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Beer run ends in arrest
Two tourists who sprinkled flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for their running club instead set off a bioterrorism scare and now face a felony charge. The sprinkled powder forced hundreds to evacuate an IKEA furniture store on Thursday. Daniel and Dorothee Salchow, from Germany, were charged with first-degree breach of peace, a felony. The siblings are part of the Hash House Harriers, which calls itself a "drinking club with a running problem." The runs typically end with beer stops at bars or homes. The Salchows said they have sprinkled flour everywhere from New York to California without incident. Mayoral spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga said the city of New Haven plans to seek restitution from the Salchows.
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Pilot finds stowaway snake
A pilot flying solo across Mississippi discovered a stowaway -- a gray rat snake. Ed Carruth discovered the snake when it began "licking" his arm on Thursday, he told Brookhaven's Daily Leader. "I've been flying planes for 50 years and over 14,000 hours, and this is the most unusual in-flight emergency I've encountered," he said. Carruth said he did "some aerobatics" until the snake moved to the back of the plane. Officials called a snake expert to remove the reptils when Carruth arrived at Brookhaven Municipal Airport after his flight from Meridian.
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`Peeping Tom' tied up
A group of campers tied a peeping Tom suspect to a tree, keeping him bound until police arrived. Richard Berkey, 63, was charged with private indecency by sheriff's deputies who were called to the Big Fan Campground near Bagby Hot Springs in Oregon last weekend, Clackamas County Detective Jim Strovink said. Campers told deputies they recognized Berkey from a similar incident at the campground last year and wanted to make sure he did not get away. Berkey was caught in an area the women used as an open latrine. He is scheduled to appear in court on Sept. 18.
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Girl gets jail for fatal crash
A teenage driver was sentenced to two years in county jail in Redwood City, California, on Friday for causing a freeway crash that killed two members of Tonga's royal family and their driver. Edith Delgado, now 19, was racing another driver when she slammed into a sport utility vehicle carrying Prince Tu'ipelehake, 55; his wife, Princess Kaimana Aleamotu'a Tuku'aho, 46; and their driver, Vinisia Hefa, 36. Delgado, who will receive credit for the year she already spent in county jail as well as for her good behavior as an inmate, likely will spend another four to six months in jail, prosecutors said. She will begin her sentence on Sept. 1.
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