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/ 23 October 2007
A Kansas woman was found guilty on Monday of killing a pregnant woman, cutting the baby from her womb and kidnapping the newborn in a gruesome ruse to pass the child off as her own. A jury convicted Lisa Montgomery (39) of Melvern, Kansas, on a charge of kidnapping resulting in death, finding she strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett, the baby’s mother.
Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, a former televangelist who helped lead a huge television ministry before its collapse in a sex and corruption scandal, has died, her website reported on Saturday. Messner died on Friday at age 65 after a long battle with cancer.
Tom Wayne amassed thousands of books in a warehouse during the 10 years he has run his used-book store, Prospero’s Books. But wanting to thin out his collection, he found he could not even give books away to libraries or thrift shops, which said they were full. So on Sunday, Wayne began burning his books.
A tornado wiped out most of a small farming town in southwestern Kansas, killing nine people and injuring at least 63, emergency officials said on Saturday. The funnel cloud hit Greensburg on Friday evening, smashing buildings, overturning vehicles and knocking out communications towers.
Researchers at a Missouri university have identified the largest known prime number, officials said. The team at Central Missouri State University, led by associate dean Steven Boone and mathematics professor Curtis Cooper, found it in mid-December after programming 700 computers years ago.
An employee of ConAgra Foods Inc killed four people in the cafeteria of the plant on Friday, news reports said. The man carried two handguns into the plant and strode into the cafeteria, where he opened fire, The New York Times reported on its website. The man then killed himself.