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An Irish man was found dead lying in a pool of blood after he was mauled by a vicious chicken, according to reports. Jasper Kraus, of Killahornia, was killed by a brutal Brahma chicken in April 28, 2022, according to a recent inquest in Ballaghaderreen, the Irish Examiner reported. Kraus’ daughter Virginia Guinan said in a deposition that he was asleep when she dropped by that day and she didn’t want to wake him because he was in ill health and also upset that his dog had died. Alerted about the bloodbath later, Guinan rushed back to his home, where...

Jane Therese for The New York TimesLillian Greenblatt Braun in the Alliance Colony cemetery. PITTSGROVE, N.J. - Lillian Greenblatt Braun's 100th birthday party-cum-homecoming began, appropriately enough, with a trip to the graveyard. Leaning on a niece's arm in the bright sunshine on a recent Sunday, Mrs. Braun walked along the tombstones in the cemetery of the old Jewish agricultural colony of Alliance, deep in southern New Jersey. "That's my mother," she said, pausing at a stone inscribed in English and Hebrew. "Here's Uncle Benny." The next plot was a blank patch of grass. "Yes, and I'm here." The niece,...