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Oklahoma state representative Mike O’Neal, married with three children and author of the state’s proposed “Defense of Marriage Act” (an anti-gay-marriage statute), was charged with felony sexual battery in February for grabbing a woman’s buttocks in an Oklahoma City hotel bar. When the victim and another woman fled, the 55-year-old O’Neal allegedly chased them into an elevator and tried to force his way inside the car.
Adventures With Lubricants
Although the wait time for outpatient brain surgery in Nottingham, England, was at the time 39 days, the Queens Medical Centre suspended senior neurosurgeon Terence Hope in March because he was accused of taking extra soup (or croutons, say some sources) from the hospital cafeteria without paying. The suspension was lifted three days later, by which time three operations had been postponed.
A 21-year-old man and his 14-year-old accomplice were arrested late one night this April in Austin, Minnesota, after allegedly stealing the cash register from the Tendermade Restaurant. Officers called to the scene followed a 100-foot trail of unspooled cash-register tape into some bushes, where the two were hiding. In Honolulu the same month Gavin Bolosan, 26, was arrested for stealing a woman’s purse and using her credit card; police found him via information he allegedly filled in on the warranty form of a digital camera bought with the stolen card.
