European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 20 s t a r s and s t r i p e s april 20 2o07 Page 21 jail time for shot at firefighters Kef Man a Man who shot at firefight ers after they refused to get his cat out of a tree has been sentenced to five months in jail Jeffrey Francis Cullen 59 of Kingman reported a tree fire on aug 17 once the three person Crew arrived Cullen told them he wanted his cat rescued from the tree Hualapai Valley fire depart ment spokeswoman Sandy Edwards said a battalion chief told Cullen to Call animal control or to wait for the cat to get hungry and come Down the response apparently in Censed Cullen who retrieved a Small handgun from his Home and came out shooting the firefighters fled taking with them a 12yearold boy who had come to see their fire truck no body was shot woman seriously Hurt by a jumping Sturgeon old town a Sturgeon jumped out of a River strik ing and seriously wounding a woman Riding a personal water Craft the latest such injury involving the flying fish along Florida Suwannee River officials said Sharon Touchton 50 was later discharged from a Hospital after the March 31 Accident officials said she had been camping with a group of friends near Suwannee in North Florida said Karen Parker with the Florida fish and wildlife conservation commission the group went for a ride and Touchton was travelling 25 to 30 Mph before the Accident her husband found her floating facedown in the water Parker said once Touchton was Able to talk to investigators she simply said something about a big fish Crews attempt to raise a museum submarine Providence Salvage Crews Are determining How to raise a russian submarine and museum that partially Sank during a storm the submarine was used to film the Harrison Ford movie k19 the widow maker a cold War thriller but Salvage experts discovered that water had flooded the Back Quarter of the Juliett 484 submarine including the aft torpedo and control rooms museum president Frank Lennon said museum engineers suspect water leaked through several of the ships hatches which dipped beneath the waterline when the submarine wedged on the Shoal cattle rancher cleared in shooting of male Wolf Branson cattle rancher shot and killed a male Wolf that escaped from a Branso Narea exotic animal Park two months ago the Missouri department of conservation said the rancher told a conservation agent he saw the Wolf chasing his cattle and shot it the department said it would not press charges or american Roundup identify the Man because he acted responsibly the male Wolf and a pregnant female escaped from predator world on feb 15 smoking break saves woman from falling tree Rock Hill smoking just might have saved the life of a South Carolina woman Brenda Comer said she had just finished washing dishes and stepped outside to smoke a cigarette when an 80foot Oak tree crashed through her roof the her Ald reported the tree landed across the sink where she had been standing just seconds before Comer said Honey i know you fuss at me for said she told her husband but today it saved my life the tree felled by High winds also missed the couples adult daughter who was at the other end of the House funeral Home offers perk for dying on the Job Melford City employees who die on the Job can get free funerals Worth thousands of dollars under the cod White funeral Homes fallen heroes service program to qualify Mil Ford employees must die during a Helo hello Paul Schreuder of Bristol term hugs his Mother Pat Schreuder of Mason City Iowa after Landing a helicopter at the assisted living Center where she lives Schreuder dropped in on his parents while delivering a helicopter from Tennes see to Colorado scheduled work shift cod White Man aging partner David Derubeis says 11 joked to someone that they die at Home their family Mem Ber will drag the body Down to the fire station a to stay on court shooting Case Atlanta Superior court judge Hilton Fuller ruled that Fulton county District attorney Paul Howard will remain As prosecutor in the Case of a Man accused of killing four people in a shooting rampage two years ago that started inside the county courthouse lawyers for Brian Nichols had asked Fuller to disqualify Howard saying he had a conflict of interest because his office is located in the court House and staff members knew the victims Seal Rescue firm loses Federal authorization Westbrook a Feder Al Agency lifted its authorization for new England largest Seal Rescue organization to re Spond to stranded seals and rehabilitate them before returning them to the wild representatives of the National Marine fisheries service arrived at the Marine animal lifelines facility in Westbrook to inform the organization that it violated several provisions of its authorization be cause of those violation sick seals could have been returned to the wild environmental coalition set to conduct cleanup big Bay a coalition of religious and environmental groups will conduct an Earth Day hazardous waste cleanup across the upper Peninsula the Earth keeper clean sweep began in 2005 when people dropped off 45 tons of household wastes such As paints poisons and vehicle batteries the focus this year is on castoffs medicines citizen patrol to respond to Small car crashes to keep police officers from getting bogged Down with fend Erb Enders Fayetteville is testing the use of civilian crash investigators none of the five investigators is sues citations or carries a gun but when a minor Accident occurs they arrive to assess the situation diffuse tempers and help direct traffic police Are called if an investigator believes a Driver should be tick eted College student gets jail for shooting Man in leg Corvallis a former Oregon state student was sentenced to about five months in prison for wounding a homeless Man collecting cans last year in an Alley behind a fraternity House Josh Grimes then 19 shot the Man in the thigh with a 22caliber round he pleaded guilty in March to unlawful use of a weapon and As Sault he said he never meant to Hurt the Man afternoon subsided late in the Day Sam Leiske 3 plays in a puddle created by a Brief rain and Hail Shower that hit Laramie Wyo the storm which lasted throughout the q of Khoii n it a 1 Ati of Brandon watchman 8 rides his Scooter in the Tuu aug a Lull red Hill Mobile Home Park in Gallup no for 1u1 film raises her Lold tafe turn overhead As she Hustles through a Gauntlet of locals gathered to cheer on Las minute tax filers at the Lawrence downtown Post office in Lawrence Kan Bill Wales of Buna Texas fishes near the Public boat Access on the Neches River in Evadale Texas Banks of reflection Ampf Rici Ilsc High school baseball coach Jay Fitzgerald installs Iii 1csu115 nets on a batting Cage in Bettendorf Iowa i think i heard something Council consolidates flood control districts Seattle the King county Council created a single countywide flood control zone replacing 12 districts that had responsibility to fix dikes and prevent floods a single zone should improve coordination for maintenance and damage repair from last Falls flooding officials said King county which includes Seattle is Washington most popu Lous county girls team Trail biases through science ranks Home team will be the first Al girl Allback team to make it to the us department of Energy National science bowl but team members from Buffalo prep say that beating the 63 other teams at the 17yearold com petition in Washington would be a More satisfying accomplishment More than 100000 High school students have competed in the an Nual bowl since it began in 1991 which makes the girls from Buffalo wonder Why it has taken so Long for the first Al female team to make it this far boys outnumber girls in the National science bowl finals four to one the Energy department said principal faces jail time for kissing feet of teens former Prin Cipal who kissed the feet of three male students to Settle a bet on a volleyball game entered a no contest plea to a Misdemeanour sex charge Robert Holloway resigned from St Anthony of Padua school in this town West of Cleveland after the 14yearold students and their parents reported the Foo kissing to police in february 2006 Holloway told authorities he paid each student and kissed their Bare feet 50 times each in the schools Library and gym to pay off the bet on a student teacher Volley Ball game Holloway pleaded no contest to sexual imposition and unauthorized use of Public property also a Misdemeanour he faces up to 15 months behind bars when sentenced in june shoplifting suspect says bowels made her do it Cape Coral a woman arrested for shoplifting has blamed the crime on irritable Bowel syndrome authorities said Helen Gallo 61 of Clearwater was arrested after allegedly shop lifting from a Cape Coral grocery store the daily Breeze of Cape Coral reported Gallo reportedly told authorities that she could not wait in line because she has irritable Bowel syndrome Gallo was charged with Petit Lar Ceny and released from the Lee county jail on Bond number mistake makes Tollfree hot line hotter Mineola talk about your wrong number an Effort to provide constituents with a hot line number that helps track the location of sexual Preda tors backfired for a group of Long Island politicians when they mistakenly listed a Telephone number that connects callers to a sex Chat line hey there sexy Guy a sultry recorded female voice is heard Tell ing callers to the wrong number Welcome to an exciting new Way to go live one on one with hot Horny girls waiting right now to talk to you that s not what Nassau county legislator Peter j Schmitt and seven colleagues intended when they sent out postcards to constituents announcing an initiative with the Long Island based parents for megans Law a nonprofit Organiza Tion dedicated to the prevention and treatment of sex abuse state puts Watermelon on vegetable Pedestal Oklahoma City Oklahoma already has the Strawberry As its official fruit so the state Senate cleared the Way to declare the Watermelon the state vegetable the measure was introduced in the House by democratic rep Joe Dorman of Rush Springs site of an annual Watermelon festival in a gust sen Don Barrington Lawton sponsored the Bill in the Senate the controversy on whether Watermelon is a fruit or vegetable has been officially decided by the okla homa legislature Barrington said he said Watermelon comes from the Cucumber and Gourd fam Ilies which Are classified As vegetables state lawmakers allow bigger free Beer samples Madison Beer lovers of Wisconsin rejoice youre a step closer to getting a free Hal can of suds both Chambers of the Legisla Ture unanimously gave key approval to allow grocery and liquor stores to hand out Beer samples up to 6 ounces to a person of Legal drinking age current state Law allows Winer ies to offer up to 6 ounces of free samples retired couple finishes 2500mile cab journey Phoenix a retired new York couple who hailed a taxi for their 2500mile move to Northern Arizona arrived with their two cats at their Destina Tion neither Betty nor Bob Matas drive and they wanted to spare their cats pretty face and Cleo Patra a trip on an air plane to their retirement Home about 90 Miles North of Phoenix they left the couples Queens neighbourhood april 10 in Douglas Gulden is Canary coloured Ford Sun cab and travelled about 10 hours a Day for a Flat rate plus Gas meals and lodging the Sun is a hybrid electric vehicle which helped Lessen the Cost of fuel it was pretty tiring for my wife especially said Bob Matas 72 a former audio and video Engineer for advertising agencies were Happy where we Are were Happy and that5 s it stories and photos from wire services
