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Mont. man injured when bridge jumper lands on him

MISSOULA, Mont.

A western Montana man floating on an inner tube suffered broken bones in his legs and torn ligaments in his knees when another man jumped from a bridge and landed in his lap.

Andy Hill of Missoula and his wife were floating under a bridge on the Clark Fork River near East Missoula Sunday when the man landed on him, KECI-TV reported.

“Suddenly I had intense pain and was under water,” Hill said.

“There was a guy on my lap, and he rolled off my lap and he just kept apologizing, saying ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry,’” Hill said.

The man swam Hill to shore, still on the inner tube, and the man’s friend helped Hill as well.

Hill suffered broken bones in both lower legs and a cracked femur in his left leg and likely will spend the rest of the summer in a wheelchair or on crutches.

But he’s been able to keep his sense of humor.

“Who does this happen to?” asked Hill, laughing. “I don’t know of anybody this has ever happened to.”

Missoula County authorities say the man who jumped could be charged.

Rare corpse flower to bloom at UC Santa Barbara

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.

An Indonesian flower famous for its foul odor is expected to unfurl its putrid blossom within the next week at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

The school says its greenhouse will be open to the public during the one-day blooming of the so-called corpse flower.

Unlike other flowers that rely on bees for pollination, this one counts on flies. It a ttracts them with the smell of rotting flesh, and they in turn spread its sticky pollen.

Its nauseating scent comes from two sulfur-producing chemicals within its leaves.

The UCSB plant is 4 feet tall and growing rapidly. A live webcam of the plant can be found on the school’s website.

Ohio woman’s sentence includes Christmases in jail

COLUMBUS

A central Ohio judge has ordered a woman to spend the next five Christmases in jail as part of her sentence for issuing state ID cards and driver’s licenses to immigrants who entered the country illegally.

Prosecutors say 44-year-old Betina Young — a former license-agency employee — accepted payments from applicants to falsify records showing they had verified their immigration status. She has pleaded guilty.

The Columbus Dispatch reports that Judge Michael Holbrook put Young on probation Monday for five years — ordering that she spend a minimum of three days in jail each Christmas while on probation.

If she violates probation, she could go to prison for 15 years.

Associated Press