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Police: Thief stole 400,000 toothpicks in Georgia

ATHENS, Ga.

Who says toothpicks are not valuable?

Police in Georgia are trying to figure out who stole about 400,000 toothpicks worth nearly $3,000 from a manufacturer in Athens.

Police tell the Athens Banner-Herald someone took six cases from Armond’s Manufacturing Company Inc. recently, and another seven cases disappeared as well.

Each case contains 288 packages of 100 toothpicks.

Police say there were no signs of forced entry.

The owner believes a current or former employee might be responsible.

Two employees told the owner they saw a man selling containers of Armond’s toothpicks at a flea market last weekend.

Semitrailer leaks fuel after duct-tape patch fails to work

LIVINGSTON, Mont.

Maybe duct tape doesn’t fix everything.

Officials in southern Montana say a Canadian truck driver found that out the hard way when he tried to stop a fuel tank leak with the all-purpose tape before going to sleep at a truck stop near Livingston.

The Livingston Enterprise reports a truck- stop employee called Park County fire- fighters about 3 a.m. Thursday to report the leak.

Fire Chief Dann Babcox estimates about 100 gallons of diesel fuel leaked from the tractor-trailer onto the ground.

The truck driver works for a company based in Saskatchewan.

He says he thought he might have hit something on Interstate 90, but when he stopped at the time, he didn’t notice any damage.

Police: Kentucky man plants marijuana in front yard

FLAT LICK, Ky.

Police have arrested an eastern Kentucky man who they say had almost 100 marijuana plants growing in his front yard.

Knox County Sheriff’s Deputy Brian Hensley told WYMT-TV that he observed the plants after responding to a complaint from an anonymous caller.

Hensley said when he asked 42-year-old James Denver Cox of Flat Lick whether he had any more plants, the man pointed out some drying on top of a TV and some under an entertainment center.

In all, Hensley said he confiscated 92 plants.

Cox declined to speak with the station and it was unclear whether he had an attorney.

He faces a felony charge of cultivating marijuana.

Associated Press