Washington state environmental regulators finally found the source of pollution that had been fouling a creek: their own sewer pipes.
Workers have discovered that a Vancouver, Wash., office building’s sewer line was mistakenly connected to a storm drain, rather than the municipal sewer main. The offending building houses the state Department of Ecology’s regional offices.
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An unemployed Connecticut woman is giving new meaning to a “job wanted” ad.
Pasha Stocking, of East Hampton, has rented a billboard along Interstate 95 in Bridgeport, telling motorists. “Hire Me!” It directs people to her Web site, http://www.hirepasha.com.
The 37-year-old single mom was laid off in June and wants a job in marketing or design.
The billboard company says similar ads cost about $7,000 a month.
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A cellphone used by a 13-year-old Wyoming girl to run up $5,000 in charges will text no more, thanks to her angry father — and his hammer.
Dena Christoffersen, of Cheyenne, sent or received about 20,000 text messages over a month, and her parents’ phone plan didn’t cover texting.
After receiving the $4,750 bill, dad Gregg Christoffersen sent his own message to Dena’s phone — smashing it to bits.
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Cops busted a 30-year-old Burnsville, Minn., man for firing arrows into the side of a neighbor’s townhouse.
The suspect was trying to impress a woman, after they’d been drinking and become “extremely intoxicated,” cops said. The woman said her pal wanted to “play Rambo.”
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Parishioners at a Swedish church yesterday celebrated Easter by unveiling a 6-foot statue of Jesus that they had built out of 30,000 Lego blocks.
It took the 40 volunteers about 18 months to put all the pieces together.