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Cindy Michaels

and Tony Consiglio, news co-anchors for Maine’s WVII, announced on the air that they were quitting, later telling the Bangor Daily News that they were frustrated with management and cited a dispute over journalistic practices, while Mike Palmer, station vice president and general manager, said he wasn’t surprised by the pair’s actions because “sometimes people leave before they’re officially told to leave.”

Elzbieta Plackowska, 40, who is accused of killing her 7-year-old son by stabbing him more than 100 times because she was angry with her husband, then slaying a 5-year-old she was baby-sitting because the girl was a witness, has pleaded innocent in Naperville, Ill., to first-degree murder in each child’s death.

John Helfer, a spokesman for the Monroe County, N.Y., sheriff’s office, said police are looking for a thief who drove off with a pickup that was pulling a 28-foot trailer loaded with 350 Douglas fir trees worth about $12,000.

Park Jung-geun, 24, a South Korean photographer and activist accused of resending North Korean propaganda posts from his Twitter account in what he contends were attempts to mock the North Korean regime, has been given a suspended 10-month prison term.

Mike Rowe, host and creator of the Discovery channel’s Dirty Jobs, wrote in a blog post that the show has “entered a new phase ... One I like to call, ‘permanent hiatus.’ Or in the more popular industry vernacular, canceled.”

Oscar Ramirez, a spokesman for California’s Department of Social Services, said a third person at a senior-citizen care facility has died from eating a soup made of toxic mushrooms.

William Merrill, 58, a professor at Central Michigan University who resigned after authorities said they found child-pornographic videos on his school computer, has pleaded innocent in federal court in Flint to charges of possessing child pornography.

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