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Nutty News Phoenix, Arizona - The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics. Arpaio’s office had said it has fully cooperated in the jail inquiry but won’t hand over additional documents into the examination of the alleged unconstitutional searches because federal authorities haven’t said exactly what they were investigating. More… Update: Arpaio - Justice Dept. ‘Sandbagged’ Me With Lawsuit in Civil Rights Probe
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Nutty News China - A Chinese lingerie company has unveiled a new range of underwear featuring a lookalike model of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, on the 13th anniversary of her death. Under the slogan “Feel the romance of British royalty,” the ad features the “Princess” wearing a tiara, necklace and blue bra and knickers as she plays a cello to a child. The controversial poster has been splashed on giant billboards in shops and airports throughout China for millions to see. 
Nutty News White City, Utah - Police say a man held an intruder at bay with a grilling fork and steak knife until police arrived. But the suspect fled, only to be arrested after he was zapped with a Taser. Police Lt. Don Hutson says the White City resident grabbed the barbecue implements when he found the intruder had entered through a basement window. 
Nutty News China - Villagers in eastern China has been forced by the country’s unbending bureaucracy to change their family name as the character is so rare it cannot be typed. The problem affects about 200 people in a village in Shandong province who share the surname Shan. The residents had no problem when identity cards, driving licences and other documents could be handwritten, but now they have to be printed using computers, and their name is so unusual it does not exist in standard word processing programmes. 
Nutty News Chicago - At a news conference organized by self-identified gang members, several speakers complained that police and city officials do not respect them, and that the only way to curb violence is to provide jobs and improve their community. The self-described current and former gang members held a news conference at the Columbus Park Refectory, at 5701 W. Jackson Blvd. on the city’s West Side. 
Nutty News California - Courtney Howard opted to join Sigma Gamma Rho, believing that they represented the sisterhood she sought in a sorority. Howard contends, that the group’s pledge process was far from sisterly. According to her complaint, she and fellow pledges were punched, slapped, kicked, slammed into walls, struck with a wooden spoon and a cane, and had books and coins thrown at them during a series of 16 nighttime initiation sessions. 
Nutty News Philadelphia - A 20-year-old man is in extremely critical condition after he was run over by a car he was trying to push up the hilly street known as the Manayunk Wall. Police said the man’s girlfriend was behind the wheel of a disabled 1996 Volvo sedan on the 200 block of Levering Street about 4:15 man when he attempted to push it uphill. The sedan rolled backward, dragging the man 25 to 30 feet before hitting a parked car and coming to a halt. 
Nutty News New York - The owner of Jean Baptiste Camille Corot’s “Portrait of a Girl” is suing a courier after the man lost the painting during an alleged drunken night in New York. Kristyn Trudgeon, the majority owner of the 19th century painting, said art courier James Carl Haggerty told co-owner Tom Doyle he lost the $1.3 million artwork while showing it to a prospective buyer at The Mark Hotel.