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Pediatricians have to deal with all kinds of interesting situations in their daily work with children, and kids eating random objects is one of them. Children just love to stick stuff in their mouths, and while parents do their best to keep tiny toys away from eager eaters thereÂ’s always a chance that something like a Lego finds its way into the stomach of a youngster. A half-dozen pediatricians decided to see what effect, if any, a tiny yellow Lego head would have on their own bodies by volunteering to swallow them. Their findings were reported in the Journal of...

by Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Convicted DC sniper Lee Boyd Malvo tells actor William Shatner on a cable TV special that he and his partner tried to recruit fellow shooters for their 2002 spree and that his accomplice killed one man for backing out, according to the program set for airing tonight. In a telephone call from a southwest Virginia prison, Malvo told Shatner two men planned to join in the attacks to make them more deadly but reneged. Malvo said his fellow shooter, John Allen Muhammad, killed one of the men in retaliation. Malvo did not identify them...

MANATEE — Authorities arrested a woman who defecated in her pants during a domestic violence arrest and threw it at two deputies, hitting one on the leg, according to a Manatee County Sheriff’s Office report. On Sunday just after 8 p.m., deputies began investigating a domestic dispute between Amy Marie Hager, 33, and her husband at the couple’s home, in the 7100 block of 28th Street East. When deputies went to arrest Hager considering her the aggressor in the domestic violence situation, she became hostile and tried to resist arrest, according to the sheriff’s report. After taking Hager into custody,...