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Chuck Shepherd In a January Internet broadcast, “Prophet” Cindy Jacobs said God has revealed Himself to her by mysteriously removing critical shortages in her life, like her car’s well-worn tires that just kept rolling. “I remember one time that I had a pair of shoes that I wore and wore

Chuck Shepherd Dublin, Ireland, inventor David Bonney recently changed the marketing of his new shoes to “Atheist Shoes.” Two years before, he’d started the business to sell “Christian” shoes that had water in the soles so wearers could walk on water.

Chuck Shepherd Four days after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., officials at Public School 79 in New York City decided it’d be a good time for a full-blown lockdown drill — with no advance warning. Though P.S. 79 is a high school, not an elementary

Chuck Shepherd In December, neighborhood observers reported the asbestos-removal “crew” working at the former YWCA in Middleburg Heights, Ohio, consisted of volunteer teenagers, students at local religious Buckeye Education School. State regulations require asbestos (known to cause deadly respiratory illnesses) be handled only by certified contractors using hazardous-materials gear. Buckeye

Chuck Shepherd In November, Tokyo’s Kenichi Ito, 29, beat his own Guinness World Record by a full second (down to 17.47 seconds) in the 100-meter dash — on all fours. Ito runs like a Patas monkey, which he’s long admired and which (along with his self-described monkey-like face) inspired him

Chuck Shepherd Usually, clients are accountable for their lawyers’ errors because lawyers are their “agents,” but death row inmates might get different treatment; they usually don’t select or pay for lawyers — and the stakes are so high. Alabama, though, sees the problem stoically, according to a January New York

Chuck Shepherd Benjamin Greene, 22, was charged in December with stealing a nude blow-up doll from a Spencer’s Gifts in Spartanburg, S.C. On closer inspection, the doll was less than expected. It’s one of the dollmaker’s “Super Star Series” resemblances to celebrities like Jessica Simpson and Lindsay Lohan, but which

Chuck Shepherd In December, the Illinois Times reported emergency workers were called to a Springfield church to rescue Father Tom Donovan, who said he’d been playing with handcuffs in the rectory and accidentally got stuck. He was also wearing “some sort of gag,” according to the police report. The church

Chuck Shepherd Donald Blood III, 55, was charged with DUI in December in Dorset, Vt., after driving into a yard he thought was a parking lot. It’s actually historic property: the 1852 home in which Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, was born. It’s “a place of sanctuary where people

Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible,” said poet Theodore Roethke. For the foreseeable future, you could and should be like that. Not saying you’ll always be a connoisseur of amazements, massager of miracles and magnet for unexpected beauty, but