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ODD NEWS

January 3, 2013

Compiled by Paul J. Maringelli

Employees of a Pennsylvania newspaper, The Scranton Times- Tribune, were baffled when a calendar ordered by a former general manager showed up 63 years after his death. The 1950 Pennsylvania Railroad calendar was rolled in a long tube and addressed to James Flanagan, who died in Dec. 1949.

A set of twin sisters in Ohio gave birth on the same day about 2 hours apart in the same hospital. Aimee and Ashlee Nelson, both 19, both gave birth to sons Monday at Summa Akron City Hospital.

A Florida family returned from vacation to find a burglar had eaten their food and slept in a guest bed before fleeing with their belongings.