Divorce court in disorder NEWS OF THE WEIRD ‘DURING a recent Albanian divorce hearing, in which a | man was contending that his wife beat him regularly over the course of their two-year union, the wife suddenly leaped at the man and. beat him unconscious before she was restrained. . _ The judge quickly granted the divorce. on ed Sex offender registration laws, which’ permit towns to learn when a sex offender has been released from jail into * their cominunities, have been criticized ‘recently as interfer- > ing with offenders’ ability to " start’ new lives. ~. “However, judging . from “ experiences ‘south of the’ bor- der, the main shortcoming of > the laws in-several U.S. states: “ appears to be their ineffective- ness. Said: .an. Iilinois State “Police spokesman, of the many ~ boygus “addresses on :his state’s register, Its the responsibility of: the offender to provide (accurate) information.” ” Jn Arkansas, astate with at least . 1,000. sex : offenders ~ behind ‘bars at”any one time, ‘the régister contains only 50 “names, but a. state police “spokesman ‘in. June ‘said the wit was the sex offenders’ for not being responsible enough to register. “Football star” Deion’ Sanders, arrested for trespass- ing at a fishing liole near Fort “Myers, . Florida ‘ this* summer was siad to remark: “The only defense, I have. is that: I'm ‘sorry but they were biting.” ‘Brooklyn, New York — rhoid surgery, of shooting, her husband to death because he had gone on a six-hour fishing trip. Said a police investigator, “She felt that her husband did- n't demonstrate thar he cared for her on that particular day. Cleveland, Ohio -~ Judge Shirley Strickland Saffold, +15, attempting to counsel defen- dane Katie Nemeth to get her life together, recommended in court that she should get a better boyfriend than the cone she has: “Men are easy. You can go sit in the bus stop, put ona short skirt, cross your legs and pick up 25, Ten of them will give you their money. If you don’t pick up the first 10, then all you got to do is open your legs a little bit and cross them at the bottom.” Detroit lawyer Leonard Jaques, 68, was fined $11,000 for a recent courtroom out- burst in which he verbally abused an opposing lawyer, then yanked his hair and threw him to the floor. Ina widely reported court- room outburst in 1983 in Cleveland, Jaques achieved notoriety by giving a federal judge the excuse for missing a court date that he had “screaming itches in the crotch.” , oes. “Rhode Island Workers’ Compensation Court Judge Debra Olsson has: awarded convicted murdérer. Antonino Cucinorta $18,500 in bene- fits. ; Cucinotta, a ~ former Mafioso serving 60 years at an undisclosed prison as part of the federal Witness Protection Program, injured his head ata construction site in 1988 but was improperly cut off from benefits on the date of his arrest in’ 1994, rather than on the date of his conviction in 1995. Self-described. “fishing fanatic? Tom Getherall of East Meriches,. Long Island, told.a‘ New York Daily News reporter the day “after the crash of TWA Flight 800: “I felt bad when I heard about the wreck, real bad, but to be With any Shiseide purchase of $38 or more, receive a Shiseido Accessory Pouch, 30 mt Moisturizing Lotion Concentrate, - 30 mL Benefiunce Balancing Softener, 2.5 g Mini Lip Gloss and 30 mL Essential Energy Hand Nourishing Cream. Limit one bonus per custonier. Excludes the Benefionce Luxe and the Volupte Benationce ~ Storter kits Available in our V THis 1s SEARS. ie encouver Burnak » while quantities last : Expect.more from Sears ° a5 Capilano, Topay Cleansing Foum. Each'$290 0 | 200 mi Benefiance’. © i Creamy Cleansing Emulsion. Each $36 quitlam, Richmond and Surrey stores 99218: "Police. accused Gail Murphy, . honest with you, the first R Sale Geer “47, bedridden on‘her stomach — thing I wondered was how it LOOK FOR US ON Uh HUTEIMES “while recovering from hemor-. would affect the fishing.” Ee telinitnn