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‘Lucky’ pig gets new home after fall onto Colorado highway

LONGMONT, Colo.

A 650-pound pig that fell off a trailer in Colorado is getting a new name – “Lucky” – and a new home at a sanctuary for abandoned pigs.

The Daily Times-Call reports that Lucky rolled onto Interstate 25 on Sept. 30. He probably was destined for a slaughterhouse, but instead will be headed to a cozy home east of Denver.

The Weld County Sheriff’s Office couldn’t find the 3-year-old pig’s owner, so the boar was given to Hog Haven Farm owner and director Erin Brinkley-Burgardt.

Brinkley-Burgardt says she primarily cares for pot-bellied pigs, which people buy as pets but often abandon as they grow larger. The veterinarian who treated Lucky says he appears to be a Yorkshire pig.

Brinkley-Burgardt says Lucky can expect to live about 13 years in captivity.

Lawsuit: Pork-roll company fired employee for passing gas

TRENTON, N.J.

One of New Jersey’s top pork-roll makers is being sued by the wife of an employee who she says was fired for passing too much gas in the office.

The Home News Tribune reports that Louann Clem says in the lawsuit that her husband suffered serious consequences from gastric-bypass surgery. Those included extreme gas and uncontrollable diarrhea.

The lawsuit alleges that Case Pork Roll Co. President Thomas Dolan complained about the side effects and told Rich Clem to work from home because he made the office smell. His wife also worked there.

But owner Tom Grieb says neither of them was fired. He says business wasn’t good, and they didn’t want to take a pay cut and walked out.

The lawsuit seeks unspecified punitive and compensatory damages.

Man gets long prison term, then gets married at courthouse

GREENSBURG, Pa.

A man sentenced to at least 20 years in prison in one Pennsylvania courtroom has followed that up by walking into another courtroom to marry his girlfriend.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports 47-year-old Greg Howard was sentenced last week in Westmoreland County Court for robbing and assaulting an elderly woman during a home invasion.

Prosecutors say the Monessen man and two other people got into the woman’s house by pretending to be delivering furniture. Witnesses say they took $13,000 and jewelry and left her on her bed with her ankles and wrists bound.

He was allowed to wear civilian clothes instead of a prison jumpsuit. He remained shackled during a brief wedding attended by five deputies and the bride’s baby.

Associated Press