LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A condemned killer’s fight to receive surgery for agonizing hip pain has pushed Kentucky officials into an uncomfortable debate over security and politics.

Emails and memos obtained by The Associated Press show corrections officials struggling to reconcile their duty to provide medical care with the political ramifications of spending tens of thousands of dollars for surgery on a man they  plan to execute. A key problem would turn out to be security issues that led  several hospitals to balk at treating inmate Robert Foley.

“Hip replacement for an inmate who has exhausted all appeals and will soon be  executed?” Kentucky State Penitentiary warden Phil Parker wrote in an email on  Nov. 22, 2010. “I can see this making Fox News on a slow news day, maybe even on  a busy news day. ”

Prison officials also made contingency plans to call off the surgery if Gov. Steve Beshear set an execution date, and they considered whether to consult with  him about the procedure.  Full Article

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The bogus ears were discovered in a market in Ganzhou city in the eastern province of Jiangxi in late March after a customer complained of a strange smell when cooking them, the state-run China Daily newspaper reported.

Desmond Hatchett of Tennessee is pleading with the state to help him pay for child support he simply cannot afford. Hatchett, 33, has 11 different “baby mamas” and the state of Tennessee says there is nothing that they can do to limit him from having more children. WGCI has the story:

“I had four kids in the same year. Twice.” Desmond Hatchett said in an interview.

He’s been begging for help from the state of Tennessee because he can’t afford the child support for all these kids!

The children range in age from toddlers to 14 years old. There are at least 11 baby mamas; probably several more. Constitutionally, there is nothing the state of Tennessee can do to limit him from having more kids.  Full Article

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Marek Barden, who calls himself the bionic man, was  diagnosed with cancer in August 2011 after complaining to doctors about a  lump.

They found a 1.5kg chondrasarcoma tumor, which is extremely rare and thought  to be the largest of its type, wrapped around his ribs and pushing against  his spleen.

Within five weeks of the discovery, Marek underwent a six-hour operation to  remove the tumor, the lining of his left lung, six ribs and part of his  diaphragm.

A square cement panel was then installed to replace his ribs.  Full Article

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Domestic arguments between lovers will often end in tears or long silences – but they usually don’t end with emergency services having to extract a frightened man from a high-rise apartment’s garbage chute.

The local fast-response team in Tyumen, Russia, can be forgiven for thinking their latest call-out was a bit of a wind-up, when they were told a man had been heard calling for help from within the walls of a residential apartment building on Ulitsa 30 Let Pobedi.

When the fire service arrived, officers quickly discovered one of the building’s residents caught the garbage disposal chute – his head just visible from one of the latches that residents can use to put their refuse through on each floor.  Full Article

TAMPA, Fla. — Florida is calling on county election supervisors to remove more than 53,000 dead people from the state’s voting rolls.

State officials this year checked Social Security files and concluded that people who died were still registered to vote. This was the first time the state checked the files. It was allowed under a controversial election law that passed the GOP-controlled Legislature last year.

An attorney with the Department of State told election supervisors on Wednesday they have seven days to remove a deceased voter from the rolls.  Full Article

A Canadian museum hosting a controversial sex exhibit for teens has raised the age limit for admission following outrage from parents and lawmakers.

“Sex: A Tell-All Exhibition,” at Canada’s Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa, includes screens displaying aroused genitals, naked statues with light-up erogenous zones and video displays prompting visitors to answer sexually explicit questions, the Ottawa Sun reports.

The exhibit was reportedly designed to “fill in gaps” left by changes to sexual education programs in the region.

The exhibit initially targeted children as young as 12. The age for admission has now been raised to 16, but younger children can still see the exhibit on field trips, the Ottawa Sun reports.  Full Article

A Utah high school is learning the hard way that the government is serious about nudging students away from food it doesn’t want them to consume. Davis High School in the Salt Lake City area is having to fork over a whopping $15,000 in fines to the Feds because it accidentally sold soda through a vending machine during lunch.

Federal law requires the school to turn off its soda machines during the lunch period, which is 47 minutes a day. And Davis High school did turn off the machines in the lunch room. However, the school didn’t realize that there was another machine in the school bookstore that wasn’t being turned off. And when the food police realized it, the school was hit with a $0.75 fine per student for the duration of the offense.  Full Article