Oddly enough


Oddly enough

Jail calls lead to Pa. mom, grandmother’s arrests

WAYNESBURG, Pa.

A burglary suspect’s recorded calls from a county jail in southwestern Pennsylvania have prompted police to charge his mother and grandmother with helping him hide items he reportedly stole from a church.

Online court records don’t list attorneys for 50-year-old Belinda Buskirk and 71-year-old Rose Buskirk. They face a preliminary hearing Wednesday on obstructing law enforcement and other charges based on phone calls made by 26-year-old Christopher Buskirk, of Mather, from the Greene County Jail. All calls at the jail are recorded, and police say Christopher Buskirk was heard telling the women to hide items that he reportedly stole from the First Baptist Church of Waynesburg in April.

The Observer-Reporter newspaper says the women were charged after police found stolen items hidden under a porch of the home all three share. The defendants don’t have a listed phone.

Yarn graffiti knits its way around Cincinnati

CINCINNATI

Statues, parking meters and other fixtures around Cincinnati are being targeted by graffiti artists who use yarn, not spray paint.

The city has become a battleground for what’s known as yarn bombing, yarnstorming and guerrilla knitting. Rogue knitters have been dressing the city in sweaters since the first International Yarn Bombing Day on June 11.

Woolly wear has appeared on Cincinnati statues of Presidents James Garfield and William Henry Harrison, among others.

WLWT-TV reports that a local group of yarnstormers known as the BombShells says on its website that its goals include softening the edges of “an otherwise cruel, harsh environment” and transforming the idea of graffiti into something nondestructive and cozy.

Associated Press

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