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Among the information that came to light in April as a result of Atlanta’s new laws requiring governmental financial disclosures was the existence of the city’s not-well-known Board of Astrology. The Associated Press could find no records of the board at City Hall but concluded after interviewing its three smoked-out members that the board’s purpose is to administer tests and provide licenses to prospective astrologers.
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Channel five in Nashville, Tennessee, held a “Mission: Bermuda Triangle” trivia contest in May offering viewers a chance to win a seven-day vacation in Florida. The contest had to be restarted after “hundreds” of initial entries disappeared from the station. (The manager suspected a cleaning-crew mistake.)
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Cozette Wright, 35, was charged in May with stabbing her daughter Dennisha, 20, on Mother’s Day in Omaha, Nebraska, after an argument over who was the better mother.
