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Pa. man knocks out wall, pulls plane from basement

CAMP HILL, Pa.

Lots of houses have a two-car garage. Dan Reeves’ had a one-airplane basement.

Until, that is, the central Pennsylvania man knocked out a wall to get it out.

Reeves spent the past nine years building a two-seat airplane in the basement of his Cumberland County home.

The plane arrived in pieces via mail, but eventually it became way too big to get up the steps.

So Reeves dug a trench down to the foundation and took out a wall.

Reeves pulled the plane out Wednesday using a truck, a chain and some neighbors.

Onlookers were drawn to the spectacle by the “Airplane Removal Wednesday” put up on Reeves’ porch.

Reeves told The Patriot-News of Harrisburg he spent $40,000 on the plane and about $5,000 on the excavation.

Calif. sex offender busted logging onto Facebook

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.

California authorities say a registered sex offender who’s banned from using the Internet was arrested while browsing Facebook — next to a sheriff’s detective in an Apple store.

Investigators said 35-year-old Robert Nicholas McGuire was spotted Wednesday in San Luis Obispo by the Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Team and was followed to the retailer.

He was recognized from a previous child-pornography case.

The San Luis Obispo County Tribune reported that McGuire logged on to a display computer, and a detective went to the system next to him and pulled up the Megan’s Law sex-offender website, which showed McGuire is prohibited from using the Internet.

McGuire was arrested outside the store and is being held without bail for investigation of violating probation.

A sheriff’s spokesman didn’t immediately return a message.

Wash. board nixes colon cancer ‘butt’ billboards

KENNEWICK, Wash.

A health board in Washington state has reversed itself and voted against endorsing a colon-cancer-awareness campaign that uses billboards saying, “What’s up your butt?”

The Tri-City Herald reported that Wednesday’s vote by the Benton Franklin Health District in Kennewick, Wash., was in response to complaints the ads are in poor taste.

The butt billboards earlier were displayed in Yakima to raise colorectal-cancer awareness and encourage people to get screened for the disease.

Associated Press