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Police: Western Pa. woman hid wedding booty in bra

CHICORA, Pa.

A western Pennsylvania woman has been charged with stealing money from wedding cards brought to a reception she was attending — and trying to hide the loot in her bra.

Online court records don’t list an attorney for 40-year-old Jennifer Ann Martz of Chicora. State police say she attended Saturday’s wedding with her boyfriend, who was an invited guest.

That Butler Eagle reports guests saw Martz heading to the ladies room after they found 11 cards missing from a gift table. Police say Martz ripped up the cards and tried to flush them down a toilet while stuffing $475 in cash and $80 in checks into her bra. That’s where other female guests told police they found the loot.

The groom’s brother, Jeremy Scherer, says Martz “ruined the whole time for everybody.”

NW Pa. woman digs up 2-headed piglet in mom’s yard

MEADVILLE, Pa.

A northwestern Pennsylvania woman has donated an unusual body to science: the carcass of a two-headed piglet she found preserved in a jar dug up outside her mother’s home.

Sharon Reagle tells the Meadville Tribune she unearthed the jar while planting shrubs at her mother’s home in Saegertown on Sunday.

Reagle calls the find “unique; pretty neat, really.” But she felt it was better to donate it to the biology department at nearby Allegheny College in Meadville. That’s about 90 miles north of Pittsburgh.

Assistant professor Lisa Whitenack says, “This is like Christmas for a biologist. The students will love it.”

Reagle says her parents didn’t raise pigs in the 56 years they lived on the property, so she has no idea how it got there.

Swedish male train drivers wear skirts to work

STOCKHOLM

Commuters on a train line in northern Stockholm were met with an unusual sight recently: male train drivers and conductors wearing skirts to work.

Train driver Martin Akersten says he and more than a dozen others at the Roslagsbanan line have started wearing skirts in the summer as a protest against the train company’s uniform policy, which doesn’t allow shorts.

The 30-year-old Akersten said Sunday the response from customers has been only positive.

Arriva, the company that runs the train line, hasn’t stopped the drivers. Arriva spokesman Tomas Hedenius says the company wants its staff to look “nice and proper” but can’t stop men from wearing “women’s clothes” if that’s what they want because it would be discrimination.

He didn’t rule out a change of the company’s uniform policy.

Associated Press