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WE'RE NOT MAKING THIS UP...  

Hero wrestler saves the day in South Philly
HE WAS wearing much less than a cape and red tights, but this South Philly native still showed he was a real-life hero. In a series of events that could have been lifted straight out of a movie script, a likable professional wrestler from South Philadelphia, clad only in his boxer shorts, recently chased down a mugger on skates who had snatched the purse of a neighbor.

  

   

Innocent man freed, re-imprisoned for bad behavior
Four days after a court released him from prison for a rape he did not commit, Albert Kent Johnson returned to custody Tuesday because of bad behavior in the penitentiaries where he spent the past 10 years.

Coroner accused of keeping brains after autopsies
The Hamilton County coroner says it sometimes is necessary to keep brains removed during autopsies in order to complete tests to determine cause of death.

'God' rejected, man becomes 'I Am who I Am'
A man who wanted to change his name to God chose a new name when a judge turned down his request.

Police: Burglar got away -- on a lawn mower
It's hardly the fastest thing on the road, but police say a red riding lawn mower was an effective getaway vehicle for a burglar.

Pastor wants to convene church in bar
The Rev. Brent Hanson is fighting to get his congregation into what may seem an unlikely Sunday-morning destination - a bar.

Court says giant rat can stay
The city wanted the 30-foot-tall inflatable rat to go. Likewise the three coffins. But a deal brokered with a magistrate between Stow and union-organized protesters will allow the rodent and caskets to stay.

Exterminators rescue bug-weary block
Held hostage for two years by a cockroach army that numbered in the thousands, long-suffering residents of a Philadelphia neighborhood cheered exterminators yesterday as they emerged victorious from the roaches' breeding ground.

A scholarship for football fans only
A University of Kansas professor is asking the school to adopt stricter rules for awarding scholarships after 25 students received $1,000 scholarships for attending a Sept. 14 football game.

Kansas town marks career of soda jerk
After 50 years as a soda jerk, Richard Huckriede's importance is about to be enshrined.

Elderly woman captured after 4 years on the lam
A 71-year-old woman who escaped from a California prison camp four years ago and disguised herself through plastic surgery was arrested Thursday after authorities received a tip.

Man grows 1,245-pound pumpkin
An upstate New York man's pumpkin patch only yielded three pumpkins this year. But that was more than enough.




COLUMNISTS: DAVE BARRY / DOUG ROBARCHEK  
Making it up
The Miami Herald's Pulitzer-winning funny man.
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