Feel Free To Wear Your Pajamas All Day; Hugh Hefner Has Died: Patch Morning Take

Hugh Hefner, The Original Playboy

Hugh Hefner, the revolutionary man of silk pajamas, stylish smoking jackets and voluptuous women he seemed to wear constantly on each arm, is dead. He was 91 and died nearly 65 years after starting Playboy Magazine. See how he challenged the prevailing morals of the country at the time.

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Congrats On Your Tax Cut. It May Cost You $800 Or More

Careful what you wish for out there. President Trump introduced a tax reform "plan," correctly put into quote marks here because what the president introduced is woefully short on details. The dirty work will be up to Congress to shovel. One thing, though, appears clear: With the loss of local tax deductions — a real possibility — people in high-tax states could pay more in federal income taxes rather than less. Here's how else you could be affected by the new tax proposal.

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Meet Roy Moore: The Rule-Breaking, Anti-Gay-Rights U.S. Senate Candidate

Judge Roy Moore beat out Trump-endorsed incumbent Luther Strange in Alabama's Republican Senate primary runoff Tuesday night, and the ultra-conservative lightning rod is quickly gaining notoriety outside his home state. What do we know so far about the GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate? For starters, he's an openly anti-LGBT D.C. outsider who's not afraid to break the rules. Case in point: In 2003 he was ousted as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court because of this.

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What's Worse Than A Sex Offender At Large In Your State? 1,800 Of Them

A recent audit in Massachusetts revealed that between 2015 and 2016, the state lost track of almost 1,800 sex offenders' home addresses, making it impossible for neighbors to know their whereabouts. As if that's not scary enough, there were more than 900 convicted sex offenders who were never even classified by the Sex Offender Registry Board after they were released from prison. The exact numbers and convictions of the offenders makes this failure all the more terrifying.

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Local Police Unearth Subterranean Stoners Paradise

A man in New York just lost about $100,000 and 30 pounds of drugs after local authorities confiscated 100 marijuana plants from his digs in the town of Manorville. The Walter White of weed was running his complex operation out of an underground greenhouse that was covered by a utility storage building and hidden deep in a wooded lot. Wondering what led to the seizure of Donald Guichard's very druggy garden patch? Here's how it all went down.

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In The Midst Of #TakeAKnee, One Anthem Singer Takes Off

While many NFL players are facing backlash for kneeling during the national anthem, Sgt. Joey Odoms, official anthem singer for the Baltimore Ravens, is going one step further and resigning from his job. This is why the "Star-Spangled Banner" cantor — who is also a member of the Maryland National Guard — is leaving his post.

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Southwest Airlines Is For The Dogs

At least that's how one woman probably felt when she was dragged off a Southwest plane at BWI after failing to prove she was deathly allergic to two canines on board. Apparently her swollen eyelids and constant sneezing wasn't sufficient evidence. Or, Southwest just wanted to join United Airlines and Delta in the disgraced airlines club. Here's what ensued as the woman was hauled off the aircraft.

This was likely said dogs' exact reaction to this madness:

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Off The Beaten Patch

• Will Trump Fire HHS Secretary Price For Spending Taxpayers' Dollars On Private Jet Travel? (Politico)
• After nearly 30 years, one of the infamous Menendez brothers speaks out about murdering his parents. (Today)
• Freshly fired from the White House, Anthony Scaramucci Will Now Try His Hand At Journalism. (Huffington Post)

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