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Michigan couple marry after losing 380 pounds

WYANDOTTE, Mich.

A Detroit-area couple who met in a support group for weight-loss surgery patients exchanged wedding vows after losing a collective 380 pounds.

Crysta Danaher, 34, of Windsor, and Bill Anderson, 44, of Allen Park, were married Saturday at Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital, where they had bariatric surgery and later met, the Detroit Free Press reported. Anderson has gone from 459 pounds to about 250 pounds since his May 2009 operation. Danaher has lost about 180 pounds since her 2009 procedure.

“We were friends first,” Danaher said. “My mom knew him first and always said, ‘I wish you’d meet a guy like Bill.’ He grew on me. I guess I grew on him, too.”

Anderson said the surgery and support group have “changed everything” about his life. He has run two full marathons and more than a dozen half-marathons.

The two were married by their yoga instructor in the room where they met. The Saturday ceremony marked exactly three years since their first date.

Woman loses wedding ring in Halloween candy

MESA, Ariz.

An Arizona woman is searching for her wedding ring after she says she accidentally gave it away with Halloween candy.

KNXV-TV reported that Mesa resident Brooklin Yazzie says she mistakenly handed out the ring Friday during a mix-up.

Yazzie says she placed her wedding ring in a candy jar while helping her daughters carve pumpkins, and when the night became hectic she absentmindedly dumped the contents of the jar into the candy bag.

She says there also were plastic rings inside the candy bag.

Yazzie says she is hoping someone has the ring because it isn’t worth much money but has value to her.

UN head confuses Austria with Australia

VIENNA

It was clearly a slip of the tongue, but many Austrians will not be amused because they hear it all too often: Expressing his gratitude for the hosting of a major conference in Vienna, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon offered his thanks to — Australia.

Ban recovered Monday about 20 minutes into his news conference on the sidelines of the meeting focused on landlocked developing countries.

Tipped off by aides, he apologized, noting he knows full well that there are “no kangaroos in Austria.”

Ban was addressing a pet Austrian peeve: Tourists often say Australia when they mean Austria.

Cashing in on the mistake, most Vienna souvenir shops stack T-shirts with a crossed-out picture of the bouncy marsupial and the slogan “There are no kangaroos in Austria.”

Associated Press