oddly enough

oddly enough

Ohio bars license plates expressing hatred of Michigan

COLUMBUS

Ohio won’t let vanity license plates display some of the extreme feelings stirred up by the Ohio State-Michigan football rivalry.

The Columbus Dispatch reports plates such as “KILBLU,” “HATEMI” (HATE M-I) and “UMH8ER” (U-M HATER) have been rejected by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

The bureau bars vanity plates that are lewd, rude or crude, or that express hatred toward a person or group.

Bureau Assistant Registrar Jamie Bryan says requests for anti-Michigan plates start coming in at the beginning of football season.

The Buckeyes play their annual game against the Wolverines on Saturday in Ann Arbor.

An official with the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio says it’s wrong to let people express themselves on their license plates and then restrict what they can say.

Ailing granddad’s info prompts search for Pa. boy

GREENVILLE, Pa.

Authorities issued an Amber Alert for a 10-year-old western Pennsylvania boy and summoned dogs and a helicopter to search for him because the boy’s ailing grandfather was unable to explain clearly he simply had taken the boy to a friend’s house days before.

Hempfield Township Fire Chief Dave King tells the Sharon Herald that dozens of volunteers had begun searching Hempfield Township, near Greenville, about 5 p.m. Sunday after some relatives couldn’t find the boy. Greenville is about 65 miles north of Pittsburgh.

Emergency officials aren’t identifying the boy or the grandfather with whom he lives, but they say the man suffered an unspecified medical problem that made him unable to communicate sometime after taking the boy to the friend’s house Thursday.

Authorities found the boy Sunday evening. He’s in the custody of Mercer County child- welfare workers.

Wandering 4-year-old boy back with mom in Washington

VANCOUVER, Wash.

A 4-year-old boy dressed in Spider-Man pajamas had his own late-night Spidey adventure in Vancouver, Wash.

He was spotted on the street at 3 a.m. Sunday with a blanket and flashlight.

Officers were unable to find the boy’s home, so they took him to a precinct station. They gave him hot chocolate and oranges and let him watch cartoons until his mother called about 7 a.m. to report him missing.

The boy had been staying with his grandmother and awoke after a nightmare and went looking for his mother.

Associated Press