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Utah woman gives birth to third Leap Day baby

PROVO, Utah

In one of the rarest feats in the annals of family planning, a Utah woman has given birth on a third-consecutive Leap Day, tying a record set in the 1960s.

David and Louise Estes’ daughter Jade was born Wednesday morning in Provo, an hour south of Salt Lake City, four years after their son Remington was born Feb. 29, 2008, and eight years after their son Xavier was born Feb. 29, 2004.

Baby Jade already was five days overdue when doctors induced labor and the family hit the elusive date.

“I have never gone over, so I wasn’t sure if she was going to wait,” Louise told The Daily Herald of Provo. “As soon as we passed midnight, I knew it really, really could happen.”

The only other known case of triple Leap Day babies is the Henriksen family of Norway, which logged Feb. 29 births in 1960, 1964 and 1968.

Leap Days come once every four years to recalibrate the calendar and account for the 365 days and 6 hours it takes Earth to revolve around the sun. Having a Feb. 29 birthday can be both a blessing and a curse — a “Leapling” can celebrate their true birthday only once every four years. But they also joke that they age four times slower.

Governor accidentally calls lieutenant governor ‘sex star’

DENVER

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s flattering comments about Lt. Gov. Joe Garcia turned into a bit of a flub. While introducing him at a childhood literacy event in Denver on Wednesday, the governor mistakenly referred to Garcia as a “rising sex star.”

Hickenlooper routinely introduces Garcia as a “rising star” and a “rock star” at public events. The Democrat immediately caught his slip that was caught by KOA radio and reported Thursday by The Denver Post.

According to the tape, Hickenlooper says, “Now I get to introduce that rising sex star ... symbol. I mean, symbol — not star.”

After some awkward laughter, he deadpanned that it might go down as one of his most difficult press conferences.

Belfast cops nab burglar caught in door letterbox

BELFAST, Northern Ireland

Police say it wasn’t too hard to nab one would-be Belfast burglar — he managed to get his arm stuck while trying to reach through a front-door letterbox.

Northern Ireland police say a passing patrol spotted the 17-year-old struggling to free himself from a house’s front door before sunrise Thursday. They say he had tried to reach the door’s inner lock via the letterbox flap, but his arm became hopelessly trapped.

Firefighters dismantled the door but left the letterbox clamped to the boy’s arm until they reached a police station, where it was safely removed.

Police declined to identify the boy because he has yet to be charged.

Associated Press