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Ohio church holds mock retrial of Casey Anthony

CLEVELAND

A church service in Ohio has included a mock retrial of Casey Anthony, the woman in Florida found not guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter.

WJW-TV reported Sunday’s exercise at the In Touch With Christ Christian Center in Cleveland was led by the Rev. Una Keenon, a retired municipal court judge in the community of East Cleveland.

She asked the 12 church members who acted as jurors to consider whether it would be right to send Anthony to death row if she did not kill her child. The church jury was hung, with eight voting guilty and four voting not guilty.

Police: NJ men locked selves in Pa. constable van

RADNOR, Pa.

Police say two men hoping to stage photos of an arrest locked themselves inside a Pennsylvania constable’s van and ended up getting arrested for real.

Radnor police told the Philadelphia Daily News that 21-year-old Ryan Letchford and 22-year-old Jeffrey Olson were arrested early Saturday when another person called 911 to report the men were trapped.

The Marlton, N.J., men left a party and reportedly got into the van so they could take photos of themselves pretending to be arrested. Investigators said a friend discovered the men inside the van but couldn’t unlock it and called police.

Police: Drunken man arrested at sheriff’s church

COOKEVILLE, Tenn.

Authorities in Tennessee said a drunken man was arrested after wandering into a church where the sheriff had been worshipping.

Sheriff David Andrews said 42-year-old Gregory Blaine Wade of Cookeville showed up Wednesday at the Jefferson Avenue Church of Christ just as a service was ending.

According to the Cookeville Herald-Citizen, an arrest report said Wade became argumentative, was unsteady and had a 40-ounce bottle of beer in his backpack. He was charged with public intoxication.

Thieves steal 21 tons of mustard and ketchup

STOCKERAU, Austria

Austrian police said thieves made off with an unusual heist — 21 tons of mustard and ketchup.

The loot was in a semitrailer parked in a lot over the weekend northwest of Vienna.

Police said the truck driver showed up Monday to deliver his cargo only to see the trailer missing.

Police assume the thieves were more interested in the trailer than its contents.

Authorities had no price tag for the stolen condiments but said the trailer was worth more than $22,000.

Associated Press