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Atheists say they get kudos for church billboard

MANSFIELD, Ohio

An Ohio atheist group says it has been commended by some people for a billboard put up by a church’s pastor.

The road sign in Mansfield features the statement “There is no God” in capital letters. Below that, it says, “Don’t believe everything you hear.”

Pastor Frank Moore of McElroy Road Church of Christ tells the Mansfield News Journal he wanted to honor God with an ad that would get people thinking. He says he remembered how his parents always advised him not to believe everything people told him.

The Mansfield-based Mid Ohio Atheists says it has been contacted and congratulated by people incorrectly thinking it put up the billboard. The group says it wants to thank the church for, as the atheists say, “advertising our thoughts.”

2 pajama-clad girls take stolen goat for walk

MANKATO, Minn.

Everything went according to plan for two pajama-clad stepsisters who took a goat they’d freed from a Minnesota zoo for a late-night walk.

Until they told the Mankato police officer who stopped them about 11:30 p.m. Saturday that the animal lived in their bedroom closet.

The stepsisters, age 6 and 7, said they regularly took the goat out for late-night walks because Dad didn’t know their mother had bought it two weeks earlier.

The unconvinced officer walked the girls home, where their parents explained they’d attended a birthday party at the Sibley Park Zoo earlier that day.

That’s when they hatched a plan to take one of the goats home.

The Free Press says police don’t know how the girls freed the goat, which was returned to the zoo.

Sharp-dressed burglar takes pennies from Pa. store

UNIONTOWN, Pa.

Police are looking for a sharp-dressed man who broke into a western Pennsylvania dollar store but who, apparently, stole only pennies.

Uniontown police say surveillance video shows a man breaking into the Family Dollar store shortly before midnight Sunday.

Police say the man can be seen kicking out the bottom of a glass door to get into the store and then going to a cash register, which was empty.

Police say it appears the only thing the man stole was some pennies held in a red plastic shot glass on a cashier’s counter.

The pennies apparently were there for anyone who might need them to make exact change.

Uniontown is about 40 miles south of Pittsburgh.

Associated Press