Lead Stories
Arrested in Bologna, Italy, in July and charged with burglarizing a pasta shop: Stefano Spaghetti. Barred from the Saratoga racetrack at opening-day races in July because of its inappropriate name: a two-year-old colt named Mufahker (which means “glory” in Arabic). The arresting officer, in an undercover sting operation that charged two 46-year-old men with soliciting sex with other men at a park in Wilmington, North Carolina, in July: Bud LaCock. Charged with allowing teenagers to have a keg party in her home near Pittsburgh in March: Susan Beer, 50.
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Cultural Diversity
Recurring Themes
Anti-child-abuse vigilantes in New Port, Wales, vandalized a pediatrician’s home, apparently confusing her occupation with the word “pedophile.” Workers at a seafood plant in Cairns, Australia, found a human head inside a five-foot-long cod and tentatively identified it as that of a former member of the crew that had caught the fish. In Port Washington, Wisconsin, a 26-year-old man charged with driving a stolen Mercedes asked the judge if he could use the car as collateral for bail. A candidate for sheriff of Macclenny, Florida, left town after having been caught spreading sugar on the ground (to draw ants) the day before his opponent’s fund-raising picnic.
