CAGED TEEN: A mother has been sentenced in Jacksonville to 20 years in prison for keeping her 17-year-old adopted son caged in her home. Brenda Sullivan’s son weighed 49 pounds when child welfare workers found him in 2005.
KILLER APHRODISIAC: Health officials are warning New Yorkers to stay away from an illegal aphrodisiac made from toad venom after the product apparently killed a 35-year-old man. The product is sold under names including Piedra, Love Stone, Jamaican Stone, Black Stone and Chinese Rock.
PLANE CRASH: A small airplane carrying mail crashed into a construction materials building in a fiery explosion early Friday in Billings, Mont., killing the pilot, officials said. No one on the ground was injured, but the fire destroyed the building.
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