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According to a feature last month in the Washington Post Magazine, a deaf female couple in Bethesda, Maryland, recently gave birth to a partially deaf child who had been artificially conceived using sperm from a man with a long family history of deafness. The couple said they merely wanted their son to be like the rest of the family, including their older daughter.
In Duluth, Minnesota, 25-year-old Leah Marie Fairbanks, who’d confessed to stabbing a man, was sentenced in February to 14 months’ probation, during which she is to write reports on the Declaration of Independence and seven classic novels; her codefendant, sentenced by another judge, got eight years in prison….And last month 50-year-old Luther Crawford of Louisville, who has 12 children by 11 different women and owes $33,000 in child support, avoided prison by agreeing to refrain from all sexual intercourse until he is paid up.
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The government of Iran reported that on a single day in March more than 900 traffic accidents occurred, killing 122 people and injuring 2,000….In Saint Louis a tour bus ran over and killed 36-year-old Susie Stephens of Great Britain, a world authority on pedestrian safety who was in town speaking at a biking/walking conference….In Virginia Beach, Virginia, a 12-year-old girl, confronted by a male flasher in a hotel elevator, bloodied him by grabbing his zipper and yanking it up quickly….And in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, Univest bank accepted for deposit two $100 bills that had been chewed up, swallowed, and digested by the depositor’s dog.
