Post a news headline for today.

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From your town/state/city/immediate area. Make it short, long, whatever. I like news

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Castrated body: Case closed?
02/03/2007 21:00 - (SA)
Norman Silke, Die Burger


Port Elizabeth - The search for the murderer of a well-known local businessman is apparently over.

Roy Scallan, 54, was earlier this month killed in cold blood at his office in Walmer.

His murderer stabbed him several times and cut off his genitals.

According to Senior Superintendant Hein Fourie, commander of the Walmer detective unit, police are convinced that his murderer was the suspect who committed suicide last month.

Police in February arrested two brothers who had previously worked for Scallan, in connection with the murder.

Robson, Mdudi, 26, the main suspect, committed suicide shortly after his arrest in the police cells of the Walmer station.

I just thought it'd be an interesting thing to do, no?

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Wow, thats like the saddest shit i've read in a while.

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Hah. In South Africa, that's still in the entertainment section!

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Principal selling meth was found watching gay porn naked:

www.mcall.com/news/local/all-cnmetharrest,0,1916853.story?coll=all-news-hed

Quote:
When police went into Nitschmann Middle School Tuesday to arrest Principal John Acerra for allegedly selling crystal methamphetamine, sources said they found him naked while sitting at his desk watching gay pornography.

A 28-year educator with the Bethlehem Area School District and principal since 2000, Acerra is in Lehigh County Prison under $200,000 bail.

Acerra, of 832 Chestnut St., Allentown, is charged with possession with intent to deliver, manufacture or create methamphetamine, delivery of a controlled or counterfeit substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Police said Acerra was found with a burned glass pipe and $200 in cash on his desk minutes after a confidential informant wearing a wire attempted to buy meth from Acerra on Tuesday night.

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Hah. That sounds like a joke!

Man nabbed for "laser jammer"
www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,9294,2-7-1442_2078169,00.html

Johannesburg - A 35-year-old man was arrested for evading a speed trap in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni metro police said on Sunday.

The driver of a BMW M3 had a "laser jammer" inserted on his number plates to avoid being caught by a speed camera, inspector Jimmy Maboko said.

He said a chip is inserted onto both plates so that when the car passes the speed trap, the camera "jams" instead of recording the speed and number plates of the vehicle.

"But, police stopped him on Saturday when a speed trap failed to record his number plates. He had been speeding."

The man was arrested for defeating the ends of justice and is expected to appear in the Boksburg magistrate's court on Monday.

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www.news24.com/News24/Entertainment/Abroad/0,9294,2-1225-1243_2078769,00.html

French author Henri Troyat dies
05/03/2007 16:00 - (SA)

Troyat, author of more than 100 works, mainly novels and biographies, was the dean of the august Academie Francaise and won France's top literary award, the Prix Goncourt almost 70 years ago in 1938.

He was born in Moscow on November 1 1911, as Lev Tarasov, the son of a prosperous businessman, but grew up in France after his family fled Russia at the revolution.

His biographies, including lives of Tolstoy, Catherine the Great and Chekhov, had huge success and were widely translated. His novels included the trilogy As long as the earth lasts and L'Araigne, for which he won the Goncourt at the age of 27.

Known for his prodigious output, he famously wore out the carpets in front of the desk where in his younger years he wrote standing up.

He published his most recent work, a biography of the Russian novelist Boris Pasternak, last year.

"A day without writing gave him a feeling of sin," his friend and fellow member of the Academie Maurice Druon wrote in Le Figaro newspaper in a tribute to mark his death.

Sometimes dismissed as populist, he was far removed from the more avant garde schools of French literature but wrote "a clear, simple language, one that lasts," Druon said.

He never revisited Russia but often wrote about the country of his birth, saying that he had constructed "an interior Russia" in his own mind and that to go back would risk "impoverishing my dream".