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April fools gone awry
COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo (AP) A 2R yoar-old
man who enrolled In high school .is .1 girl and made
tho all girl choerloading squad was sentcnc ed to two
years' probation.
He performed In uniform with the cheorleading
squad at a pep assembly, and changed clothes in the
women's locker room, students and teat hers s.ud
When the masquerade came to light, several of the
girls who had befriended the new cheerleader were
upset, hut some said they had their doubts all along
In the meantime, several foot ha 11 players had ex
pressed interest In dating the newest member of the
t heerleading squad despite his solid build he is f>
feet-ti and 1(>4 pounds
To protect and serve
KANSAS CI TY, Mo (AP) Polir e t bet king a report
of a prowler entered an apartment .it I to a m and
shot a 21 year old stockbroker to death when he got
out of bed in his night clothes to see what was wrong.
It is believed to he the sixth shooting death 1 ommit
ted by Kansas City police officers this year In one,
four officers fired 1') times at a man brandishing a bar
hectic fork In another, on officer killed .1 man who was
spraying him with a fire extinguisher
A boy named Scud
ALCIIEKS, Algeria (AP) Hundreds of fervent Mus
lints in Algeria are naming newborn sorts Saddam, but
authorities have quashed an attempt by one fa mils to
name a son "Scud" after the Iraqi missile
The father of the c hild said be would make another
attempt this time through the courts
And in this comer...
BALTIMORE (AI *) Dot tors .it Johns Hopkins Hos
pital removed a 180-pound ovarian t vst from a 40
year old West Virginia woman, a hospital spokeswom
an said
"That is abnormally, abnormally abnormal." said Dr
Raymond Kaufman, chairman of the obstetrics-gyne
cology department of Baylor College of Madison in
Madison. Texas "That's a rarity
There are different types of ovarian t vsts, but unless
tile patient is extremely obese, most can be detected
with a pelvic exam when thev are .1 or -J centimeters in
diameter and "u couple of grams” in weight, he said.
High tech grunting
WASHINGTON (AIM U S fighter pilots used spe
cial physical tactics including explosive grunting
and muscle tensing to keep from losing vision or
even blacking out from the high-speed, neck-snapping
action in the Persian Gulf War
Those wacky kids
SKA'ITLb (AP) — A 14-veor-old girl was charged to
day with first-degree attempted murder in the Valen
tine's Day shooting of a 15-year-old schoolmate who
spurned her advances
The girl told detectives she wanted to kill Juson K
Hood because 'he's I don't know? Annoying," ac
cording to court papers filed by deputy prosecutor
Robert T Reischling.
The girl was arrested at her home without a struggle,
waived her rights and gave a taped statement to police
detective Kandy Mullinax in which she said she in
tended to kill Hood
At the end of the tape she said her voice would not
be recorded "because I am a vampire."
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