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AP - A German student who bought a pullout couch for $215 at a Berlin flea market found a painting worth 100 times that amount hidden inside when she unfolded the sofa at home.

AP - Talk about being in a pickle: A judge gave a 35-year-old man probation in a case that police said involved an assault with pickles. According to police reports, the pickle problems began when Bobby Lee Bolen of Buchanan was hanging out at his then-friend Jody Lee’s home in Buchanan on Aug. 20.

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.

AP - It’s the deal of a lifetime. Bob and Ricki Husick of Pittsburgh are offering anyone who buys their home a full refund when they die. The Husicks have been trying to sell their suburban home for almost a year, but have failed to do so in the current shaky market.

AP - A hunter is recovering after he was shot in the leg at close range by his dog, who stepped on his shotgun and tripped the trigger, an official said Tuesday.

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.

AP - Talk about being in a pickle: A judge gave a 35-year-old man probation in a case that police said involved an assault with pickles.

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.