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Unpaid bill from years ago leads to hospice gift

MURRAY, Ky.

A Chicago businessman who insisted on paying an unpaid bill dating back some 25 years instead has donated the money to a Kentucky hospital.

Zee Enix once ran a home-furnishings business in Murray, Ky. He says the man called him and said he wanted to pay a $600 bill he had found. The Paducah Sun reports that Enix told the man — who did not want to be identified — that he didn’t owe anything. But the businessman persisted.

So Enix agreed that the man instead could make a charity donation to the Murray- Calloway Endowment for Healthcare, which is working to build a hospice.

Man charged after cooking his own meal at Denny’s

MADISON, Wis.

A man who claimed to be the new manager of a Denny’s restaurant in Wisconsin then cooked himself a cheeseburger and fries is facing charges.

Police say 52-year-old James Summers, wearing a tie and carrying a briefcase, claimed he was sent by Denny’s corporate office Tuesday to be the new manager at the restaurant in Madison. The current manager told him he must have the wrong restaurant. Summers told her she apparently had not received the memo about the change in leadership.

Authorities say the manager called her supervisors while Summers helped himself to a meal. WISC-TV says police were summoned and took Summers into custody. Officers say they found a stun gun on his belt. Summers is charged with disorderly conduct, drug possession and possessing an electric weapon.

Maine 3-year-old walks mile in middle of night

BAILEYVILLE, Maine

A 3-year-old Maine girl, possibly confused by a dream, walked a mile to a grocery store in the middle of the night through freshly fallen snow, thinking her mother was inside buying pizza.

Hope Trott woke up in the middle of the night, put on little, ruby-red shoes, threw a jacket on over her nightdress and walked to the store with the temperature at 29 degrees, police said. An employee found the girl crying outside the store at 4 a.m. Wednesday and called police.

“He got to the door, and the little girl came walking down the sidewalk,” Melanie Devoe, assistant store manager, said Wednesday. “She was crying, saying, ‘My mommy is in there.’ He knew she wasn’t because the alarm was on and the door was locked.

“He zipped her coat up, and he came in here and called 911, then went back out with her,” Devoe said.

Officers followed the child’s footprints to her home, found the front door open, and thinking a home invasion was in progress, entered with guns drawn, police told the Bangor Daily News. They found Hope’s parents, Laura and Jesse Trott, and her older siblings, Hunter and Ann, fast asleep.

Associated Press