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Paul Haggis Reaches $2 Million Settlement After 2022 Rape Verdict

A judge had ordered the Oscar-winning filmmaker to pay at least $7.5 million to a former film-industry publicist after a civil jury found him liable for raping her.

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Paul Haggis, who won two Oscars for “Crash” (2004), had maintained that the sexual encounter was consensual.
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Monkeys Are on the Loose in St. Louis, City Officials Say

As many as four vervet monkeys were spotted in a neighborhood in North St. Louis on Thursday, city officials said. No one knows how they got there.

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A vervet monkey, part of a colony in Dania Beach, Fla., in 2022. As many as four vervet monkeys have been spotted in St. Louis in recent days, city officials said.
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