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It’s news — man bit dog. Patrick Shurod Campbell, 27, of Lake Worth, Fla., admitted to chomping down on his pooch’s ear to “establish dominance.”

Campbell said he was disciplini­ng his 2-year-old husky, Dimitri, at his apartment when someone called 911 to report the sound of an abused dog yelping. He pleaded guilty to animal cruelty and was hit with four years of probation.

A Florida granny scared away a naked home intruder by popping out her dentures and lunging at him.

Pennelope Pettersen, a retired law-enforcemen­t worker, had been checking on her cat at 2 a.m. when she saw Axel Rivera, 28, in his birthday suit on her back porch in Titusville, police said.

She shouted, “Grandma, no teeth!” and Rivera ran, but was later arrested.

How do you like them apples?

The owner of a Minnesota funeral home was slapped with a citation for storing jars of family-grown applesauce alongside chemicals in his embalming room.

Health officials found 60 crates of the mashed fruit at Joseph Wagner’s funeral home in Jordan and fined him $5,000.

Iran is in deep doo-doo over a diaper shortage.

A lack of raw materials has caused the price of diapers to triple in just a few months, as the price of ultra-absorbent cellulose soars.

In the past week, authoritie­s have launched raids and seized illegal stockpiles of disposable diapers in Tehran and other cities.

There is great wealth in your future . . .

A man won a $1 million New Jersey lottery thanks to lucky numbers he chose from a fortune cookie.

Ronnie Martin’s sweet victory came at US Gas in Hope, NJ, where he bought three Mega Millions tickets. The winning numbers were 1, 2,4, 19, and 29.

Martin plans to pay off his home mortgage with the (cookie) dough. Natallie O’Neill, Wires PRINTED AND DISTRIBUTE­D BY PRESSREADE­R PressReade­r.com +1 604 278 4604 COPYRIGHT ORIGINAL COPY . ORIGINAL AND COPY . ORIGINAL PROTECTED COPY . ORIGINAL BY COPY APPLICABLE . ORIGINAL COPY . ORIGINAL LAW COPY

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