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Rescued calf is now companion for blind cow who lost pig pal

DARTMOUTH, Mass.

A calf that spent several days on the loose in Massachusetts is now a companion for a blind cow that recently lost a pig playmate.

The cow, Baby, lives at the Don’t Forget Us Pet Us animal sanctuary in Dartmouth.

The unnamed calf had escaped from Robinson’s Livestock and was returned to the farm last week. It had been destined for the slaughterhouse. But Jean Briggs saw stories about its escape, used her tax refund to buy the calf from Robinson’s for $450 and turned it over to the sanctuary.

Deborah Devlin, who runs the sanctuary, says the timing is perfect. She says Baby’s friend for the past eight years, Lulu the pig, died Sunday and that the cow was heartbroken.

The cow and the calf were introduced Tuesday.

Swim-team members hire stripper as joke; school unamused

DES MOINES, Iowa

A Des Moines school district spokesman has confirmed that ninth-grade girls hired a male stripper to perform at their school’s synchronized-swimming club’s annual banquet.

District spokesman Phil Roeder told The Des Moines Register on Wednesday that the Roosevelt High School principal will decide whether the girls violated school policies and punishment is merited.

A father of one of the team members says the girls employed the stripper as a joke, and that the stripper didn’t totally disrobe at Friday evening’s event at the Des Moines Social Club.

Roeder says a club employee asked the stripper to leave, deeming the appearance inappropriate for the students.

The Sharks synchronized swimming club is run and funded by students in grades nine through 12.

Austrian police mistakenly use photo of US actor in search

VIENNA

Red-faced Austrian police are acknowledging that they published a photo of U.S. actor and TV producer Peter Marc Jacobson by mistake in their search for a suspected fraudster.

Police spokesman Roman Hahslinger said Wednesday that they circulated Jacobson’s photo after it was provided by a woman who said she was defrauded of 46,000 euros (about $52,000).

He said the suspect apparently used a photo of Jacobson in a false identification document he gave the victim and “must look deceptively similar” to him. She wasn’t identified, in keeping with Austrian confidentiality rules.

Jacobson is best known as the co-creator of the popular U.S. sitcom “The Nanny.” Hahslinger says he hasn’t been in contact over the mix-up, adding Austrian police “cannot know every celebrity in the world.”

Associated Press