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| CURITIBA, Brazil – An 80-year-old retiree in southern Brazil has paid a debt she incurred with a grocery merchant over 50 years ago. The original debt was for ₢7,490 cruzeiros. The amount paid by the pensioner was R$150 reals (about $83 USD).
Half-Century Old Grocery Bill (Photo: G1 PR)
| BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil – A homeless man in Tres Pontas, in Southern Minas Gerais state, sleeps all day in a tomb in the city cemetery. Cristiano José da Silva, 61, who was a seminarian, says that he decided to leave home and live on the streets after his mother died.
Cristiano José da Silva (Photo: EPTV/G1 MG)
| CAMPO GRANDE, Brazil – On Monday, a 27-year-old man in southern Brazil was hit in the head with five lead bullets and survived. The incident occurred in the small town of Chapadao do Sul, 325 km (202 mi) from the Mato Grosso do Sul state capital, Campo Grande.
X-ray of man shot five times in head (Photo: Tatiane Queiroz/G1 MS)
| CURITIBA, Brazil – A man in northern Parana swallowed a fork during a meal on Thursday afternoon. Doctors at Santa Casa Hospital, in Bandeirantes, successfully performed surgery to remove the fork. Doctors say the patient, 50, is under observation but doing fine in semi-intensive care.
Swallowed Fork X-ray (Photo: RPC TV/G1 PA)
| SAO PAULO – After more than 17 years estranged, father and son were reunited on Saturday in the Sao Jose do Rio Preto Jail, in the state of Sao Paulo. The two were arrested in different places and for different crimes – the father for making threats and the son for robbery.
Orival Raimundo de Souza, Jr. & Sr. (Photo: diarioweb.com.br)
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil – Two siblings of former Vice President Jose Alencar died on Friday in different states in an interval of two hours. The information was confirmed by another sibling of Alencar, Antonio Gomes da Silva, who lives in Belo Horizonte, according to a report on terra.com.br.
Jose Alencar (Photo: Wikipedia)
| SAO PAULO – Schoolteacher Maria Veronica Aparecida Vieira, 25, of Taubate (SP), found out in December that she is pregnant with quadruplets.
Maria Veronica Vieira (Photo: G1 SP/VNews)
| SAO PAULO – On Saturday, Sao Paulo businessman Walter de Oliveira, accompanied by his family, drove to Sorocaba, SP, to reunite with his mother after 40 years apart. His mother left him in an orphanage at age four suffering from tuberculosis.
Walter de Oliveira and Dona Isaura (photo: G1 Sao Paulo)
| FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil – Two laborers working on a residential highrise in Blumenau had to be rescued on Tuesday after their scaffolding collapsed. The laborers were working on the facade of the building at the 12th floor when falling debris disabled the scaffold's control system, dumping them overboard and leaving them hanging from safety cables for over an hour.
Workers Hanging from Highrise (photo: terra.com.br)
BRASILIA – Almost unheard of in most of Brazil, food and beverage vending machines are soon set to debut in airports across the country. Infraero, the government-owned company that runs all the airports in Brazil, inked a deal on Friday with three private companies to provide the machines in 12 of the nation's largest airports.
Vending Machines (photo: G1 Business)
| SAO PAULO – The story of 93-year-old twins, who died hours apart, has inspired the inhabitants of Sao Jose dos Campos, a small city 97 km from Sao Paulo, according to the site Vnews. Zilda Maria de Jesus dos Santos and Jose Ferreira Neto, 93, were twins. They were born on April 24, 1918 and died on Sunday in a span of just six hours.
CAMPO GRANDE, Brazil – Shopping malls, galleries, restaurants, cafes and bars in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul must now reserve 5% of their seating for persons with physical disabilities, the elderly and pregnant women, reports O Globo online.
| RIO DE JANEIRO – The Santa Teresa Trolley accident last month has claimed another victim with the death Sunday night of Alcides Gonçalves de Abreu, 73, at Hospital Badim in Tijuca. She died of medical complications caused by traumatic brain injury suffered in the accident, reports O Estado de São Paulo today.
MANAUS, Brazil – Forty new boats to be used for transporting students to and from public school are expected to be delivered on Thursday. The boats, which hold up to 20 people each, will serve students and schools along the capitol's waterfront up and down the Amazon and Negro Rivers, reported PortalAmazonia.com.
SAO PAULO – Municipal gravediggers seeking higher wages in the city of São Paulo began striking on Tuesday delaying funerals by up to 11 hours, reported O Globo online.
Araca Cemetary Sao Paulo Brazil (photo: panoramio.com)
CURITIBA, Parana – A couple was detained Tuesday night in the northern part of Paraná state for engaging in oral sex in the middle of Topázio Street at about 10 pm, according to the Military Police. When police arrived on the scene and asked what was going on they were ignored by the couple who continued in the act without stopping, reported terra.com.
Rolândia, Paraná Brazil (photo: José Carlos Farina)
| RIO DE JANEIRO – A nine-year-old girl was shot the head while playing with her father's gun in the Piraquê favela, or slum, in the western section of Rio de Janeiro Tuesday morning. The girl had originally been reported dead by the Military Police but was later found to be alive in the Miguel Cuoto Hospital in Leblon after being revived by doctors there, reported ultimosegundo.com.
Handgun Firing (photo: anorak.co.uk)
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – The first of 34 new railroad passenger coaches ordered by the government of Rio de Janeiro for the SuperVia commuter railway have been shipped from the Chinese port of Dalian and are expected to arrive by September 20th. The new coaches were manufactured by the China National Machinery group for a total of $263 million U.S., reported terra.com.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – The railroad workers Union will create a commission to monitor the work of the two governmental agencies now charged with investigating the August 27th accident which sent one of the world famous Santa Teresa trams careening fifty meters down Juaquim Murtinho street where the coach was sheered off the chassis when the tram derailed and hit a retaining wall, killing 5 and wounding 55, reported O Globo on Monday.
