Someone in Nebraska is looking for 75
husbands
LINCOLN, Neb. “”mdash; Jennifer Schultz-Hurt can’t
understand it. Neither can Lincoln police.
Why would someone steal 75 wedding gowns from
Schultz-Hurt’s store?
Sometime between 6 p.m. Monday and 10 a.m. Tuesday, the gowns,
valued at $37,500, were taken from the Bridal Gown Outlet, said
Police Capt. Terrence Sherrill.
Schultz-Hurt said neither money nor jewelry went missing. The
burglars also left behind the standard, more popular dress sizes,
Schultz-Hurt said. Taken were mainly sizes in the 1 to 2 range, as
well as several 22-plus sizes.
“˜”˜I’m baffled. I’m just so in
shock,” she said. “˜”˜Who would do
this?” And for what purpose?
“˜”˜It is strange,” Sherrill said, who
added police have no suspects.
It’s the second time the store has been burglarized since
it opened in 1992.
On Sept. 3, 2002, about $5,000 in money and jewelry was taken,
Schultz-Hurt said.
“˜”˜We are having a security system put in here for
sure,” she said.
Don’t go to school, get As: sound
familiar?
SANDY SPRINGS, Md. “”mdash; A Montgomery County high school is
investigating how a student received “A” grades in two
classes even though she never attended the school.
Lauren Lee, 14, who attends a private Catholic school, was sent
a progress report saying she was earning an A in an honors geometry
course and in physical education at Sherwood High School, a public
school.
Lee had attended Rosa M. Parks Middle School and her records
where sent to Sherwood. That’s apparently where the mix up
started, said county schools spokesman Brian Porter.
“It’s certainly rare,” Porter said.
“It’s not something that I’ve heard of happening.
It’s just a confluence of mistakes. Everybody at the school
is pretty embarrassed by it.”
Lee’s name also showed up for a physics class and an art
class. She received an incomplete grade in physics and an
“NC” in art, which means the course is a noncredit
class.
“The school has undertaken a detailed inquiry because it
does reflect on the reliability of its grading and reporting
system,” Porter said.
School officials plan to be more careful in making sure computer
lists of enrolled students are up-to-date, Porter said.
Putting their feet where their mouths are
WYMORE, Neb. “”mdash; Wymore Southern’s volleyball team
played its way to the state tournament. Now the players’
fathers are going to walk there ““ a trek of more than 60
miles.
A couple of weeks ago, the fathers told their daughters that if
they qualified for the state tournament, they would
“˜”˜walk to Lincoln.”
The Lady Raiders won the Class C2-1 district championship last
week, prompting their dads to find their walking shoes.
Ed McClure, one of the organizers of the walk, said the fathers
plan to start their journey Thursday at 8 a.m. from midcourt at the
high school gym. A short ceremony is planned.
The dads actually have to walk farther than Lincoln. Southern is
playing Friday at Waverly, about 63 miles from Wymore.
In order to complete the walk, McClure said, the fathers will
split up into groups that will complete the journey in five-mile
segments. They will walk until dark Thursday, then finish
Friday.
All the fathers plan to walk together for the final two miles as
they make their way into Waverly for the 2 p.m. start of
Southern’s game with West Point Central Catholic.
Why didn’t Gov. Davis think of that?
RED LION, Pa. “”mdash; Rather than vote themselves a pay raise,
the borough council here voted a payback.
All seven borough council members agreed to do without $275
quarterly paychecks to help close a $250,000 hole in the
budget.
“˜”˜We thought we would show the borough that we were
willing to make sacrifices,” said Jeffrey P. Herrman,
a member of the Red Lion Borough Council, about 30 miles southeast
of Harrisburg.
Paying off police officers for unused sick days when the
department was disbanded this summer and renovating the firehouse,
among other things, have left Red Lion with only $39,000 to last
the year.
Borough manager Raymond E. Arnold Jr. says cash reserves may run
out within two weeks. The borough is juggling money among its
various accounts to get through December, after which it may have
to take out a loan.
As they draw up the 2004 budget, Red Lion officials are
considering cutting back on donations to the library and on
spending for such events as the New Year’s Eve party and
Halloween parade.
While in Madrid, don’t hold your ears while
driving
MADRID, Spain “”mdash; Highway police who stopped a driver they
believed was using his cell phone erred twice. First, he was just
scratching his ear. Second, he was a lawyer.
Tomas Valdivielso showed the two officers that the last call
from his phone went out the night before. The duo huddled, then
came back and fined him $70 anyway.
The charge: driving while “holding his ear with his right
hand in a permanent fashion.”
The flap happened Nov. 7 while Valdivielso drove into Madrid on
a busy highway in the morning rush hour.
Valdivielso filed a 10-page appeal that El Mundo praised as a
work of tongue-in-cheek art. The appeal says the fine failed to say
which ear was being held, or even how many ears Valdivielso has,
and argues that Spanish law does not bar scratching them while
driving or oblige motorists to pull over to do it.
Valdivielso wrote: “To presume that this unconscious act
cannot be performed would lead us to the absurd situation of having
to wait to stop the vehicle in a place that does not pose a danger
for other occupants of the road in order to scratch, by which time,
depending on how bad the itch is, I probably would have crashed
before finding an adequate place to stop, or the itch would have
gone away, reducing the pleasure I get from scratching.”
He was tricked into buying a truck
IOWA CITY, Iowa “”mdash; A man has filed a lawsuit against a car
dealership claiming the company sold him a pickup truck that he
thought he was only taking for test drive.
Robert Michalec, 78, of Keystone, filed the lawsuit Wednesday in
Johnson County District Court. He claims Carousel Ford, in Iowa
City, sold him a pickup truck against his will.
Michalec said he went to the car dealership on June 19 and told
a salesman he was looking for a Ford Ranger with a six-cylinder
engine and extended cab. The salesman showed him a truck without
those features, the lawsuit states.
The salesman took Michalec to see the credit manager and then
went out and removed the plates from Michalec’s van, the
lawsuit claims.
Michalec was then pressured to complete several forms, including
a purchase agreement.
He claims the salesman told him to drive the truck home to try
it out.
Michalec said he returned the truck on June 23 to retrieve his
van but was told it had been sold and the dealership refused to
accept the truck, the lawsuit states.