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A 41-year-old man was arrested in Conneaut, Ohio, in May and charged with shooting two volunteer firefighters. The victims were assisting an ambulance crew with an injured, elderly woman; apparently the man became impatient when the ambulance driver took too much time backing out of a driveway. And in April army major Odie Butler stood for 45 minutes protecting a critically wounded woman whose van had overturned on a highway in Alexandria, Virginia, during rush hour. Butler said many commuters not only refused to call for help, but shouted abuse and gave him the finger because the accident had blocked a lane of traffic.
In July Ronald Anacelteo, 38, was ordered by a court in Los Angeles to stay away from singer Stevie Nicks, whom Anacelteo thought could make him straight. According to a law enforcement officer, Anacelteo “is a self-proclaimed homosexual” who believes that Nicks can “heal” his homosexuality and “find [him] a woman to marry.”
The French company Neyret announced plans earlier this year to market “exciting” underwear, beginning with a bra that gives off a scent of pink grapefruit, apple, watermelon, black currant, or apricot when stretched taut or caressed.
Suspected drug dealer Dwayne Brown, 24, and two friends allegedly hatched a plot to help Brown escape from a jail in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in February. Brown was to lower a rope made out of blankets from an 18th-floor jail window, the friends would tie a gun to it, and Brown would use it to threaten a judge at his next court date. Searches at the jail and at the courthouse would have uncovered the weapon, but guards overheard the whole plan when the friends visited Brown in jail.
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