Meth adds value to neighborhoods

For every pound of meth made, seven pounds of toxic lab waste is produced. Most of this dangerous toxic waste will be dumped secretly in our community.

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Stone Cold Steve Austin wins again!

Stephen Austin, 26, of Birdsboro, is accused of killing 22-year-old Jonathan Austin during an argument in May at their mother's home in Upper Mount Bethel Township.

Trooper Michael Sadusky testified that Austin told him that he and his brother had argued over their mother's medical care. He said Austin told police that his brother swung at him first, before Austin hit his brother in the head with a crowbar.

Austin told police he drove the body to a field near his mother's house and left it there while he went shopping with his wife, Sadusky said.

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Please Recycle

Two Guatamalan nationals remained jailed Thursday on charges related to the discovery of a dead newborn's body in a trash bin in this small Panhandle town.

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Editorial Briefs of Ft. Wayne, Indiana

On Saturday in Mahmudiya, Shiite militiamen kidnapped a 14-year-old Sunni boy named Omar and brought him to a remote compound. The fighters buried Omar up to his neck, then killed him by taking shots at his head.

Later this week, a sheep seller was killed in Tikrit when a bomb hidden under a teenage girl’s severed head exploded as he lifted it.

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In LaPorte, a police officer checking out a tip found a marijuana plant three feet tall growing in a brick planter downtown.

The planters are maintained by members of LaPorte’s Business Improvement District, a group of local business owners who for years have organized volunteers to weed each of the 130-plus planters.

The president of the Business Improvement District told The News-Dispatch of Michigan City that the marijuana probably was planted as a joke. Or was it a suggestion for boosting restaurant traffic? In any case, police pulled the plant and later smoked destroyed it.

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Jesus saves teen's life on birthday

According to Carr, a 16-year-old - who had been drinking alcohol during the party - lunged at a 14-year-old and began stabbing him with a kitchen knife. The victim's brother, who helped stop the attack, also received knife wounds to his hands. The assailant fled the home, stole a Ford F-150 Super Crew pickup truck from a neighbor's house and sped across the S.S. Jolley Bridge into East Naples.

The teenager lost control of the truck and rolled it near the intersection of Routes 951 and 41. When police arrived, they found the wrecked truck along with a prosthetic leg and a pair of pants.

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Faith in Jesus saves man's life, strengthens church

Worshippers were back in Faith Lutheran Church on Sunday for the first time since the church's entrance was damaged after being hit by a pickup...

When emergency workers arrived, [George E.] Lipsey refused treatment. He waved a machete at Manatee County Sheriff's Office deputies and emergency workers. He then held the machete to his own throat, a sheriff's report states.

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Business Is Booming for North Bergen Motel

An attempted murder and suicide couldn't stop business as usual at the Seville Motel yesterday, as the sight of TV cameras, police tape and investigators contrasted with that of the employees who continued their morning cleaning routine.

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"He kind of jumped out of the woods and he was naked"

A West Babylon woman helped cops nab a registered sex offender who cops say had the audacity to masturbate in front of her and her friend as they were arriving home.

The two young women, ages 20 and 21, were parking their car in front of a house when Patrick Oliveri, of North Babylon, stepped out of a nearby wooded area on Sheffield Ave. and exposed himself to them, cops said.

"He kind of jumped out of the woods and he was naked," Suffolk County Police Detective Lt. James Maher. "He proceeded to masturbate in front of these two young women."

He then darted back into the wooded area, put on a pair of shorts and hopped on a bicycle to ride away.

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Laser beam triggers search

Jersey City police called in the Emergency Services Unit to search for some suspects yesterday morning after an officer saw a red laser pointed at him - a sign that he might have been in the sights of a gunman.

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Baby Shafted in NJ

An indictment for murder and attempted murder was handed up yesterday against Jose Julio Ventura, who is accused of repeatedly raping his teenage daughter and telling her to throw their two newborn infants down their apartment building's air shaft, officials said yesterday.

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On Sept. 13, Salmeron's wife was taking a shower when she heard crying coming from the bathroom window and called her husband, Salmeron said in Spanish during an interview yesterday.

He opened the window and saw a streak of blood across the narrow air shaft and turned the beam of his flashlight downward, he recalled. When the light landed on the baby, he said, it stopped crying.

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