Man gets 10 years for running over co-worker in Yamhill County Posted: 8 months ago by muppet
"accident," my ass. 10 years isn't long enough.
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50 years for a crime that never was Posted: 6 months ago by Moe
He went to an asylum for the criminally insane and spent 50 years there. There was just one problem. His father, whom he was thought to have killed, was still alive.
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Woman charged with running over husband Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A 56-year-old woman has been charged with murdering her husband by running him over with a car in Perth.
Different from Bornbad's post.
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Baby-Killer Gets 23 Years Posted: 9 months ago by punthe
A Mount Airy man will spend 23 years in prison for fatally shaking his girlfriend’s 8-month-old son to death in February 2006 while trying to stop the infant from crying.
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Woman boards the wrong bus and gets lost for 25 years Posted: 2 years ago by BrownTrout
A woman who boarded the wrong bus on an attempted shopping trip from Thailand to Malaysia has returned home after 25 years. There were some language barriers and mistaken identity issues but hey... she should have been back home in 12 years tops!
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FAther Who Rapes Daughter and Has 7 Kids Gets ONLY 15 Years Posted: 5 months ago by deepcleanfun
Austrian authorities have now confirmed that 73-year-old Joseph Fritzl, who fathered seven children by the daughter he kept in a dungeon and repeatedly raped for 24 years, will get maximum of 15 years
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Dixie the cat returns home after nine years Posted: 4 weeks ago by AutumnLotus
A cat has returned to its Birmingham home – nine years after disappearing.
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Early Humans In China One Million Years Ago Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
China houses several early-human (Paleolithic) archaeological sites along the Nihewan Basin near Mongolia, some with artifacts that date back about 1 million years ago.
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Then and Now - 100 Years Ago to Today Posted: 9 months ago by muppet
A collection of photos comparing a place about 100 years ago to the same place today
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The next 50 years of exploration Posted: 1 year ago by DrNothing
We have been in space for 50 years. It is a long time and we have certainly come a long way so far. Where exactly will we be in space 50 years from now? It is hard to say.
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Woman gets 7 years in Haitian slavery case Posted: 5 months ago by jhordie
A former teacher was sentenced Tuesday to more than seven years in prison for forcing a Haitian girl to work as a slave for years, each day of the week, in her South Florida home.
Apparently the woman still refuses to admit she did anything wrong.
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US soldier gets 18 years for Iraq murder Posted: 2 years ago by teaya21
A US soldier has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to murdering three detainees during a raid on a suspected al-Qaeda compound in Iraq last year.
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Woman Runs 120 Miles across Long Island Posted: 1 year ago by suebe
An elite ultradistance runner ran 120 miles from Montauk to Queens in what she called 'The Running Fight for Breast Cancer.' She is believed to be the first person to complete a solo run across the length of Nassau-Suffolk counties.
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Body lay in UK apartment for 8 years Posted: 8 months ago by bevissimo
Workers responding to neighbors' complaints of a bad smell coming from an apartment in western England discovered a body that lay decomposing on a couch for years while another resident lived there, officials said Friday.
After 8 years, it still had a smell?
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Guess What Was Found Under A Ping-Pong Table... Posted: 2 years ago by musicgirldani
University of Alberta faculty member Michael Caldwell is talking about the fossils that were found under a ping-pong table after 25 years. One of which was pregnant.
"It was pretty amazing to realize this valuable discovery had sat under a pingpong table for 25 years," Caldwell said. "But I suppose that after 100 million years in the dirt, it's all relative."
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German man found after 7 years dead in bed Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
The decomposed corpse of a German man was found alone in his bed after nearly seven years, police in the western city of Essen said Thursday.
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Where Are They Now: The cast of M*A*S*H Posted: 7 months ago by 2longdogs
Although the Korean War only lasted three years, the cast of M*A*S*H was with us every week for eleven years. The final episode on February 28, 1983 was the most watched episode in American TV ever, drawing 106 million viewers, or 77% of the audience that night. It’s been twenty-five years since we said Goodbye, Farewell and Amen; let’s see what the gang has been up to since then.
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Man Reunited With Wallet After 37 Years Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A man who lost his wallet in 1970 got it back after 37 years with everything still inside.
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Who Wears Short Shorts? (nsf56k) Posted: 1 year ago by 2manyusernames
Fashion has changed quite a bit over the years. Who remembers Bellbottoms? Hotpants? Skirt lengths change from long to short to mini. Of course, hairstyles have an equally broad range of styles over the years as have boots and sunglasses.
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Want to be 130 years old??? Posted: 2 years ago by Milkshake
This is a look at the advances in science regarding health and the human body.
So, just carry on eating junk food and drinking shakes and let science do the rest.
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Global warming - 55m years ago Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A period of intense global warming 55 million years ago was caused by massive volcanic eruptions that split apart Greenland and north-west Europe, scientists believe.
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