Update February 4, 2013: Heather Ray disputes Goehrig's version of events. She contends that she first wrote e-mails to the city announcing her intention to get a therapy pig, and the city told her it was not allowed. She claims she then researched the Americans with Disabilities Act and spoke to representatives at the Department of Justice who told her the city would need to make reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. 

Believing that federal law was on her side, Ray bought the pig and wrote letters to commissioners letting them know. It was, then, she says, that a Sun-Sentinel reporter contacted her; the resulting article was followed by scores of other media calls. Ray says the city then told her it would allow the pig, but required her to first get a prescription for therapy animal, then return to the doctor for another script that specified the animal needed to be a hypoallergenic pig. 

Ray says the city wanted even more documentation -- such as her husband's allergy tests that would prove a cat or dog would not suffice -- but the allergist said that no pig-allergy tests existed and invoked HIPAA laws. Ray says she then told the city that if it did not give her a waiver, she would file a formal complaint with teh Department of Justice, and that within the month, she got her waiver. Ray reports that the pig and her son are both faring well. The pig is six pounds (could grow to 20) and uses a litter box. 

Original story, published December 10, 2012: The story had every ingredient for a viral web hit: an outraged mother, a boy with Down syndrome, some feckless city bureaucrats, and one extremely cute pygmy pig. So it's no surprise that after the Sun Sentinel broke the news, the media pounced. The City of Coral Springs wouldn't allow Heather Ray's son, Kason, to have a pig named Twinkie because of a law against pet swine. Ray said she needed the pig as a therapy animal for the boy because both he and her husband are allergic to dogs.

The story exploded. CNN, The Huffington Post and The Daily News did stories last week, and soon the news reached Europe in Britain's Daily Mail. Hundreds of commenters trashed the town.

But one part never made it into print:

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Sandwiched between "Thou shalt not commit adultery" and "Thou shalt not bear false witness" on one of two stone tablets allegedly presented to Moses on Mt. Sinai, God clearly listed "Thou shalt not steal" as one of the Ten Commandments.

For one Catholic priest in North Palm Beach, however, the warning was seemingly lost in translation.

Rev. Giuseppe Savaia has left St. Clare parish "to tend to personal duress" and clear his name as an alleged shoplifter, according to WPTV NewsChannel 5.

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​Last January, Oakland Park's Marin Stroia was facing a divorce filing, foreclosure, and charges of contempt of court when he walked into the Broward County Courthouse, pointed a gun at himself, and threatened to kill himself.
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Carter Johnson has seen some things.

​In Panama City, Carter Johnson had just witnessed a man who had attempted to rob a credit union trying to flee the scene in his truck.

Thankfully, local ABC affiliate WMBB got Johnson on camera -- coonskin cap and all -- to recall the attempted robber's great escape.

You're going to have to see the video of the news report and just take it all in (Johnson appears at 1:05):

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Casey Anthony -- never accused of killing a 2-year-old kid.

​Casey Anthony is getting tons of angry Facebook messages and phone calls after the famous acquittal on charges of killing 2-year-old Caylee Anthony.

The problem there is that people are harassing a different Casey Anthony -- a 43-year-old black dude who lives in Darby, Pennsylvania.

According to NBC Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's Casey Anthony has gotten hundreds of messages, wall posts, and friend requests on Facebook -- as well as plenty of phone calls -- because people apparently think he's Florida's 25-year-old female Casey Anthony.

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Deadly?

​A Broward woman says that an Oakland Park man -- whose last name is actually Teebagy -- and the city have to pay up, because a street-side tree permanently maimed her in 2009, according to a recently filed lawsuit.

Kathleen Adelle Nickerson, "a single woman," says that

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For hygiene.

​A Pompano Beach man says his Magic Faucet bidet unexpectedly exploded(!) -- causing thousands in damage both to his bathroom and to his downstairs neighbor's apartment. More »

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The varying degrees of bagging sagging pants.

​Criminal! Dropout! Maverick of personal style! What do your baggy pants say about you? Survivor?! (Maybe... read on.)

State lawmakers have been on a tirade against baggy pants for well over a year, but one St. Petersburg teen says if his pants weren't so baggy, he may have lost his leg to an alligator. When 17-year-old Kendrick Williams was walking home from work, a hiss caught his attention, and when he looked down, he saw a six- to seven-foot gator. Before he could run away, the agitated reptile took a bite of his leg but ended up only ripping holes in his baggy pants, according to ABC Action News.

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