The town's animal control officer is worried after a severed cat's head was found Saturday on Rolling Hills Road.

This is the second severed cat's head found in Oxford, according to Sandy Merry, the Oxford Animal Control Officer.

The first head was found on nearby Moose Hill Road some seven to eight months ago.

The first discovery raised little concern since coyotes are so common in Oxford, Merry said.

The second discovery Saturday is troublesome, Merry said. She thinks the severed head was purposefully placed on the road by a human.

"Someone is clean-cutting off cats' heads and putting them in the street," Merry said.

A veterinary technician who lives in the neighborhood spotted the severed head on the road at about 6 p.m.

She did not want to give the Valley Indy her name because she believes a crime took place and she fears reprisal.

The woman said the head was placed upright in middle of the travel lane, facing oncoming motorists heading down Rolling Hills Road toward Moose Hill Road.

"It was strategically placed in the middle of the road," the woman said.

A violent brawl recently occurred inside the Osceola County Courthouse, near Orlando, Florida, after a postponement of a "stand your ground" hearing in the first-degree murder trial of Jason Clair, who is accused of fatally shooting two brothers outside a St. Cloud, Florida bar.

In a crowded hall, outside the courtroom, family members of Clair and his alleged victims, the murdered brothers, began brawling (video below).

Police officers eventually stopped the brawlers with taser threats.

WFTV-TV reported that the murdered brothers' father, James Kun Sr., their family friend, Jeremy Milyon, and defendant Jason Clair's stepfather, James Barker, were the ones who threw the most punches.

All three were arrested and brought to the county jail. Milyon faces a felony charge for punching a police officer during the fight.

A live television talk show in Jordan produced a torrent of insults, a shoe flying across the studio and a pistol being whipped out, as the host desperately tried to keep two rival politicians apart.


The show on private satellite channel Jo Sat, aired on July 6, started to spin out of control after MP Mohammad Shawabka accused former deputy Mansur Murad of working as a spy for the Syrian regime.

A Waco, Texas man is facing a felony animal cruelty conviction after his arrest on Tuesday for allegedly beating, strangling, and eating his housemate's dog at his home located at 4610 Athens. Witnesses say that Michael Daniel was high and "going crazy" after ingesting the synthetic drug "spice."

According to the Hunterdon Drug Awareness Program website, the synthetic drugs called "Spice" and "K2" with the addition of a variety of other names are products made in Asia and sold to local markets. The product is a combination of spice and bath salts and sold as incense with the warning labels stating "not for human consumption."

The synthetic cannabinoids when ingested however create a similar type of high and are considered hallucinogens which mimic the effects of marijuana and cocaine.

The news that two parents in separate central Indiana incidents left their young child in a sweltering vehicle during a record heat wave has stirred outrage, but national child car-safety advocates say that, in reality, it happens more often than people realize and it happens to all kinds of parents.

On Saturday, a 4-month-old girl died in Greenfield and a 16-month-old girl in Fishers suffered a seizure and was in critical condition after being left locked in stifling hot cars.

Right before he left for his parents' home on Saturday afternoon, 18-year-old Joshua Stryzinski helped change his 4-month-old daughter into a one-piece outfit. It left her legs and arms exposed, a way to help keep her cool in the triple-digit heat.

Police say two children and three dogs were left locked in cars during the recent heat wave.

The unrelated incidents occurred Thursday, Friday and Saturday when temperatures exceeded 100 degrees at times.

Around 8:30 p.m. Thursday, police officers reportedly spotted a 2-year-old girl locked in a blue Trailblazer parked outside Sears at the Louis Joliet Mall.

Reports did not indicate whether or not the vehicle was running, but said the temperature was 95 degrees at the time.

"The child did not appear in distress, but officers used a slim-jim to unlock the vehicle," Chief Mike Trafton said. After being identified by registration, the girl's mother, Diana J. Tovalin, 22, was paged over the store intercom and taken into custody. Tovalin, of 722 Nicholson St., was cited for endangering the life or health of a child and the Department of Children and Family Services was notified about the incident.

Nearly everyone recognizes that the U.S. may be in for very hard times in the near future. Some economists are predicting financial collapse as catastrophic as the Great Depression. With a significant number of people now living in cities, far away from their food sources, one may be left to wonder if the degree of famine this time around may result in the starvation of the roughly 240 million Americans who are incapable of growing their own food.

The idea isn't as farfetched or alarmist as it may seem at first glance. At the turn of the 20th century, more than fifty percent of the American labor force earned a living through direct involvement in agriculture, but this number decreased to just 2% by the year 2000. Even more frighteningly, only .8% of Americans are involved in the industry full-time.

Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon plc AON +0.15% , today releases the latest edition of its Global Catastrophe Recap report, which reviews the natural disaster perils that occurred worldwide during June.

Published by Impact Forecasting, the firm's catastrophe model development center of excellence, the report reveals that several natural disaster events occurred across the United States during the month, the most costly being a severe weather event that spawned up to baseball-sized hail in parts of Texas and New Mexico. According to the Insurance Council of Texas, insured losses in the state will exceed USD1 billion, with more than 100,000 claims filed by the end of June.

Meanwhile, a separate hail event in Colorado and Wyoming caused more than USD700 million in insured losses, according to local sources.

At least 28 people were killed following a prolonged stretch of severe weather in central and eastern U.S. states, which included a violent derecho - a fast-moving, long-lived cluster of intense thunderstorms - that claimed at least 15 lives, caused extensive blackouts, and resulted in more than 50,000 insurance claims.

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Here's a new one: A JPMorgan Chase employee has been accused of taking advantage of a man suffering from Alzheimer's by pulling $100,000 from his bank account, according to a new lawsuit.

The curator assigned to make decisions for Herman Lafayette, who is legally incapacitated because of his Alzheimer's, claims that a JPMorgan employee took advantage of Lafayette after his diagnosis in 2008. According to the lawsuit, the unnamed bank employee stole $100,000 from Lafayette over the course of a year (h/t Courthouse News Service).