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N.C. coach’student marriage going to court

The parents of a 16-year-old girl who married her high school coach are suing the education board of North Carolina’s Brunswick County for mental stress.

Dennis and Betty Hager allege in a lawsuit they filed this week they suffered mental stress and anguish when their daughter decided to marry her 40-year-old South Brunswick High School coach in June, the Wilmington (N.C.) Star-News said Wednesday.

“Plaintiffs went through depression, anxiety, mental anguish, embarrassment and extreme stress as a result of the actions set forth herein,” the suit alleges.

Rainfall puts French wine harvest at risk

Wine-makers throughout France are concerned their wine harvest may be partially ruined this year due to a recent deluge of rain across the nation.

With much of France receiving nearly 60 consecutive days of rainfall recently, a form of mildew may have been created that could devastate the nation’s 2007 wine harvest, The Independent reported Wednesday.

1 in 85 Norwegians is a millionaire

One in 86 Norwegians has more than $1 million, giving Norway more millionaires per capita than any other country, an international study found Wednesday.

The study — by France’s Capgemini consulting and professional’services firm and Merrill Lynch & Co. — also found the number of Norwegian millionaires grew 9.7 percent last year.

This is a faster growth rate than the 8.3 percent world average and the 6.4 percent European average, Oslo’s Aftenposten daily reported.

Midnight box office magic for ‘Potter’

Midnight showings of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” at U.S. theaters yielded box office magic, scaring up an estimated $12 million in receipts.

The take from the first Wednesday screenings of the fifth Potter movie was $4 million more than current box office champ “Transformers” grossed all of Tuesday, E! News reported.

The midnight screenings were in roughly 2,300 theaters. Wednesday’s formal daytime opening was to play at 4,285 theaters, the second-biggest release ever, behind “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,” which opened in 4,362 movie houses in May.