Love Thy Neighbor it Might be Your Sister

Headline:Man Discovers Neighbor Is His Long Lost Sister
From: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 3.1.9
Caption: Love Thy Neighbor it Might be Your Sister

A brother and sister in England spent 40 years trying to find each other — then discovered they lived only 300 yards apart.
Ken Whitty, 64, walked past 62-year-old Yvonne’s house countless times and even saw her in the garden, but did not recognize her.
They were reunited only after Whitty wrote to his local paper appealing for help in his search.
Soon after his letter was published, he got a phone call saying: "Hello, this is Yvonne."
The pair spent their early years in Ordsall, Greater Manchester.
They were still kids when their parents died and were cared for by a family friend.

Headline: Popcorn trail leads police to suspect
From: CNN.com
Date of clip: 3.1.9
Caption: Has he not heard of bread crumbs?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A trail of popcorn on New Year's Day led Sacramento police to a man wanted on a warrant, authorities said.

Tyree Brown, 21, was taken into custody at a Natomas apartment on Thursday for a theft warrant and on suspicion of possession of stolen property, Sgt. Norm Leong said....

Headline: Porcupine Plague Causes $100K In Damage In Colo.
From: CBsnews.com
Date of clip: 2.1.9
Caption: Porcupine capers

Porcupines are becoming a prickly pest for Telluride-area residents. Residents said the rodents are chomping on the bark of spruce trees, yard trees, and have killed 50-foot-high native trees. The damage is estimated at more than $100,000 in the Mountain Village above Telluride.

Porcupines also favor salty and sweaty items, so plywood treated with a sodium-based substance has become attractive to them. They've also munched on shoes, vehicle tires, and tool handles.

Headline: Stressed pets becoming pill-poppers
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 2.1.9
Caption: Pooch pops pills

VETERINARIANS are being pressured by pet owners to prescribe pills to counter a range of physical and mental conditions in cats and dogs.

Brisbane veterinarian and former Australian Veterinary Association president Diane Sheehan said yesterday that some pet owners trawled the internet looking for solutions for pet misbehaviour.

Owners were seeking to address problems in their pets including obesity, amnesia, separation anxiety, depression and obsessive compulsive disorder, The Courier-Mail reports.

Prescribing pills to alter pet behaviour in the US has ballooned into a $US33 billion a year industry and has taken off in Australia and Britain.

Dr Sheehan said the amount of pet drugs available had at least doubled in the past two decades.

Headline: 'Hello, 911? I'm Drunk Driving Right Now'
From: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 2.1.9 (original date: 2.12.8)
Caption: Drunk and stupid

A 17-year-old girl in Bismarck called 911 on New Year's Eve "to report herself driving under the influence," police Lt. Randy Ziegler said. "I've never heard of such a thing happening, and neither has anyone here."

The girl told authorities her location shortly before midnight Wednesday and officers found her in a parked car near downtown, Ziegler said. She failed a sobriety test and was arrested for failing to have control of her vehicle while intoxicated.

Headline: Thousands of Shoes Block Miami Traffic
From: news.scotsman.com
Date of clip: 2.1.9
Caption: Shoemaker Woes

Thousands of shoes were dumped on a Miami expressway causing significant traffic delays.
The Florida Highway Patrol received the report during rush hour Friday morning, Lt. Pat Santangelo said. A private contractor brought a front-end loader and a dump truck to the half-mile stretch of highway. Workers were able to clear at least one lane after a short time by sweeping all the shoes to shoulder, but delays were expected to last until all the shoes could be removed.