Blood tests have refuted a woman's claim that her cat had given birth to three puppies, geneticist Adil Pacheco said on Tuesday. Cassia Aparecida de Souza, 18, said last Friday that her cat Mimi had given birth to the three puppies as well as three kittens, which did not survive. "People who aren't experts often imagine things," said Pacheco, director of the Institute of Biological Sciences of the University of Passo Fundo. Pacheco was asked by a newspaper to conduct a chromosome test to check the claim which gained wide media attention.
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Online date seeker nabbed
A man wanted for a double homicide in Arkansas was arrested on Sunday in Wisconsin after he posted his name, picture and address on an online dating Web site, police said on Monday. Calvin Bennett, 26, has been charged with the killings of Pierce Odell, 79, and his wife, Mary, 78, who were found shot to death on Oct. 30 outside their home in Nashville, Arkansas. "He was taken into custody shortly before noon on Sunday, less than 12 hours after his picture was broadcast on America's Most Wanted [TV show]," an Arkansas State Police spokesman said.
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