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Convicted murderer Allen Kinsella told an Ontario judge in November that he intends to sue Bath Institution prison officials. Kinsella, who was harshly punished after an escape, said that a ladder left behind by a construction crew and not removed by prison officials gave him the idea that he could slip away.
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In August a judge in Ogden, Utah, awarded $267 in damages to the owner of a dented car after a man admitted to having sex with a woman on the hood. The woman claimed that the two had sex on the ground next to the car. But her partner stuck to his story and then blamed her for causing the dents.
In December a student at Georgia Tech was hospitalized in serious condition after running down a long dormitory hallway at full speed and jumping through a window. According to campus police, the man might have panicked when a small fire broke out among papers in his room.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): Illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
