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Family continues road trip to Ore. with dead grandma in RV
A Hillsboro family says it was a labor of love that prompted them to drive their dead grandmother halfway across the country in an RV.
Family members said they were advised by a doctor that if their ailing grandmother passed away during the cross country road trip, they should continue on, and that's exactly what they did. Polly Craft, 79, wanted to return to Oregon to see relatives before she died. She suffered from kidney failure and Alzheimer's disease.

Dude shoots himself in nuts while robbing store
Police say a man accidentally shot himself in the groin as he was robbing a convenience store. A clerk told police a man carrying a semiautomatic handgun entered the Village Pantry Tuesday morning demanding cash and a pack of cigarettes. The clerk put the cash in a bag and as she turned to get the cigarettes, she heard the gun discharge. Police say surveillance video shows the man shooting himself as he placed the gun in the waistband of his pants. The clerk wasn't injured. A short time later, police found Derrick Kosch, 25, at a home with a gunshot wound to his right testicle and lower left leg. » Article here

Dude drives his car into McDonald's after not getting fries
Police said a man was so angry he didn't get the fries he ordered he rammed his car into a McDonald's restaurant. Jacksonville police said David Spillers drove through the play area and smashed into the side of a McDonald's restaurant and then sped off. Police tracked him down by following a trail of broken glass to his car, which was parked at a nearby apartment complex. No one was injured in the incident. Spillers is facing several charges. » Article here

Hold On, Officer
A motorist who paid a speeding ticket he got from a state trooper who used out-of-state license plates on his unmarked patrol car wants his money back.
"What gives the police the right to drive illegally on the highway?" said Dave Milbrandt, a company finance manager. "Do they have a special exemption?"
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Watch what you hang from trailer hitches
Drive in Virginia with outsized rubber replica testicles dangling from your trailer hitch and face a fine under a bill before the General Assembly. Taste and even decency not with standing, Del. Lionel Spruill introduced the bill yesterday as a safety measure: male genitalia swaying from a car distracts other drivers. His bill would make displaying the ornamentation a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $250.

Fire family saved by trampoline
A mother and her two children were saved from their burning house in Norfolk thanks to a quick-thinking neighbour and a trampoline. Fire crews were called to the house in King's Lynn in the early hours to find a fire on the ground floor and the woman and children trapped upstairs. The children were thrown to neighbour Stephen Kirk who then put a trampoline under a window to save the mother.

Mouse foot in pickles 'normal'
A Slovenian woman who found a mouse foot in a jar of pickles was shocked to be told it was "completely normal". Lenka Komparova contacted the Health Ministry as she prepared to sue the company producing the food. But, instead of supporting her claim for compensation, officials said she should see the mouse foot as a "special additive". Ministry spokeswoman Vivijan Potocnik said: "It is completely normal in big factories to have mice wandering around, and yes, every now and then they get caught amongst the machines and do get bottled, seasoned, preserved and even make it in one piece to consumers." Although not very pleasant to see, however, they pose no health threat at all. During the preservation process even traces of any salmonella bacteria are eliminated in food. A mice-foot therefore could be classified as a special additive to the pickles."