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Think New York City’s trans-fat ban goes too far?

Officials in Franklin County, Ohio, have taken glazed and jelly doughnuts out of prisoners’ diets – amid concerns about trans-fat content.

Cons previously got doughnuts twice a week.

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The University of Sioux Falls in South Dakota will offer a course called Finding Dates Worth Keeping.

“Some people may think it’s a slack course, but I think they’ll come out with something that changes their lives,” said relationships expert Laurie Chaplin, who will teach the course. “We go to college to get an education. But our love relationships impact us more than anything else.”

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There must be some reward for returning a wallet that’s been missing for 62 years.

That’s how long it took for Ray Heilwagen of Missouri to get the wallet he lost in France during World War II to find its way back to him.

He got a call from Stephen Breitenstein of Illinois, who asked him if he had lost a wallet back when. Breitenstein had

found it in a box of his father’s possessions and decided to find its owner.

“I could hardly believe it,” Heilwagen said.

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It’s not quite “Snakes on a Plane,” but it probably hurt just as much as watching the Samuel L. Jackson flop.

A scorpion bit passenger David Sullivan twice aboard a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Burlington, Vt.

“It felt like a shock, a tingly thing. Someone screamed, ‘It’s a scorpion,’ ” Sullivan said. Another passenger stepped

on the two-inch arachnid.

The plane had earlier flown from Houston, where the creepy-crawly probably walked onboard.

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In this case, a broken heart led to a smashed car. Too bad it was the wrong car.

A heartbroken teen was busted in Michigan after ramming his car 15 times into the rear of a car he believed was his ex-girlfriend’s. It wasn’t.

The teen told police he thought the driver was his girlfriend, who left a party after the couple quarreled. He’s been charged with assault – and DWI. No one was hurt.

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