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Panties found along Ohio road to be hung on pedestrian bridge

LANCASTER, Ohio

Hundreds of panties that turned up mysteriously last summer in trees along an Ohio road will go up in another unusual place: on a pedestrian bridge over the Ohio River.

The Lancaster Eagle-Gazette reports the undergarments will be added to an annual display for cancer awareness on the Purple People Bridge between downtown Cincinnati and northern Kentucky.

A foundation that hung about 4,000 panties on the bridge last year to symbolize deaths from cervical cancer says this summer there will be a lot more. Authorities in central Ohio’s Fairfield County have agreed to turn over the littered underwear discovered in Berne Township in late August.

Litter Control Deputy Gary Hummel says investigators interviewed a couple of people but the mystery was never solved.

Russian buys crates, gets Kalashnikov content free

IZHEVSK, Russia

Reports say a Russian villager ended up with his own private arsenal after buying a wooden container for firewood.

The ITAR-Tass news agency reported Friday that a truck driver had decided to make extra money by selling crates he was transporting from an arms plant in the Ural Mountains to a nearby landfill.

Little did he know, the crates contained 79 Kalashnikov rifles, spare parts and more than 250 cases of ammunition.

The report said the villager turned over the arsenal to police, who say they are checking the grounds of the Izhmash factory — which makes Kalashnikovs and other weapons — for compliance with safety standards.

ITAR-Tass reported that a preliminary investigation had found the rifles were sent from the Defense Ministry to Izhmash for recycling or disposal.

Dutch air force uses F-16s to pursue criminal suspect

AMSTERDAM

Talk about overkill.

The Dutch air force says two of its F-16 jet fighters tried to help police chase a criminal suspect.

Spokesman Olav Spanjer says the jets were about to leave Volkel airbase on a training mission Thursday when they heard that police had requested a military jeep to chase a suspect over soggy terrain. The pilots volunteered to help search using their infrared cameras.

Spanjer conceded Friday, “It was kind of a long-shot.”

The suspect was in a car with stolen license plates that sped away when police tried to pull it over. After an exchange of gunfire, the car crashed into a canal and the man ran away across a field. In the end, a tip from a suspicious neighbor, and not a high-tech jet, led police to the suspect.

Associated Press