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- Melkorka Licea, Wires

His heart gave him away. An Ohio man was charged with burning down his own home after cops obtained key evidence from his heart monitor.

Ross Compton, of Middletown, claimed he barely escaped the fire that broke out in his home in September.

But after checking his heart rate before, during and after the fire, his movements didn’t match up with his story.

French hamsters are eating their babies alive because of an increasing­ly corn-heavy diet, new research claims.

Normally the tiny rodents eat grains, roots and insects. But because of changing farm practices, their diet is so imbalanced, the cute little beasts are turning into vicious cannibals.

The couple that drinks together drinks too much, a new study says.

Spouses influence each other’s drinking habits and have each other to blame for unhealthy boozing, according to researcher­s at Dalhousie University in Canada.

Researcher­s found those whose partners drank heavily drank way more themselves. This cat may have 10 lives. Shoppers at a British grocery store have raised nearly $3,000 to erect a statue of a deceased feline that used to live there.

Brutus the tabby greeted buyers at the Morrison’s grocery store in Saltney for seven years. He recently passed away from kidney disease.

The broken-up locals are raising money for a statue of Brutus so that “he can still greet his adoring fans.”

An Indian woman sliced off her boyfriend’s manhood with a machete after he revealed he was marrying someone else.

At first, the woman tried to change the man’s mind by enticing him with a hot romp.

But in the heat of the moment, she grabbed the knife and sliced his member.

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