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In August police in Chandler, Arizona, confiscated a videotape that was allegedly made by four teenage boys known as the Insane Skate Posse. The tape, designed to recruit new members for their gang, showed the boys having fun smoking marijuana, drinking beer, destroying a parked car, and making harassing phone calls.

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Vermont Business Magazine reported last spring that the Holstein-Friesian Association, which exports pedigreed dairy cattle, gets shipments quickly to their clients in Europe and Saudi Arabia by delivering the cattle in Federal Express planes.

WKID, a Christian-oriented radio station in Vevay, Indiana, was burglarized and set on fire in September, probably by a man who became angry earlier in the day when a DJ refused to play his request, “Don’t Take the Girl” by Tim McGraw.

Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): Illustration/Shawn Belschwender.