl Born Pregnant With Twin Fetuses
(Newser) - Being born pregnant is so rare it has only been documented 200 times, but it does happen. Now researchers are reporting this week in the Hong Kong Medical Journal on the November 2010 case of a newborn girl thought to have two tumors in her abdomen that were found to... More » |
Bruce Jenner Speaks Out About Fatal Crash
(Newser) - Bruce Jenner has released a statement about the fatal car accident he was involved in Saturday, saying he "cannot pretend to imagine" what the family of the victim, 69-year-old Kim Howe of Calabasas, is going through. "My heartfelt and deepest sympathies go out to the family and loved... More » |
'Huge, Huge Shark' Kills Australia Surfer
(Newser) - Australia sees an average of one shark attack death every 12 months—but a brutal attack on a Japanese surfer has brought the total to four fatalities in the past year, the Guardian reports. Tadashi Nakahar, 41, lost both his legs and died at the scene as fellow surfers tried... More » |
Ferguson Sued Over 'Debtors Prisons'
(Newser) - Debtors prisons vanished from most of the US in the 1830s, but Ferguson, Mo., is still routinely locking up people who can't afford to pay fines, according to a group of civil rights lawyers suing the city. A pair of lawsuits accuses Ferguson and Jennings, another St. Louis suburb,... More » |
China Executes Mining Tycoon
(Newser) - A former mining tycoon who led a mafia-style crime gang that ran casinos and killed rivals has been executed along with four of the gang's members, a court in central China said today. Liu Han had been chairman of energy conglomerate Sichuan Hanlong Group in the southwestern province of... More » |
Guy Tries to Stop Robbery, Gets Charged With Felony
(Newser) - A man who tried to stop a robbery in a Wisconsin bar has been charged with a felony because he wasn't supposed to be carrying the Taser he allegedly threatened the suspect with. According to WKBT-TV , Jeff Steele was at the King's Korner bar in La Crosse just... More »
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