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Half sisters meet for first time, after 85 years

JENKS, Okla.

A woman in her 80s met her 94-year-old half sister over Memorial Day weekend — the first time the siblings had ever set eyes on each other.

KOTV reported that 85-year-old Zelda Gates didn’t even know she had a half sister until she read her father’s will.

On Monday, Gates finally met Reta Knight, her older half sister, in Jenks, about 12 miles south of Tulsa.

Knight said her father left her and her mother, and she always wondered why. She said her mother was evasive when she asked, so she didn’t push the subject.

Family members used old pictures and online genealogy resources to make sure of the connection. Gates said meeting her sister for the first time was wonderful. She noted that the two look alike, too.

Colombia chocolate thief sentenced to 5 months

BOGOTA, Colombia

It’s enough to make a candy junkie give up the sweet stuff forever.

A self-declared chocolate addict has been sentenced to five months in one of Colombia’s harshest prisons for swiping $8 worth of candy bars.

Luis Augusto Mora was caught stealing two boxes of locally made Jumbo bars at a Bogota supermarket. After confessing, Mora was sentenced to La Picota prison, home to some of the country’s most hardened criminals and drug-traffickers.

The tough punishment has caught the attention of President Juan Manuel Santos. In a radio interview Tuesday, he said that misdemeanors such as Mora’s shouldn’t waste prosecutors’ time and effort.

Meanwhile, prosecutors have distributed a statement saying the chocolate thief is expressing regret.

Associated Press