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After its plans were rejected in October in the town of Bushnell, Florida, Pyramids Unlimited said it would approach several other towns with its idea of building a 50-story, pyramid-shaped tomb that could contain 300,000 crypts and would house a chapel at the top. Said Pyramids spokesman Ben Everidge of the $200 million project, “We’re not talking some tacky mall here.”
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After David May resigned in October from the office of the registrar of vital statistics in Buffalo, New York, he asked to be paid the $8,500 in unused annual leave he’d accrued. May resigned because he’d been caught on videotape pocketing cash from people paying for documents such as birth certificates and had allegedly taken more than $200,000. According to the city’s labor relations director, May is legally entitled to the $8,500.
Donna Dunik, 63, was arrested in November for trying to smuggle supplies to her incarcerated son in Warren, Ohio. In her sock and bra she stuffed colored balloons that contained marijuana, paste cocaine, flake cocaine, vitamin B (to cut the cocaine), and yeast, (an ingredient for homemade wine). And in Lancaster, Ohio, in October Elsie Sheets, 54, was indicted for helping her son and his friends dispose of the bodies of two schoolmates they allegedly killed. According to prosecutors, Sheets then brought the kids home and made pizza for them.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): Illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
