Nice scream
Published Date:
06 March 2008
A nine-year-old girl won a Fay Wray scream-alike contest in New York, staged to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the premiere of King Kong.
Shannon O'Hanlon beat 20 other contenders to win a DVD of the black-and-white 1933 movie starring Wray and a trip to the top of the Empire State Building.
The judge was Wray's daughter, 71-year-old Susan Riskin.
Pop go the police
Police responding to a burglar alarm in New Zealand thought they stumbled on an illegal drug lab.
When they opened the garage of a house in Hamilton they discovered a still and other equipment and cordoned off the street.
But the effort was called off after a woman inside the house explained she used it to make ginger beer.
Sleepy siege
A stand-off with a suspected gunman ended when police entered his apartment and found him asleep in bed. Officers had set up barricades for blocks around Joshua Garr's home in Iowa and evacuated more than a dozen nearby residents after his sister reported he planned to shoot someone.
Four hours later, after failing to contact Garr by phone or loudspeaker, officers protected themselves with shields and entered the apartment to find him sleeping.
The full article contains 208 words and appears in Wigan Evening Post newspaper.
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Last Updated:
06 March 2008 4:15 PM
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Source:
Wigan Evening Post
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Location:
Wigan