■UNITED KINGDOM
Wrappers lead to arrest
Police in Cincinnati, Ohio, say a trail of candy and wrappers led them to suspects in a break-in at a downtown candy store. Four people have been charged with breaking and entering the Peter Minges & Son candy store on Thursday. They are accused of taking about US$400 in candy. The group was arrested a few blocks away.
■UNITED STATES
Station cleaner drives drunk
The Oregon State Police didn’t have to do much when they arrested a woman for supposedly drunken driving. She came to them. Troopers charged a 42-year-old private contractor with driving under the influence of intoxicants after she came to clean the state police office in Newport. A trooper said she showed signs of being intoxicated after driving to the office. A blood-alcohol test showed her level was 0.19 percent — more than twice the legal limit.
■ CHILE
Melting ice causes ‘tsunami’
Melting ice in a southern region caused a glacial lake to swell and then empty suddenly, sending a “tsunami” rolling through a river, a scientist said on Thursday. No one was injured in the remote region. Glacier scientist Gino Casassa said the melting of the Colonia glacier, which he blamed on rising world temperatures, filled the Cachet Lake and increased pressure on the ice sheet. The water bored an 8km tunnel through the glacier and finally emptied into the Baker River on April 6. “The remarkable thing is that the mass of water moved against the current of the river,” Casassa said by telephone from the Center for Scientific Studies in the southern city of Valdivia. “It was a real river tsunami.” The lake was nearly full again by late Wednesday, he said.
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