Man fakes heart attack so his friend can steal toys
The men — 30-year-old Tarus Scott and 27-year-old Genard Dupree — were arrested on Tuesday on grand theft charges.
The Polk County Sheriff’s office says the men filled a shopping trolley with a motorised power wheel Barbie car, Leap Frog tablet and a Barbie Glam vacation house. They walked through the store together.
Video surveillance shows Dupree on the floor near the store entrance, clutching his chest. As concerned shoppers and staff checked on him, Scott walked out of the store with the cart.
Once Scott was outside, Dupree got up and walked out. They left in a silver SUV but deputies caught up with them.
Winston Churchill’s old despatch box has been sold for £158,500 —(€202,000) over 25 times more than it was expected to fetch.
The red leather box was used by Churchill in his time as Secretary of State for The Colonies, a position he held from February 1921 until October 1922.
The price more than beat the pre-sale estimate of just £5,000 to £7,000.
The box, one of seven that survive from his time in that office, was auctioned by Sotheby’s in London.
Police have used pepper spray to disperse a crowd of people waiting in line for a shoe sale at an Ohio mall.
Multiple media reports say dozens of people were gathered before 6am on Wednesday at Franklin Park Mall in Toledo to get tickets allowing them to buy the Nike Air Jordan shoe later this week.
Reports say police moved in when the crowd began to get unruly.
Jeremiah Fletcher, 19, who was waiting in line, told The Blade newspaper that police fired pepper spray three to four times.
A former police officer who appeared in court on a drunken-driving charge was arrested three more times over the next 11 hours.
The Connecticut Post reported that 39-year-old John Biehn, of Southington, was charged twice with drunken driving and accused of shoplifting at a Wal-Mart in Wallingford.
Police say Biehn, a former Bridgeport officer, posted bail after each arrest.
Authorities say Biehn appeared in Rockville Superior Court on Monday on a DUI charge dating from July 26. He was arrested in the parking lot of a McDonald’s restaurant shortly after his court appearance and failed a sobriety check, police said.
He was stopped again and charged with DUI on Monday night in Wallingford, a few hours before his arrest at the Wal-Mart on larceny charges.
Johns Hopkins University mistakenly sent nearly 300 applicants welcome messages when they were actually rejected or deferred, and now the school has apologised.
University officials told The Washington Post it was a mistake of human error. Vice Provost David Phillips said a contractor who works with Johns Hopkins on electronic communications pulled a wrong list of emails.
“We apologise to the students affected and to their families,” Phillips said. “Admissions decision days are stressful enough. We very much regret having added to the disappointment felt by a group of very capable and hardworking students.”
The students had applied early decision to the prestigious Baltimore university. Of the 294 applicants who received an erroneous message, 285 had actually been denied admission and nine had received deferrals.
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