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An Oklahoma City man said he was doing a good deed when he was arrested and cited for mowing his yard and a neighbor's yard Friday morning. Phil Ray Gage, 40, was arrested on a complaint of disturbing the peace after a neighbor called police to report him for mowing a lawn at 2529 NW 33 at 4:30 a.m., Oklahoma City police said. He was released by police at the scene after he signed a citation for disturbing the peace. But Gage said he's been mowing in the early morning hours for 10 years, and nobody has complained before. He...

A Plantation man who was mowing his lawn this morning accidentally cut off his hand in the process, officials said. The man, who lives behind the Jacaranda Golf Club in the 9600 block of Conch Shell Manor, was taken to Broward General Medical Center on trauma alert, said Joel Gordon, spokesman for the Plantation Fire Department. More details will emerge as the investigation continues.