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The Department of Defense is overhauling how it keeps track of its guns and explosives, and Congress is requiring  more accountability from the Pentagon - both in response to an Associated Press investigation that showed lost or stolen military weapons were reaching America's streets.  The missing weaponry includes assault rifles, machine guns, handguns, armor-piercing grenades, artillery shells, mortars, grenade launchers and plastic explosives.

 

 

 

 

After Sharon Whatley, 50, of Eros, La., tried to turn herself in at the Monroe Police Department, but couldn't cite any crime she committed. Police found no outstanding warrants, but when Whatley repeatedly refused to leave, she successfully got herself arrested for trespassing. 

 A federal court in Germany ruled that a man who injured himself at home while walking from his bed to his desk was technically "commuting" and is thus entitled to Worker’s compensation.

 

A Louisiana woman is suing Heineken for "false and deceptive representation, claiming its "0.0" brand of alcohol free beer contains alcohol. Heineken’s website states the beverage has less than 0.03 percent alcohol, comparable to the percentage found in bread, fruit juices, and bananas. But Kathleen Wilson insists that even that "minuscule amount of alcohol" isn't zero, and that she is entitled to damages.

A California city voted to ban some gender-specific words in its city code and replace them with gender-neutral options, Berkeley's municipal code will no longer feature words like - manhole and manpower and instead say, "maintenance hole" and “human effort" or "workforce," The measure passed unanimously Tuesday and replaces more than two dozen terms. Gender-specific references to job titles, like “policeman" and "craftsmen” will also be changed in the code, to "police officer and "craftspeople" or "artisans." “Sorority" and "Fraternity" would change to “collegiate Greek system residence." And the use of gendered pronouns like "he" and "she” would be replaced with specific titles, like "the attorney" or "the candidate." Rigel Robinson, the council member who proposed the measure, praised its passage with a tweet Tuesday, "There IS power in language. This is a small move, but it matters,” he tweeted. The Associated Press

Good self-defense after a Colorado couple got into what police called "a boxing match" with a bear and its cub that had invaded their home. The man, 71, pummeled the bear with his fists while his wife struck it with a baseball bat, sending the invaders fleeing.

An Oregon woman fell into a backyard septic tank and was trapped neck-deep in raw sewage for three days. It was "a scary situation," said paramedic Nick Wettlaufer.

Alex Housden, news anchor at KOCO 5 TV in Oklahoma Cty, stunned her African-American co-anchor Jason Hackett that a baby gorilla in a video segment "kind of looks like you.” Housden later tearfully apologized.

San Francisco's Board of Supervisors has approved new "person first" language guidelines to refer to convicted felons. The guidelines call for former inmates to be called "justice-involved" persons or "returning residents" Parolees will be known as "people under supervision”, "We don't want people to be forever labeled for the worst things that they have done” said Supervisor Matt Haney.

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