A college slam-dance party turned deadly when revelers banged into each other and started a chain reaction that propelled five of them through a third-story window.
Daniel James Martin, a 19-year-old Virginia Tech sophomore, was killed and four others injured in Blacksburg, Va.
“The crowd was dancing and banging into each other . . . [They] shifted, pushing people into the window, and it gave way,” Police Lt. Don Goodman told the Washington Post.
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A Houston lawyer who went to court to represent a defendant became a defendant himself when a bag of cocaine fell out of his jacket pocket.
Stanley Duane Wilkinson, 53, was conferring with state District Judge Mark Ellis when he went to pull some legal papers from his coat and the bag of white powder came out with them.
He now faces jail and possible disbarment.
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Pizza-shop workers might be wise to wear bulletproof vests in Rockton, Ill.
Cops say Robert Moye, 45 – furious that his pie arrived late – fired a gun at Tony Pipitone, the owner of Sam’s Pizza.
“The guy said it was an hour late. The owner said it was a half-hour,” Police Chief Stephen Dickson told the Rockford Register Star.
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Identical twin sisters have wed the same man – 23 years apart!
Madelaine Jones married Roy Littlejohns in 1980 and divorced him in 1995. That’s when sister Michelle stepped in and the couple tied the knot this year in Northampton, England.
Madelaine, 54, tells Closer magazine she feels “angry and betrayed.”
But Roy, 58, insists: “My relationship with Michelle is more romantic. It’s also easier and happier.”
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A Brazilian jailbird who tried to escape dressed as a woman got tripped up because he couldn’t walk in high heels.
Guards at the prison near Sao Paulo said inmate Moacir Pacagnan, 28, looked like a beautiful woman in a dress, wig, padded bra and full makeup, but that’s where the similarities ended.
“He was walking like a duck! He had no confidence,” said a prison spokesman.