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Thief chomped by gator
A suspected thief disappeared into an alligator-infested lake as he fled police only to turn up dead the next day with gator teeth marks on his upper torso, authorities said on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear how the man died, but a 2.82m alligator may have been responsible. The man was allegedly burglarizing a vehicle in a resort parking lot on Thursday and ran when police arrived, said Dexter Lehtinen, a Miccosukee Indian Reservation police adviser. The man's body was recovered on Friday by tribal police divers from the lake at the Miccosukee Resort and Convention Center.
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O'Connor happy about date
The husband of retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor struck up a romance with a fellow Alzheimer's patient after moving into an assisted living center, and under the circumstances, his wife is just glad that he is comfortable, her son told a TV station. The retired justice is not jealous about his relationship with the woman, Scott O'Connor told KPNX in Phoenix. He said it has dramatically changed the outlook of his father, John, toward being in the Huger Mercy Living Center. Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the US Supreme Court, cited her husband's illness and her need to take care of him when she retired in 2005.
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Nazi dog handler deported
An 85-year-old man accused of being a Nazi dog handler has returned to Germany rather than fight to stay in the US, a federal prosecutor told a judge at a deportation hearing. Paul Henss was accused of training and handling attack dogs at the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps. US Immigration Judge Dan Pelletier ordered him deported after a 30-minute hearing on Tuesday. Henss left Georgia on Friday for his native Germany. Henss acknowledged to reporters last month at his home in Lawrenceville that he had trained dogs but said he never set foot inside Dachau or Buchenwald.
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Hitler's globe auctioned
A desktop globe a US soldier recovered from Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's residence in 1945 sold at auction for US$115,000 on Tuesday, a San Francisco-based auction house said. John Barsamian, 91, said he took the globe as a souvenir after entering Hitler's Berghof residence in Obersalzberg in southern Germany as a US Army soldier. San Francisco resident Robert Pritikin, 78, a former advertising executive who knows Barsamian, bought the globe. "How could you back away from it was his thought," said Matthew Davis, Pritikin's personal assistant. "This is one of the things that one of the most evil men in history studied and studied.
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