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In March Robert Licciardi, 36, freshly convicted in California of killing his disabled father to get the family fortune, claimed in a letter to the Stockton Record that he’d had incompetent counsel, that the judge was “unfair,” “prejudiced,” and “unreasonable” for having allowed Licciardi to represent himself.
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Stewart R. Flaharty, 64, who worked in the morgue at York Hospital in York, Pennsylvania, for 22 years, was fired in August and charged with abuse of a corpse. He’d been caught by a coworker photographing a nude woman in her early 20s who’d just died in an automobile crash.
Finland: Harri Pellonpaa, 17, won a weekend at a Lapland resort for finishing first in the so-called World Championship of Mosquito Killing in July. Also that month Ilpo Ronkko won Finland’s annual Wife-Carrying Championship, in which men tote women over a 780-foot course that includes two fences and a waist-high pool of water.
