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Man Took $20 In Kid's Piggy Bank
A man has been charged with sneaking into a toddler's bedroom and stealing $20 from a piggy bank while the 2-year-old girl slept.
Authorities say DNA evidence linked Ryan A. Mueller, 30, of Sheboygan Falls to the crime that occurred Aug. 10 in Wilson.
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Massage Therapist Gets 2 Years in Jail for Secretly Taping Clients
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A massage therapist will spend two years in jail for secretly videotaping female clients as they undressed for sessions and then dressed.
Richard Filbin originally was charged with 114 counts of criminal invasion of privacy. He pleaded guilty Wednesday in Kanawha County Magistrate Court to 12 counts. The other counts were dropped as part of a plea bargain.
Magistrate Kim Aaron also ordered Filbin to pay more than $6,000 in court costs and fines and sentenced him to two years of probation.
The 52-year-old Filbin operated Body and Soul Massage Therapy in Cross Lanes. According to the criminal complaint, police began investigating late last year after his wife discovered the tapes and notified authorities.

Road Rage Comes to the Bike Trail
California man admits digging 50 concealed holes along riding path to punish bikers out of revenge

Forget Tupperware: Taser Parties Are the New Craze
GILBERT, Ariz. — Before she lets them shoot her little pink stun gun, Dana Shafman ushers her new friends to the living room sofa for a serious chat about the fears she believes they all share.
"The worst nightmare for me is, while I'm sleeping, someone coming in my home," Shafman says, drawing a few solemn nods from the gathered women.
Shafman, 34, of Phoenix, says she knows how they feel. She says she used to stash knives under her pillow for protection.
Welcome, she says, to the Taser party.
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Wife takes ‘divorce by text’ to court
A woman is seeking clarification from a court on whether her husband’s declaration of divorce by text message is legally valid. After missing a call from her husband on her mobile phone Iqbal Abul Nasr received a text message from him which read: “I divorce you because you didn’t answer your husband,” it was reported in the state-run daily newspaper al-Akhbar. In line with Sharia, men do not need to go to court to file for divorce. A unilateral declaration of divorce by a man, repeated three times, formally ends a marriage. It was the third time that Mrs Abul Nasr, an engineer from Cairo, had received such a text message.