More couples split or divorce in January

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HEADLINE: More couples split or divorce in January
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/national/couples-decide-to-call-it-quits-in-january/story-e6frfkvr-1225823784977
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JANUARY is prime time for divorce or leaving your partner, according to a family law expert.
Brisbane's Clarissa Rayward said the number of inquiries from people contemplating separation or who had already separated jumped each January.
"Perhaps it is due to the stressful Christmas period being the final straw for already strained relationships," she said. "It can also be because of people acting on their New Year resolutions for a fresh start."
Despite the surge in post-Christmas bust-ups, she said Australia still had not got to the point in England where a law firm advertised divorce gift vouchers ..

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HEADLINE: Man Stopped While Trying To Break Into Oregon Jail
SOURCE LINK: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/25/ap/strange/main6140555.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.13
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MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) - Police said a man climbed over a fence and tried to break into the Jackson County Jail. Medford Police Lt. Bob Hansen said that at about 4:10 a.m. Monday, jail officials spotted a man scaling the fence around an area where officers unload potential prisoners and take them inside. The officials called police.

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HEADLINE: Doctors amputate wrong foot of Peruvian man
SOURCE LINK: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/25/international/i131301S41.DTL&tsp=1
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Doctors in Peru mistakenly amputated the wrong foot of an 86-year-old man, then had no choice but to cut off the other one as well to keep an infection from spreading, relatives and officials said Monday.
"It was a terrible shock when I lifted up the sheets and saw they had amputated his left foot," the patient's daughter, Carmen Villanueva, told RPP radio.
She said doctors in the port city of Callao had been attending to an ulcer on Jorge Villanueva's right foot since Jan. 4.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/25/international/i131301S41.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0dfd7fI7u

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HEADLINE: Priest accused of shoplifting butter, sofa cover
SOURCE LINK: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/25/national/a135312S32.DTL&tsp=1
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A Roman Catholic priest was accused of shoplifting butter and a sofa cover at a Wal-Mart in southern Illinois. Police arrested 41-year-old the Rev. Steven Poole on Friday. He's charged with two felony theft counts. Investigators said Poole failed to scan a $3.22 container of butter and a $60 sofa cover at a self-checkout. Poole then allegedly went to the store's bedding section, picked up a memory foam mattress and switched the pricing bar code. That caused the $145 item to be scanned for $31.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/25/national/a135312S32.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0dfbsJvdo

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HEADLINE: Polish man found still alive in coffin
SOURCE LINK: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7002357.ece
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As the lid of his coffin was about to be sealed, Josef Guzy’s grieving widow made one last request for her late husband’s necklace.
The 76-year-old Polish beekeeper had collapsed earlier in the day and been pronounced dead at the scene by a doctor.
When the undertaker reached into the coffin for the last time, he thought that he detected a faint pulse. On closer inspection, Mr Guzy was still breathing.
The same ambulance that had been called to the pensioner’s home near the southern city of Katowice and found no sign of life now raced to the undertakers to discover that their patient was still alive.

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HEADLINE: Woman discovers husband's secret wives
SOURCE LINK: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-three-wives24-2010jan24,0,2469788.story
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Reporting from Detroit - During a single week in August, Faye Miller's comfortable world vanished.
That's when Miller, 51, a homemaker in Rochester Hills, Mich., took her therapist's advice and started to examine her marriage.
Through Google and phone records, she learned:
* Her husband of 10 years, Dr. Kenneth Mitchell, already had a wife in California when he married Miller.
* In 2003 he married another woman in Quebec.
* And Mitchell, 48, who attended Lutheran church with Miller, had converted to Islam in 2002, taken the Arabic name Mustafa and traveled twice to Saudi Arabia on religious pilgrimages, according to court records.

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HEADLINE: Woman falls on Picasso painting
SOURCE LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8478347.stm
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A woman who was taking an art class at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has accidentally fallen into a Picasso painting and damaged it.
The painting called The Actor sustained a vertical tear of about six inches (15cm) in the lower right-hand corner.
But the damage did not affect the "focal point of the composition" and should be repaired for an exhibition later this year, the museum said.
The work from the Rose period was painted in the winter of 1904-1905.

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HEADLINE: Montana Authorities Take Down Dinosaur Thief
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/25/taking-dinosaur-thieves/?test=latestnews
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GREAT FALLS, Mont. -- A rare and nearly complete dinosaur skeleton stolen from private property in Montana and stored in an evidence locker for more than two years has been turned over to researchers.
Scientists at the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research in South Dakota say the 70-million-year-old turkey-sized predator could be a new species of raptor.
"It's a mean and nasty little dinosaur," said Peter Larson, president of the institute. "Even though it's not very big, you wouldn't want to meet it in a dark alleyway."
Researchers say it's unusual to find the skeleton of a meat-eating dinosaur, and especially one that's so small
"So many things can happen to a small-bodied animal," Larson said.

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