Groom charged with being too near bride at wedding

BATAVIA, N.Y. (AP) — A New York state man has been arrested for getting too close to his bride on their wedding day.
Police say Timothy Cole quarreled with a wedding guest at a party Friday after wedding his ex-wife in Batavia (buh-TAY’-vee-uh).
Officers knew the 45-year-old Cole from previous arrests and realized his bride had an order of protection against him. Cole was charged with first-degree criminal contempt, a felony, and ordered jailed without bail.
The Daily News in Batavia says Cole was convicted of criminal contempt on July 1.
The Genesee County public defender’s office says Cole hasn’t been assigned an attorney.

Trail of Cheetohs leads to snack thieves in Minn.

ST. PAUL (AP) — An orange trail of Cheetos led St. Paul police to three teenagers suspected of burglarizing a vending machine.
Officers were called to the Arlington Recreation Center on July 29, where they found a vending machine’s glass had been broken with a chair. Most of the candy and chips were missing, according to a criminal complaint.
The officers followed a trail of snack debris from the rec center, around the side of the building and to a nearby home. Inside, they found numerous vending-sized bags of Cheetos and other snacks.
Police arrested three males aged 17, 18 and 19 who soon arrived at the home by car. The two adults are charged with third-degree burglary; the 17-year-old is charged with criminal damage to property.
All three denied being involved, the complaint says.
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Information from: St. Paul Pioneer Press, http://www.twincities.com

Kodiak voters get only Tagalog election pamphlets

KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — Many Kodiak residents were a bit confused when they received election pamphlets urging them to ”Bumoto!“
The pamphlets for four ballot initiatives being decided Aug. 26 weren’t in English but in Tagalog, a language widely spoken in the Philippines. An apparent mix-up at the printers was discovered when a resident called Alaska’s Division of Elections looking for an English version.
Division of Elections spokeswoman Shelly Growden expects pamphlets printed in English to be in voters’ mailboxes sometime next week. Meanwhile, both English and Tagalog versions of the pamphlet are available on the division’s Web site: www.elections.alaska.gov.
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Information from: KMXT-FM, http://www.kmxt.org

Tenn. constable wins election by 1 vote — her own

SNEEDVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — All it takes is one vote to win. Just ask a Tennessee woman who was elected constable by voting for herself.
Angela Tuttle, 32, said her father encouraged her to run as a write-in candidate because no one else was vying for one of the positions in Hancock County, which is in northeastern Tennessee.
Tuttle said her husband initially didn’t even realize she was running.
”I finally told him about a month before the election,“ she told The Associated Press on Friday. Her husband didn’t think she would win, but now he ”just grins at her,“ she said.
Hancock County election officials said 131 voters of the 674 registered in the 3rd District voted Thursday. Tuttle’s vote was the only one cast in the constable race. She will be sworn in Dec. 1.
The certified nursing assistant and mother of a 10-year-old son will help serve warrants and patrol neighborhoods in her district. She said her father, a longtime constable who won his own re-election in another district, will ”show her the ropes.“

Man says he’s porn inspector, demands free videos

LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) — A man claiming to be a police detective tried to get an adult novelty shop to give him free X-rated videos, saying he wanted to make sure the performers weren’t underage, authorities said.
He made three tries within nine days last month and was turned down each time. The store manager called police after the third try.
Authorities said Monday that the man showed a badge and left a business card from the Longmont police ”age verification unit.“ Cmdr. Tim Lewis said there is no such unit.
”It was inventive on his part, I’ll give him that,“ Lewis said.
The business card didn’t have anyone’s name on it, but the store gave officers surveillance video of the man. Police are looking for him.

44-pound feline Prince Chunk gets new home in NJ

BLACKWOOD, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s fat cat has a home.
A family in southern New Jersey will get the 44-pound ”Prince Chunk“ next week, according to the Camden County Animal Shelter. The shelter won’t disclose the family’s identity.
About 500 people applied to adopt the 10-year-old cat found lumbering around Voorhees after his owner lost her home to foreclosure.
Catherine Harr, president of the animal shelter’s board, said the cat’s new family is a couple with a teenage child. She said they are building a castle to go over Prince Chunk’s litter box.
The adoption comes after a vet gave the cat a clean bill of health — other than his large weight.
Harr said the couple was chosen because they have past experience with cats, and their finances are stable — unlike the cat’s former owner.
Prince Chunk received national attention when he was found, including an appearance on ”Live with Regis & Kelly.“ The attention was so intense that shelter officials last Sunday had to sneak the cat out of a foster home and move him to another foster family, Harr said.
Thousands of people from as far away as London and California called to inquire about adopting the cat, Harr said. Unfortunately, she said no one who contacted the shelter was interested in adopting any of the more than 200 other cats and kittens in the shelter’s care.
The shelter had to euthanize about 1,000 unwanted cats last year, about a third of the cats it took in, she said.

Babies born 8/8/08 at 8:08; 8 pounds, 8 ounces

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (AP) — Meet Hailey Jo Hauer and Xander Jace Riniker, both born at 8:08 a.m. on 8/8/08, weighing 8 pounds, 8 ounces, in neighboring states.
Xander, born at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is the eighth grandchild for his mother’s parents. And he’s not the only one in his family with an unusual birthday: His 2-year-old brother, Kael, was born on 4/5/06.
Lindsey Hauer thought staff at Lake Region Hospital in Minnesota were joking when they told her the time of her daughter’s birth. And then she got a call from the birthing suite noting Hailey’s weight.
Nurse Jenny Harstad joked that she tried to shrink the baby to 18 inches from her actual 19.5 inches.
Several hospital staff members in Minnesota pledged to buy lottery tickets. And Chad Riniker, Xander’s father, said that eight hadn’t been his lucky number before, but that now he was thinking about buying a lottery ticket.
”I just might,“ he said. ”If nothing else, with four children I should probably play the lottery.“
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Information from:
The Daily Journal, http://www.fergusfallsjournal.com
The Gazette, http://gazetteonline.com