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In January, Kaziah Hancock and Cindy Stewart won almost $300,000 in damages from a breakaway Mormon sect in Manti, Utah, after self-proclaimed prophet Jim Harmston persuaded Hancock to give the church 67 acres of land, promising to produce Jesus Christ himself in the flesh. According to Hancock, Harmston told her the church would provide her with a home, but made only one payment on it, ostensibly because God told him to renege.
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Earlier this month an Australian court awarded Paul Andrew Jackson about $31,000 in his suit against the provincial Roads and Traffic Authority. After drinking six beers, Jackson had stopped on a bicycle bridge in the dark to relieve himself and stepped over the guardrail, not realizing that he was 40 feet off the ground.
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Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
