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Clerk throws cans of tobacco at robber

Mon Apr 14, 9:21 AM ET

A cigarette store cashier has snuffed out a robbery.
Police said a masked man flashed a knife at the Cigarette Outlet on Friday and forced one employee to the floor, then demanded money from another worker, Ruth Wright.
Instead of cash, Wright threw two cans of chewing tobacco at the robber, and one hit him in the face.
Officers said a customer then tackled the man, but the robber broke free and bolted out the door.
A cashier, Kittie Peacock, said the store had been robbed at least once before.






Man jailed for fake Viagra sales

Fri Apr 11, 1:09 PM ET

The general manager of a Shanghai chemical company was jailed for two years on Thursday for selling fake tablets of the male impotence drug Viagra on the Internet, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Yu Bohuai made a profit of over 60,000 yuan ($8,585) in 2006 and 2007 by selling 14,030 fake tablets to clients abroad and in Shanghai. He was arrested last July.
Viagra is marketed by Pfizer, the world's largest drug maker. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved it to treat impotence in 1998.

Drivers flood station for 35 cent gas

Fri Apr 11, 10:29 PM ET

Traffic was backed up and police were called to control the crowd after a Wilmington gas station accidentally set the pump price at 35 cents a gallon.

The Wilmington Star-News reported Friday that hundreds of drivers flooded a BP station for the cheap gas after the price dropped around 9 a.m. Thursday.
Station employee Shane Weller said the price for premium gasoline was supposed to be $3.35 a gallon. He complained that customers paid the cheaper price all day without saying a word.
It was all the extra traffic that led station employees to the mistake around 6 p.m. They found it after calling their district manager, looking for permission to changing the price as a way of stemming the flow of customers.

Ky. city debates allowing pet goat

Sun Apr 13, 2:49 PM ET

A central Kentucky planning board won't get Gale Warfield's goat, but the city commission might.
Officials in Frankfort are discussing whether goats are livestock or pets.
The issue came up in October when Warfield received a violation notice about the goat and duck she keeps as pets on her residential property. Warfield said the letter informed her that Szokie the goat had to go.
Then she received a second letter saying he could stay while officials decide what he is.
Last month, the city's planning commission proposed an amendment that would have allowed up to two farm animals to live in the city on land of five acres or more. Under the current regulations, farm animals are only permitted on tracts of five acres or more that are zoned industrial, commercial or agricultural.
A public meeting on the proposed changes was scheduled last week but the meeting was canceled and the amendment withdrawn. The members of the zoning committee said the proposed changes were unnecessary.
"The committee likes the ordinance as is," said City Planning Director Gary Mueller. "To me a goat is a farm animal."
Mueller said the City Commission would have to enact any changes. "The consensus of the committee is to recommend this to the City Commission, instead of amending any ordinance," he said.
Warfield said she's distraught because the situation is still unresolved.

"I don't know what to do from one day to the next," she said. "I'm at a loss for words on all this."
She'll plead her case one last time to the City Commission on April 28. If Warfield is forced to get rid of Szokie, she said, she'll try and find him a good home that will love and care for him.
"He's not a typical farm animal," Warfield said. "I don't want him to be sold to a stockyard for slaughter."