Mother and daughter face charges over marriage

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Mother and daughter face charges over marriage

A mother and daughter have been charged with incest, after getting married in Oklahoma earlier this year. Patricia Ann Spann, 43, has told authorities she thought it was okay to marry her 25-year-old daughter, as her name wasn't on the younger woman's birth certificate. During the investigation, police discovered that Spann had also previously been married to her son in 2008. However he filed for an annulment 15 months after the marriage took place.

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Man robs bank to escape from wife

A 70-year-old man has reportedly robbed a bank in Kansas City as a means of escaping from his wife. Lawrence John Ripple allegedly walked into the Bank of Labor and handed a teller a note that read, "I have a gun, give me money." The teller complied, before Ripple went and sat down in the bank lobby to wait for the police. When officers arrived, Ripple told them he had been fighting with his wife, and he would rather be in jail than at home with her.

Fake cops pull over real cop

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