ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Pa. woman suing lawmaker over small cake prize

PITTSBURGH

A Pittsburgh woman is suing Democratic state Rep. Jake Wheatley, saying he coughed up only half of the $200 prize he promised the winner of a community day cake-baking contest.

Fifty-five-year-old Democrat Denise Robinson says the dispute isn’t about the $100, it’s about the principle.

The paralegal says, “If my state rep will breach a contract for $200, then what is he doing for $200,000?”

Wheatley tells the Pittsburgh Tribune- Review that the whole thing is a misunderstanding.

Wheatley acknowledges fliers for the Sept. 8 event tout a $200 prize but says contestants were told the prize would depend on the number of entrants who paid $10 each. He says the prize was smaller because fewer people entered than expected.

Robinson says Wheatley should honor the flier.

Sample ballots in NY county flub Obama’s first name

UTICA, N.Y.

Can you spell “correction”?

A county board of elections in upstate New York said it would take quick action Friday after being informed that it had drawn up election ballots that misspelled Barack Obama’s name.

The Utica Observer-Dispatch reports that sample ballots printed on the Oneida County Board of Elections website were missing the “C’’ in the president’s first name.

The newspaper said it informed Election Commissioner Pamela Mandryck about the error Friday. She says templates sent recently to a printer also contained the error. But she says they would be retrieved and corrected in time for Election Day.

There are more than 133,000 registered voters in Oneida County.

Des Moines baby arrives as a numerologist’s delight

DES MOINES, Iowa

A dream alignment for numerologists has come true in the delivery room of a Des Moines hospital.

The Des Moines Register reports that Laila Fitzgerald weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces when she was born. She came into the world Thursday, which, numerically speaking, was 10/11/12. She arrived, militarily speaking, at 1314, which would be 1:14 p.m. for civilians.

So the numbers associated with her birth are 8-9-10-11-12-13-14.

Laila’s mother, 26-year-old Katie Deremiah, of Des Moines, says she had a feeling Thursday would be the day, even though the due date was Oct. 19.

Laila’s father, 26-year-old Ryan Fitzgerald, told The Register that he would buy a lottery ticket as soon as he left the hospital.

Associated Press