Baltimore, Maryland – A 15-year-old girl was briefly suspended from school for casting a spell on a fellow student.
Jamie Schoonover acknowledges she practices witchcraft, as does her mother, but both say Jamie would never cast an evil spell on anyone, even if she knew how.

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Almost all of Nevada City, CA, lost power for 30 minutes this spring when a branch blew off a tree and hit a Pacific Gas & Electric power line.
The Grass Valley Union newspaper reported the outage delayed the trial of PG&E for failing to trim vegetation around power lines as required by the state.

Pakistan announced a ban on lavish wedding feasts. Explaining such celebrations cause financial hardships for the poor and middle classes, lawmakers voted in May to restrict families to a wedding meal at home for relatives and house guests.
Larger gatherings can take place at hotels and clubs outside the home, but no food may be served — only hot and cold non-alcoholic drinks.

A husband and wife pulled guns on each other and shot it out at church during a marriage counseling session after he arrived late, drinking a beer. Both were wounded. With a beer in one hand and a gun in the other, Michael Martin shot his wife as she tried to walk out of the meeting at St. James Episcopal Cathedral, their counselor said.
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A custody battle in Santa Ana, CA, took an unusual turn when the mother of a 3-year-old girl claimed the girl`s father is actually a woman. Kristie Vecchione, 27, said her husband became a man through sex-change operations more than 20 years ago.

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