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Ms. Brandy McKenith, 7, was suspended by the sputteringly apoplectic administration of Sunnyside Elementary School in a Pittsburgh, Pa., suburb because she uttered the word “hell.” And she even used the word sort of correctly: One of her classmates had said, in conversation, “I swear to God,” whereupon Brandy said, “You’re going to go to hell for swearing to God.”
Tony Lee Hinrichs, 40, was arrested in Mesa, Ariz., based on video of him in the act of burglarizing the Extreme Surveillance shop; Hinrichs appeared not to be aware that the company is a security firm that might be expected to have cameras set up.
Pilgrims recently flocked to the following places: (1) Brancaleone, Italy, to see a life-sized bronze statue of the recently- sainted Padre Pio supposedly weeping blood; (2) Passaic, N.J., to see a two-foot-high tree stump whose shape resembles the Virgin Mary; (3) Bridgeport, Conn., to see a stain-like image, on the ceiling of the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, resembling the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus; (4) Bethlehem, to see a baby born with a birthmark across his cheek resembling the Arabic letters of the name of his uncle, a Hamas militant killed by Israeli soldiers.
A man walked up to the drive-up window at the Community Bank in Parkersburg, W.V., and taped a note to the glass for the tellers to see. It said he would set off a bomb if they didn’t give him money. The tellers quickly handed over $21,066 in cash, and the man fled. But before police could arrive, the man was back: he had left the note stuck to the window and had decided to retrieve the evidence. He was pulling it down when officers arrived. After a short foot chase, Eugene D. Golden, 36, was arrested and charged with bank robbery. His car was parked nearby, with a bag full of money inside.
After a routine traffic stop, police in Toledo, Ohio, say the driver, a man wearing women’s clothes, a wig, and high-heeled shoes, told them “I am not going to jail. You will have to kill me first,” then “threw it in drive and took off,” an officer said. After a 45-minute chase, the man turned into a parking lot. Of the police station. At shift change. Sandy Long, 55, was hauled out of the car by a swarm of officers getting ready to hit the streets and charged with multiple traffic violations and fleeing and eluding officers. He wouldn’t have been arrested for the traffic violation he was pulled over for, officers say — just given a summons.
A statue of the baby Jesus stolen from a nativity scene at St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Maumee, Ohio,was returned — with a difference. The once Caucasian baby has been carefully painted brown. “Sorry I took your baby Jesus,” said a note accompanying the icon. “As far as his new color, I thought I would point out that Jesus was not an Aryan but actually a man of color. Although you probably knew this but would rather not be reminded.” Senior pastor Roger Miller, who originally wasn’t sure whether to file a theft report or a “missing person” report, thinks the baby should stay as-is. Its now-dark skin “is a reminder to us all that Jesus came for all people,” he said. [What Do You Think? Comment on this Post!]
