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January 12, 2003

THEY JUST CAN'T SEEM TO GET ALONG: After his wife was was arrested last summer for trying to get her ex-boyfriend to kill him, a Marlow, N.H., man bailed her out and took her home.
Now, the woman says, he has been abusive and threatening toward her ever since. She has filed a domestic violence complaint against him.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO PLAYING HARD TO GET? Acting on a dare, a 15-year-old girl performed oral sex on a 16-year-old boy on the school bus taking them to their Massachusetts junior high, as the other students cheered them on.
The school has punished them, and law enforcement officials are trying to figure out what to charge them with.

JUST A LITTLE SPAT, OFFICER: A man driving along in Riverside, Calif., ended an argument with his wife by pushing her out the door of their truck. She became briefly entangled in the seatbelt, but then broke free and was run over. She is OK. He left the scene but was arrested later.

IF YOU WANT TO SEE TWEETY ALIVE ...: Criminals in Taiwan have been kidnapping homing pigeons, trapping them as they flew through the mountains of Kueishan during races, and then threatening to kill the birds unless the owners paid a ransom. Police have intervened.

JUSTICE: ALASKA STYLE: Thieves stole a new Ford Escort which had been idling in the driveway of a home up in Alaska, and the owner thought the police were moving too slow on the matter.
So he and his 18-year-old son set out to find the car, which they did a few hours later. They also smacked around the two young men they found inside, wrestled a gun away from one of them and held them for the cops.

Mike Pingree writes another Looking Glass column in the Boston Sunday Herald. You can read it by clicking here:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists.html

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