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POLICE in Romania have caught a serial dater who invited women for romantic meals at expensive restaurants then ran off, leaving them to pay the bill. Police say good-looking romeo, George Hodoroaba, 23, struck dozens of times in the town of Suceava in eastern Romania. Five women have so far come forward to register complaints against Hodoroaba. A police spokesman said the fraud would demand the best wines and told his female guest to have whatever she wanted. Hodoroaba would say he had to make an important phone call and needed to go outside and then would vanish.

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian pensioner committed suicide after his wife fell into a coma, but just hours after he killed himself the woman woke up, Italian media reported on Saturday. Recalling the end of "Romeo and Juliet," the 70-year-old man, Ettore, who had sat by his wife's bedside for four months after she slipped into a coma following a heart attack, finally gave up hope and gassed himself in the garage of his family home. Less than a day later, his wife, Rossana, woke up in her hospital bed in Padua and immediately asked for him. The northern town...

I have created a Web site in support of my Dad, who is currently the target of a drunk-with-power Board of Education and an incompetent "Interim" Superintendent. The community in which this is occurring is kind of rural and there are not very many ways to expose this site, especially when I'm in North Carolina. However, the people involved (administrators, the superintendent, school board members, etc.) have been viewing the site and I want them to recognize not just the support my Dad has, but the support the general issue of an overzealous School Board and Superintendent has.