“Baby Ben, ” a calf innate on Saturday, Sept 20, with a imprinting of a No. 7 on a head, is shown Vale Wood Farms Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, in Loretto, Pa.(Photo: Todd Berkey/ASSOCIATED PRESS)
LORETTO, Pa. – Moooove over, Ben Roethlisberger. There’s a new No. 7 in western Pennsylvania.
The folks during Vale Wood Farms in Loretto have named a calf “Baby Ben” after a Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback since a cow has a “7″ on his head.
The plantation has posted a calf’s design on a Facebook page, and WJAC-TV visited a plantation about 70 miles easterly of Pittsburgh to see what all a bitch is about.
Carissa Itle-Westrick, a executive of business expansion for a family-owned food-and-grocery farm, is anticipating Roethlisberger won’t mind.
She says, “Baby Ben is extremely cute, so hopefully Big Ben won’t mind pity his namesake.”
The plantation skeleton to arrangement a calf when it opens a pumpkin patch for business subsequent month.
Rescued turtle heads to new home in San Diego
From left, Richie Moretti, Bette Zirkelbach, Matt Brochhausen and Marie Simpson, staff members during a Florida Keys Turtle Hospital in Marathon, Fla., clean Sapphire, a subadult loggerhead sea turtle that can't be expelled and was slated to transport Sept.
25 around FedEx to a new permanent home during a Living Coast Discovery Center nearby San Diego.(Photo: FLORIDA KEYS NEWS BUREAU/AP)
MARATHON, Fla. – A loggerhead sea turtle named Sapphire is removing prepared for a cross-country outing on Sept. 25 to a permanent home in Southern California after convalescing for some-more than a year during Turtle Hospital in a Florida Keys.
Final preparations were being done for a 2,500-mile tour to The Living Coast Discovery Center nearby San Diego.
The 129-pound subadult womanlike can't be expelled in a furious since it can’t plunge yet a dual pounds of weights that are trustworthy with glue to a carapace. As a turtle continues to grow, a weights eventually will tumble off and new weights will need to be installed.
“She has ‘bubble butt’ syndrome,” Turtle Hospital manager Bette Zirkelbach said. “She is incompetent to leave atmosphere from her lungs due to a spinal cord injury, so unfortunately for Sapphire, she is nonreleasable.”
The turtle initial was detected in Feb 2010 with a wound that came from a vessel strike, Zirkelbach said. She was treated for 45 days during a sanatorium and liberated after appearing to be entirely recovered. But in May 2013, she was found floating again off a Keys.
Soon after, state wildlife officials deemed a turtle indispensable a “forever home.”
Zirkelbach pronounced Sapphire is a usually one of a 1,400 turtles a sanatorium has treated and liberated in a past 28 years to return.
To guard a turtle’s health and comfort, Zirkelbach and sanatorium owners Richie Moretti will accompany a turtle on FedEx flights from Miami to Memphis and afterwards on to San Diego.
“Although Sapphire can’t be returned to a wild, a good news is that she will be means to act as an envoy for her species, a endangered sea turtles,” Zirkelbach said.
Maine lady finds 2-headed baby gnawing turtle
Kathleen Talbot was not awaiting to find a two-headed turtle when she stepped out of her residence in Hudson, Maine. You’ve got to see this small guy…or guys?!
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HUDSON, Maine – A lady has come opposite a two-headed baby gnawing turtle that was perplexing to cranky a road.
Kathleen Talbot of Hudson tells WLBZ-TV she found a small quadruped this week while she was examination turtle hatchlings to make certain they arrived safely during a other side of a street.
She beheld one of a turtles had been left behind. It was so unwashed she guess during initial that it had dual feet in front.
It wasn’t until she got home and cleared off a turtle that she satisfied it had dual heads. The turtle fits simply into a palm of her hand.
She named it Frank and Stein.
Man charged after turtles found underneath clothing
DETROIT – A Canadian male has been charged after limit agents during a Detroit-Windsor Tunnel found some-more than 50 turtles strapped to his physique and dark between his legs.
The Detroit News reports that Windsor, Ontario, proprietor Kai Xu was charged Wednesday with smuggling, bootleg trade and exporting. A bond conference was scheduled Sept. 25 in sovereign justice in Detroit.
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service deputy perceived a tip about a vast box sent to a Detroit postal center. Court papers contend it was addressed to Xu and mailed from Alabama. Agents were examination a postal core on Aug. 5 when Xu arrived.
The turtles were found after Xu’s SUV re-crossed a limit and was stopped in Windsor.
Semi drizzling with acerbic duck towed to landfill
MISSOULA, Mont. – An deserted trailer containing 37,000 pounds of decaying duck was towed to a landfill Sept. 26 after sitting during a western Montana lorry stop for presumably a month or longer, and a essence were dumped in a creatively dug pit.
Authorities contend a lorry motorist deserted a trailer after his employer, Dixie River Freight Inc., refused his final for some-more income to broach a then-frozen cargo.
He left a duck value $80,000 to unfreeze and afterwards debase when a fuel for a trailer’s refrigeration section ran out.
The Nampa, Idaho, trucking association reported it blank Aug. 27. The trailer was detected progressing in a week during a Flying J Truck Stop west of Missoula, drizzling acerbic juices onto a petrify and attracting flies.
Nampa military Sgt. Joe Ramirez pronounced it competence have been there for some-more than a month.
The trailer was towed Friday morning to a landfill a few miles down Interstate 90 after Dixie River’s word association filled out a required paperwork and holes in a trailer were plugged, pronounced Alisha Johnson, a Missoula County Health Department environmental specialist.
The toxic bucket was dumped into a uninformed array with a bulldozer hire by to cover it, a Missoulian reported.
Nampa military are acid for a driver, Christopher Hall, 42, who was wanted for a release defilement and now faces a probable burglary charge.
Hall picked adult a trailer Aug. 20 in Springdale, Arkansas, and was ostensible to broach it to Kent, Washington, a subsequent day, military said.
He texted and called Dixie River Freight several times for some-more money, yet a association refused to compensate him until he delivered a load, Ramirez said.
“He was seeking for fuel money, vital expenses, those kind of things, in sell for holding a lorry to a suitable plcae where it was ostensible to be dropped,” Ramirez told KTVB-TV in Boise, Idaho.
The Volvo lorry that hauled a trailer was detected Thursday in a parking lot of a Nampa Walmart, military pronounced in a statement.
There is no open health jeopardy during a Flying J Truck Stop, and a cleanup should be comparatively simple, Johnson said.
“There’s unequivocally not that most there,” she said. “Some of a cinema make it demeanour like a stream regulating out of a trailer, yet it was unequivocally usually a few drips each few minutes.”
Slot appurtenance saves German gambler as military arrive
BERLIN – A gambler in Germany was saved from jail by a enclosure machine.
Police pronounced Sept. 25 that dual officers carrying out slight checks during an arcade in a western city of Bochum recently detected that a male personification a enclosure appurtenance faced an detain warrant.
He had been systematic to compensate a $910 excellent or go to jail for 71 days after facing military during a prior incident.
Police contend that as officers sensitive a male that he faced arrest, a enclosure appurtenance started to peep and a lucent 37-year-old won a kitty of about $1,300.
The male paid his excellent on a mark — in cash.
Minot pumpkin estimated during 1,600 pounds
Calvin Berry, left, and Danny Gates mount behind “Grace,” a pumpkin that is estimated to import 1,600 pounds in Minot, N.D.(Photo: KIM FUNDINGSLAND/AP)
MINOT, N.D. – A Minot male believes his behemoth pumpkin might be a biggest ever grown in North Dakota.
Danny Gates estimated that a hulk pumpkin dubbed “Grace” weighed some-more than 1,600 pounds and was still growing.
Gates pronounced it was pollinated Jun 13 in a hothouse west of Minot. The round pumpkin began to grow so quick that change was indeed manifest by a hour, he said.
“Oh, yes, it was flattering crazy,” Gates told a Minot Daily News. “It started flourishing during 35 to 40 pounds a day. The tallness of expansion was from a center of Jul to a center of August.”
The guess for flourishing a large pumpkin came from Calvin Berry, owners of Berry Acres Pumpkin Patch and Corn Maze. Berry told Gates he’d like to supplement a good pumpkin to his Pumpkin Patch arrangement this fall.
Gates supposed a challenge.
The pumpkin was scheduled to be private from a life-giving vines Oct. 1 and placed on arrangement during Berry Acres on Oct. 2.
Terry Hunter, owners of a Green Thumb greenhouse, entirely permitted a bid by Gates and Berry to try to grow a large pumpkin. The routine resulted in a lot of training and combined a enterprise to make attempts during flourishing even incomparable pumpkins in a future, he said.
Gates says a stream state-record pumpkin weighed in during a whopping 1,280 pounds.
“We’ve found out a lot of things about flourishing a large pumpkin,” Hunter said. “What kind of aspect to put in on. What form of manure and how most fertilizer. It’s been fun for us. This was a initial attempt. We’re in a heavy-hitters right now. Anytime we get to 1,500 pounds, that’s a flattering chosen group.”
500 pounds of squish stolen from Pittsfield church
PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Members of a Pittsfield church contend they’re sad by a burglary of 500 pounds of squish grown in a church garden that was going to be donated to a needy.
The burglary of acorn and butternut squish from a Pittsfield Church of Christ’s “Giving Garden” occurred early Sept. 25.
Pastor Russell Moody saw some boxes apparently left behind by a thieves noted “Farm Fresh Local Produce,” and during initial guess someone had left a boxes for a church to use. Then he saw that a garden had been stripped.
Moody tells The Berkshire Eagle no need to steal, since a church will gladly give food to a needy.
Church members think that since of a volume stolen, and a blurb boxes, a burglar intends to sell a food.
Man breaks into Vermont military station
SHELBURNE, Vt. – A male who guess he was violation into a Vermont propagandize indeed got into a inner military station, military say.
WFFF-TV reports that a man, identified as John Dettor, 59, of Washington, D.C., told military he wanted a gentle place to stay.
Late final week, Dettor used a trade cone to mangle a potion to get into a military hire in Shelburne, meditative it was a school, military said. He was arrested on guess of wrong effect and finished adult in a Chittenden Correctional Center.
Grizzly prompts highway closure in Grand Teton Park
JACKSON, Wyo. – A grizzly bear with a gusto for chokecherries and a dislike of crowds has led to a unfixed closure of partial of a renouned highway in Grand Teton National Park.
The Jackson Hole News Guide reports a park formerly sealed a Moose-Wilson Road for about 10 days since grizzly No. 760 was stuffing adult on chokecherries in a area. The highway reopened Sept. 19, yet park managers sealed it again dual days after since a 4- or 5-year-old grizzly was still in a area and sketch a throng of onlookers.
The Moose-Wilson Road is an 8-mile scenic expostulate between Teton Village and Moose, Wyoming.
A park mouthpiece says a bear’s movements combined a trade jam as visitors attempted to see and sketch a animal. The bear also became agitated.
Central Michigan launches beer-making program
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. – Colleges and drink have a prolonged common history, and Central Michigan University is holding that partnership to a new spin with a origination of a module to sight and plead experts in “fermentation science.”
Central Michigan announced skeleton to launch a module in tumble 2015. It’s directed quite during ancillary and boosting a state’s fast-growing qualification brewing industry.
Microbrewers now beget an estimated $1 billion in annual mercantile activity in Michigan.
The Mount Pleasant propagandize bills a undergraduate module as a initial in a state privately directed during providing a “hands-on preparation focused on qualification beer.”
It will embody classroom and lab work in biochemistry, chemistry and microbiology, as good as a 200-hour internship during a brewery.
Cannon backfires during Fort McHenry in Baltimore
BALTIMORE – In late-breaking news from a 19th century, there’s been a cannon recall.
The National Park Service pronounced in a matter that an iron facsimile ancestral cannon exploded during a celebratory banishment Sept. 16 during Fort McHenry in Baltimore, rising a 100-pound pile of steel on a cannon’s behind some-more than 300 feet afield and promulgation some other waste even farther.
The cannon was filled with powder and dismissed during a send-off for a swift of high ships that visited Baltimore for a Star-Spangled Spectacular, a weeklong jubilee of a Star-Spangled Banner’s 200th anniversary. The banishment was a salute to a Coast Guard Cutter Eagle and a Pride of Baltimore II, a reproduction of a topsail schooner that sank in a Caribbean in 1986.
No spectators were harmed during a incident, yet one organisation member postulated teenager peep browns and cuts during a explosion.
The bang did, however, shake a Maryland-based cannon manufacturer’s hire with a parks use — during slightest temporarily.
In a Sept. 19 inner reserve warning sent to all parks with ancestral weapons demonstrations and performed by The Associated Press, a parks use announced that all creates and models of cannons from a manufacturer Cannons Online will be taken out of use until serve notice.
A call to Cannons Online was not immediately returned.
According to a memo, steel waste was flung as distant as 400 feet from a cannon after a explosion. The memo also leads all parks with ancestral weapons demonstrations to examination their reserve policies and handling procedures.
The park use says it has dangling a black powder ancestral weapons banishment module during Fort McHenry.
National Parks Service orator Mike Litterst pronounced Fort McHenry and a National Parks Service have non-stop an review into a incident, and called a deputy from a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to a scene.
ATF orator Ken Ryan pronounced a organisation is not endangered in a investigation, yet reliable that one deputy did temporarily support park staff after a explosion.
Texas firefighters rescue pet frog from blaze
WESTWORTH VILLAGE, Texas – Firefighters who doused a abandon during a North Texas residence also have done certain a sole proprietor didn’t croak.
Fort Worth firefighters detected a pet frog and returned a amphibian to a daughter of a homeowners, who were out of town.
Battalion Chief Richard Harrison pronounced Wednesday that firefighters have saved dogs and cats, yet it’s a initial time he recalls a frog rescued.
Firefighters on a dusk of Sept. 23 were dispatched to a glow in Westworth Village. Crews searched a residence and found no humans while bringing a glow underneath control.
Then Jamie Wilson arrived and asked glow crews to demeanour for her family’s frog.
A firefighter located a protection frog in a potion container.
Authorities are perplexing to establish what sparked a glow that caused about $60,000 in damage.
‘Sleepy Hollow’ actors visiting Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
SLEEPY HOLLOW, N.Y. – “Sleepy Hollow” is entrance to Sleepy Hollow.
Two of a actors from a Fox TV series, Orlando Jones and Lyndie Greenwood, are slicing a badge in a New York encampment to open a Halloween season.
The encampment director says a Headless Horseman also was holding partial Sept. 26. He says a actors also were visiting a grave of Washington Irving in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
Irving’s scary 1819 brief story, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” has helped make a encampment and surrounding area a traveller end during Halloween.
It also desirous a TV show, in that story favourite Ichabod Crane is ecstatic to a complicated world.
But a TV uncover is constructed in Wilmington, North Carolina, rather than Sleepy Hollow, that is 25 miles north of New York City.
Middle Belt or Middlebelt? Signs make change
REDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. – The name of a highway on new signs along a revamped widen of Detroit-area turnpike isn’t what motorists are used to seeing, yet officials contend it’s correct.
Signs on Interstate 96 surprise motorists that they can exit onto Middle Belt road. The Detroit Free Press reports a two-word spelling of Middle Belt is a change from a past, when many referred to a highway by one word: Middlebelt.
Michigan Department of Transportation mouthpiece Diane Cross says she didn’t know how prolonged signs with a improper names were on a freeway.
The one-word spelling is found all over a place, including on signs on aspect streets and grill menus.
A seven-mile widen of I-96 in Livonia and Wayne County’s Redford Township reopened Sunday after a $148 million project.
Police: ‘Ghost’ held on notice video
ESPANOLA, N.M. – Surveillance video from a northern New Mexico military hire prisoner a bizarre picture — a ghost, military say.
KOAT-TV reports that Espanola military officer Karl Romero says he saw a phantom-like being pierce opposite a shade Sept. 20 that was monitoring a fortified sortie port.
According to a notice video, a becloud bright, white figure is seen walking opposite a cumulative area during night.
Romero says he reported a sighting to his supervisors, who did not find anyone nearby a gate. Police contend there is no approach in or out of a cumulative area yet a gates opening and an alarm sounding.
Detective Solomon Romero says he didn’t know if a puzzling figure was an apparition, yet unsolved murders in a area have officers talking.
Illinois city outlines birthday with mega bratwurst
Volunteer brat rollers work to keep a 200-foot bratwurst in place as it is grilled in downtown Belleville, Ill.(Photo: AP)
BELLEVILLE, Ill. – Residents in a southwest Illinois city of Belleville distinguished a town’s 200th birthday with a 200-foot bratwurst, finish with a 200-foot bun.
Larry Schubert and his organisation from Schubert’s Packing Co. in Millstadt used about 120 pounds of beef to make a brat, that volunteers grilled Sept 21, a final day of a city’s bicentennial celebration, a Belleville News-Democrat reported.
A few days earlier, a tavern hosted a half-size use run for barbecuing a mega-bratwurst.
Lindenwood University and Southwestern Illinois College athletes helped impetus a bun down a categorical thoroughfare, creation a far-reaching spin in a parking lot to finish a delivery. The athletes also helped hurl a bratwurst onto a 200-foot steel barbecuing trough.
Event organizers motionless not to compensate a price to have a bratwurst record try famous by a World Record Academy.
The eventuality lifted $1,600 for inner food pantries.
Greece: Homeless used in VIP cab scam
ATHENS, Greece – Police have destitute a artificial VIP cab use in Greece that was regulating a bank accounts of homeless people to collect deposits from cab drivers.
Police orator Christos Parthenis pronounced Monday that 7 people have been arrested.
They are indicted of holding some-more than $141,300 in deposits from drivers who were betrothed a patron list that would embody officials from a European Commission and a World Health Organization.
Parthenis pronounced a 66-year-old male and 39-year-old woman, both Greek, were indicted of profitable panhandlers and homeless people in Athens to use their bank accounts to collect a deposits.
Taxi drivers, approached around a country, typically paid a $1,925 deposition to join a service, that betrothed to compensate them $385 a day for during slightest a month.
Police: Minnesota boy, 7, goes on joyride
WINONA, Minn. – A 7-year-old child took a joyride in his mom’s competition utlility vehicle, military say.
Police were called Sept. 15 on a news of an haphazard motorist in a Chevrolet Traverse. The motorist was going solemnly and weaving.
Officers arrived to see a SUV solemnly relocating in a parking lot of an unit complex. Police found a child in a backseat of a sealed automobile after he apparently changed from a driver’s seat.
Officers swayed a child to clear a doors. He led officers to his apartment, where his mom pronounced she had depressed defunct and her son had detected a automobile keys.
The Winona Daily News reports a child was not mistreat and a SUV was not damaged. No charges are planned, yet a box was referred to village services.
Police hunt for exposed jogger in New Castle
NEW CASTLE, Del. – New Castle County military contend they are acid for a male who has been seen walking and jogging exposed by a village of Chaddwyck.
Police were called to a area Friday night for a news of a questionable person. A declare told military she saw a male jogging exposed by a area Friday. She also saw him jogging exposed on Sept. 18 and wearing usually a trek dual nights before.
The declare pronounced a jogger done no bid to censor his nakedness.
Police contend notice footage confirms a declare account.
The think is described as a white male about 6-feet high in his 20s with a skinny build and black hair.
Police broach cake after Pizza Hut motorist hurt
Portland (Ore.) military officers Michael Filbert, left, and Royce Curtiss, right, finish a pizza smoothness to a Huckins home after a Pizza Hut smoothness motorist was mistreat in a crash.(Photo: STEVE HUCKINS/AP)
PORTLAND, Ore. – After a pizza smoothness motorist was harmed in a pile-up in Portland, dual military officers finished a smoothness for him.
Steve Huckins tells KOIN that he and his mother were endangered Sept. 1 when a officers showed adult during their home, yet they started shouting when they perceived a pizza.
They’re thanking officers Michael Filbert and Royce Curtiss for going out of their way.
The Pizza Hut motorist mistreat his neck and behind in a collision during an intersection.
Charges forsaken opposite homeless male in suite
PITTSBURGH – Prosecutors in western Pennsylvania have forsaken charges opposite a homeless male found squatting inside a presidential apartment of a Pittsburgh hotel final fall.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that Allegheny County prosecutors on Sept. 22 withdrew rapist tamper and burglary of services charges opposite Jeffrey Watson, 48.
Watson was arrested in Nov after guest checking into a $2,500-a-night apartment during a Omni William Penn Hotel saw him sleeping on a cot and told hotel staff.
Police pronounced Watson told them that he had been in a city for some-more than a month and slept wherever he could find “somewhere comfortable.”
Mike Manko, orator for a Allegheny County district attorney’s office, pronounced he did not know because a charges had been withdrawn. Hotel officials did not lapse a call seeking comment.
Women find python in a case of let car
KENNEBUNK, Maine – Two women non-stop a case of their let automobile to collect their luggage and were greeted by a snake, military say.
The women gathering a let automobile from Boston to Kennebunk, where they detected a round python Sept. 24 and called police.
The lizard was incited over to a Maine Warden Service a subsequent day and was being ecstatic to a Center for Wildlife in York.
Ball pythons generally grow to 3 to 5 feet prolonged and aren’t deliberate dangerous. The round python is a common pet snake, yet authorities contend it’s misleading because a lizard was in a vehicle.
Kennebunk Deputy Police Chief Dan Jones tells a Portland Press Herald that a women wanted a new let automobile even after a lizard was removed.
Ohio college boss backs skunk safety
OXFORD, Ohio – An Ohio college boss says a propagandize supports reserve for skunks, and for other bushy creatures, too.
Miami University President David Hodge has thanked People for a Ethical Treatment of Animals for a offer to send reserve posters after a skunk recently got a conduct stranded in a drink can nearby a companionship house. The posters titillate people to vanquish cans for animal safety.
Hodge wrote to PETA to contend that a Advocates for Animals tyro organisation will work on a print reserve campaign. He says a propagandize appreciates a bid to remind a village to vanquish and recycle cans, not usually to reserve resources yet to strengthen animals from harm.
“We share your enterprise to have no some-more stranded skunks!” Hodge wrote.
The posters PETA offering Sept. 22 to send to Miami uncover a raccoon with conduct stranded in a tin can and says vanquish cans for animal safety, urging: “Don’t let this occur again.”
“Aluminum cans, cosmetic cups, and open jars can turn genocide traps for inspired or scientific animals if they aren’t likely of properly,” PETA Senior Director Colleen O’Brien pronounced in a minute to Hodge.
An Oxford animal control officer was means to giveaway a skunk yet being sprayed. PETA says it is shipping vegan cookies to Oxford military in appreciation for their merciful efforts to assistance a skunk.
Poll: Christie not alone in Springsteen fandom
TRENTON, N.J. – It’s no tip Gov. Chris Christie is a Bruce Springsteen megafan, and New Jersey residents don’t seem to mind a obsession.
That’s according to a new Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press Poll that was released Sept. 22 in respect of a Boss’s 65th birthday.
The check finds scarcely half of Jersey residents contend Christie’s mania is “kind of cool” — some-more than double a series who find it a small embarrassing.
And a governor’s in good company. More than 40 percent of those polled described themselves Springsteen fans, while 34 percent have Springsteen song in their personal collections.
More than half also feel a slightest a small unapproachable meaningful a Boss hails from their state.
The check of 802 adults has a domain of blunder of and or reduction 3.5 commission points.
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