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Drunk woman arrested after mistaking jail for bar

PAW PAW, Mich.

One is a building with bars. The other is a building with a bar. A very drunk woman apparently had trouble telling them apart and ended up in a southwestern Michigan jail cell.

The Van Buren County sheriff’s department says a 39-year-old woman mistook the Van Buren County jail for the bar where she was trying to pick up her boyfriend.

The department says Deputy Robert Miersma spotted the Hartford-area woman backing into the jail parking lot in Paw Paw about 2 a.m. Sunday and noticed she smelled of alcohol and appeared intoxicated.

It says a breath test showed her with more than twice the 0.08 percent blood-alcohol level considered drunk in Michigan. She’s expected to face drunken-driving charges.

Paw Paw is about 15 miles west-southwest of Kalamazoo.

Voter records list 73-year-old New York City woman as 164

NEW YORK

A 73-year-old New York woman has discovered her official voter registration card lists her birth year as 1850, aging her by a whopping 91 years.

Luz Pabellon tells the New York Post she’s been voting for years but never knew city Board of Elections records misstated her age by nearly a century.

Election officials tell the newspaper that origins of the mix-up can be traced to 1978, when Pabellon registered to vote, listing “18+” in the date-of-birth section of her voting card. Years later, the board entered those cards electronically, and the Bronx resident’s birthdate was somehow entered in as 01/01/1850 by default.

The registered Democrat was actually born in 1941.

Some officials tell the Post they worry that election records might similarly misstate voters’ birth years.

Cemetery hopes 5K race, actors draw new customers

PEORIA, Ill.

A cemetery in central Illinois is embarking on an unusual marketing campaign that includes a 5K race and actors dressing as people buried there.

The goal is to encourage more people to buy lots at Springdale Cemetery, Bob Manning, chairman of the management authority at the Peoria cemetery, told the Journal Star. Ten events will be hosted this month in an effort to diversify the appeal of the sprawling East Bluff property, he said.

“We know if we get people back into the cemetery, they’re going to be amazed at its beauty,” Manning said. “Then, hopefully, they’ll think of us when time comes.”

Actors from the Prairie Folklore Theater kicked off the initiative by portraying people who have been buried in the cemetery since it opened in 1857. Visitors were able to meet the famous locals during walking tours.

Associated Press