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A transgender Michigan woman who sued her ex-boyfriend for discarding her surgically removed testicles had her case tossed out by a judge who also rejected the ex’s counterclaim for being humiliated by the case.

Brianna Kingsley, 40, last year filed a small claims petition claiming her ex, William Wojciechowski, 37, retains possession of my surgically extracted testicles, preserved in (a) Mason jar, kept in (the) fridge next to the eggs.

The Pontiac resident demanded the immediate return of her human remains specimen in her handwritten affidavit, in addition to $6,500 in damages.

“We’re talking about my nuts. … I wanted them in my fridge not his, Kingsley told a court hearing. The damages were the loss of these nuts.”

Wojciechowski, meanwhile, said he’d already tossed out the testicles — and filed a? counterclaim for the same amount, claiming he’d been “humiliated” by coverage of the nutty case by “worldwide news outlets, the Detroit News reported.

But District Court Judge Jeremy Bowie denied both their claims, calling the whole matter a wash during a contentious hearing Wednesday adding that his decision cant be appealed, according to the outlet. 6 Brianna Kingsley, 40, right, a transgender Michigan woman, wanted her ex-boyfriend, William Wojciechowski, 37, left, to return her surgically removed testicles. Facebook / William Wojciechowski

The judge noted how hard it was to calculate potential damages in the bizarre case.

“I can put a dollar amount on, say, if you were missing work at $16 an hour,” he said. “But as to testicles, I can’t really put a number on it.”

The judge said Kingsley had the chance to retrieve her testicles when an Oakland County sheriffs deputy accompanied her to her former beaus home in January 2023.

At the time, Kingsley had just gotten out of jail, where she spent three days and was fined $100 for violating a personal protection order he had filed against her, the Detroit News reported.

“We allow a one-time visit with a sheriff’s officer in situations like that for people to go back to get their belongings,” Bowie said. 6 A judge threw out Kingsley’s lawsuit, which sought $6,500 in damages, calling the case “a wash.” 6 William Wojciechowski’s counterclaim seeking $6,500 for “humiliation” also was thrown out. The Detroit News

“Ms. Kingsley failed to retrieve the testicles from the refrigerator at that time. … If they were so important to her, she had the opportunity to grab them, and she didn’t, he said during the hearing.

Wojciechowski told the judge he tossed out the testicles in July.

“They were rotting in my fridge, and it was disgusting I’ve got food in there I wanted to eat,” he said. “She didn’t keep them in a biohazard container like she was supposed to.” 6 Kingsley posted a TikTok video apparently mocking her removed testicles. Facebook / William Wojciechowski

She told him her surgery at Henry Ford Hospital in March 2022 cost $20,000, but noted that the state covered the charge because shes disabled, according to the outlet.

The state paid for that, you didn’t. You’re not going to be unjustly enriched, the judge told her. 6 She is seen holding up a bag marked as a biohazard. Facebook / William Wojciechowski

The two said they met on Facebook Community in April 2020 and moved in together in the fall of 2021 in the house Wojciechowski bought. They broke up in December 2022.

Kingsley said ?she placed her testicles in a jar and stored them in the fridge “because I deal with trauma with comedy. Shakespeare did it.”

She went to Wojciechowskis house a second time after retrieving her belongings, but he said he denied his entry because he felt she was harassing him. 6 William Wojciechowski Facebook / William Wojciechowski

Bowie said he had a right to deny her entry because she’d already been inside a month earlier.

Kingsley appeared to poke fun at her missing gonads in a TikTok video in 2022 titled ?The ?Unboxing of Dees Nutz.

In it, she opens a box and removes a bag labeled a biohazard smiling coyly as she puts her fingers to her mouth and repackages it, suggesting they were her testicles and ending with a dance.

In October 2020, Kingsley pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and was sentenced to two months in the slammer after he pulled a knife on her then-roommate, also a trans woman, on Christmas Day.

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Winnipeg forward Mark Scheifele did not play in Game 7 of the Jets’ first-round Stanley Cup playoff series against the St. Louis Blues on Sunday due to an undisclosed injury, coach Scott Arniel said.

Arniel ruled out Scheifele following the team’s morning skate. He was hurt in Game 5 — playing only 8:05 in the first period before exiting — and then did not travel with the Jets to St. Louis for Game 6. Arniel previously had said Scheifele was a game-time decision for Game 7.

Scheifele, 32, skated in a track suit Saturday, and Arniel told reporters the veteran was feeling better than he had the day before. Scheifele, however, was not able to participate in the Jets’ on-ice session by Sunday, quickly indicating he would not be available for the game.

Winnipeg held a 2-0 lead in the series over St. Louis before the Blues stormed back with a pair of wins to tie it, 2-2. The home team has won each game in the best-of-seven series so far.

The Jets’ challenge in closing out St. Louis only increases without Scheifele. Winnipeg already has been dealing with the uneven play of goaltender Connor Hellebuyck, a significant storyline in the series to date. Hellebuyck was pulled in all three of his starts at St. Louis while giving up a combined 16 goals on 66 shots (.758 SV%). In Game 6, Hellebuyck allowed four goals in only 5 minutes, 23 seconds of the second period.

Hellebuyck was Winnipeg’s backbone during the regular season, earning a Hart Trophy and Vezina Trophy nomination for his impeccable year (.925 SV%, 2.00 GAA).

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Stars expect Robertson, Heiskanen back in semis

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Stars coach Pete DeBoer expects to have leading goal scorer Jason Robertson and standout defenseman Miro Heiskanen available in the Western Conference semifinals after both missed Dallas’ first-round series win over the Colorado Avalanche.

Following their thrilling Game 7 comeback victory over the Avalanche on Saturday night, the Stars await the winner of Sunday night’s Game 7 between the Winnipeg Jets and St. Louis Blues. If the Blues win, the Stars will have home-ice advantage in the best-of-seven series.

“I believe you’re going to see them both play in the second round, but I don’t know if it’s going to be Game 1 or Game 3 or Game 5,” DeBoer said after Saturday’s series clincher. “I consider them both day-to-day now, but there’s still some hurdles. It depends on when we start the series, how much time we have between now and Game 1. We’ll have a little better idea as we get closer.”

Robertson, 25, who posted 80 points (35 goals, 45 assists) in 82 games this season, suffered a lower-body injury in the regular-season finale April 16 and was considered week-to-week at the time.

Heiskanen hasn’t played since injuring his left knee in a Jan. 28 collision with Vegas Golden Knights forward Mark Stone. Initially expected to miss three to four months, the 25-year-old defenseman had surgery Feb. 4 and sat out the final 32 games of the regular season. In 50 games, he collected 25 points (five goals, 20 assists) and averaged 25:10 of ice time, which ranked fifth among NHL blueliners.

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U.S. crude oil prices fall more than 4% after OPEC+ agrees to surge production in June

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U.S. crude oil futures fell more than 4% on Sunday, after OPEC+ agreed to surge production for a second month.

U.S. crude was down $2.49, or 4.27%, to $55.80 a barrel shortly after trading opened. Global benchmark Brent fell $2.39, or 3.9%, to $58.90 per barrel. Oil prices have fallen more than 20% this year.

The eight producers in the group, led by Saudi Arabia, agreed on Saturday to increase output by another 411,000 barrels per day in June. The decision comes a month after OPEC+ surprised the market by agreeing to surge production in May by the same amount.

The June production hike is nearly triple the 140,000 bpd that Goldman Sachs had originally forecast. OPEC+ is bringing more than 800,000 bpd of additional supply to the market over the course of two months.

Oil prices in April posted the biggest monthly loss since 2021, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs have raised fears of a recession that will slow demand at the same time that OPEC+ is quickly increasing supply.

Oilfield service firms such as Baker Hughes and SLB are expecting investment in exploration and production to decline this year due to the weak price environment.

“The prospects of an oversupplied oil market, rising tariffs, uncertainty in Mexico and activity weakness in Saudi Arabia are collectively constraining international upstream spending levels,” Baker Hughes CEO Lorenzo Simonelli said on the company’s first-quarter earnings call on April 25.

Oil majors Chevron and Exxon reported first-quarter earnings last week that fell compared to the same period in 2024 due to lower oil prices.

Goldman is forecasting that U.S. crude and Brent prices will average $59 and $63 per barrel, respectively, this year.

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