ODDLY ENOUGH | Ill. man who kept alligator to woo women charged

ODDLY ENOUGH

Ill. man who kept alligator to woo women charged

FORD HEIGHTS, Ill.

A suburban Chicago man thought he had the perfect chick magnet in his pet alligator. Authorities saw only a dangerous animal.

A charge of possession of a dangerous animal has been filed against 43-year-old Dewayne Yarbrough of Ford Heights, who claims he kept the 4-foot alligator to impress women.

Yarbrough told Cook County sheriff’s investigators he kept the alligator in a small tank and fed it only 10 live mice a month to keep it from growing too large. He said he bought the gator five years ago in Indiana for $200.

Animal-control investigators did not say how they learned of the alligator, which they found in Yarbrough’s kitchen.

The alligator was taken Thursday to the Animal Welfare League and will be given to the Chicago Herpetological Society.

Protest aims to bump Trump from Indy 500 pace car

INDIANAPOLIS

The pick a month ago of Donald Trump to drive the Indy 500 pace car is causing some heat for race officials.

A Facebook page calling on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to dump Trump has more than 10,000 supporters, many objecting to Trump’s questioning of whether President Barack Obama was born in the U.S. and his suggestion that Obama was a poor student who didn’t deserve to be admitted to Harvard’s law school.

Indianapolis attorney Michael Wallack tells The Indianapolis Star that he started the Facebook page April 8 because he thought Trump’s selection made no sense.

Track spokesman Doug Boles says it also has received comments supportive of Trump’s involvement in the May 29 race and that officials are considering the complaints.

Idaho residents report missing goat; kid-naaaping?

LEWISTON, Idaho

A western Idaho couple is concerned there might have been a kid-naaaping.

Buzz and Wilma Goertzen of Lewiston say their young goat has been missing for about a week and the kid’s mother goat has been upset ever since.

Buzz Goertzen tells KLEW-TV their goats have gotten out before but have never been gone for such a long time.

He says the animal is friendly and would often play with kids — the human kind — as they walked past the family’s property.

The missing goat is all black with white shoulders and has small horns.

Associated Press