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July 2, 2009

THURSDAY'S WEIRD NEWS July 2, 2009

• Police: Robbers hit NY gas station, ran out of gas



KIRKWOOD, N.Y. (AP) — State police in New York say two Pennsylvania men robbed a gas station and might have gotten away if they had also fueled up.

Troopers said they caught 29-year-old Lonnie Meckwood, of Carbondale, and 51-year-old Phillip Weeks, of Tunkhannock (TUHNK’-ann-uhck), after their getaway car ran out of gas while the were trying to escape late Monday night.

They’re accused of using a knife to rob a clerk at the Quickway Convenience Store in Kirkwood, near the New York-Pennsylvania border about 80 miles south of Syracuse. The clerk wasn’t hurt.

Police found the pair about a mile away. Their car was on the side of the road.

They’re being held in the Broome County Jail without bail. Troopers don’t know if they have lawyers.



• Maine Dems circle GOP contender over stylized ’O’



AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — O, boy.

The executive director of the Democratic Party in Maine is accusing a Republican who’s considering a run for governor of stealing the stylized “O” from President Barack Obama’s Web site.

Arden Manning says Les Otten’s “O” is a close copy of one on the Obama Web site.

The attack isn’t sitting well with Otten. He says the Democratic Party appears to have forgotten that others have noted the Obama “O” looks like the Pepsi logo.

But he also says his exploratory committee didn’t copy anyone’s Web site. He says it was built “from scratch” by a local company.



• Real blaze hits Ohio house used for fire training

SYLVANIA, Ohio (AP) — A vacant house in flames must have looked familiar to northwestern Ohio firefighters. Less than 24 hours earlier, they were at the same house putting out fires for a training exercise.

The cause of the fire early Wednesday in the Toledo suburb of Sylvania is under investigation.

On Tuesday morning, “controlled burn” fires had been set in the same house so four local lawmakers could suit up and accompany firefighters inside. The exercise was part of a program that gives officials a taste of what firefighting is like so they can understand fire department equipment and personnel needs.

The property will eventually be cleared to become public parkland.

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