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List limits booze sales for Illinois city’s habitual drunks

AURORA, Ill.

The police department in Illinois’ second-largest city is going to compile a “habitual drunkard” list to help fight public intoxication.

Aurora Police Department Sgt. Tom McNamara says the list will have “certain clientele” whom police and fire departments see regularly. The (Aurora) Beacon-News reports that includes people who police and fire personnel transport six times or more in a 120-day period.

The city council approved keeping the list this week as part of an overhaul to city liquor laws. Aurora is roughly 40 miles west of Chicago.

Police say the goal is public safety. Those on the list won’t be able to purchase liquor in Aurora, and local businesses are expected to comply.

Authorities say they got the idea from Madison, Wis., which has a similar policy.

Police confront North Dakota students armed with telescope

FARGO, N.D.

Two North Dakota State University students got a scare when armed police officers mistook their telescope for a rifle.

WDAY-TV reports that Levi Joraanstad and Colin Waldera were setting up the telescope behind their apartment Monday night when they were blinded by a bright light and told to stop moving.

They couldn’t see who was shining the light and presumed it was a prank by other students.

An officer on patrol had spotted the two and thought the telescope was a rifle. He also thought Joraanstad’s dark sweater with white lettering on the back looked like a tactical vest. He called for backup, and the officers confronted the students.

Police say the students never were in danger and that it was a situation of “better safe than sorry.”

Girls named Destiny questioned in cliffside-vandalism case

BOISE, Idaho

Deputy sheriffs have interviewed more than a dozen girls named Destiny trying to crack a vandalism case in which someone spray-painted a prom invitation on a southwest Idaho cliffside.

But Ada County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Patrick Orr tells KBOI-TV in a story Thursday that the case remains unsolved.

Authorities in May discovered the message “Destiny, Prom?” painted in large, pink and blue letters on the side of the Black Cliffs, a popular rock-climbing spot, east of Boise.

The person could face a misdemeanor charge of injury by graffiti, which is punishable by up to six months in jail and a fine of $1,000.

The sheriff’s office says new leads might emerge now that school is back in session.

Officials have painted over the graffiti.

Associated Press