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AP - A 26-year-old musician has been charged with sexual abuse after police received reports from at least nine girls that he asked them for their socks and asked if he could rub their feet, sometimes in exchange for cash.

AP - The Iowa Department of Revenue is taxing jack-o’-lanterns this Halloween. The new department policy was implemented after officials decided that pumpkins are used primarily for Halloween decorations, not food, and should be taxed, said Renee Mulvey, the department’s spokeswoman.

Reuters - A former Australian prisoner liked
his jail cell so much he has decided to buy it.

AP - A Teaneck hospital lab technician has been jailed after being accused of sexually abusing the corpse of a 92-year-old woman, authorities say.

AP - A traffic stop in Texas yielded about two dozen embalmed heads. But it’s no Halloween joke. Investigators said the human heads had been used for medical training in the Fort Worth area and were being returned to Little Rock, Arkansas.

AP - Jeepers, it was just one of those creepers. An investigator specializing in all things bizarre has debugged the mystery of the Santa Fe Courthouse Ghost — a specter captured on a blurry surveillance videotape.

Reuters - The country’s most senior traffic police
officer is facing speeding charges, his force said on Tuesday,
leading road safety campaigners to call for him to step down.

Reuters - A Berlin student who bought a
second-hand sofa bed at a flea market learned she had been
sitting on a small fortune when she found a baroque painting
hidden inside the couch.

Reuters - Demetris Christofias, the Communist
candidate in Cypriot presidential elections, has fallen victim
to “cybersquatters”, with a website in his name being offered
for sale by its registered owner.

Reuters - One of Italy’s most infamous mobsters
has fathered a daughter more than two decades after being
jailed for life without the right to conjugal visits.