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Deer breaks through 2 doors, ransacks bathroom

GALLOWAY, N.J.

Police say a deer burst through the front doors of a New Jersey home, darted through the residence and ransacked the master bathroom.

Galloway police received a 911 call about 3:30 p.m. Saturday from a woman reporting that a deer ran through her house while she was putting sweet potatoes in the oven. The woman said she followed the deer into the back of the house and locked it in a bathroom.

Responding officers found the glass on the front storm door shattered. They also found the frame on the main door damaged, indicating that the deer muscled its way through two doors to enter the home.

After a brief standoff, police escorted the deer from the home and released it into the wild.

The bathroom was significantly damaged.

Flag stolen in 1976 mailed back to New Hampshire officials

MANCHESTER, N.H.

A bicentennial American flag that was stolen nearly 40 years ago from a park has been returned by a remorseful thief.

The flag was stolen in 1976 while the Weston Observatory in Manchester was being repaired. Someone climbed the scaffolding and snatched the flag at night, causing an uproar in the community, WMUR-TV reported.

The flag recently was mailed to the Manchester Historic Association from Arizona with a note of apology signed by “a flawed son of Manchester.”

“I regretted having done this for many years and apologize for my selfishness,” the thief wrote. “I have taken care to preserve the flag until I could return it so that it may assume its place as part of Manchester’s heritage.”

The association hopes to keep the flag and put it on display or possibly return it the observatory.

“Who knows who it was who did this, but we’re just thankful to have it back,” said Jeff Barraclough, acting director of the association.

Cat with 2 faces dies at 15

NORTH GRAFTON, Mass.

This cat had two faces — but only nine lives.

A feline named Frank and Louie after he was born with two faces, two mouths, two noses and three blue eyes has died at age 15.

The Telegram of Worcester reports that Frank and Louie died Thursday at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University in North Grafton.

The cat’s owner, Marty Stevens, said veterinarians think the cause of death was cancer.

Frank and Louie made it into the 2012 edition of Guinness World Records as the longest-surviving member of a group known as Janus cats, named for a Roman god with two faces.

Janus cats almost never survive, and most have congenital defects.

Associated Press

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