Man stole nearly $10,000 from churches

Police said an Iowa City man stole nearly $10,000 using checks from local churches and the forged signatures of clergymen.

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According to criminal complaints, Christopher J. Jones, 18, obtained three checks from Faith Baptist Church and one from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Police said Jones forged the signatures of pastors and deacons, making himself the payee.

The checks totaled $34,000, all of which Jones deposited into his University of Iowa Community Credit Union bank account.

Police said Jones went on a "spending spree," which included a trip to New York. Payment was stopped on several checks, limiting the credit union's loss to almost $10,000.

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Woman stole a NYPD license plate

New York police said a woman was arrested after stealing a license plate off a patrol car and shoving it down her pants.

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Police said Beryl Duncan, 53, took the plate from the marked 2009 Chevrolet Impala while it was parked near Prospect Park on a call about a disturbance.

A witness described seeing Duncan shove the plate down her pants and police said she denied stealing the plate when confronted by an officer.

Police said the woman told the officer the plate had fallen off the vehicle and she was holding it until she could return it to an officer.

Duncan was arrested and charged with criminal possession of stolen property and petit larceny.

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Now that's a tumor

Man asks for help to remove 80kg tumor
His 80kg tumor is record-breaking, but the size of his smile is what's really remarkable about Nguyen Duy Hai.

The 31-year-old Vietnamese man has had a tumor growing on his right leg since soon after he was born.

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Despite having an amputation at the knee 14 years ago, he still has an 80kg, 1m-wide growth. "I can't do anything, I can only sit and lie down," he said in his home in the town of Da Lat in the country's Central Highlands.

The tumor is the largest ever documented in Vietnam, Vu Van Thach, head of examination department of Hanoi tumor hospital, he said.

Hai's family is too poor to afford another operation after the amputation in 1997 failed to stop the growth, and now he is appealing for funds to afford medical help.

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German surgeons remove huge tumor

Specialist surgeons performed this j-awesome transformation of a 21-year-old patient - after removing an astonishing six-kilo tumor from her mouth.

The Ethiopian-born woman - identified only as Tsehay - was so deformed by the 10-centimeter wide tumor she could barely eat or swallow water.

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Lead surgeon Peter Cornelius from Bamberg, Germany, explained: "The operation to remove the tumor took three hours. It was complicated as so much of the lower face was disfigured by it. Only then, were we able to reconstruct her face."

The young woman faces more reconstructive surgery to rebuild her face, but said she was delighted by the surgery. "The doctors not only saved my life - they have given me a future as well," she said.

Lakeland man digs a pool finds trash dump in back yard

Brian Dyer was tired of taking his wife and kids to water parks in Orlando. He thought it would be much easier to dig a pool in his backyard.

When the pool company started excavating, it began bringing up load after load of trash. Metal, plastic, bottles, and who knows what else. It turns out that somewhere along the line someone had used their lot as an illegal dump site.
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It is unclear how big the problem is. The junk could be buried under the Dyer's home in the Oak Run subdivision in North Lakeland. It may even extend to other parts of their neighborhood.

One of the biggest issues is: who is going to pay to clean up the mess? The company that developed the land is out of business. The builder and Polk County say they are not liable. That leaves Dyer holding the trash bag.

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Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know You Needed

Jelly Belly iPhone Cases

California candy company Jelly Belly announced it has created a line of jelly bean-scented cases for the iPhone.

Jelly Belly said it teamed with ESI Cases and Accessories to create iPhone cases scented like the company's Strawberry Cheesecake, Very Cherry, Blueberry, Licorice and Berry Blue jelly beans.

The companies said the cases, which are also available for the iPod Touch, iPod Nano and some BlackBerry phones, can be teamed with unscented earbuds shaped like Jelly Belly beans. The items are sold separately and each cost $14.99.

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Tattoo IDs Bank Robber

Police are searching for a man with a “Die Pig Die” tattoo on his neck who they say held up a Wells Fargo Bank Thursday evening with a handgun and drove away in a stolen pickup truck.

Police are looking for Baraboo resident Richard B. Hindes, 31, in connection with the incident. Baraboo Police Lt. Rob Sinden said Hindes was identified by the tattoo described by tellers inside the bank.

Sinden added that Baraboo police previously have had contact with Hindes. He is a white man who stands 6 feet tall and weighs about 190 pounds. The tattoo is on the right side of his neck.

Sinden said Hindes walked into the bank and revealed a small, black handgun, took an undisclosed amount of money and fled in a stolen pickup truck.

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Patient gets drunk on sanitizer in hospital

A man who drank six bottles of alcohol-based hand sanitizer while being treated in an Australian hospital for alcoholism has sparked calls for the antibacterial gels to be better secured.

Doctors were stunned to discover the man had downed six 375-milliliter (12.7-ounce) bottles of hand sanitizer, giving him a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.271 per cent. That's more than five times higher than the 0.05 per cent legal limit for driving in Australia.

Dr. Michael Oldmeadow, an internist, said that although the incident was not the first of its kind, it was the most serious case he had seen and the man is lucky to have survived.

"It surprised us that he drank this stuff," Oldmeadow said, "You'd think it would taste pretty bad."

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World skinny dipping record attempted in Wales

Hundreds of people strip off and jump into the freezing cold sea off the Welsh coast in an effort to break the world record for a naked dip.

The mass skinny dip took place on Gower beach at Rhossili to raise money for Marie Curie Cancer Care and the National Trust.

At 8:30am Sunday morning almost 400 people cast aside their inhibitions and their clothes to plunge into the water and stay in for at least 10 minutes in the hope of claiming the record that previously stood at 250 people.

The event was organized by Bristol-based online publishing editor Alison Powell.

"I thought it would be fun. I wanted to go skinny dipping a while ago with friends and no one would come with me," she said.

"They gave me loads of the excuses like they would do it if it was summer, they would do it if they had a good reason, so I gave them those things."

Organizers said their challenge had yet to be verified by Guinness World Records but had raised more than £13,000 for charity.

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No questions asked

Stolen Donation Box Contained Dollar Blessed By Deceased Rabbi

A Palm Beach Gardens synagogue is offering a $1,000 reward for the safe return of a special $1 bill stolen during a burglary.

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Someone broke into the Cha' bad Palm Beach Synagogue on Tuesday night and stole a special donation box that contained a $1 bill that was blessed by a rabbi who died a few years ago.

That dollar is priceless to the synagogue.

The thief was caught on surveillance video.

Ezagui said no questions will be asked for the safe return of the dollar.

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