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Man gets probation for deer bagged at store

INDIANA, Pa.

A western Pennsylvania hunter man who shot a deer in a crowded Walmart parking lot on the first day of hunting season last year will have his record expunged if he completes six months’ probation without incident.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports 40-year-old Arcangelo Bianco Jr. was accepted into a first offenders’ program by an Indiana County judge. The program doesn’t require a guilty plea, though Bianco must also pay $1,080 in court costs and probation supervision fees and do 20 hours of community service.

An employee of the Walmart in Burrell Township told police Bianco sped in his pickup and fired a handgun near the store’s cargo loading area.

Race complaints get directed to sex line

SAN FRANCISCO

People who tried to complain about noise from a San Francisco marathon got an earful of racy language instead.

When they called the city’s 311 hotline to complain about Sunday’s Nike marathon, they were incorrectly directed to a phone-sex line.

City officials now say they were given the wrong number and are investigating how the mix-up occurred.

The phone-sex number and marathon number differed only in their prefix: 800 versus 866.

311 Director Nancy Alfaro says the wrong number was given out for about a half hour before city officials were alerted. It’s not clear how many people were misdirected.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports people were complaining about noise from the marathon’s festivities that began about 5:30 a.m.

Associated Press