A Methuen, Mass., mother who recently separated from her husband and had her hours cut at work says an image of Jesus Christ she sees on her iron has reassured her that "life is going to be good." Mary Jo Coady first noticed the image on Nov. 22 when she walked into her daughter's room. The brownish residue on the bottom of the iron looks like the face of a man with long hair. The 44-year-old Coady was raised Catholic. She and her two college-age daughters agree that the image looks like Jesus and is proof that "he's listening." Coady tells The Eagle-Tribune she hopes her story will inspire others during the holidays. She says she plans to keep the iron in a closet and buy a new one.
Scarborough, Maine, police say a man took a cash machine from inside a convenience store and drove off with it in the back of a stolen pickup truck. Police found the front door of the convenience store ripped off late Sunday. They soon spotted the pickup with the ATM in the back. Police say the truck backed into a police cruiser before speeding off.
After a short pursuit, police arrested 31-year-old Brian Andrews of Old Orchard Beach. They say he was driving a stolen truck. Andrews is being held at the Cumberland County Jail on charges including aggravated assault, eluding an officer, burglary and refusal to submit to an arrest. There was no paperwork at the jail today indicating whether he has an attorney.
The woman who got police attention at Diva's Gentlemens Club in Lexington, Ky., wasn't on stage, but at the front door. WLEX-TV in Lexington reported a white woman with shoulder-length blond hair pulled a gun and demanded money from the cashier at the entrance of the strip club, then got away on foot. The cashier wasn't hurt. The robbery occurred about 10 p.m. Sunday and the suspect was wearing a white raincoat, black pants and boots.
Visitors to Warsaw's zoo are being greeted by two "Homo sapiens" peering out from a cage - humans in animal skins trying to spark interest in man's caveman ancestors. Organizer Maria Mastalerz says the weeklong "performance" aims to attract interest in a play, "Caveman," showing in the Polish capital. But she says it also carries a message that humans today are not all that different from their prehistoric ancestors. Dressed in furs and animal skins, the young woman and man smoked a fish over a fire Friday, poking it with a stick, or stared from behind bars at startled zoo visitors. The display runs through Sunday.
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