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Girl finds rescue team
A five-year-old girl who had been missing for two days and was feared drowned took rescuers by surprise when she found them just hours after the discovery of her grandfather's body, officials said. Officials had been searching for Hannah Klamecki and her grandfather David Klamecki, 62, since late Wednesday after they failed to return from a boating trip on the Kankakee River in central Illinois. The child, naked and disheveled, walked out of the woods by the river and into a camp where a rescue party was gathered on Friday. "We did not expect this ending. It's great that she's alive," Ken McCabe, chief deputy of the Kankakee County Sheriff's Department, told WGN News.
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Toddler sick of margarita
Kim Mayorga was confused when her two-year-old started making funny faces and pushing away the apple juice he had ordered at Applebee's restaurant in Antioch, California. The explanation came when she opened the lid of the sippy cup and was hit by the smell of tequila and Triple Sec. The apple juice and margarita mix were stored in identical plastic bottles, and the restaurant staff accidentally gave Julian Mayorga a margarita on Monday. He grew drowsy and started vomiting a few hours later and was rushed to hospital. Mayorga said her son is now doing fine. She said the firm has been very apologetic, promised to pay the medical bills and offered free meals, but she added: "If they think I'm going back there, they're ridiculous."
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Corpuz jailed for a year
A woman who posed as a homeless orphaned boy and befriended and abused a teenage girl was sentenced to a year in jail for child molestation in Everett, Washington. Lorelei Corpuz, 30, apologized on Thursday, saying: "I know this is a big lesson for me, and it is not something I want to do again." The sentence ordered by Judge Ronald Castleberry was the maximum under state guidelines. Authorities said Corpuz, who cropped her hair and stands 1.6m, passed herself off as 17-year-old Mark Villanueva after meeting the girl at a mall in September 2005. Her parents let Corpuz live at their home. Over time Corpuz began physically and sexually abusing the girl, officials said.
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Animals on the run
The circus came to town, but a few wayward animals put on their own show. Four zebras and three horses from the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus took an unscheduled run on Friday on a road just outside World Arena in Colorado Springs, where the circus was performing this weekend. About 15 animal handlers chased them for about half an hour. The animals were being walked into the arena from a corral in the parking lot to practice when noise from a nearby highway spooked the zebras, Coleman said. The animals were recaptured unharmed, officials said.
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