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5 Squirrel's
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8 Con game
12 Harvest
13 Victoria's
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14 Fit as a
fiddle
15 Room
17 Long
heroic
tale
18 Cut
drastically
19 Gumshoe
21 Uncat-
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24 List-end-
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25 Medics
28 Some
retrievers
for short
30 Scenery
chewer
33 "Selma"
director
DuVernay
34 Mafia
bosses
35 Mid-after-
noon, in a
way
36 Pound
sound
37 Apollo's instrument
38 Tackles' team-mates
39 Vast expanse
41 Persia, now
43 Influenza
46 Crazed
50 Demolish
51 Largest living rodent
54 Writer James
55 Carnival city
56 Property claim
57 Nurse's handouts
58 Web address
59 Otherwise
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1 Folklore beasts
2 Whip mark
3 California wine valley
4 Twitches
5 Japanese sash
6 Illustrations
7 Knock-knock quartet
8 Bed linen
9 Monkey named for a monk
10 Oodles
11 Netting
16 Greek X
20 Not so much
22 Dispatch
23 Blue Grotto island
25 Rotation duration
26 Eggs
27 Overturned
29 Transvaal settler
31 Help
32 Wrong (Pref.)
34 Sound of thunder
38 Facilitate
40 Tools for duels
42 Actress Adams
43 Metric measure
44 Anger
45 Beige
47 Hammer target
48 Inflames
49 Prop for Dr. House
52 Melody
53 D.C. figure
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Bundle up, NOLA: Mardi Gras is cold
GERALD HERBERT/ASSOCIATED PRESS
JANET MCCONNAUGHEY Associated Press
Revelers play brass band music as they begin the march of the Society of Saint Anne Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans on Tuesday. Despite temperatures being near freezing, party-goers still made it out to the streets to celebrate the holiday.
NEW ORLEANS — If there was a theme for this year's Mardi Gras costumes in New Orleans, it was "Brrrrt."
With temperatures near freezing, almost everyone was bundled up. Some costumes were no more than a fake-fur hat topped with animal ears.
English's friend, Jon Farkas, wore a hat fashioned like a white, big-billed bird, its long, yellow legs dangling in front of his shoulders. "It's supposed to be a pelican," he said.
Because of the cold weather,
The crowd was thick along St. Charles Avenue, where the route of Zulu, the day's first big parade, merged with that of Rex, one of the most elaborate. Rex was followed by two long "truck parades" — floats built up from flatbed trailers and decorated by costumed riders.
A 23-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman fell from different floats in a truck parade Tuesday in suburban Metairie, the jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said. The man was in stable condition and the woman was expected to be treated and released, said Col. John Fortunato, spokesman for the sheriff.
As Zulu passed, Ashley English said she was too cold to show off her costume.
"I have a corset on. You just can't see it," she said, pulling at the neck of her leather jacket. The corset was purple, she said, to go with her green and gold leggings.
Matching gray quilted jackets hid the gowns worn by young women on the "maids" float in the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club's popular parade.
Purple, green and gold were introduced as the colors of Mardi Gras in 1872, when a group of businessmen first crowned one of their own "Rex. king of Carnival."
tutus were worn over jeans and many costumes, such as clowns or animals, were baggy enough to cover sweat shirts.
Erin Buran of New Orleans wore a white jacket and feathery angel wings.
Revelers in glitzy costumes fed the streets of New Orleans on Tuesday for the annual Fat Tuesday bash, opening a day of partying, parades and good-natured jostling for beads and trinkets tossed from passing floats. The annual Mardi Gras parade marched on despite the cold winter temperatures across New Orleans.
"My angel wings have tequila in them," she said, showing the mouthpiece of a hydration backpack covered by the wings. She said she lost her halo Sunday.
GERALD HERBERT/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Just down a side street, a man was collecting admission outside a plywood cubicle labeled "BATHROOM." He and others at an RV repair shop had made a portable toilet of plywood, plastic buckets, and frequently changed plastic bags, which went into a nearby trash bin. It was $2 for men, $3 for women — or $10 and $12 for an all-day pass.
Why more for women? Toilet paper costs more money.
On Lee Circle, Wayne Encalarde sat in a pickup truck with a commercial portable toilet tied down in the bed. A big orange parking ticket was stuck behind one windshield wiper.
He said he parks there and is ticketed every Mardi Gras.
"It's worth it to have a bathroom for the kids," he said.
Partway down Zulu's route along Jackson Avenue, contractor Mike Cochran
and several younger men were giving away gumbo from the parking lot of a building under renovation.
"Our main purpose — other than feeding the multitudes — is making sure nobody climbs the scaffold," he said.
Doctor: Girl thought Slender Man character would hurt her family
Waukesha Police Detective Michelle Trussoni testifies during a preliminary hearing for two girls accused of stabbing a classmate to please the character Slender Man Monday at the Waukesha County courthouse in Waukesha, Wis.
MICHAEL SEARS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
TODD RICHMOND
Associated Press
Associated Press
WAUKESHA, Wis. — An attorney for one of two Wisconsin girls accused of stabbing their classmate to please horror character Slender Man tried to convince a judge Tuesday to move her case into juvenile court, arguing that his client is mentally disturbed and believed she had to kill to protect herself and her family from the creature.
Taking the stand during the second day of a preliminary hearing, psychologist Deborah Collins testified that she has interviewed the girl several times and concluded she honestly believes Slender Man exists.
“[Her belief] hasn't wavered and it's been unyielding to a rational perspective,” Collins testified.
Collins also testified that the girl told her she uses Vulcan mind control to keep negative emotions at bay and believes Harry Potter villain Lord Doldemort visits her when he's not away on business trips.
The detective went on to
A private detective working for the defense testified he discovered more than 60 drawings of Slender Man in the girl's bedroom. Many of the' sketches included notes such as "not safe even in your house" and "he is here always." One drawing depicted a girl lying on the ground and a person standing over her with the message "I love killing people" written over the figure.
say he found more than a half-dozen Barbie dolls in the bedroom that had been marked with Slender Man's symbol. Some were missing their hands and feet.
"I think we did a good job showing she believed (Slender Man) was real... across time and environment," defense attorney Anthony Cotton said. "She believed in Slender Man. She believed he would hurt the family."
According to court documents, the girls told detectives they had been planning to kill Peyton Leutner for months. They are accused of luring her to a park in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha on May 31 and stabbing her 19 times. Leutner barely survived; one
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The alleged attackers were found walking toward the Nicolet National Forest, where they say they thought they would join Slender Man.
stab wound just missed her heart.
All three girls were 12 years old at the time of the incident. The two alleged attackers face one count of being a party to attempted first-degree intentional homicide in adult court. They each could face up to 65 years in the state prison system if convicted
to juvenile court, where she couldn't be held beyond age 25.
Police detectives testified on Monday that both girls believed they had to kill their friend and join Slender Man in order to protect themselves and their families from his wrath. Cotton is trying to use that to move his client
He contends that since the girl thought she was defending herself a charge of attempted second-degree intentional homicide is more appropriate. Since the girl is under 18, she would face that count in children's court.
Prosecutors countered that a preliminary hearing — the stage of Wisconsin's legal process where a judge decides whether enough evidence exists to move to trial — isn't the proper venue for such an argument. Judge Michael Bohren declined to rule on anything Tuesday, asking all sides to submit briefs. He promised to issue a decision on March 13.