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An "aggressive" wolf dog hybrid that was set to be euthanized will instead serve a "life sentence" as a prison guard dog, a Louisiana judge has ruled.

The judge originally ordered Chief, a British Columbia wolf and German shepherd mix, be put down after the dog kept escaping from its owners' property and allegedly "terrorized" neighbors, The Advocate reports.

A law in Pointe Coupee Parish, La., where Chief lived, requires dogs to be leashed or confined to an owner's property. Chief's case went to court, where neighbors unleashed their concerns about the canine.

Swayed by witness accounts of the alleged bad dog's behavior, Judge James Best ordered Chief be destroyed. But news reports about the dog's days being numbered spurred a prison warden to action.

A deaf man has sued for his right to have an interpreter at a nudist festival. New York resident and deaf nudist Tom Willard filed suit after the Empire Haven Nudist Park refused his request to have a sign language interpreter at one of their festivals.

Empire Haven Nudist Park offers several workshops during their festival. Willard wanted an interpreter present so he could understand what was going on. He even offered to pay for the interpreter himself if Empire Haven discounted his entry into the festival and registration fees, The Post-Standard reports.

Apparently, Willard’s efforts were in vain.

California's Marin Superior Court has decided to back off from a strange plan which would have put arrested juveniles in glass boxes during their court appearances. Instead, the Marin Juvenile Court will be closed - and juveniles will now go through hearings at the main courthouse.

So why put juveniles in glass boxes in the first place? Are they fragile like some sort of prized treasure or age-old dinosaur bone?

No, it's because state budget cuts have forced Marin to eliminate security at the Juvenile Court, reports The Marin Independent Journal.

What do cocaine, cheese and tortilla dough all have in common?

To you and I? Probably nothing. But to Antonio Hernandez Carranza, all three have the ability to land a person in jail.

And after a slow-speed early morning police chase, the cheese and tortilla dough--not the cocaine--did just that.

For four days.

Stupid things that you do in your youth can, in fact, come back to haunt you.

Thirty-seven years and $100 later, Michael J. Young finally has a clean criminal record.

There had been a warrant out for his arrest since he was 23 and he didn't even know about it.

Let the dead rest in peace. A nice sentiment, but in the case of Bobby Fischer, apparently it does not apply.

The Supreme Court of Iceland ruled Wednesday that Fischer's body will be exhumed, two years after he was buried. Lower courts had denied the request to examine his remains for paternity tests.

The famous chess genuis will have his remains exhumed in order to determine whether he fathered a 9 year old girl. Fischer is buried approximately 30 miles outside of Reykjavik, Iceland, where he had lived for three years prior to his death in 2008. At stake is his estate, reportedly worth $2 million, after he died in Iceland in 2008 with no will. Thordur Bogason, a lawyer for the child in question and her mother said that the investigation was launched because legal cases over who has rights to Bobby Fischer's estate have not been resolved.

Robbery suspect Freddie Thompson managed to pull of the old switcheroo. He made an identity change and escaped from court.

According to the New York Times, Freddie Thompson, 35, switched places with another prisoner during an arraignment. The other prisoner was facing a less serious charge of marijuana possession and consequently, Thompson was mistakenly released.

Among the many wrongs the large banks have inflicted on the American public in the last two years, please add to the list: financial crises and parrot-napping. That is not a typo, a Hampton, Pennsylvania woman has sued Bank of America for wrongfully foreclosing on her home, damaging the contents and holding her pet parrot captive.

Distressed homeowners everywhere, here's a unique way to deal with your bank: When facing foreclosure, bulldoze your house so that the bank gets nothing. Well, no, please don't take that as actual advice of any fashion; it's actually a terrible idea for many reasons. But a man in Ohio certainly decided that bulldozing his house was a sure-fire way to vindicate himself against the banks.

Terry Hoskins was a struggling homeowner in Moscow, Ohio. After a bitter foreclosure battle with the bank, he decided that if they weren't going to let him have his house, he wasn't going to let them have it, either.

So, he bulldozed it to the ground. Here's an actual slideshow.   

A San Francisco lawyer admits that he filed a wrongful death suit against the wrong defendants in an elevator accident case that cost a life last year.

According to SF Weekly, Mr. Zimmerman represented the family of Dan Kliman, who fell to his death in a downtown SF elevator last year. Zimmerman has admitted that he filed the lawsuit against people who don't even own the building in question.

Mr. Zimmerman filed the lawsuit against Coast Counties Management, Inc. and the Kone Elevator company along with Scott and Elisa Stephens (Academy of Art University). The problem? The building where the elevator accident happened was not owned by any of these people.