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• Man says Charles Manson is his dad

  My finger is hovering over the Shenanigans button ...

• Maybe he's just not "boyfriend material"

  In Long Beach, Calif., a man named Santiago Martinez has been sentenced to death for killing not one, but two girlfriend. He murdered the second one because she refused to help him hide the body…

• Gangs of evil baboons terrorize South Africa

  In Cape Town, authorities are trying to stop gangs of baboons that attack cars in an effort to get food. The animals know how to open car doors and will jump through car windows to…

• Census worker tried to make his suicide look like murder, police say

  As we'd previously mentioned, police now believe that Bill Sparkman, a census worker found bound, naked and dead in a Kentucky forest, actually committed suicide. (Only now, they're saying it on the record.) Sparkman had…

• Grain Valley investigating domestic-violence case

  From Brian Burnes: Grain Valley police are investigating a domestic dispute that sent a woman to a hospital this morning. Early reports that the woman had been abducted proved to be untrue, Police Chief Aaron…

• Say what you will about China ...

  ... but if somebody tries to get rich off a product that makes people sick, there are consequences. (Provided the people who got sick were in China.)

• "It's a miracle!"

  From The AP: A convicted Mafia boss who got out of jail by faking paralysis and anorexia has been arrested at a restaurant after more than two months on the run, police in Sicily said…

• Open Thread ... Tuesday

  Welcome back to the Open Thread, our blog's space for off-topic comments and discussion. If you've seen an interesting story somewhere else, feel free to post a link below. As always, please follow our standard…

• More charges filed in pregnant woman's slaying

  Calvin Boswell, 24, is facing charges of second-degree murder, among others, for last week's slaying of Ashley Thomas and her unborn child, Jackson County prosecutors say. Thomas was nine months pregnant, and her boyfriend was…

• Does the First Amendment protect this?

  A blogger named Harold "Hal" Turner is facing criminal charges over things he wrote online, the National Law Journal reports: "These Judges deserve to be killed," declared Harold "Hal" Turner on his Web site on…