Here’s a new wrinkle on “ObamaCare.”
A Florida inmate admitted to a judge that his threat to kill President Obama was a bid to remain incarcerated and receive medical treatment in prison.
Career criminal Stephen Espalin, 57, uses a wheelchair and has received chemotherapy treatment in federal custody.
He’s expected to undergo heart surgery in prison, his lawyer said.
In 2001, Espalin also issued a threat against then-President George W. Bush and served 18 months.
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They burst her bubble.
A Pennsylvania school district is under fire for suspending a 5-year-old girl from kindergarten after she told a classmate she planned to shoot her mom with a toy soap-bubble gun.
The Mount Carmel Area School District claimed the child was a “terror threat.”
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This California mom of four is really hip.
Mikel Ruffinelli, 39, at 5-foot-4, has hips that measure eight feet around for the widest hips in the world, according to Closer magazine.
Ruffinelli, who drives a truck because she can’t squeeze herself into a car, sleeps in a seven-foot-wide bed and goes through doorways sideways.
She says she’ll never diet “because I don’t have health problems.”
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A California couple that adopted seven children was arrested after authorities discovered they were running a strip club in the basement.
Gregory Lacy, 60, and LaQuron McLean Lacy, 43, are also accused of abusing at least some of the kids.
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Don’t go putting some foreign maple leaf on Canadian currency!
The Bank of Canada is under fire because it used an image of a Norway leaf on new issues of $20, $50 and $100 bills — instead of the majestic, genuine Canadian leaf that’s front and center on the national flag.
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