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June 9, 2002     

A PREVIOUS COMMITMENT: An inmate at the Belmont Correctional Institution in Ohio was mistakenly invited by the Republican Party to a $2,500-a-plate fund-raising dinner with President Bush.     
The convict said he'd be "happy to attend" but didn't think he could get free.     

DOC, IT HURTS WHEN I ... ACTUALLY, IT ALWAYS HURTS: Doctors in San Diego left a 14-inch surgical knife in a man's stomach after they performed surgery on him to repair his bowel.     
It was removed two weeks later, but he claims the episode gave him a fear of hospitals. A jury awarded him $250,000.    

FORMER NAME: "QUIET, WE'RE PRAYING": The Unitarian Universalists in Meriden, Conn., sold their 108-year-old church to developers who plan to turn it into a comedy club.     
It will be called "God, That's Funny."     

LET IT GO? I DON'T THINK SO: The fellow student who stole $20 from a Michael Langol's college dorm room about 50 years ago finally came clean and sent his victim a money order for $500 along with a note anonymously confessing to the crime.     
But that isn't good enough for Langol, now 70, who never forgot the theft and is trying to find out the culprit's identity.     
"My wife doesn't want me to, but I'm going to find out who it is," he said. He has been unsuccessful thus far but has it narrowed down to two guys.     

FORGOTTEN BUT NOT GONE: A murderer was missing at bed check at at the Drumheller penitentiary in southern Alberta in March, so the authorities assumed he had escaped. Not so.     
Seven weeks after his disappearance, officials guessed he might still be inside the facility as they could find no breach in security. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police brought in a tracking dog which sniffed him out in the ventilation system. Fellow prisoners had apparently been feeding him.

 

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