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The Enquirer (Cincinnati)

WALNUT HILLS - A Walnut Hills man was charged with child endangering after a witness noticed him giving beer to a baby, Cincinnati police reported.

Anthony Chambers, 43, of Walnut Hills, was arrested Friday after a woman told police she saw him give beer.

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The Seattle Times
By ANDREW DeMILLO
The Associated Press

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A law passed this year allows Arkansans of any age — even infants — to marry if their parents agree, and the governor may have to call a special session to fix the mistake, lawmakers said today.

The legislation was intended to establish 18 as the minimum age to marry but also allow pregnant teenagers to marry with parental consent, bill sponsor Rep. Will Bond said. An extraneous “not” in the bill, however, allows anyone who is not pregnant to marry at any age if the parents allow it.

“It’s clearly not the intent to allow 10-year-olds or 11-year-olds to get married,” Bond said. “The legislation was screwed up.”

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The Indianapolis Star
By Amy Bartner

An Indianapolis woman was arrested twice in as many days on drunken driving charges this week — the second time with her 6-year-old daughter in the car, police said.

Barbara A. Dimond, 42, was arrested the second time by a Johnson County sheriff’s deputy after failing a preliminary drunken-driving field test just after 8 p.m. Thursday, according to a police report. She had a 0.18 blood-alcohol level, the report said.

A 0.08 or higher is considered intoxicated in Indiana.

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Yahoo 7 News
Reuters

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese couple tried to name their baby “@”, claiming the character used in e-mail addresses echoed their love for the child, an official trying to whip the national language into line said on Thursday.

The unusual name stands out especially in Chinese, which has no alphabet and instead uses tens of thousands of multi-stroke characters to represent words.

“The whole world uses it to write e-mail, and translated into Chinese it means ‘love him’,” the father explained, according to the deputy chief of the State Language Commission Li Yuming.

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Yahoo 7 News
Reuters

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand couple is looking to call their newborn son Superman — but only because their chosen name of 4Real has been rejected by the government registry.

Pat and Sheena Wheaton say they will get around the decision by the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages by officially naming their son Superman but referring to him as 4Real, the New Zealand Herald newspaper has reported.

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The New York Times
Education
By Samuel G. Freedman

Several weeks into his first year of teaching math at the High School of Arts and Technology in Manhattan, Austin Lampros received a copy of the school’s grading policy. He took particular note of the stipulation that a student who attended class even once during a semester, who did absolutely nothing else, was to be given 45 points on the 100-point scale, just 20 short of a passing mark.

Mr. Lampros’s introduction to the high school’s academic standards proved a fitting preamble to a disastrous year. It reached its low point in late June, when Arts and Technology’s principal, Anne Geiger, overruled Mr. Lampros and passed a senior whom he had failed in a required math course.

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Rocky Mountain News
By Alan Gathright

A Castle Rock man died outside a movie complex yesterday when he hooked a cable from his neck to a concrete pillar, then sped off in his car.

Nobody reported the 57-year-old man’s suicide outside the Castle Rock Stadium 12 movie theater until a construction worker spotted the car in an adjacent field and made the horrific find about 2 p.m., Castle Rock police spokeswoman Karen McGrath said this morning.

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The Mercury News
Associated Press

SLIDELL, La. - A missing property tax bill for $1.63 has given Kermit and Dolores Atwood “seven years of emotional hell” in a fight to keep their home.

The bill was sent to a defunct address in 1996 and returned undelivered to the St. Tammany Parish sheriff’s office. The Atwoods weren’t looking for it since they had owned the four-bedroom house mortgage-free since 1968 and had been exempt from the state tax.

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The Houston Chronicle
Associated Press

DALLAS — A police officer on duty was shot by a woman with his own Taser during a visit to the officer’s home, police said.

Officer Charles Jeffers told investigators he’d stopped to use the restroom at his home Sunday night while on his way to investigate a burglary. He let a woman he knew into the house, leading to her accidentally shooting the Taser, according to a police report.

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East Valley Tribune
By Gary Grado

A man broke into a woman’s apartment at 1666 S. Extension Sunday, and rather than heading for the jewels or electronic equipment, he got into the refrigerator and made a ham sandwich, a Mesa police summary says.

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How do you loiter in an amusement park? Isn’t that what they want you to do?

Chicago Tribune

Henry Pierson Curtis and Scott Powers
Orlando Sentinel Staff Writers

4 FSU prospects ejected for loitering, refusing to leave, parks spokeswoman counters

Walt Disney World ejected four of Florida State University’s top football prospects from Downtown Disney last weekend under its anti-gang, no-loitering policy.

The four, including the son of a Disney manager and the son of a Philadelphia civil-rights lawyer, were banned for life from Disney World property late Friday.

A Disney spokeswoman said the youths were expelled because they had been loitering for an extended period and refused to leave when Disney security told them to.

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Rocky Mountain News
By Julie Poppen

Investigators also look at campfire as cause of fatal blast

Two teens were smoking as they jumped atop an oil tank in Routt National Forest just before it exploded, the Rio Blanco County undersheriff said Tuesday.

Investigators are looking at the possibility that cigarettes or ashes ignited vapors, Undersheriff Michael Joos said.

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