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Some ex-Sharon Steel workers to receive $33 ‘windfalls’

SHARON, Pa.

About 1,600 former steel workers or their surviving spouses are getting a tiny windfall — about $33 each — from a long-forgotten bank account belonging to a bankrupt western Pennsylvania steel company.

The Sharon Herald reported Thursday about $500,000 was found in the former Sharon Steel Co. account in 2009, but because the company was in bankruptcy protection, the court had to decide what to do with the money. Various parties claimed a piece of it, but under the bankruptcy code the found money was earmarked to cover administrative and attorneys’ fees.

With lobbying from the United Steelworkers of America, the attorneys agreed to give up a slice of the money — about $54,000. That left the union to decide who would get it.

The union is splitting the money among retirees or their spouses who are owed pensions.

NC woman charged with buttocks injections gone bad

RALEIGH, N.C.

A woman on probation for performing buttocks-enhancing injections that left three women with kidney failure in 2008 has been charged with reportedly injecting an exotic dancer’s backside with a disfiguring potion, sheriff’s deputies said Thursday.

Lauretta Cheek, 42, of Greensboro was arrested Wednesday and charged with one misdemeanor count of practicing medicine without a license, Guilford County Sheriff’s Detective Craig Cotten said. Cheek was released on a written promise to appear in court.

She did not have a listed telephone, and Cotten did not know if she had an attorney.

The victim was an exotic dancer from Charlotte who wanted to augment her assets and met Cheek in a hotel room for the injection last year, Cotten said. Cheek’s price was about $500, but the unknown substance sent the victim to hospital emergency rooms twice, Cotten said.

“It appears that the substance that was injected into her basically burned its way back out,” the detective said. “It’s not just one big spot. Being a liquid or gel-type of material, it kind of went in different directions and obviously got infected and left pretty significant scarring.”

NH woman brought mom’s ashes to bingo; urn stolen

ROCHESTER, N.H.

A New Hampshire woman who brought her mother’s ashes to bingo games for good luck is hoping for their return after the urn containing them was stolen.

Police say the urn was stolen from Diane Bozzi’s van Tuesday morning in Rochester by someone targeting unlocked cars.

Diane Bozzi says the urn was in a bag that she was planning to take to her bingo game later in the day.

She and her mother loved playing bingo together. Before her mother died in 2002, Bozzi promised her she would take some of her ashes with her to play. Her mother agreed, saying she would bring Bozzi luck.

Associated Press