Lead Stories
In April the official newspaper of the People’s Republic of China reported that a company in Nanchang had illegally harvested the kidneys of convicted killer Fu Xinrong after his execution….Last month a man walked into a Porsche dealership in Palo Alto, California, and convinced an employee that he was the owner of the $125,000 Turbo 996 that was scheduled to be picked up 20 minutes later….And in July two men in Corpus Christi, Texas, pleaded guilty to hunting coyotes on federal land by baiting fishing poles with deer meat and reeling in the coyotes.
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In August municipal clerk Anne Frank sued the city of Greenwich, Connecticut, for uncompensated overtime; according to the suit, her boss had carried on an affair with his secretary for 11 years, which took up so many office hours that the secretary’s work was passed down to Frank to be completed.
Undignified Deaths
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
