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A Wisconsin fire marshal has agreed to resign after he was accused of writing an online psychic and asking the spiritualist if he or others would be able to oust their chief.


Tom Weber, of Middleton, denied ever working against his boss, but admitted that he has written to psychics from his computer at work.

An Austin, Minn., man admitted to that on July 29 he broke into a cemetery and stole a 5-foot statue of the Virgin Mary. Then, he painted it to resemble a clown, before stashing it at his girlfriend's house in her closet. He was found out when someone saw pictures of him and the statue on MySpace.

A PSYCHIATRIST who called Michael Neal the "most evil man" he had met in 20 years urged authorities to lock him up two years ago but was ignored.

A man from China is to finally have a huge tumour removed today after discovering it 17 years ago.

A British Airways passenger has told of his shock after he woke up to find he was sitting next to a corpse.

“I paid a lot of money to get a fake death certificate and bribe undertakers to deliver an empty coffin … I really thought a lot more of you, my so-called friends, would turn up to pay their last respects. It just goes to show who you can really count on.”

An animal heart riddled with pins, a hollowed gourd and a mysterious photo of a smiling man in a suit were all part of a macabre discovery at an old city burial ground.

A half-dozen gravestones also were toppled and adorned with more than 15 candles, some containing strips of paper with names and dates scribbled on them.

Death by Beard

Your text goes hereA 22-year-old woman sought medical care for a lesion in the plantar region of her left foot, a well-formed nipple surrounded by areola and hair. Microscopic examination of the dermis showed hair follicles, eccrine glands, and sebaceous glands. Fat tissue was noted at the base of the lesion. Clinical and histopathologic findings were consistent with the diagnosis of supernumerary breast tissue, also known as pseudomamma. To our knowledge, this is the first report of supernumerary breast tissue on the foot.

An international team of biblical scholars learned recently that the sect thought to have been responsible for the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Essenes, became extinct because they were too modest about their toilet habits. According to a report in London’s Independent, the researchers found evidence of heavy fecal bacteria in a secluded area and deduced from the scrolls that the Essenes rejected defecating in the open, which would have allowed sunlight to kill the bacteria.

A German journalist has been fined 100 euros ($131) after he filmed three artists stealing water from Pope Benedict's garden hose in Bavaria to sell on Internet auction site EBay.

The three men, clad in overalls and wearing masks, broke into the garden of the Pope's house in Pentling, a suburb of Regensburg, in August armed with as many as 20 old lemonade bottles, the journalist's lawyer, Jan Bockemuehl, told Reuters.

The large, 150-year-old tree has been attacked by a fungus and is in danger of falling down.

An Indian woman, despairing over her lover's accidental death when he fell down a well soon after their engagement, insisted on ceremonially marrying his corpse just minutes before the cremation.

"It was for just few minutes the girl was dressed as a bride and then as a widow," K.M. Kapadia, a police officer in the town of Anand in western Gujarat state, said on Saturday.

Recently William Davis filed a $1.5 million lawsuit against the Murfreesboro, Tenn., police because they seized and destroyed 114 dead cats and one dead dog that Davis kept in freezers and which had “emotional value” for him. In addition, according to the petition filed in Chancery Court for Rutherford County, the carcasses were potential business property; Davis was planning to start his own pet cemetery.

"We already had naked swimming ... but a gym, that's unique," said one white-haired bespectacled man, who gave only his first name, Henk.

Your text goes hereThe police are looking for a middle-aged man who dug up his father's two-year-old corpse in a bid to bring him back to life.

An inmate at an El Salvador jail was caught with a hand grenade stuffed up his backside -- a novel attempt to disguise his apparent escape plans.

Guards at the San Francisco Gotera prison outside the capital San Salvador found the V40 grenade, about the size of a golf ball, lodged up the man's rectum during a security clampdown, a prison spokesman said on Thursday.

ZURICH, Switzerland - What began as a routine training exercise almost ended in an embarrassing diplomatic incident after a company of Swiss soldiers got lost at night and marched into neighboring Liechtenstein.

According to Swiss daily Blick, the 170 infantry soldiers wandered just over a mile across an unmarked border into the tiny principality early Thursday before realizing their mistake and turning back.

Authorities said a trio trying to open a locked door alerted a sleeping homeowner when one of them rang the doorbell.

Homeowner Samuel Sanchez, 35, confronted the burglars about 11:30 a.m. Monday. One of them was still trying to open the door with a pocket knife, Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputies said. The men ran, according to the St. Petersburg Times.

An attorney challenging the authority of the city's police chief wants the department's police dog to appear in court as an exhibit, because he says the dog and the chief have criminal justice degrees from the same online school.

The issue gives "one pause, if not paws, for concern" about what it takes to get the degrees from the school based in the Virgin Islands, Gene Murray wrote in a court document filed Monday.

Nathaniel Anderson, a former Louisville funeral director stripped of his state license, was arrested this afternoon after police found human remains at his residence and at Anderson Funeral Service.

Searches turned up the remains of 18 people — most of them cremated, said Alicia Smiley, a Louisville Metro Police spokeswoman.