Alison Cook looks back at 1996: Year of the Rat

Gee, now we feel a lot better about him
State Representative Kevin Bailey was cleared of charges he threatened his girlfriend, Linda G. Adams, with a gun given to him by fellow legislator Jerry Patterson; the prosecutor said grand jurors felt the contretemps, in which Adams was at some point armed with a knife, "was a mutual combat situation."

But then, she hasn't met Wayne Dolcefino
That excessively irrepressible Sarah Ferguson was reported in her psychic's tell-all, The Duchess of York: Uncensored, as having had sex with Steve Wyatt in the bushes of her Highgrove estate while she was five months pregnant; and a phone hotline offered tapes of Fergie rating Wyatt as the best of her lovers.

The Year's Scariest Headlines!!!!!!!

All brought to you courtesy of the redoubtable Chronicle:

"Parent Firms of HL&P, Entex to Merge"

"Pierce Elevated Reconstruction Site"

"Man Shot and Wounded by Carload of Girls"

"Fungus Among Us"

"Trouble in the Stubble"

"Elucidation Sought in Fish Excrement