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Weird BUT true

- David K. Li, Wires

Two middle-schoolers wore Nazi gear — in Germantown, Tenn., of all places — for photos that got in the school yearbook.

The school district issued an apology for the images of the kids dressed as Nazi soldiers. Principal Liz Diaz said the pics were from a history class focused on Nazi atrocities.

Las Vegas fire houses are burning up with too much XXXtracurr­icular activity.

After a captain was charged with having sex with a prostitute in Station 47, a female EMT called him a scapegoat for rampant sex. Over several years, she said, she had more than 50 sexual encounters at Sin City fire stations with at least seven firemen.

Fire chief William McDonald on Thursday cut visiting hours and installed surveillan­ce cameras at all 20 city stations.

He’s under arrest and all wet.

Travis Ray Mattoon, 23, a suspected parole violator, took off by car and on foot when stopped by Reno, Nev., cops Wednesday. Then he jumped into the 45-degree Truckee River and surrendere­d “shivering” 10 minutes later, officials said.

Getting busted for drunken driving shouldn’t pay.

But a Nevada Department of Transporta­tion staffer, who crashed a state vehicle in January, got five days’ paid sick leave for his DWI jail stint. Now his boss is in the hot seat for saying, “I didn’t think that would be an issue.”

A Colombian woman swallowed $7,000 in US currency to keep it from her husband in a bitter divorce.

In terrible pain, the woman went to Santander University Hospital in Bucaramang­a — where doctors safely removed $5,700 from her stomach.

“The dollar notes were washed and are in good condition, but the rest of the money was lost because of the gastric fluids,” said a surgeon.

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