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Pregnant Kentucky woman cited by police for street camping while in labor (www.theguardian.com)

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Google Street View Appears to Capture Man Loading Human Body Into Trunk of Car (futurism.com)

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~~Archive link, for those who prefer it: https://archive.is/20241219051538/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/world/europe/google-maps-spain-arrests.html~~

Edited the main link to a different version of the story with a better headline

Suspected 'witchdoctors' arrested over attempt to 'bewitch' Zambia's president (www.bbc.com)

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Luigi Mangione Will Be in Same Jail as Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs: Report (www.usmagazine.com)

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Mario and Jeffery Epstein jailed in the multiverse

NBA’s Hornets sorry after giving child PS5 before taking it back off camera (www.theguardian.com)

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Leave funny to the pros, people.

California squirrels are now apparently hunting and eating other rodents (www.latimes.com)

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Flat Earthers admit defeat after Antarctica trip proves them wrong (www.iol.co.za)

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Woman accused of stowing away on Delta flight from NY to Paris apprehended again, FBI says (www.cbsnews.com)

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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, something something choke on a pretzel or something.

City of Bend to vandal: Stop putting googly eyes on statues (www.koin.com)

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DMV apologizes for license plate that mocks Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Owner's son calls it misunderstanding (www.latimes.com)

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Construction sign reads 'one less CEO' in Seattle (mynorthwest.com)

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Woman who left urn at movie theater in Beloit says she did so intentionally (www.wkow.com)

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Long Island woman charged with allegedly practicing unlicensed dentistry out of apartment kitchen (abc7ny.com)

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Lisa needs braces.

'We brought a dad back': Green Lake County sheriff says man who faked his own death returned to Wisconsin on his own (www.wkow.com)

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Sheriff immediately locks the man up on obstruction charge. Welcome home!

A Wisconsin ice angler drove a Jeep across thin ice. It ended as you'd expect (madison.com)

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YesMadam [company] allegedly asks employees if they are stressed, and then fires them; leaked letter goes viral (economictimes.indiatimes.com)

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Nothing eases job-related stress more than not having a job....

Broward Co. to vacate convictions for people who bought crack made by the Sheriff's Office (cbs12.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22922203

For three years, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest for buying crack cocaine.