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In September 49-year-old Jackie Lee Shrader of Bluewell, West Virginia, and his 24-year-old son, Harley Lee Shrader, briefly exchanged pistol fire during a dispute over how to cook chicken for dinner. (Harley was wounded in the ear.) That same month in Wasilla, Alaska, Niccolo Rossodivita, 62, allegedly shot Billy Cordova, 40, twice in the chest; Cordova had been following Rossodivita around their house prolonging an argument over the correct name of Jesus. And in May Angela Morris, 19, of Eugene, Oregon, was charged with domestic assault: she was preparing french fries while she and her boyfriend argued over a Bible verse they’d been reading; the quarrel ended abruptly when she allegedly flung boiling oil at him, severely burning his face, neck, and chest.
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Patricia Frankhouser filed a lawsuit in November against the Norfolk Southern railway after being knocked down by a passing train in January as she walked near railroad tracks a few blocks from her home in Jeannette, Pennsylvania. Frankhouser, who suffered cuts and a broken finger, argued that Norfolk Southern should have posted signs along the tracks warning people to keep clear because trains might be coming.
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