Lead Story
In February an arbitrator ruled that officials at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, must reimburse a civilian employee for the five days he had been suspended from work without pay for illegally using a government truck. The government had originally proposed to suspend him for 30 days but reduced that to 5. However, the arbitrator ruled that the law requires a minimum suspension of 30 days, and so the government must reimburse him for the improper punishment.
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This month, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, former welder Violet Hobaugh, 76, begins her second year of residence in a five-by-five-foot tree house, according to a report from the Knight-Ridder news service. The state Department of Transportation cut down a nearby tree to widen a highway, and Hobaugh fears that if she leaves her tree the state will fell it too. She says the tree protects her house from cars that careen off the road.
Creme de la Weird
A 39-year-old man was gunned down by a friend in his home in Dayton, Ohio, in January after an argument over whether light or dark liquor was better and who could drink the most.
