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Police in West Yarmouth, Massachusetts, arrested four people at the Windrift Vacation Resort who were loading TV sets they had stolen from the hotel into a getaway taxicab.
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From the May 17 Fort Walton Beach (Florida) Daily News: Steven Parker of Fort Walton Beach said he’d confronted a man trying to open a screen door at his home at four in the morning. “When confronted, the man, who appeared confused, ran in circles, pulled a revolver from his pants, told Parker to leave him alone or he’d shoot, and then made noises as if the gun were firing. The man then fled.”
Last October Father Alexander Wangler of San Antonio’s Our Lady of Sorrows Church sought an injunction against a parishioner, Elojia Macias, because during services the lady insisted on loudly singing songs that were not on the agenda. “We don’t mind her coming to church,” said Wangler. “We just want her to sing the same thing everyone else is.”
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
