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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- An Alum Creek man has been arrested after neighbors allegedly found him standing over the dead body of a stolen pygmy goat while wearing women's underwear. Mark Lucas Thompson, 19, of Greenview Road was taken into custody early Monday at his home. Deputies had dealt with the man before and believe him to be mentally unstable. Thompson told deputies he had been high on bath salts for the last three days, said Cpl. Sean Snuffer, a detective with the sheriff's office. Deputy J.S. Shackelford was dispatched about 3:15 a.m. Monday to the home on Quebec Drive to...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A male lawyer who appeared in court dressed in women's clothes as a protest against what he said was New Zealand's overly masculine judiciary was suspended Wednesday after being found to be in contempt of court. The High Court found Rob Moodie, a 68-year-old, balding man who appeared in court in dresses and toting a handbag, was in contempt for circulating suppressed documents outside the court in one of his cases. Moodie officially changed his name to "Miss Alice" as part of his protest against the "old boys network" that he said runs the nation's...

June 24, 2006 -- Only in New York would a judge think it perfectly natural for a man with a heavy beard to be rifling through a purse - and to toss out criminal charges against him on the grounds that cops had no reason to think it suspicious. That's what Manhattan Supreme Court Justice James Yates did in a 2004 case against Stephen Lomiller. Fortunately, a panel of four state appellate judges on Tuesday nixed the ruling, striking a blow for sanity. Lomiller was nabbed for possession of stolen property when cops noticed him anxiously sifting through an expensive...

English heritage archaeologist Pete Wilson holds the skull of a 4th century castrated priest unearthed from a grave at Catterick, North Yorkshire in this undated photo. The remains of the young Roman man, who apparently dressed as a woman, show a previously unknown side of Britain's ancient history, archaeologists said May 21, 2002. (Reuters - Handout)