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Baby survives hanging
A baby found hanged in the closet of a Texas mobile home survived as she dangled next to the bodies of her mother and three sisters, authorities said. The bodies were discovered by the mother's sister in a mobile home park outside of Fort Worth, Texas, the local sheriff said. "The only way you could describe the scene would be horrendous," Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler said. The bodies were discovered at about 6:30am when the mother's sister went to check on the family after the mother did not show up for work. Fowler said the aunt, who lives nearby, pulled the still-breathing baby off the clothes rod and called police.
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Man shot over sauce
A manager at a fast-food restaurant in Miami was shot several times in the arm early on Tuesday trying to protect the chili sauce, authorities said. A man in the Wendy's drive-through argued with an employee because he wanted more of the condiment, police said. The worker told the customer that restaurant policy prohibited a customer from getting more than three packets. The man insisted on 10, reports said. The employee complied, but police said the customer wanted even more. The manager came out to speak to the man, said Miami-Dade police spokesman Mary Walter. The customer then shot the manager, who was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.
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Shoe-sniffer arrested
Police seized more than 1,500 pairs of girls' shoes from the home and storage unit of a man arrested for breaking into a high school, police said on Tuesday. "He liked to smell them," said Lieutenant William Graham. Police said the recovered shoes may be related to the burglaries of three Waukesha public high schools and a middle school over the past two years. The 27-year-old Kenosha man, who was not identified because he had yet to be formally charged, worked for a cable company and collected keys to the schools as he responded to calls, Graham said.
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Man rescued, arrested
A man who jumped from a cruise ship off Florida's coast and was rescued about eight hours later by the Coast Guard was arrested on Tuesday on sex charges, authorities said. Michael Mankamyer, 35, of Orlando was charged with sexual battery not likely to cause injury and lewd or lascivious molestation on a victim older than 12, said Liz Malavet, of the Orange County jail's inmate records. The charges stem from an FBI investigation into Mankamyer, the Orlando Sentinel reported. The FBI reviewed cruise ship records that revealed Mankamyer had escorted at least four teenage boys on separate cruises, Sergeant Rich Mankewich of the sheriff's sex crimes unit told the newspaper.
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