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6-foot alligator snapped up outside Mich. church
JACKSON, Mich.
Police have caught a 6-foot-long alligator that was spotted roaming the property of a southern Michigan church.
A motorist driving past the Pathway Community Church near Jackson on Monday saw the reptile and called the police.
Officers slipped a noose around the alligator’s head and secured its mouth with duct tape.
Police say the alligator is in good health and will be sent to a sanctuary.
Blackman-Leoni Township public-safety department Deputy Director Jon Johnston said the alligator probably was released into the wild only recently.
Johnston said the animal would not have been able to survive the harsh temperatures of the approaching Michigan winter.
Pittsburgh-area school buys hotel for student rooms
CORAOPOLIS, Pa.
Robert Morris University has purchased a hotel near its Pittsburgh-area campus and will gradually convert the building into permanent housing for about 500 students.
The university purchased the Holiday Inn near its Moon Township campus for $10.5 million at sheriff’s sale Monday. The school has used some of the hotel’s rooms to house students as it struggled with living-space demands for noncommuter students. About 37 percent of the school’s students used campus housing in 2000, and about half of the school’s 3,900 undergrads now want it.
About 140 students already are living in hotel rooms that are segregated from regular guest rooms. The college will rent a decreasing number of rooms to the public as it converts the 255-room hotel into student housing. By 2017, about 500 students only will live there.
Police expect to cite man in cap-gun scare
GREENSBURG, Pa.
State police say they plan to charge a 20-year-old man with disorderly conduct for firing a toy cap gun that scared shoppers and prompted police to respond to a shopping-center parking lot.
Troopers from the Greensburg barracks said in a news release Tuesday that the incident occurred at the Greengate Centre Circle parking lot in Hempfield Township late Friday.
Police said the fake gunfire “resulted in public alarm and a significant police response.”
Police said they plan to charge the 20-year-old Greensburg man responsible. They said he displayed the cap gun while riding in a vehicle then scared shoppers by firing it.
A police spokesman did not immediately return a call seeking additional details.
Associated Press