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Pa. constables: Fugitive, family in animal shelter

UNIONTOWN, Pa.

State constables say they found a fugitive drunken-driving suspect, his wife, two children and several pets staying in a shuttered animal shelter in southwestern Pennsylvania.

Constables Mark Pasquale tells the Herald-Standard in Uniontown they found 37-year-old Richard Allen Huey on Wednesday at the defunct Steve Courson Humane Society shelter in North Union Township. The constables say Huey slipped out a rear door as they arrived and remains at large.

The constables say Huey’s wife, the couple’s 8-month-old baby and another infant they were baby-sitting were in the shelter with five dogs and several cats.

Pasquale tells the newspaper the couple had converted the shelter’s office area into a makeshift apartment. But he says the animals were free to run throughout the building, which was littered with garbage, debris and animal feces.

Man tests law by claiming to be a ‘pastafarian’

VIENNA

Niko Alm wanted to test an Austrian law saying that head coverings would be allowed in official documents only for religious reasons.

So the tongue-in-cheek atheist applied for a new driver’s license in his country with a photo of himself wearing a pasta strainer as headgear. Alm said he was a “pastafarian” and that the headpiece was required by his religion.

The application process took three years, but Alm said Thursday that he’s now got his new license.

Police officials in the mostly Catholic country did not sound amused.

They said religion was never an issue in Alm’s case and that he succeeded because he fulfilled the only criterion required: leaving his face fully visible in the photo.

Police: Foursome tried to take Ohio Taco Bell art

WESTLAKE, Ohio

Workers at an Ohio Taco Bell say four people wanted more than nachos.

Restaurant employees in suburban Cleveland told police that the group tried to make off with a painting valued at $157 that was hanging on a wall in the fast-food joint.

The Plain Dealer newspaper reports the Taco Bell manager prevented the culprits from putting the art in their car last Friday. Police say the manager recognized the car’s driver as an 18-year-old former employee at the restaurant. His three cohorts ranged in age from 17 to 21.

Police were waiting for a prosecutor to decide on charges for the four.

Associated Press