SNIPPETS

APRIL 24,  2009

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A mother was accused on Wednesday of driving a getaway minivan with her two young children inside after burglaries at two New York City homes.  Prosecutors said Erika Santana, 23, drove the van with her four-year-old and five-month-old children inside after Hugo Lantigua, 22, who is the baby's father, and Pedro Camillo, 19, broke into two houses in the borough of Queens.

The defense will probably argue that they simply wanted to spend more time with their families.

CANBERRA (Reuters) - A live shark dumped on the doorstep of an Australian country newspaper office had local police puzzled Thursday, with authorities vowing to charge the person who left it with animal cruelty.

A shark on the doorstep of a newspaper office?  Probably just visiting a relative.

APRIL 23,  2009

From a North Korean report on the local economy:  "The streets of Pyongyang, seething with a new revolutionary upsurge, look bright with beautiful women in chima jogori (Korean woman's skirt and coat) which give off national lyricism and aroma in spring."

Just thought the investors out there would like to know.

From The New York Times:  Ray Nance, the last survivor of the Bedford Boys, soldiers from the Blue Ridge foothills whose heavy losses at Omaha Beach symbolized the sacrifices of all the Americans who fell at Normandy on D-Day, died Sunday in Bedford, Va. He was 94.

Bedford was said to have had the highest fatality rate on D-Day, per capita, of any town in the United States.  There is sacrifice, and then there is real sacrifice.   

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