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Jen Henderson, 28, of Columbia, Mo., believed to be the only registered voter living within the boundaries of a proposed business-community improvement district, is being asked to unregister as a voter so district property owners can agree to adopt a sales-tax increase without holding an election.

Sal Pace, a county commissioner in Pueblo, Colo., thinks that his proposed 5 percent tax on marijuana growers could generate several million dollars to fund the first public college scholarship program financed with marijuana money.

Josh Duggar, 27, the ex-reality TV personality who has confessed to cheating on his wife and having a pornography obessession, has checked into a longterm treatment center, his parents, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, said on the family’s website.

Monte Ross, 30, of Tombstone, Ariz., faces charges including aggravated assault after he broke a pool cue in a saloon before going outside to shoot several blanks into the air from a fake pistol during a fight with his girlfriend.

Ran Lior, a spokesman for the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, said curators repaired the gold-glass base of a fourth-century Roman funerary vessel after a young girl visiting the museum bumped into a display case and broke the artifact.

Kevin Suarez, 31, walked into a police station in Lowell, Mass., to offer a tip and possibly collect a reward in the assault of an 18-year-old woman but was arrested on charges of assault with intent to rape and other offenses after being questioned in the case.

Pat Howard, a snake collector in North Clarendon, Vt., gave up two reticulated pythons, a 17-foot, 220-pound female and a 15-foot, 150-pound male, to game wardens, saying the snakes were too big for him to care for and needed to be sent to a sanctuary in Massachusetts.

Kelly Klein, a police dispatcher from Vail, Colo., will get a pink stork ribbon and a plaque for talking Eagle Police Chief Joey Staufer through the delivery of his daughter on an interstate on-ramp when Staufer and his wife, Vio, couldn’t make it to a hospital in time for the birth.

Randy Shearouse, superintendent of schools for Effingham County, Ga., said his high school will continue using the nickname “Rebels,” but will drop a caricature of a Confederate soldier that appears on sports uniforms.

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