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In July Bennie Casson filed a $100,000 lawsuit in Belleville, Illinois, against PT’s Show Club in nearby Sauget for its negligence in allowing
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Virgin Mary world tour: Apparitions of Mary were reported in the plate-glass window of a finance company in Clearwater, Florida, and on a wall of a home in Lewis, Kansas, in December 1996; in April of this year on a roadside sign in Sunnyside, Washington; and in June she was spotted in a cluster of trees in Gradina, Croatia, as well as on the floor of a subway station in Mexico City.
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In May Reverend Joe Bullard resigned from the Copper Ridge Baptist Church in Halls, Tennessee, ending what had been a months-long feud with many of the parishioners over whether he was pocketing the offerings of pilgrims who had come to see an apparition of a glowing cross in the church’s windows. Police had been called several times to break up fistfights among the largely elderly congregation. And in December, during an ongoing feud over who had the authority to fire minister Marvin Hodge of the Mount Pisgah Baptist Church in Rembert, South Carolina, Hodge’s detractors would regularly attend services and heckle and boo him while he preached.
Recent flying things: cars driven over embankments or ramps, landing on Rob Hasenwinkle’s house in Kamloops, British Columbia, in February, in J.C. Warner’s motel room in Grants Pass, Oregon, in March, and on an Amtrak train in Portland, Oregon, in July. A couch was tossed out a fourth-floor apartment in Edmonton, Alberta, in March, clipping a newspaper carrier and sending him to the hospital; and in July a one-ton bull fell from a cliff onto Elizabeth Hanks’s car near Joseph, Oregon, and a 3,000-pound wrecking ball rolled off a truck onto a car near Shepherd, Montana.
