Code officers scoured the north side of the city last month, after receiving an anonymous tip about a pig running amok.
They
never saw the pig, but decided action should be taken anyway. Their
department head suggested that the City Council make it illegal for
residents to own potbellied pigs. To do that, the council must delete
an ordinance permitting […]
An 82-year-old woman told a neighbour’s daughter that
she was a “witch” and would cast a spell on her family and kill her pet
dog, a court has heard.
Dorothy Evans denies verbally abusing the 13-year-old’s family, who live next door in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.
The girl’s mother told Cardiff Crown Court how her daughter grew so scared of the […]
A 5,000-year-old golden artificial eye that once stared out mesmerisingly from the face of a female soothsayer or priestess in ancient Persia has been unearthed by Iranian and Italian archaeologists.
The eyeball — the earliest artificial eye found — would have transfixed those who saw it, convincing them that the woman — thought to have been […]
The pentagram that hangs from a chain around Kate
Dunning’s neck elicits raised eyebrows from many people who catch a
glimpse of it. The emblem of a star enclosed in a circle symbolizes
that she practices witchcraft.
Don’t expect to find any pointy witch hats or
steaming cauldrons tucked away in her dorm room closet, however.
Dunning, a junior English and […]
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 10-year-old boy who said he was not allowed to wear a Jesus
costume during his school’s Halloween activities sued
the district, alleging that his religious and free-speech
rights were violated.
The complaint, filed in federal court Tuesday, says officials
at Willow Hill Elementary School in Glenside told the boy
Oct. 31 that he could not wear his […]