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Salt Lake City police reported in September that a 19-year-old man, wearing only underwear and sexually aroused, was arrested in his home for pointing a BB gun at a young neighbor boy. When the boy’s mother discovered the man, he said he was angry at the kid because he was “bugging” him.

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As of November, the cremated remains of retired postal worker Earl Miller, which were mailed from Fort Lauderdale in July, had not been received by his niece in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania. Said a postal worker heading the nationwide search for the urn, “If it was mailed, it’s got to be somewhere.”

Two small planes collided near Healy, Alaska, in September as they were circling over a moose. Witnesses on the ground said the planes were intent on the moose and not paying much attention to each other.