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Police: Man in clown pants, fake breasts robs bank

SWISSVALE, Pa.

Authorities say a Pittsburgh-area man robbed a bank wearing a woman’s blond wig, fake breasts under a sweater and clown pants.

Swissvale police say 48-year-old Dennis Hawkins of North Braddock was sitting in a parked car covered in red dye from an exploding packet in a bag of money when he was arrested Saturday.

Police Chief Greg Geppert says Hawkins robbed the bank at gunpoint, using a toy BB gun he had shoplifted from a store.

Geppert says Hawkins then entered a woman’s car. She got out, took her keys and alerted police. Hawkins was found sitting in the car.

He is being held on $230,000 bail. It’s not clear whether he has an attorney.

Union soldier’s headstone corrected after decades

VALLEJO, Calif.

The headstone of a former slave and Union soldier no longer identifies him as a member of the Confederate army, after his family failed to notice the error for years.

More than 100 of Samuel Brown Sr.’s surviving descendants and Civil War buffs in period dress gathered at Vallejo’s Sunrise Memorial Cemetery on Saturday for the dedication of his new headstone.

Brown was born into slavery in Georgia in 1833. He joined the Union Army after he was emancipated and served for about one year. How the 90-year-old was buried under a Confederate headstone at the Northern California cemetery remains unknown.

A cemetery employee spotted the mistake and contacted the Sons of Union Veterans.

The memorial organization had the dedication with the American Civil War Association, a war-reenactment group.

Police: Pa. mom cleaned bath with son’s toothbrush

BETHLEHEM, Pa.

An eastern Pennsylvania woman has been cited with harassment after her son told police she cleaned the bathroom with his toothbrush then returned it to its holder.

Police in Lower Saucon Township say 52-year-old Deborah Woist decided July 18 that a bathroom inside her home needed a good scrubbing because it hadn’t been cleaned in two months.

Her 26-year-old son, Justin Novack, says the scrubbing was done with his toothbrush. He says his mother put it away when she was done.

Novack then called police, claiming his mother applied feces to his toothbrush.

Associated Press

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