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A minor omission in anti-drug signs at bus stops in North Miami Beach make it look like local police are supplying drugs, not crusading against drug use.
What was left out was a comma or dash or some sort of grammatical separator. The signs read Say NO' to Drugs from the NMB Police D.A.R.E Officers, the Miami Herald reported.
I know what the message should be, but right now it means something else, Emilio Guerra, a local resident and grammar stickler, told Mayor Raymond F. Marin in an e-mail.
Martin Outdoor Advertising placed the signs last fall as a public service. The police department plans to take them down in a few weeks.
Raymond Robson and Faye Webber met at the Grange residential home in Goring, Berkshire, last summer.
The new Mrs Robson was elated when Mr Robson popped the question - even though he was not able to get down on one knee.
The widowed Quakers wed at a religious ceremony in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, on Saturday.
At the ceremony they were joined by their friends and family, including the six sons and daughters and 16 grandchildren and great-grandchildren they have between them.
Afterwards they enjoyed a marquee reception with 120 guests in the garden of The Grange, a private home where they will now share a room.
Before they settle into married life, the newlyweds are due to take a short honeymoon in a local hotel.
The Grange's manageress, Sue Lewis, said this was the first residential home wedding she had heard of in her 20 years' experience.
"They clicked straight away," she said. "It's just a token of their affection, sealing the bond.
"All the staff are really happy. It's lovely to see that you can find passion as you get older."
According to the Guinness Book of World Records the oldest couple to wed were a French couple who married in 2002, aged 96 and 94 respectively - a total of 190 years.
TOKYO (Reuters) - A young mother found at the scene of a car crash near Tokyo in which her husband and infant son were killed had already been dead for at least a day before the accident happened, police were quoted as saying Sunday.
The bizarre discovery was made after emergency crews who rushed to the scene found the body of Rie Ishikawa, 28, already in a state of rigor mortis, Kyodo news agency reported.
The family car crashed early Sunday on a highway in Sawara, Chiba Prefecture.
Ishikawa's husband, Masayuki, 32, survived the initial crash after the car hit a concrete wall then rebounded and hit the lane divider in the center of the highway, Kyodo said.
But the impact threw the couple's three-year-old son Masamune out of the car from the front passenger seat.
When the father got out of the car to find him, both he and the child were struck by oncoming vehicles and killed, police were quoted as saying.
The woman, who was in the back seat of the car, was believed to have died one or two days before the accident, police were quoted as saying. There was no immediate explanation of how she died.
A 22-year-old man was arrested June 16 by the Pulaski County Sheriff's Department after he was suspected of stealing several items from two adult bookstores and Big Louie's Complex in Pulaski County.
The man, who was not identified by Pulaski County Sheriff J.B. King pending filing of charges, is suspected of stealing a life-size plastic female doll, worth about $650, from Big Louie's, and also compact discs last weekend from the Lion's Den bookstore in Big Louie's complex.
The man, who is not from Pulaski County, is also suspected of stealing several DVDs from the Lion's Den bookstore in Buckhorn at 8:50 a.m. June 16.
The suspect was observed heading east on Interstate 44 in a green Dodge Dakota after leaving the bookstore. A Pulaski County Sheriff's deputy, driving west on Interstate 44 from Highway 28, met the suspect's vehicle, but had trouble crossing over the interstate due to heavy traffic.
King was behind the deputy, and he pulled off onto Highway 28 and located the suspect's vehicle at Big Louie's, where he arrested the suspect around 9 a.m.
At press time Thursday afternoon, the sheriff's department was still looking for the stolen items, and the suspect was still in custody. King said his department has an idea where the items are, and is taking steps to recover them.
King said that the box that held the life-size doll was found at the 163-mile marker on Interstate 44 later in the day. The doll was not in the box.
King said the total worth of the stolen items puts the offenses in the felony category.
The 46-year-old woman, who has been identified only by her initials AM, slipped out of her hospital bed following the surgery and disappeared.
Doctors at the clinic in Rome say that apart from the unpaid bill they are also concerned for her health as she requires close monitoring following the surgery.
Dr Jamal Salhi said: "She told me that she needed the surgery because she worked in a hostess bar and that clients preferred big chested women.
"She went from a size four to a size eight which is the largest you can get in Italy. When she came to my surgery she said: "I want the biggest chest possible."
"'It has since emerged that she gave false information when she arrived at the clinic and apart from running off without paying, as with any surgery she needs to be monitored afterwards."
Dr Salhi then revealed it was not the first time he had been the victim of a fraudster. He said: "This has happened to me several times before, the most recent was last December.
"A man had a penis enlargement and disappeared without paying. We still have to be paid for that operation."
Police spokesman Adriano Lauro said: "We have issued a warrant for the woman's arrest and also one for her husband following the complaint from the clinic."
Authorities say a disagreement over a frozen snack led a McComb teenager to fatally shoot his father and threaten his mother. Curtis McCray Jr., 16, was arrested and charged with murder last week after allegedly shooting Curtis McCray Sr. with a shotgun from about 20 feet away, the Pike County Sheriff's Department said.
Investigator David Haywood said the shooting occurred after the teen was punished for being involved in a minor wreck, and the boy became enraged when his parents returned home eating Sno-Balls and there wasn't one for him.
The teen then allegedly threatened his mother, Gloria, with the gun before speeding away in the family's car and leading authorities on a one-hour high-speed chase through three counties, Haygood said.
London - British city drivers cursed for using big 4X4 vehicles on shopping trips or the school run are flocking to buy spray-on mud to cover their cars in a well-worn look, the BBC reported on Monday.
London is, unsurprisingly, the main market for Sprayonmud, though the firm behind the idea reports worldwide interest in its product, the BBC said.
The company from Shropshire, a county north-west of London, is selling diluted local mud in plastic spray-on bottles.
A quick squirt and a gleaming "Chelsea tractor" - so named after London's fashionable district of Chelsea - can be transformed into a round-the-world voyager.
"Keep it in your garage, in the boot, or anywhere you like. Just be careful the neighbours don't catch you using it! And remember, you've been visiting friends in the country!" the firm recommends on its website.
Drivers of large 4X4 vehicles have been coming under increasing attack in cities such as London.
Environmentalists have slated them as gas-guzzling polluters, while safety groups have said they are a hazard to other motorists, cyclists and pedestrians.
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