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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An information technology worker accused of urinating on colleagues’ chairs at an office in Iowa has surren-dered to police.
The Des Moines Register reports (http://dmreg.co/HMXr7Q ) that 59-year-old Raymond Foley turned himself in Saturday to face a charge of second-degree criminal mischief.
Foley declined to comment to The Associated Press on Tuesday, other than to acknowledge that he no lon-ger works at the Farm Bureau office in West Des Moines.
Police say some co-workers had com-plained about stains on their chairs.
A security system was installed, and police say it caught Foley in the act.
Police documents say Foley looked up employee photos in the agency data-base and then would go into the office during off hours and urinate on their chairs.
The chair damage was estimated at $4,500.
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CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico authorities have arrested three men found with a 220-pound calf in the backseat of their car.
The Carlsbad Current Argus reports that the men are accused of cattle rustling. They were jailed on charges of suspicion of larceny of livestock, conspiracy, lack of a bill of sale and exporting livestock.
Luna County sheriff’s office says a deputy pulled over their Honda Civic
on Friday and saw the animal sharing the backseat with one of the alleged thieves.
The three are being held at the Luna County Detention Center.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The side-walk lanes for the digitally distracted may be a joke but officials in Phila-delphia want the public to know the issue is no laughing matter.
Lines on some sidewalks near City Hall now designate part of the pave-ment as “e-lanes” suitable for chronic texters and digital music aficionados — although only through the end of the week.
The April Fools’ Day prank is one way city officials, in particular Mayor Michael Nutter, are trying to draw at-tention to the danger of inattentive pedestrians.
The lines, signage and sidewalk graph-ics — depicting a pedestrian peering down at a hand-held device — will stick around part of John F. Kennedy Boulevard through the week.
A bogus video released for the new lanes shows Nutter being cut off mid-interview by an oblivious pedestrian, played by Streets Department Deputy Commissioner Steven Buckley.
“Sidewalk safety is important,” Nut-ter noted just after his mock interview was disrupted. The video also features a rowdy band of anti-texting protest-ers.
All kidding aside, officials said dis-tracted pedestrians are a serious issue the city plans to address.
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SIGNS POSTED FOR OHIO DOG SEARCH PROMPT COMPLAINTS NEWARK, Ohio (AP) — A central Ohio woman on a crusade to find her missing dog says she didn’t intend to cause the trouble that erupted when she put up more than a hundred yellow and red yard signs seeking help and offering a reward.
Officials in Newark say Jody Gardner vio-lated local rules because she didn’t get the proper permit when she posted signs all
around town, prompting complaints. Of-ficials have removed some signs that were considered potential safety hazards but cat-egorized the signs in a way that allows Gard-ner to post them in certain locations.
Gardner met with officials this week to find a way to keep up her crusade without break-ing the law. She tells The Advocate news-paper (http://ohne.ws/I4yVky ) she’ll get proper permits.
Her Afghan hound, Flower, disappeared in December.
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WYOMING TOWN WITH 1 RESIDENT SOLD FOR $900,000 BOB MOEN,Associated PressBUFORD, Wyo. (AP) — Buford is a small place for sure, but so is the world.
A remote, unincorporated area along busy In-terstate 80 that advertised itself as the smallest town in the United States, Buford was sold at auction for $900,000 on Thursday to an un-identified man from Vietnam.
It’s owner for the last 20 years, Don Sammons, served with the U.S. Army as a radio operator in 1968-69.
After meeting the buyer, an emotional Sam-mons said it was hard for him to grasp the irony of the situation.
“I think it’s funny how things come full circle,” he said.
The buyer attended the auction in person but declined to meet with the media or to be iden-tified. Sammons and others involved in the auction would not discuss the buyer’s plans for Buford.
It will take about 30 days for all the paperwork to be completed before ownership of the place located almost equidistant between Cheyenne and Laramie in southeast Wyoming changes hands, Sammons said.
The new owner will get a gas station and conve-nience store, a schoolhouse from 1905, a cabin, a garage, 10 acres, and a three-bedroom home at 8,000 feet altitude — overlooking the trucks and cars on the nearby interstate on one side and the distant snowcapped mountains in Rocky Moun-tain National Park in Colorado on the other.
The town traces its origins to the 1860s and the construction of the Transcontinental Rail-road. Buford had as many as 2,000 residents before the railroad was rerouted.
Sammons, who moved to the Buford area about 30 years ago from Los Angeles to get away from the busy city life, bought the trad-ing post on Jan. 31, 1992. He plans to retire from his unofficial title as “mayor” and write a book about his experiences in Buford, he said.
“I felt my time here has been very happy for me, and hopefully the new owner will be able to enjoy what I’ve enjoyed over the years — conversations with people, the uniqueness of the area and so on — and keep the history alive,” Sammons said.
As workers boarded up the windows of the convenience store behind her, Rozetta Weston, a broker with a Cheyenne real estate auction company that represented the buyer, said the buyer was excited to own a “piece of the United States.” But she declined to discuss the buyer’s future plans for Buford.
Weston said the buyer and a companion ar-rived in Wyoming — their first trip to the United States — on Monday, touring Chey-enne and the University of Wyoming at Lara-mie before the auction.
Williams & Williams Co. of Tulsa, Okla., con-ducted the auction on a sunny, windy day out-side the trading post, which has been closed since Dec. 31. The number of bidders was not released.
Dozens of people, including some of the 125 residents who live in remote areas and get their mail at the outdoor post office boxes on the property, showed up for the event. Officials with Williams & Williams stood out in their business suits among the locals dressed in jeans and western attire.
Inside the convenience store, most of the candy, snacks, pop, beer and all the Marlboro cigarettes had been sold off already. Bags of charcoal, whistles made from animal antlers and dozens of T-shirts proclaiming Buford as the smallest town in the United States re-mained unsold.
Wearing a weather beaten cowboy hat, Gary Crawford, who lives about 4.5 miles northeast of the trading post — “Post Office Box 7” — said the trading post is important to the sur-rounding residents who mostly live on widely scattered ranches.
“At different times, this has been a community gathering place where you caught up with your neighbors and shoot the breeze, learn what’s going on, who is around,” Crawford said.
He looked forward to meeting the new owner.
“I think we may have very nice, new neigh-bors,” he said.
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