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Timothy Lobdell, 20, escaped from Alaska’s Fairbanks Correctional Center in January but was picked up the next day after he was recognized by several people. Lobdell, who was awaiting sentencing for assaulting a police officer, has an expletive (the reports did not reveal the specific word) tattooed in inch-high letters on his left cheek.
The Litigious Society
The family of Karen Seaton, who died in 1995 after falling off a bar stool and hitting her head at Wild Willie’s in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, filed a lawsuit in January against the bar for having served her too much to drink.
University of Texas sociologist David Buss told reporters in September that interviews he conducted with 107 couples reveal that certain behaviors are highly indicative of a tendency toward infidelity. Among them: arriving late for dinners or meetings, spending a lot of time looking in the mirror, forgetting to thank friends for favors, laughing at injured animals, running up debts, and walking out of a room without turning off the light.
Latest prices charged by parents selling their kids: $7,400, in Covington, Louisiana, in January; $1,000, in Orlando, Florida, also in January. Latest attempted robbery in which the unarmed perp simulates a gun with his thumb and forefinger but doesn’t have his hand in his pocket at the time: La Ronge, Saskatchewan, in December.
