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Charges unlikely after gator kills boyLAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — A sheriff said charges are unlikely against a Nebraska couple after an alligator killed their 2-year-old son by snatching him out of shallow water at a Walt Disney World beach, but the entertainment giant is reviewing whether to add gator warning signs.Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said after a news conference Wednesday there was no indication Will and Melissa Graves of suburban Omaha, Neb., committed any crime that contributed to the reptile grabbing their son, Lane Graves.Demings said his department and the state wildlife agency would look into the issue of signs around Seven Seas Lagoon, where Disney had posted “no swimming” signs but no warnings about the presence of alligators. Searchers removed five of the reptiles from the water while looking for the child, who was attacked at a small beach area near nightfall Tuesday.A Disney representative, speaking on condition of anonymity because the company had yet to prepare a formal statement, said Disney would “thoroughly review” the sign issue in the future.Divers found the child’s body about 16 hours after authorities first got the call that a reptile had taken the boy at Seven Seas Lagoon, which borders the Magic Kingdom theme park.

Ohio grandmother gets rid of kidnapperMIDDLETOWN, Ohio — A 61-year-old Ohio grandmother says she used a bottle of perfume and a swift kick to get rid of a kidnapper.The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News reports a masked man approached Joyce Kenney as she stepped out of her Middletown home, grabbed her and forced her to drive him through the city.Kenney says she sprayed the man in his eyes with perfume and kicked him as hard as she could. She says he went out the door and she saw him “bounce on the street.”She then drove to a gas station where she called police and waited for officers to arrive. The suspect is still at large.

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