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Man wakes up in body bag at funeral home in Mississippi

LEXINGTON, Miss.

Workers at a Mississippi funeral home say they found a man alive and kicking when they opened a body bag.

Holmes County Coroner Dexter Howard calls it a miracle that 78-year-old Walter Williams is alive.

The coroner was called to Williams’ home in Lexington, a community north of Jackson, where family members believed he had died.

Howard says Williams had no pulse and was pronounced dead Wednesday at 9 p.m.

Early Thursday, workers at Porter and Sons Funeral Home were preparing to embalm Williams when he started to kick in the body bag.

Family members were called and Williams was taken to a hospital. Howard says he believes Williams’ pacemaker stopped working, then started again.

Family members say Williams, a farmer, told them he’s happy to be alive.

Case dropped against SC woman jailed over video

PICKENS, S.C.

The owner of a now-closed video store in South Carolina has decided to drop charges against a woman accused of failing to return a movie nearly a decade ago.

Pickens County deputy sheriffs said the owner decided to not pursue the charge because of the media attention that 27-year-old Kayla Michelle Finley’s arrest received.

Finley rented the movie “Monster-in-Law” from Dalton Videos in 2005. The owner took out a warrant against Finley, and she was arrested recently when she was at the sheriff’s office for something else and the warrant was found. Finley spent the night in jail before she was released.

Working phone numbers for Finley and the defunct store’s owner could not be found.

Atlanta police: Fake Waffle House manager arrested

ATLANTA

Atlanta police say a woman in a Waffle House uniform accused of pretending to be a company manager and stealing about $100 later returned to the restaurant to give the cash back.

But officer Kim Jones tells The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the suspect — 35-year-old Katie Marie McCrary of Decatur — was apprehended last week when she returned to the business.

DeKalb County Jail records show McCrary faces a theft charge. The jail records do not list an attorney for McCrary.

Jones says the suspect began acting as an area manager and conducted an inspection of the restroom area, then continued her routine as real area managers do before taking cash from the register.

Jones says investigators don’t believe McCrary is or was a Waffle House employee.

Associated Press