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Police: Georgia college instructor stripped in class

KENNESAW, Ga.

Students in a Kennesaw State University business class got an anatomy lesson.

Campus police say a part-time instructor took his clothes off while teaching a class at the suburban Atlanta college late last month. Police arrested 57-year-old Raymond Devaughn Taylor of Kennesaw on Monday and charged him with public indecency after a student reported what happened to university officials.

Taylor was released from jail Tuesday on $5,000 bond.

A woman who answered the phone at Taylor’s home Wednesday declined to comment and said the instructor wasn’t interested in talking.

University officials said Taylor, who worked in Kennesaw State University’s business department on a contract basis, will no longer teach at the college.

Woman returns library book — 74 years overdue

SACRAMENTO, Calif.

A California woman is proving it’s never too late to make things right.

Ninety-five-year-old Hazel Severson of Sacramento says a friend found a book that Severson’s late husband had borrowed from an Amador County library in 1936 while sorting through things for a garage sale.

She knew what she had to do: return the book and offer to pay the overdue fee — a whopping $2,701.

Severson told the Sacramento Bee that she and her husband, Howard, were newlyweds back when he checked out the hardback, “Seaplane Solo,” about Sir Francis Chichester’s 1930 solo flight across the Tasman Sea.

Luckily for Severson, the library didn’t charge her the fee, though it did accept a small donation when she stopped by Oct. 13.

Librarian Laura Einstadter said they were just happy to get the book back.

German police find pot plant adorned as Christmas tree

BERLIN

German police say an “old hippy” is facing possible prosecution for his version of the, ahem, highest Christmas tree — a festively decorated 2-yard-tall marijuana plant.

Koblenz police spokesman Ralf Schomisch says officers raided the apartment of the 58-year-old man after a tip Monday and uncovered a cache of 5.3 ounces of marijuana.

Then in the living room they discovered the tree — a pot plant adorned with Christmas lights.

The suspect, whose name was not released, said he had planned to decorate it further and put presents under it at Christmas.

But it was not to be. Schomisch said Thursday that authorities “had to destroy this pre-Christmas dream” and seize the plant as evidence.

Associated Press