N.C. Organizers Ban Mrs. Claus From Holiday Parade

HEADLINE: N.C. Organizers Ban Mrs. Claus From Holiday Parade
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RALEIGH, N.C. — Santa Claus is fine at a North Carolina Christmas parade. But Mrs. Claus has to stay away.

Organizers of the Raleigh parade told The News & Observer of Raleigh that they are just following policy and children would be confused if there were two people in the Saturday parade in Santa suits.

John Odom says organizers even discourage parade watchers from wearing Santa hats so everyone's attention is on the real St. Nick.

Mrs. Claus isn't happy. Debra Goldman says she was allowed to don her gray wig and long red dress last year as she walked with the sheriff.

HEADLINE: Man Guilty of Scaring Granny to Death Gets Life in Jail
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after he was found guilty in what prosecutors said was a case of scaring a 79-year-old North Carolina woman to death.

Multiple media outlets report a federal jury found Larry Whitfield not guilty of murder Friday in the death of Mary Parnell last year. But they did find him guilty of causing her death by kidnapping her, and that carries an automatic life sentence.

Whitfield, 21, was looking for somewhere to hide after a failed bank robbery attempt in Gastonia in September 2008 when he broke into Parnell's home, prosecutors said.

Whitfield never touched the grandmother, ordering her to go sit in a chair in her bedroom. She suffered a heart attack and begged Whitfield to call for help, authorities said.

Prosecutors said Whitfield was on the phone with his nursing student girlfriend when Parnell stopped breathing. She told him to call 911, but he didn't, authorities said.

HEADLINE: Mussolini's blood, brain 'for sale on eBay'
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26379754-401,00.html
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ITALIAN dictator Benito Mussolini's blood and brain went on sale for €15,000 ($24,343) on online auction website eBay before the company pulled the ad posted by an anonymous seller. "No bid was made during the brief time the advert was visible," eBay said on its website, explaining the removal on the grounds that the company did not authorise sales of human matter.