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Former middle-school students look for missing time capsule

INDIALANTIC, Fla.

Former students of a central Florida middle school were hoping to crack open a buried time capsule to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Hoover Middle School.

The problem is no one remembers where it was buried.

Florida Today reports teacher Jack Deppner filmed students on an 8 millimeter camera in 1976. He also collected mementos to bury in the time capsule.

Students reconnected on Facebook and raised the idea of opening the capsule. But no one knew where it was buried. Deppner died a few years ago but had searched for years and never found the spot.

Former student Dawn Atkinson-Spaccio says they’re planning on using metal detectors and ground-penetrating radar to scour the campus. If they pinpoint a location, they’ll seek permission from the school to start digging.

Kuwaiti with Gulf plates nabbed for 1,645 driving violations

KUWAIT CITY

A Kuwaiti driver who apparently thought having license plates from another Gulf country would help avoid more than 1,600 traffic citations has been hit with a huge fine.

The state-run Kuwait News Agency says the driver racked up 1,645 separate driving violations while traveling under the unidentified Gulf country’s plates.

KUNA quoted a statement from an Interior Ministry official, Maj. Gen. Abdullah al-Mehanna, as saying that the driver faced more than $190,000 in fines after being caught.

The statement Saturday did not identify the driver but reminded drivers they have a month’s grace period to change their license plates to Kuwaiti ones for foreign-bought cars.

Countries throughout the Gulf use traffic cameras to enforce speed limits and traffic laws.

University of Conn. serving crickets at food truck

STORRS, Conn.

A food truck at the University of Connecticut is serving up roasted crickets.

The Daily Campus reports the university’s dining services are advertising the insects as organic, earth-friendly and not genetically modified.

The crickets are high in protein and low in fat. They’re a source of B vitamins, iron and zinc.

UConn says the farm that supplies the crickets uses carbon dioxide to kill them and then roasts them.

The crickets are sold for 99 cents and come whole in small plastic containers. They’re sold as a snack or a taco topping.

Dining-services area assistant manager John Smith says they sell two or three containers of crickets per day at the truck.

Associated Press