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Richard Shane Collins, 22, escaped from a police holding cell in Manassas, Virginia, in November by squeezing through a ten-by-ten-inch opening used to pass food and papers to prisoners.
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Police in Key West, Florida, were called to a house in September to quell a loud argument in which a 28-year-old woman was accusing her 29-year-old female friend of attempting to steal her strap-on deluxe model vibrator, which she said was valued at $90.
The vice president of the chamber of commerce in Clinton, Missouri, announced in October she was voting Republican this year. The veep, Georgianna Bush, goes by “George.”
Charged in Saint Louis recently with operating a church as a front for organized crime was the grand sheikh of the Moorish Science Temple–Jerry Lewis-Bey.
Police in Raleigh, North Carolina, charged Vernon Edsel Brooks, 34, with robbing a Radio Shack in July, despite his having disabled a video-surveillance recorder by taking the camera with him as he fled. Because he forgot to take the recorder to which the camera was connected, police found a tape containing a full facial shot of Brooks reaching for the camera.
