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A Michigan woman is suing a local used-car dealership for failing to tell her that the SUV she bought once contained a dead body. Margarita Salais says she bought the car when it was cold outside, and didn’t detect any odor. “The warmer it got, the worse the smell got,” said her attorney. An investigation revealed that the SUV had been stolen and then recovered with a decomposing body inside.

There is no Santa, said the teacher

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A suburban New York elementary school teacher faces disciplinary action for telling her second-grade class that there is no Santa Claus. After her students identified the North Pole as “where Santa lives,” the teacher told them Santa was a fictional character. Most experts are agreed that Santa is real and does live at the North Pole.