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Boss had nooses in office
The FBI is investigating allegations that a public works department supervisor displayed in his office nooses, a bullwhip and a dart board with a black man as the bull's-eye, an agent said. A black worker went public with the complaints on Wednesday, saying he was fed up with the racist symbols in his white superintendent's office at a sewage lift station in Jefferson Parish, New Orleans. Terrence Lee's superiors dismissed his concerns when he went to them, he said at a news conference. "I know I'm going to get fired, but I have to stand up," Lee said. "We take these complaints very seriously," FBI agent Jim Bernazzani said. The investigation will be based in part on photographs Lee took in 2005 of the office.
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Priest stalks Conan O'Brien
A priest has been arrested on charges of stalking late-night talk show host Conan O'Brien by writing him threatening notes on parish letterhead, contacting his parents and showing up at his studio, prosecutors said. The Reverend David Ajemian, a priest in the Archdiocese of Boston, was arrested last week while trying to enter a taping session of NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien in New York, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan prosecutor's office said. Ajemian referred to himself as "your priest stalker" in one note. "Is this the way you treat your most dangerous fans?" the note said, complaining of not being allowed to enter another taping session.
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