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After all, they have a reputation to protect The Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, an oxymoron if ever there was one, have sued Clarendon County,
- After all, they have a reputation to protect
The Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, an oxymoron if ever there was one, have sued Clarendon County, S.C., Sheriff Hoyt Collins for emotional distress and injuries to their reputation. Collins, it seems, disrupted Klan rallies by tearing down fliers, sending spies to meetings, aiming rifles at rally participants and searching Klan members without cause. Some members of the group have been implicated in arson fires at two South Carolina black churches.
- Woofonics
Cotati, Calif., scraped up $5,500 to buy a Belgian Malinois for a police dog. But Collin, the dog, is from the Netherlands and doesn’t speak English. So his partner, Tony Werner, is learning Dutch.
- There goes one great late excuse
A San Francisco inventor has created a pager that will provide instant information about city buses, including how far away the next one is, its arrival time and even how full it is. According to Newsweek, Ken Schmier’s BusTracker will cost from $20 to $50.
- Everyone needs a hobby
A Huntsville, Texas, prison inmate walked out of jail unchallenged after using a green Magic Marker to color his prison whites to make them look like hospital scrubs. Steven Russell was serving a 45-year prison term for theft, aggravated theft and escape. The escape charge had been added after he got himself out of the Harris County Jail by calling the district clerk’s office, posing as a judge and telling the clerk to lower his bail.
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