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Teen arrested with arsenal
Police are investigating a Washington area teenager who allegedly had amassed an arsenal of deadly assault weapons and bomb-making materials, along with a map to the president’s weekend retreat, press reports said on Wednesday. Authorities said recent high school graduate Collin McKenzie-Gude — who had a map of the Camp David Maryland retreat which highlighted the route taken by the presidential motorcade — also possessed a fake CIA identification card, the Washington Post reported. Investigators who searched the teen’s home also found a document appearing to explain how to shoot someone from 200m away and a false identity of a federal contractor with purported protection under the Geneva Convention.
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Sick sea lion boards yacht
Lynnea Flarry and her family were picnicking on Sunday on Clark Island when her daughter-in-law spotted a sea lion aboard the family’s 9m boat. The animal had apparently taken advantage of a ladder on the stern of the boat. Flarry’s son and grandchildren took a dingy out to the boat to try to coax the animal back into the water. When they got close, the sea lion hid “behind the lifesaver like a little kid who hides behind a curtain and doesn’t realize his toes are sticking out,” Flarry told the Bellingham Herald newspaper. Marine mammal rescuers said the animal is likely suffering from the poisoning effects of a toxin found in algae.
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JetBlue sets trip to nowhere
Want all the hassle of air travel without going anywhere? Step up for JetBlue Airways Corp’s trial of bag check and security systems at its new John F. Kennedy International Airport terminal, which is set to open in September. New York-based JetBlue is looking for 1,000 of its frequent flyers to show up at JFK on Aug. 23 to check bags given to them by the airline, go through security and wait at the assigned gate for their imaginary “flight.” In return, the airline is promising unspecified “giveaways.” The country’s No. 7 carrier is taking no chances with the systems at its new Terminal 5, following the chaotic opening of British Airways’ Terminal 5 at London’s Heathrow Airport in March.
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Cheerleaders rescued
Twenty-six teenage cheerleaders tried to cram themselves into an elevator at the University of Texas to see how many would fit, but then they got stuck and had to be rescued. One girl was treated and released at a hospital and two others were treated at the scene after the Tuesday night prank, officials said. The group of 14 to 17-year-olds were attending a cheerleading camp when they decided to stuff themselves into an elevator at Jester Residence Hall on the UT campus.
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Morgan Freeman to divorce
Actor Morgan Freeman is divorcing his wife of 24 years, according to a report on Wednesday on Access Hollywood. The Oscar-winning star and his wife Myrna Colley-Lee “are involved in a divorce action,” Freeman’s business partner, attorney Bill Luckett, was quoted as saying. The report came as Morgan, 71, was recovering in hospital from a car crash on Sunday night in Mississippi. He was driving, and his co- passenger Demaris Meyer, 48, was also injured. The New York Post reported that Meyer was a friend of Colley-Lee, and news of the divorce increased speculation that she was also romantically involved with Freeman.
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