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Transgendered person charged with practicing medicine without license 05:39 PM EDT on Friday, August 17, 2007 Reported by: Lindsey Roberts Suffolk Police have arrested a man and charged him with practicing medicine without a license. According to police, Francis Renee White, 36, of South Main Street, injected silicone into other transgendered people. Police say the shots, used to plump up lips, cheeks and breasts, were administered inside White's home. The injections were with the consent of the transgender customers, but the practice is illegal and very dangerous. "They did them in different places, but generally the face the buttocks or...

Man trying to kill bees sets home ablaze Thu Jan 11, 8:06 PM ET CAPE CORAL, Fla. - A man who tried to keep bees off his property accidentally set fire to his house instead, causing at least $500 damage. Franklyn Pigott Jr. set his home ablaze Wednesday while attempting to destroy a nest of bees that had formed outside the home, the Fort Myers News-Press reported Thursday. When Pigott, 38, mixed a product called Real Kill Indoor Fogger with WD-40, it became a "flame-thrower" and melted the home's vinyl siding, according to a police incident report.

A Pueblo man accused of burying his mother's body in a homemade casket is under arrest. Pueblo County sheriff's deputies say 44-year-old Clark Raymond Williams was arrested on charges of concealing a death, abusing a corpse and trespassing after he was found at a freshly covered grave in Roselawn Cemetery early yesterday. Deputies say Williams told them his mother died of natural causes a month ago and he had just buried her. Coroner James Kramer identified the dead woman as 75-year-old Ruth Eileen Williams. Sheriff's officials say there was no evidence of foul play, but the cause of death is...