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WORCESTER, Mass. - A Thanksgiving dinner turned violent when a man with a history of mental illness allegedly stabbed two relatives with a carving knife after they criticized his table manners.
Police said the fight broke out Thursday when the relatives reprimanded Frank Palacios for picking at the turkey with his fingers, instead of slicing off pieces with a knife.
Palacios then stabbed 18-year-old cousin Gonzalo Ocasio Jr. in the chest, back and right side, authorities said. His father, Gonzalo Ocasio, 49, suffered a stab wound in his arm. Both men are expected to survive.
ROME (Reuters) - The plan was for a Wild West-style manhunt offering 25,000 euros ($32,600) for delivery of the killer of an Italian petrol station attendant "dead of alive."
Then, Italian Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli found out that the idea was probably illegal.
"I would have preferred something like 'dead or alive', but they told me the law wouldn't allow for it," said Calderoli, a leader of the rightist Northern League party.
So instead, he and his Northern League colleagues have offered a simple reward for information leading to the arrest of the robbers who on Thursday shot dead a 61-year-old petrol station attendant in front of his wife.
LAFAYETTE, La. - The busiest shopping day of the year turned out to be a sticky affair. Vandals apparently glued the locks on dozens of Lafayette's biggest retailers, preventing managers from opening up promptly on lucrative "Black Friday." Hundreds of shoppers, some of whom arrived before dawn, were forced to wait outside Barnes & Noble, Old Navy and other stores while managers summoned locksmiths.
At least 200 locks on dozens of businesses were glued, including main entrances, rear doors and employee entrances, locksmith Garan Wilson said. Wilson's first job at about 5 a.m. Friday was to make his way to the front door lock at Old Navy — by pushing through about 500 shoppers waiting outside, he said.
"I found about a half a tube of glue stuck inside," he said.
Kevin Vizena, head locksmith for Pop-A-Lock in Lafayette, said the vandals squirted the glue deep inside the keyholes, forcing him to drill holes and remove the locks from the doors.
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