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Nation & World
Mom tries to plead guilty to murder
Donna Anderson, a Minnesota obstetrician from Shoreview, tried for a second time to plead guilty to killing her 13-year-old son during her pre-trial hearing in San Mateo, California.
At the hearing, Anderson was charged with killing her son Stephen Burns and attempting to kill her ex-husband Frank Burns on Feb. 24. Stephen had been visiting his father and grandparents in Burligame, Calif. Anderson was thrown out of the courtroom for disrupting the proceedings and the judge agreed to let doctors evaluate her mental health.
Investigators are still unsure what caused her to attack her son and ex-husband, but many of her Shoreview neighbors claimed that she had grown increasingly paranoid in the days leading up to the attack.
She is scheduled to reappear in court on March 13 unless doctors have not completed her mental evaluation.
Inmates use Bible as rolling papers
Some prisoners at the Jackson County jail in Oregon have found a new way of rolling cigarettes: Bible pages.
Jail officials discovered that the inmates were smoking tobacco and anything else, from coffee grounds to orange peels, out of the pages after the officials found that many of the Bibles had been ripped up. The prisoners have also been found making alcohol from rotting fruit they had stolen from the kitchen.
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