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Bruce Pitts has saved the life of Blanche Roberts who had been pinned under the body of her 77-year-old dead husband. Blanche was pinned under her husband for at least two days before being discovered.

Pitts, a newspaper carrier, became concerned after seeing the Roberts’ papers build up in the mailbox. Pitts went into the home to check to see if the couple was home and found Mrs. Roberts.

Blanche was taken to the hopspital but her medical condition has not been released. Funeral arrangements are pending for Fred Roberts.
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A 73-year-old has been arrested in Vienna, Austria after his daughter, Elisabeth F., told police that her father kept her locked in a cellar room, repeatedly raped her, and fathered her children.

Elisabeth told police her father started abusing her when she was 11. Her father kept her locked in a cellar room since August 28, 1984. In the next 24 years, she was continually abused and gave birth to 7 of her father’s children, though one died.

Police have assured Elisabeth that her remaining 3 girls and 3 boys, ranging in age between 5 and 20, will be taken care of. The father has not confessed, but DNA tests will determine his paternity of Elisabeth’s children.
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Police officers from seven different departments were needed to break up a street brawl in which an estimated 40 to 50 people fought in the streets of NYACK, New York for over an hour.

The fight, believed to be gang related left numerous participants needing medical attention as one man was stabbed and another severely beaten with a claw hammer.

Five people were arrested on charges which include disorderly conduct, trespassing, menacing and possession of marijuana.
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A 30-year old DeLand, Florida woman was causing quite a stir when she decided to direct traffic at an intersection topless.

Rather than having traffic flow smoothly, instead traffic was becoming hazardous because of the topless woman. The DeLand police started receiving numerous calls, and upon responding, found the woman foaming at the mouth and talking to herself.

The 30-year old woman told police that God had told her to direct traffic, with police taking her to an area hospital for evaluation.
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Oscar, a female cockatoo residing at the Broward County Humane Society, has become an internet hit despite her unusual appearance for a bird. Oscar is completely naked of all her feathers.

Oscar was found to have a disease called beak and feather, a rare viral infection that caused her to lose all her feathers. Expected to live only six months, Oscar is still going strong some 12 years later, chatting up with workers at the shelter.

Oscar was taken in by the Florida Humane Society, and has become quite a celebrity with the workers there. Some of her favorite snacks include egg rolls, hash browns, and lollipops, with workers sharing their lunch with the talkative bird.
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JERSEY CITY, NJ - Computer programmer Bernie Peng has put in some serious work to propose to his girlfriend Tammy Li. Tammy’s favorite game is Bejeweled and Peng has spent a month reprogramming the game so that it could be played on her Nintendo DS.

He also added a little spin to the game. When a certain score is reached the screen clears and an image of a ring appears along with a marriage proposal. Li reached that score, and she also said yes. “It was pretty cool, in a nerdy way” Peng said.

A spokesman for PopCap, the company that created Bejewled, said “Most video game companies would frown on people manipulating their games… But it won him a woman. As a bunch of geeks we have to say, ‘Bernie, hats off to you.”
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A study by Oxford University has shown that some 20% of married couples read their partner’s emails and text messages without their partner’s knowledge. 10% spy on their partner’s visited sites history, motivated by suspicion of “online infidelity”.

6,012 married couples were polled by the university, with 97% saying they disapproved of their partners falling in love with someone online, and 85% said they didn’t like their partner flirting online.

Study author Ellen Helsper said: “We found it quite surprising how many couples check up on each other online. However, snooping on each other was not necessarily about… cheating. It could also be to keep an eye on spending.”
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Researchers at the Institute for Neurological Research at the University of California have announced that they have discovered a revolutionary new way of reducing the symptoms of Alzheimer’s by injecting patients with anti-arthritic drugs.

The scientists say the treatment reduces the symptoms of the disease in a matter of minutes and gave a 90 per cent respond rate to their trials using 50 patients in a private clinic.

The Alzheimer’s Society’s helpline phone lines were jammed within minutes of the BBC reporting the news by people demanding details of the treatment. Experts have urged caution saying more tests are needed before drawing conclusions.
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At the University of Iowa, a group of scientists are looking for people to smoke pot as part of a study to help gain some ideas concerning marijuana’s effect on brain function using brain imaging studies and achievement tests as a guide.

Robert Block, associate professor of the universities Department of Anethesia, said the scientists are looking for both pot smokers, and people who don’t smoke pot, but may consume alcohol and tobacco for the study.

Subjects will get $20 for an initial screening, with $600 for their full participation. The findings might be used to support whether marijuana should be decriminalized, used for medicinal purposes, or if harsher criminal penalties should apply.
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A man pulled over in Indanapolis had good reason to be nervous when he was pulled over for speeding and erratic driving. After allowing officers to check his pick up he found himself in deep trouble.

Officers noticed that a driveshaft welding made a hollow sound instead of the normal thud and brought in the K-9 unit. The dog found 7 kilograms of heroin with a street value of 1 million dollars(US).

Jaime Carrillo admitted he was smuggling the heroin from Mexico and had planned on taking it to Columbus, Ohio to deliver. Carillo can now add possession and dealing narcotics onto his speeding and reckless driving charges.
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