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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2008
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ODD NEWS Arrest made in connection with late-night light show
PIKESVILLE, Md. — It wasn't a UFO or spectral manifestation. A middle-of-the-night mystery that rattled and baffled residents for months may finally have been solved with police making a real-world arrest.
Deafening blasts accompanied by blinding split-second flashes of light have been rattling residents of one neighborhood of this Baltimore suburb for months.
Elaine O'Mansky says she has heard the noise 25 times since September, always between midnight and dawn. Barbara Friedman says the first time she heard the blast she thought someone was shooting at her.
Police officers Vickie Warehime and J. Posluszny Jr. said the department set up cameras and recorded the phenomena last week, but didn't detect anyone in the area.
The recorded flash lit up an area the size of a football field.
A Baltimore County Police spokesman, Cpl. Mike Hill, confirmed Tuesday that someone had been arrested in connection with the mystery, but he could not immediately provide any details.
Superintendent raises animals in basement
NEW YORK — A ritzy high-rise is a fashionable address for some recent arrivals to the city: A batch of tiny chicks.
The superintendent of the building near United Nations
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But Hyranyaz denied raising animals at the building. "Everyone sees them, so they think I'm raising them," he said.
The fight started Saturday night after a reception when he knocked her to the floor with a karate kick in the seventh-floor hallway of a Holiday Inn, according to police. It escalated when she attacked two guests from another wedding party who came to her aid, police said.
Instead, Hyranyaz said the little critters get to stay at his apartment only for a day or so before he transports them to his farm in Binghamton."I got bunnies. I got chicks. I got geese. I live here. I get them all the time."
PITTSBURGH — A newlywed couple spent the night in separate jail cells — she in her wedding gown after police said they brawled with each other, then members of another wedding party, at a suburban Pittsburgh hotel.
headquarters said he uses a make-shift basement pen as a temporary home for mail-order critters that are destined for his upstate farm.
The Health Department told the newspaper it was not illegal to keep chickens in the city, only roosters.
The mele moved to an elevator and then to the lobby, where the couple threw metal planters at the two guests of the other party, causing minor injuries, police charged.
Dentist David W. Wielechowski, 32, of Shaler, and Christa Vattimo, 25, had married a month earlier in the Bahamas but repeated their vows Saturday at a reception for 150 guests. They were checking into their room when the argument began, police said.
Authorities charged them both with simple assault, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct, and
Police arrived to find the dentist lying on the lobby floor and his bride screaming, they said.
the bride with an additional count of public intoxication. They face a May 7 preliminary hearing.
A district judge considered issuing a restraining order against Wielechowski, but his new bride declined the measure.
The couple declined comment upon their release Sunday.
She left with her father, still dressed in her white gown.
Wilechowski left alone, sporting a swollen eye, tuxedo pants, a bloody T-shirt and one shoe.
Eyebrow design may represent gang activity
PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland high school is raising eyebrows with its brow grooming policy: shave 'em or go home.
Centennial administrators are telling students with the lines that they can't return to school until they shave their eyebrows off. Assistant Principal Mark Porterfield said the students are not suspended, but they are not allowed in school until they cooperate.
Some students at Centennial High School have shaved vertical lines into their eyebrows in a trend recently made popular by hip-hop star SoulaJoy. School officials say the mark looks like a gang symbol.
Police say gangs have co-opted the trend for their own use, with one gang's members marking themselves by shaving one line into an eyebrow and three lines in the other to symbolize 13.
"We don't dictate policy for any schools," Officer David Schmidt of the East Multnomah County Gang Enforcement Team said. "We just tell them what we see the latest trends are. This is a way for them to identify each other. In a school setting, it intimidates other kids."
Four students have been sent home. One returned with a bandage covering the shaved brow.
Andy Gonzalez, a junior at Centennial with one vertical line shaved down his brow, was studying for a test when a security guard approached him and said, "If you're going to come to school like that,
don't come at all."
Gonzalez, 17, says he isn't in a gang and shaved the lines to look cool and impress girls. But he says he'd be humiliated if he had to shave his brows off.
Centennial implemented the rules about the eyebrows after other area high schools did, but other schools say they only look for the markings of the 13 style.
As his bones show, Oscar was a tough customer, surviving a shotgun blast to the face, at least three bullet wounds, broken bones and arthritis. Gators have been known to live for decades, and by some estimates, Oscar was a particularly ancient 95 to 100 years old when he died last summer.
Ancient swamp alligator immortalized in museum
The skeleton of Oscar is being assembled and will be put on display like a museum dinosaur. The 14-foot, 1,000-pound alligator had roamed the swamp from the time the park opened in 1946.
WAYCROSS, Ga. — The most famous resident of Okefenokee Swamp Park — an alligator that attracted the stares of tourists for decades — will soon be immortalized nearly a year after his death.
The display also will include what park officials found in Oscar's belly — including a plastic dog collar, a dog's tag, a penny and the top section of a flagpole.
"Some people think he's a statue," a tour guide, Danny Rowe, said of Oscar in 1996. "I tell people he's real, but I don't get paid enough to show them he's real."
The Okefenokee is a 438,000- national Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Georgia that attracts 350,000 to 400,000 visitors a year. During the first years of the park's operation, alligator wrestling was a popular attraction, park officials have said. That ended in the mid- 1950s when, it is said, one of the gators rolled over on a park manager and broke the man's arm.
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NEWS BRIEFS Bush says Congress 'let people down'
WASHINGTON - President Bush, hoping to inoculate his party and his presidential legacy from election-year anger over the economy, heaped criticism on the Democratic Congress on Tuesday for "letting the American people down."
He said he'd consider a summer suspension of federal gasoline taxes. But he offered no new ideas for a range of economic worries now facing the country, from record gas prices and soaring food costs to rising inflation, layoffs and home foreclosures, and a credit crunch that even has sparked fears of a college student loan squeeze.
Instead, the president tried to shift the focus to Congress, saying he long ago sent lawmakers proposals to deal with many of the nation's economic problems, only to see them sit or be replaced with approaches that he deems unacceptable.
He rejected a new economic stimulus package, saying the tax rebate checks that began going out this week from a $168 billion economic aid plan adopted in February must first be given time to work. He also rejected bipartisan suggestions that the government stop filling the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve while oil costs so much, saying it involves such a tiny amount of supply that doing so wouldn't push prices down.
"Many Americans are understandably anxious about issues affecting their pocketbook," Bush said in a White House news conference, held outdoors in an unseasonably cold and windy Rose Garden. "They're looking to their elected leaders in Congress for action. Unfortunately, on many of these issues, all they're getting is delay."
Sex tape allegedly stars Jimi Hendrix
LOS ANGELES — Vivid Entertainment is releasing a sex tape allegedly starring Jimi Hendrix.
The Los Angeles-based adult entertainment company said they obtained the sex tape from a memorabilia collector.
The 11 minutes of footage, reportedly shot in a hotel room about 40 years ago, features Hendrix — or someone who looks like him — engaged in various sexual acts with two women.
"This is somebody that looks like Jimi or is pretending to look like him, but it certainly didn't look like a dead-on match to me," Cross told The Associated Press during a telephone interview Tuesday.
Cross said the face and nostrils of the man depicted in the video don't match Hendrix. He also said the man in the tape is wearing more rings that Hendrix was known to wear.
The company said they consulted with experts to authenticate the footage. But Charles R. Cross, author of the Hendrix biography "Room Full of Mirrors" has seen the film and doubts the man is Hendrix.
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