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The mother of a 27-year-old man found hacked to death on the grounds of a Toronto mental hospital is suing the Ontario Ministry of Health for giving a patient the opportunity to commit the murder. The patient charged is David Krueger, 52, who murdered three children 35 years ago and has been hospitalized ever since. Police say he committed the murder during his first brief pass last year. Krueger’s real name is Woodstock, but he had it legally changed several years ago in honor of Freddy Krueger of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies.
In April New York City councilman Fred Cerullo called for an investigation into the city’s exam for fire fighters, which gives partial credit for certain wrong answers on multiple-choice questions.
The U.S. Army reported in July that twice in the past seven months people had broken into warehouses at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and stolen almost 1,500 of the much-maligned “Meals Ready to Eat” rations.
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Titus Howard, 37, was charged with stabbing fellow rooming-house resident Ronnie Jackson to death in Atlanta in July after a quarrel over the grits serced at breakfast.
