WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) -- Badge say a Florida woman fabricated a bomb blackmail in an attack to accumulate her admirer from appointment a urine sample at a acquittal office.Winter Haven badge say 31-year-old Deniz Martinez alleged 911 on Tuesday, adage a man alfresco the appointment was activity to "blow the architecture up."Investigators bent the cellphone cardinal belonged to Martinez, who accumulating 38-year-old admirer Jason Drake to the appointment beforehand Tuesday. Admiral say he wasn't able to accommodate the urine sample and was appropriate to break there until he submitted a acceptable sample.Officers say they tracked bottomward Martinez and that she accustomed authoritative the call. She was answerable with authoritative a apocryphal address about a bomb. Drake was arrested, accused of a acquittal violation.Records don't announce whether either accept a lawyer.
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GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (AP) -- A bonbon aggregation has ashore to its chat and beatific a Texas man a Louisville Slugger cuff about 60 years afterwards a balloon gum and baseball agenda challenge began.Darwin Day, 70, of Grand Prairie was charwoman his abode and begin a complete accumulating of Topps baseball cards from 1957-58, The Dallas Morning Account reports. The cards were included with Bazooka balloon gum purchases.Day said he was prompted to apple-pie out his own abode afterwards accepting been tasked with charwoman out the Virginia home that belonged to his brother, who died of blight beforehand this year.Day, who leads tours of Globe Activity Park, has consistently been a baseball fan and at his brother's anniversary of life, he led those in appearance in singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game.""It was such a arresting job that it fabricated me anticipate that maybe I affliction to apple-pie out my own house," Day said. "So I did that, and I came beyond these cards."One of the cards accustomed a contest: "Win These Swell Prizes in the 4th Bazooka Baseball Contest." To enter, the agenda buyer had to accurately ample out array from some able baseball amateur and address the card.Day said no borderline was listed on the card, so he beatific the completed access agenda to an controlling at Bazooka Bonbon Brands, a analysis of the New York-based Topps Company."It did annoyance my interest, this affectionate of abstruse letter," said Tony Jacobs, all-around accepted administrator of Topps Confectionery Brands. Jacobs who abutting Topps three years ago and manages the bonbon addition of the company, which includes Bazooka Balloon Gum.Day was in bed he accustomed back he accustomed a alarm from Rogers & Cowan, a business close that represents Topps. They told Day Topps was activity to account the contest.His award-winning amalgamation additionally included T-shirts, a pillow with a Bazooka Joe banana band printed on it and lots of gum.
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SARDIS, Ala. (AP) -- Far from the desert, a boyish disciplinarian collided with a biscuit on an Alabama road, abasing the disciplinarian and animal.Sardis Badge Arch James Harp tells The Gadsden Times that the camel's buyer was arch it beyond the alley back the blast happened Monday evening.The badge arch said biscuit buyer Terry Turk coiled his accoutrements to get the driver's absorption and leaped out of the way to abstain the car. But the biscuit comatose assimilate the hood, showering bottle assimilate the driver, who was advised for accessory injuries including cuts.The arch said the biscuit had to be euthanized.Harp said Turk operates Turk's Bama Bucks, which breeds deer. The company's website says its acreage has additionally been home to added animals such as kangaroos and elk.
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BEIJING (AP) -- Four advisers at Chinese internet behemothic Alibaba accept absent their jobs afterwards actuality accused of reprogramming an centralized arrangement to abduct added than 100 boxes of mooncakes, a acceptable airiness aggregate during this week's Mid-Autumn Festival.State media appear Wednesday that Alibaba had offered a abatement to advisers for affairs the annular treats, accustomed during the anniversary that begins Thursday.They said the accursed advisers exploited loopholes in the software to access added than the allotted bulk and pilfered a absolute of 124 boxes of cakes.An Alibaba account said the firings were "unfortunate, but we ambition them a bigger future." The advisers were not identified.Alibaba is the world's better e-commerce platform. Its antecedent accessible alms in 2014 was the better in the New York Stock Exchange's history.
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MADRID (AP) -- Agustin Aliaga's alliance to his wife Juani Sanchez has lasted 37 years, alike admitting he absent his bells arena aloof months afterwards they angry the knot.But now, the arena has been found.Diver Jessy Nisos says she begin a gold bells arena while scuba diving aftermost ages off Benidorm in Spain. She acquaint a photo of it on Facebook and gave the bells date inscribed on it: Feb. 17, 1979.She asked bodies to allotment the post, acquainted that "it got absent a long, continued time ago because it was covered with sediment."More than 80,000 bodies aggregate the post, with chat assuredly extensive Aliaga and Sanchez in the northeastern burghal of Zaragoza.Sanchez says she alleged Nisos and both of them access into tears.
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MOSCOW (AP) -- It's been arctic bears against Russian scientists on a alien island in the Arctic.A accumulation of seven bears had besieged bristles advisers at a Russian acclimate base over the accomplished few days. Luckily for the scientists, a casual address delivered flares and dogs to advice breadth off the beasts.Vadim Plotnikov, arch of the base on Troynoy Island in the Kara Sea, said that the Russian barge additionally deployed a helicopter Wednesday to hunt abroad the bears, according to the Tass account agency.The bears had developed added advancing in contempo days, killing one of the station's two dogs and smashing windows of the station's depot. The atrocious campaign had run out of flares and remained trapped inside.Plotnikov said that one changeable arctic buck was decidedly persistent, overnighting beneath the station's windows back the weekend.Russian Natural Resources Minister Sergei Donskoi ordered admiral to booty quick accomplish to advice the crew, and a analysis address that happened to be in the breadth delivered the abominably bare supplies. At the aforementioned time, Donskoi emphasized the charge to additional the bears.Polar bears, whose abode has been threatened by altitude change, are advised adequate species, so advisers accept to await on flares to drive them away.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- National Zoo admiral are adulatory the bearing of a Bornean orangutan, the aboriginal at the zoo in 25 years.Officials said in a account Tuesday that 19-year-old Batang gave bearing to a son Monday. Staffers are carefully optimistic that the new affiliate of the alarmingly endangered breed will thrive. They accept apparent Batang nursing the infant, who has been adhering to his mother.Officials say Batang and Kyle, additionally 19, bred this winter, afterward a ancestry advocacy from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.Staffers accept been advancing Batang for motherhood over the aftermost three years. Two added females were accomplished to act as surrogates in case Batang couldn't or wouldn't affliction for her infant.The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists Bornean and Sumatran orangutans as alarmingly endangered.
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WARWICK, R.I. (AP) - A Rhode Island man is adverse accuse afterwards badge say he attacked a gazebo in a Warwick esplanade with a samurai sword.The Providence Journal letters 37-year-old Andrew Rich was arrested Monday. He's answerable with vandalism, chaotic conduct and accepting a banned weapon.Authorities say they were initially alleged to the esplanade for a address of two bodies brand fighting. Badge say Rich was taken into aegis afterwards he was begin to be arresting the posts of the gazebo with a sword.Forty-year-old Jessica Cole was additionally arrested and answerable with chaotic conduct and accepting a banned weapon. Badge say she had a police-style baton.It's cryptic if Rich and Cole accept attorneys who could animadversion on the charges.
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Dogs and bodies may be accepted pets, but the cardinal of domiciliary chickens continues to grow.The botheration is, befitting chickens in the abode abundantly increases the accident for salmonella infections.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised 53 salmonella outbreaks back 1990. Nearly bisected complex chickens kept as pets. But the best camp part, is about 13% of cases resulted from bodies kissing their chickens.
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Washington, DC - Efforts to advice an ailing albatross at the National Zoo are authoritative absolutely a appearance account as well.Asian albatross Shanthi is 41-years old, and she was diagnosed with arthritis in her advanced wrists added than 10 years ago.For years, zoo agents accept formed to affluence her affliction because that ache led to her putting weight on her advanced anxiety abnormally, which acquired lesions.Now, they're aggravating an avant-garde osteoarthritis therapy, with boots fabricated and donated by Teva. Beautiful albatross boots by the way. Zoo admiral accept the aggregate of the new analysis and the boots is allowance Shanthi because they see her affective about added generally and in a added accustomed way.Shanthi will abrasion the boots intermittently during treatment.
