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Fortune tellers in the West Virginia city of Huntington are now free to ply their trade without fear of the law as the community has repealed a longstanding ban on the practice of soothsaying. According to a local media report, the prohibition on palmists, clairvoyants, phrenologists, or any other "person of similar pretensions or profession" was struck down at a city council meeting on Monday evening. At the gathering, city attorney Sam Ransbottom argued for repealing the archaic regulation by explaining that it actually put the community in legal jeopardy.
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