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Man breaks into store for cigarettes but leaves cash

LAS CRUCES, N.M.

A New Mexico man is accused of breaking into a convenience store for a pack of cigarettes – but also making sure to pay for them.

Police in Las Cruces say the 24-year-old man went to buy cigarettes last week, but the business was closed.

Surveillance cameras show him pounding on the front door several times and then kicking and breaking the door’s lower panel.

Police say he went inside, grabbed a pack of cigarettes and then made sure the cameras captured him leaving $6.

A witness called 911, and police say they found and arrested the man. He faces a felony charge of breaking and entering.

Damage to the store’s front door is estimated at $800.

Reagan airport says 1 person filed 6,500 noise complaints

WASHINGTON

Out of the 8,670 noise complaints Washington’s Reagan National Airport received last year, officials say a whopping 6,500 of them came from the same person.

The Washington Post reports that officials at the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority have said that one unidentified Washington resident was responsible for about three-quarters of last year’s noise complaints. That’s the equivalent of one person making about 18 calls every day of the year.

Ed Solomon, president of the D.C. Fair Skies Coalition, a group founded to raise awareness of the residents’ concerns, says he hopes news of this one person’s complaints doesn’t distract from his group’s argument that changes in flight patterns into and out of the airport have created serious noise problems that can’t be ignored.

Airport officials say they are working with residents to address the noise.

100 pairs of shoes found on Washington interstate highway

SEATTLE

State Department of Ecology officials say a crew picking up litter found 100 pairs of shoes in boxes along Interstate 90 east of North Bend.

KIRO-TV reports an Ecology Youth Corps crew found the white, flat-heeled shoes Tuesday morning.

State officials say the shoes, which appear new, have been donated to a Seattle organization that helps homeless women, children and families in need.

Associated Press