Small Bits of News

Boy Charged After "Horsing Around" In School
A 13-year-old Perry County boy was charged with simple assault after state police said a school prank went too far.
State police Trooper Brian Clark said two 13-year-old eighth-grade boys were in class at West Perry Middle School Jan. 16 when one boy allegedly stuck a sharpened pencil, point up, under the buttocks of the other.
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Virginia Beach Police Seize Photos From Abercrombie Store
Police, saying they were responding to citizen complaints, carted away two large promotional photographs from the Abercrombie & Fitch store in Lynnhaven Mall on Saturday and cited the manager on obscenity charges.
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Man says exorcism led to wife's death
A man accused of killing his wife says he was trying to exorcise a demon from her when the devil entered his body and caused her to die,

Elderly woman was injured by hit-and-run driver
A mobility scooter driver left an elderly woman with a broken leg and wrist after a hit-and-run accident. Audrey Lane, 84, from Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, was hit by the electric vehicle which drove off at less than 8mph. Mrs Lane is being treated in hospital while CCTV footage is being used to try to trace the driver. "She remembers the incident clearly. He told her: 'I can't stop. I'm busy', then went off."

Burglars ignored man dead in bed
Two teenagers carried on burgling a house after finding the owner dead in bed, Cardiff Crown Court has heard. The judge said Steven Thomas, 18, and Wesley Price, 17, were guilty of "sacrilege" by continuing to ransack the house instead of raising the alarm. They fled with a PlayStation and other valuables from the home of John Hoddinott, 50, in Merthyr Tydfil. Judge David Wynn Morgan told the pair: "It does not require much imagination to anticipate the shock you had when you discovered the body in the house. "But what is really disturbing is after that discovery you both took part in stealing property from the house. "