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Handcuffed Mexican kids steal U.S. border agent car
Three Mexican minors detained in California on suspicion of smuggling drugs stole a U.S. Border Patrol car while still wearing handcuffs and drove it back across the border to Mexico.
Police in the Mexican border city of Mexicali said on Tuesday the three boys had been driving a pick-up truck on a remote Californian highway when a Border Patrol agent stopped them.
Suspicious they were carrying marijuana; he handcuffed them and put them in his patrol car while he searched their truck.
"As the agent was doing his search, he left the vehicle running and the keys in the ignition, so one of the lads, still wearing handcuffs, grabbed the steering wheel and they headed back to Mexico," a police spokesman said.

Giant ads set for world's busiest runways
Advertisers aiming to reach high-flyers with no alternative distraction will soon have a new method: adverts the size of three football pitches seen by plane passengers coming in to land.
UK-based Ad-Air launched its new service in London on Tuesday; offering brands the chance to place huge adverts near the runways of some of the world's busiest runways.
Ad-Air, backed by 5 million pounds ($10 million) of private equity finance, said it had spent five years securing sites around the world's busiest airports including London Heathrow, Paris, Geneva, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Tokyo and Abu Dhabi.
The first advert will appear in Dubai next month.
Paul Jenkins, managing director of Ad-Air, said the adverts would appear in "clutter-free environments and moments free of any other commercial messages."
Operations Director Haakon Dewing told Reuters the adverts could develop to produce a moving image that starts each time a plane comes into sight.
The adverts, which are low to the ground and 20,000 square meters in size, will only be illuminated where local legislation allows.

Man convicted of murdering parents and sisters won't get estate
KEOSAUQUA (AP) --- Shawn Bentler, who killed his parents and three teenage sisters last year at their southeast Iowa home, is not eligible to receive his family's $2.8 million estate, a judge has ruled.
Bentler also can no longer use the estate to cover his legal expenses, Van Buren County District Judge Daniel P. Wilson ordered in the ruling Friday. State law prohibits convicted murderers from getting any benefit from the slayings, including inheritance by will. The estate will be divided between two girls Bentler fathered with two women, lawyers have said.
Bentler, 23, is serving life in prison for driving from his home in Quincy, Ill., last October and shooting his family in their rural Bonaparte home. He was convicted in May of five counts of first-degree murder, but has filed an appeal to the Iowa Supreme Court. During the trial, prosecutors argued that the unemployed father wanted to inherit money from his parents' successful grain elevator and lumberyard businesses. They said that led Bentler to shoot his parents, Michael and Sandra, and sisters, Sheena, 17, Shelby, 15, and Shayne, 14, each in the head with a .22 caliber rifle.

Man Fined For Sending Text Messages To Ex-Girlfriend
A Virginia Beach man has been convicted of sending annoying text messages to an ex-girlfriend.
A Chesapeake judge fined Brian Query $50, plus $72 for court fees, last week. The charge carried a maximum fine of $500. It's a misdemeanor to call another person's telephone intending to annoy them.
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