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Boston transit workers save stuffed animal on tracks

BOSTON

A woman is praising Boston transit workers for rescuing her 3-year-old daughter’s stuffed animal from the train tracks.

According to Casey Carey-Brown’s blog, “Life with Roozle”, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority workers acted quickly to save her daughter’s stuffed bunny from being run over Wednesday.

Carey-Brown wrote that the stuffed animal “jumped” from her daughter’s stroller as they exited the train at the Green Street stop in Jamaica Plain and fell onto the tracks.

She said an MBTA worker called the oncoming train, halting it, so he could safely rescue the toy.

In her blog, the mother thanked the workers who aided in the rescue effort, saying “you really didn’t have to do what you did today, but you have made a little 3-year-old incredibly happy.”

Thief steals US flag from man in chicken suit

MANCHESTER, Conn.

Manchester, Conn., police are investigating the theft of an American flag from a man in a chicken suit.

The Hartford Courant reported that Eric Didio was waving the flag and dancing outside a newly renovated Boston Market restaurant Wednesday as part of his job, when a man jumped from a car, grabbed the flag and took off.

A customer who witnessed the theft called police.

The newspaper reported that the dispatcher had a hard time relaying the call to officers, breaking into laughter while trying to say “chicken suit.”

Nathan Atwood, the restaurant’s general manager, said he stood beside the 23-year-old Didio for the rest of his shift to provide security.

No arrests have been made.

Word misspelled on Md. high school’s diplomas

UPPER MARLBORO, Md.

Diplomas at a Maryland high school are being reprinted because they contain a spelling error.

All of the diplomas distributed last week in Prince George’s County outside Washington misspelled the word “program.” County officials said they noticed the mistake after commencements were under way.

The vendor that printed the nearly 8,000 diplomas, National Quality Products, has apologized to the Class of 2012 for the mistake. Briant Coleman, a spokesman for the schools, said the vendor will reprint the diplomas for free.

The corrected diplomas will be mailed to students in a little more than a month.

Associated Press