Canadian woman killed eight nursing home patients in her care, police say; ‘Flash mob’ of 150 teens attacks Temple University students, cops in Philly; Want to scatter a Catholic’s ashes? Nope, says the Vatican; Cave-dwelling millipede has 414 legs and an unusual number of other appendages, too; Big debate about Shakespeare finally settled by big data: Marlowe gets his due; Tree impersonator nabbed in Portland, Maine; White high schoolers in Miss. put noose around black student’s neck and ‘yanked,’ NAACP says; River ride malfunction at Australia’s Dreamworld kills four people, horrifies onlookers; He gave her his liver. She gave him her heart.; World’s tallest church has a waste problem — young Germans with full bladders; Dad jumps with his toddler sons from N.J. bridge. He dies — they miraculously do not.;
 
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UW-Madison sex assault case snowballs as dozens come forward, ‘stalking’ list seized
The male student, now suspended and jailed, kept a notebook with lists of women and what he'd like to do with them, an affidavit states.
Canadian woman killed eight nursing home patients in her care, police say
The victims were “administered a drug,” police said.
 
‘Flash mob’ of 150 teens attacks Temple University students, cops in Philly
Spurred by a social media post, the crowd of teenagers punched and kicked random pedestrians, two police officers and a police horse in North Philadelphia over the weekend.
 
Want to scatter a Catholic’s ashes? Nope, says the Vatican
"The church continues to incessantly recommend that the bodies of the dead be buried either in cemeteries or in other sacred ground," said Cardinal Gerhard Müller.
 
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Cave-dwelling millipede has 414 legs and an unusual number of other appendages, too
Among other things, it had 200 poison pores but no eyes, and probably survived on a diet of fungus.
 
Big debate about Shakespeare finally settled by big data: Marlowe gets his due
For centuries, scholars have debated whether Christopher Marlowe, a contemporary of Shakespeare, might have helped write the three “Henry VI” plays long credited to The Bard. Now the Oxford University Press believes it has resolved that debate.
 
Tree impersonator nabbed in Portland, Maine
Performance art? An early Halloween costume? Some sort of social experiment?
 
White high schoolers in Miss. put noose around black student’s neck and ‘yanked,’ NAACP says
Police initially discouraged the black student's parents from filing criminal charges.
 
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River ride malfunction at Australia’s Dreamworld kills four people, horrifies onlookers
Two riders were ejected from the raft and two other were trapped inside, authorities said. The victims were two men and two women, between the ages of 32 and 42.
 
He gave her his liver. She gave him her heart.
"I think first of all that it shows everyone, when all you hear is negativity, that there really are sincerely true, kind people out there," said Heather Krueger, who is completely healthy now.
 
World’s tallest church has a waste problem — young Germans with full bladders
"Once again, it's coated with urine and vomit,” one of the building's preservers lamented.
 
Dad jumps with his toddler sons from N.J. bridge. He dies — they miraculously do not.
It's unclear how the children were able to survive the fall, or why it killed their father but not them.
 
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