Hairy Heroes: Canine Lifeguards Hit Italy’s Beaches

The dog days of summer have hit Italy hard this year. For my own family beach holiday on the enchanting island of Sardinia, the surprise star was Totò, a pint-sized, black-and-white, eight-month-old mixed-breed from Naples who our friends brought along in a house we shared near the southern town of Pula

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London police arrest 2 in bold $65M jewelry heist

Two men were arrested Wednesday in connection with this month’s brazen London jewelry store robbery of millions of dollars worth of gems, Metropolitan Police said. Officers continued to appeal for information about the robbery.

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Man, 92, wins $1.9 million tobacco judgment in wife’s death

A Florida jury awarded a 92-year-old man $1.9 million in compensatory damages for the death of his wife, a former two-pack-a-day Marlboro smoker who started when she was 16 and died in her 70s, attorneys said Thursday. The jury of five women and one man deliberated for slightly more than a day before deciding on the amount, attorneys for both sides said.

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Warrant issued for former Bill Clinton chief of staff

Bill Clinton’s chief of staff when he was governor of Arkansas is expected to turn herself in after authorities issued a bench warrant for her arrest for allegedly smuggling contraband into a state prison, her attorney told CNN Wednesday. Betsey Wright allegedly smuggled a red Doritos bag containing 48 tattoo needles, a pen with tweezers and a needle inside, a Swiss Army knife and a box cutter into the Varner Unit, a high-security state prison in Grady, Arkansas, according to the bench warrant. She will turn herself in next week, Jeff Rosenzweig, Wright’s attorney, said.

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Childless man released from child support debt

A Georgia man who spent a year in jail for nonpayment of child support — despite the fact he has no children — has been cleared of the debt, his attorney said Tuesday. Frank Hatley, 50, spent 13 months in jail for being a deadbeat dad before his release last month. In June 2008, a judge ordered him to jail for failing to reimburse the state for public assistance that was paid to support his “son” — a child who DNA tests proved was not fathered by Hatley

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