xxxNews Of The Weirdxxx
Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
Sister Mary Catherine Antczak (Order of Dominican Sisters), armed with financial backers’ money and aiming to raise even more for an elementary school in South Los Angeles, won about $200,000 by picking six straight winners at Santa Anita racetrack.
A health-conscious New York City couple went on trial for “assaulting” their baby (through starvation) by earnestly feeding her mainly mixtures of dandelions, oat straw, cherry bark, slippery elm, kelp and an herb called horse tail.
The Kentucky Supreme Court approved the “character and fitness” of lawyer-applicant Ms. Taylor Strasser, despite the state bar association’s rejection of her for a pre-law-school arrest for prostitution.
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