'News of the Weird' Chronicler Chuck Shepherd Retires From His Wacky Beat
A look back at brothers Winner and Loser Lane, the record collection of "Mingering Mike" and more
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No better way for Chuck Shepherd to say goodbye to the many faithful readers of his syndicated column “News of the Weird” than to revisit a few personal favorites from the decades past.
Who can forget an item culled from Newsday in 2002, about a pair of brothers in their early 40s named, respectively, Winner Lane and Loser Lane. And the fact that their life trajectories were inverted to the suggested predestination of their first names.
Or this New York Times chestnut, circa 2004:
The paper reported on a Washington, D.C.,
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