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Adrian Popovici, a University of Montreal law professor and author, with his locally well-known lawyer wife, of the popular newspaper column “Love and the Law,” was arrested in October after reportedly threatening to kill her.
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A 14-year-old boy was referred to juvenile authorities in Salt Lake City in December after having distributed photocopies of his genitals and other body parts to residents of his apartment complex. (He was able to be identified because he also made photocopies of his face that showed his distinctively chipped tooth.)
The bodies of more than 800 dead, radioactive beagles–used in 27 years of government experiments–were shipped for burial in October to the Hanford (Washington) Nuclear Reservation. Also arriving was more than 17 tons of the beagles’ radioactive excrement.
