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A disbarred lawyer who was convicted of impersonating Dead Sea Scrolls scholars in a series of emails has been jailed for two years. Judges upheld 10 of Raphael Golb’s convictions in New York state court but rejected a further seven.

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A joint probe has been launched into a court official who ‘butt-dialled’ a reporter before admitting “I barely show up to work”. David Bookstaver, 58, was fired from his $166,000-a-year role in the Office of Court Administration after the New York Post reported that he revealed the informati

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A manhunt is under way for two women who allegedly disguised themselves as nuns and tried to rob a bank.

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A Rastafarian church has claimed its rights were violated after its marijuana plants were confiscated by police. Reverend Heidi Lepp, of the Sugarleaf Rastafari Church, said: "They're not respecting my church — and it's not fake and I'm not hiding behind anything."

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A man charged with drug possession who had the audacity to turn up at court with cannabis in his sock was caught out after the judge smelled his stash. Serbuhan G was charged with possession of the drug after being apprehended with 14 bags in March.

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An attempted carjacking apparently failed after the 17-year-old perpetrator realised he didn't know how to drive manual transmission. Quinderris Brown has admitted robbing a man in Jefferson County, Alabama of his phone, tablet and car keys at gunpoint and driving off in his vehicle, before promptly

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A man who failed to be crowned Apple Queen of a small German town in a head-to-head contest has challenged the results in court. The town of Guben in Brandenburg extended their traditional contest to men for the first time last year because of a shortage in candidates.

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An Indian woman has successfully won a divorce under the country's strict marriage laws by arguing her husband was torturing her by refusing to build a toilet in their home. The unnamed woman in her 20s was forced to relieve herself in fields for the duration of the five-year marriage.

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A man who brought his pet goat to a Lidl supermarket has denied that it amounted to disorderly behaviour. Andrew Meneice, 32, pleaded not guilty in Coleraine Magistrates Court yesterday to being disorderly, the Belfast Telegraph reports.

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The manufacturers of a stress-reduction device have applied to go into examinership following a failed crowdfunding bid. Dublin-based firm Galvanic manufactures the Pip, a bio-sensor that assesses stress levels and feeds the data to a smartphone app.

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A man has been jailed after accidentally shooting a gun while taking a selfie in a strip club bathroom. Rorn Sorn, 34, was sentenced to six years and five months in prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon after police responding to the disturbance in Tampa, Florida found the gun and dru

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Prospective jurors in the trial of hated pharmaceutical boss Martin Shkreli trampled over the long-established principle of jury impartiality in court transcripts which show juror selection going quickly awry. Mr Shkreli became the object of widespread ire after his company acquired the drug Darapri

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A Las Vegas lawyer has experienced a streak of bad luck after being disbarred and now arrested over separate alleged frauds. Easton K. Harris was disbarred in June over more than 100 professional conduct violations involving at least 23 clients, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.

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A Syrian refugee has been convicted in Germany of seeking to defraud terror group Islamic State to the tune of €180,000. Hasan A., a 39-year-old hairdresser from Damascus, now faces two years in jail for trying to persuade IS operatives to transfer him money for explosives which he had no intentio

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Police have been left baffled after receiving reports that someone apparently broke into an apartment and cleaned it. The apartment's resident contacted police after coming home from a trip to find the entire apartment had been cleaned.

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