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No McNuggets? Call police
Authorities said a Florida woman called emergency dispatchers three times after McDonald’s employees told her they were out of Chicken McNuggets. A police report said 27-year-old Fort Pierce resident Latreasa Goodman told authorities she paid for a 10-piece serving last week, but was later informed the restaurant had run out, the Stuart News reported. She said employees refused to give her a refund, saying all sales were final. A cashier told police she offered Goodman a larger portion of different food for the same price, but Goodman became irate.
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Odd fish caught — shotgun
A fisherman in Arkansas started to reel in what he thought was a turtle, only to find a Remington 870 shotgun snagged on the end of the line. The two men took the shotgun to a Jonesboro police station, where the gun has been taken as evidence, Detective Sergeant Todd Nelson told Jonesboro TV station KAIT. Its serial number will be checked to see if it has been reported stolen or involved in any crimes. Nelson offered a lighthearted observation, saying it may have been thrown into the lake by “somebody that’s mad at a spouse about hunting too much.”
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Warrant issued in Levy case
Officials issued an arrest warrant on Tuesday in connection with the murder of a government intern eight years ago, which triggered a political scandal when a congressman admitted to having an affair with her. Prosecutors named Ingmar Guandique, 27, of El Salvador as the suspected killer of 24-year-old Chandra Levy, whose romantic links to former congressman Gary Condit initially fueled suspicion he was involved in her disappearance. Attorney Jeffrey Taylor said authorities believed Levy had been a “random victim” of Guandique’s. She went missing while jogging in a Washington park on May 1, 2001. Guandique was already in prison for attacking two joggers in the same park where Levy’s remains were found.
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Cabinet official resigns
A top Cabinet official resigned on Tuesday after someone threatened to ruin his career by leaking secretly recorded conversations. Transportation and Communications Secretary Luis Tellez did not say why he was stepping down. But he quit two weeks after news media reported the contents of a conversation recorded in 2006 in which Tellez alleged that former president Carlos Salinas stole from a secret government fund. Tellez, whose responsibilities included airline and telecommunications regulation, told federal officials he had received a letter threatening to reveal other recordings and urging him to “resign before your life is converted into a scandal,” his office said.
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